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Marhardt Consulting

Website Design, Local SEO & Automationfor Troy Small Businesses

Troy, MI · Oakland County

Metro Detroit’s corporate, finance & B2B center.

Sites wired into the systems behind them, for Troy firms competing beside major offices.

Working with Troy

What slows professional and B2B firms in Troy down.

Troy is a primary business centre: corporate offices, finance and insurance, automotive suppliers and a wide base of professional and B2B firms. Its small and mid-sized firms run data-heavy operations where integration and reporting decide the month.

Finance, insurance & professional services

Secure intake, workflow automation, and reporting that stand up to scrutiny.

Automotive suppliers & B2B

System integrations and dashboards that unify disconnected tools.

Growing offices & teams

Fractional technology leadership without a full-time hire.

Troy, in specifics

The county’s professional-services core, and the deepest bench of small firms in it.

The largest population of the Oakland County towns we serve, and the region’s accounting centre, with the Michigan Association of CPAs headquartered here. The firms that call us are not looking for a website; they are ten to forty person outfits between off-the-shelf software and an IT department, doing in spreadsheets what a system should do.

Around here:Big Beaver corridorI-75 business districtAutomation AlleyMichigan Association of CPAs

About twenty-five minutes south of our Clarkston base on I-75.

Troy Opportunity

89K

Residents

$119K

Median household income

33K

Households

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau ACS, via Census Reporter (2024 1-year)

Recommended in Troy

The two thatmove first.

Troy’s corporate and B2B firms are usually past the point where another tool helps — what they need is senior direction and one system that finally shows the whole operation at once.

Strategic

Fractional CTO

Senior technology leadership, without the full-time hire.

  • Ongoing monthly advisory access
  • Vendor and software evaluations
  • Roadmap and modernization guidance
Custom Build

Custom Business Software

One place to run your business, built around how you work.

  • Real-time operational visibility
  • Centralized knowledge and SOPs
  • Reduced errors from manual tracking

Options in Troy

Every other way firms here solve it.

Laid out fairly. Each is right at some size, and we will say which fits yours.

A management consultancy

$15,000+ per engagement

You get a deck and a roadmap. Real value when the strategy is unclear, but nobody builds the thing, and the plan assumes a team you do not have.

Hiring a technology lead

$120,000+ per year

The right answer eventually. At thirty people it is a large fixed cost for a part-time role, and the search alone runs months.

Another SaaS subscription

$50 to $400 / seat / mo

The reflex, and how firms end up with four tools each holding a third of the picture. Software does not integrate itself.

Our approach

Fractional leadership plus build

$1,500 to $5,000 / mo; builds fixed-price from $3,000

Senior direction month to month, and the systems actually get built. You can stop when the problem is solved.

5.0· 7 Google reviews

“Tony is currently handling two websites for us, one for each of my businesses, and he’s been great to work with. He’s very knowledgeable, helpful, and professional. He’s always willing to help whenever he can and has never complained, even with the bunch of changes we’ve asked him to make to our websites lol.”

Questions from professional and B2B firms.

Can you integrate the systems our Troy office already uses?

Yes — connecting existing tools and eliminating duplicate data entry is exactly what our Workflow Automation work does.

We are an accounting or professional firm. Is client data safe in what you build?

It shapes the design. Client records stay in the systems you already run, with access scoped per person, credentials never sit in the browser, and anything client-facing is built assuming scrutiny. Bring your specific obligations to the first conversation.

Do you compete with our existing software vendors?

No, and we usually argue for keeping what works. Most Troy engagements start by mapping what you pay for; the common finding is three overlapping tools with no connection between them. Removing a subscription is a good outcome.

How is this different from the consultancies we already hear from?

They hand you a strategy; we build the thing. There is a plan, but it is short, and the point is the system that exists at the end of the month. If you need senior direction without a full-time hire, that is the fractional retainer.

For professional and B2B firms

Bring the messy version of the problem. The proposal is free.

Twenty-five minutes up I-75 and we can look at your stack in person. No pitch deck, just an honest read on what is worth fixing first and what is fine as it is.

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★ 5.0 on Google · Free · No pitch · We reply within one business day