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SharePoint consulting & strategy

A SharePoint your team can actually find things in.

Files in five places, permissions nobody understands, search that returns everything except what you need. We audit your Microsoft 365 tenant, design a clean information architecture, and hand you a governance-backed roadmap — using only the SharePoint licenses you already pay for.

1–2 wksto a full tenant audit
30–60 minsaved / person / day on searching
$0extra Microsoft license cost
What we deliver

Consulting that ends in a plan, not a slide deck.

Every engagement produces concrete, actionable artifacts your team can execute — with us or without us.

01

SharePoint environment audit

A full health check of your tenant before anything gets changed.

  • Site sprawl & dead-content mapping
  • Permissions & external-sharing review
  • Storage, versioning & search health
  • Shadow-IT discovery (shared drives, Dropbox, email attachments)
02

Information architecture

The structure that decides whether SharePoint works or rots.

  • Hub & site hierarchy design
  • Document library & folder strategy
  • Metadata, content types & naming standards
  • Search configuration that finds the right version first
03

Governance & adoption roadmap

Rules and a rollout plan that keep it clean after launch.

  • Site-creation & permission policies
  • Retention, archiving & lifecycle rules
  • Prioritized 6–12 month roadmap
  • Champion & training plan for adoption
Consulting, in depth

How we turn SharePoint chaos into structure

Audit & discovery

We start with how your team actually works — not with SharePoint.

Most failed SharePoint projects start from a features list. Ours start from interviews: where documents live today, who approves what, which "temporary" shared drive became permanent five years ago, and where the hours quietly leak.

We combine that with a technical crawl of your Microsoft 365 tenant — site inventory, permission matrix, storage and version history, external sharing exposure — to produce a findings report your leadership can read in fifteen minutes.

  • Stakeholder interviews across departments
  • Automated tenant inventory & permissions export
  • Risk register: over-shared, orphaned and stale content
  • Quick-wins list you can act on in week one

Typical audit findings

Storage locations in active use7 → 1
Sites with broken permission inheritance38%
Documents duplicated 3+ times1 in 4
Anonymous share links still active120+
Content untouched for 2+ years61%
Information architecture

Structure designed so the right document is three clicks away. Always.

Information architecture is the part of SharePoint you can't see but feel every day. We design your hub structure, site topology, library layout and metadata so navigation matches how people think — by team, by client, by process — instead of mirroring an old file server.

Then we configure SharePoint search on top of it: refiners, promoted results and content types that make "where's the latest contract template?" a two-second question.

  • Hub-and-spoke site architecture mapped to your org
  • Metadata & content types replacing folder mazes
  • Version control that ends "final_v7_FINAL.docx"
  • Search tuned with refiners & promoted results

Architecture we design

Company hubIntranet home
├ Departments hubHR · Finance · Ops
├ Projects hubPer-client sites
├ Knowledge hubPolicies & SOPs
└ ArchiveAuto-retention
Governance & security

Rules light enough to follow, strong enough to last.

Every messy SharePoint was clean once. The difference is governance: who may create sites, how access is requested, what gets named how, and when content is archived. We write governance as one readable page per policy — not a 60-page binder nobody opens.

On the security side we lock down external sharing, align permissions to Microsoft 365 groups, and set sensitivity labels where regulation demands it — so audits stop being a fire drill.

  • Site provisioning & naming policy
  • Permission model on M365 groups, not individuals
  • External sharing & guest access rules
  • Retention labels & compliance alignment (ISO, HIPAA, SOC 2 contexts)

Governance deliverables

Site creation policy1 page
Permission & sharing model1 page
Naming & metadata standard1 page
Retention & archive schedule1 page
Adoption & training planRollout-ready
How it works

From first call to executed roadmap

Free audit call

30 minutes on your current setup, pains and goals. No obligation, no jargon.

Discovery & audit

Interviews plus a technical crawl of your tenant. 1–2 weeks for most organizations.

Findings & roadmap

A prioritized report: quick wins, structural fixes, and a 6–12 month plan with effort estimates.

Architecture design

Hubs, sites, libraries, metadata, permissions and governance — reviewed with your team before a single file moves.

Execute & adopt

We implement with you (or hand off to your IT), train champions, and check back on adoption.

Case studies

Consulting engagements that paid for themselves

Consultancy · 30 people

Four storage silos became one intranet.

Problem: Files scattered across a file server, personal OneDrives, email and an abandoned SharePoint 2013 site. New joiners spent their first week just learning where things were.

We did: Two-week audit, new hub architecture organized by team and client, metadata-driven search, and a one-page governance pack.

4→1storage locations
40%faster onboarding
2 wksaudit to roadmap
Healthcare clinic group · 85 people

Compliance audit passed without the fire drill.

Problem: Patient-adjacent documents shared through anonymous links; an upcoming compliance review had leadership expecting the worst.

We did: Permission and sharing audit, killed 200+ open links, rebuilt access on Microsoft 365 groups, applied retention labels and wrote the governance policies the auditors asked to see.

200+open links closed
0audit findings
3 wksto compliant
Engineering firm · 120 people

Project documents found in seconds, not email threads.

Problem: Every project ran its own folder convention. Finding the current drawing set meant asking in three group chats and hoping.

We did: Standard project-site template with content types for drawings, RFIs and submittals, search refiners by project and discipline, and auto-provisioning of new project sites.

45 minsaved / person / day
1project template
100%projects on standard
Industries we serve

Different industries. Same findability problem.

The details change — drawings, patient policies, case files, spec sheets — but the pattern is identical: information scattered across drives, inboxes and chat. Here's how consulting lands in the sectors we work with most.

Manufacturing

SOPs, quality documents and shift handovers in one governed home — with revision control auditors can actually follow.

Healthcare & clinics

Policy libraries with review dates, permission walls between clinical and admin content, and retention that satisfies compliance.

Professional services

Client- and engagement-based site structures so every project team finds the latest deliverable in seconds, not email threads.

Construction & engineering

Project templates for drawings, RFIs and submittals — the same structure on every job, from bid to closeout.

Logistics & distribution

Operational documents and carrier agreements organized by lane and partner, searchable from the warehouse floor.

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Legal & finance

Matter- and client-centric architecture with ethical walls, versioned records and defensible retention schedules.

Tools & technology

The Microsoft stack we work in every day

Consulting engagements run on the same platform you already own — plus the migration and governance tooling that makes audits fast and moves safe.

SharePoint Online Microsoft 365 Microsoft Teams OneDrive for Business Hub sites & site architecture Content types & metadata Microsoft Search Microsoft Purview Retention & sensitivity labels PnP PowerShell ShareGate Microsoft Graph SharePoint Advanced Management Copilot readiness
FAQ

SharePoint consulting questions, answered

What does a SharePoint consultant actually do?
A SharePoint consultant audits how your organization stores, shares and secures information, then designs the structure, permissions and governance that make SharePoint work: site hierarchy, document libraries, metadata, search and a roadmap your team can follow. We also train your people so adoption sticks.
Do we need new licenses for SharePoint consulting work?
No. SharePoint Online is included in virtually every Microsoft 365 Business and Enterprise plan. Our consulting work uses the licenses you already pay for — there is no additional Microsoft cost to restructure, govern or optimize your environment.
How long does a SharePoint audit take?
A focused audit of a small-to-mid-size tenant typically takes one to two weeks: we review site sprawl, permissions, storage, search health and how your team actually works, then present findings and a prioritized roadmap. Larger tenants with compliance requirements take three to four weeks.
Can you fix an existing messy SharePoint instead of starting over?
Yes — most engagements are exactly that. We map what exists, archive what is dead, restructure what is live, repair permissions and introduce naming and metadata standards. Starting over is the exception, not the rule.
What is SharePoint governance and why does it matter?
Governance is the set of rules that keeps SharePoint clean after launch: who can create sites, how permissions are granted, how documents are named, retained and archived. Without it, every SharePoint slides back into chaos within a year. We design governance that is light enough to follow and strong enough to last.
What size companies do you work with?
Most of our clients are between 20 and 500 employees — big enough for information chaos to hurt, small enough to move fast. For larger organizations we usually start with one department, prove the model, then scale the architecture across the org.
Does SharePoint consulting cover Microsoft Teams and OneDrive too?
Yes. Your files live in all three, so an information architecture that ignores Teams and OneDrive fails on day one. Our audits map content across SharePoint sites, Teams channels and OneDrive, and the governance we design tells your team exactly where each kind of work belongs.

Get the audit. Keep the roadmap either way.

Book a free 30-minute call. We'll look at your SharePoint and Microsoft 365 setup and tell you exactly where the hours are leaking — no obligation.

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