Immediate Needs Trusted Advisors.
Embrace Change & Accelerate Success, with Experienced Professionals
Vendor-Neutral Advisors, that start where you need us most. Professional effort prioritization, evaluation process management, negotiation, solution selection assistance — Handled by people that are trained to focus on immediate needs, as well as future goals and challenges.
"We had ten competing priorities, three vendor evaluations running at once, and our best engineers pulled into meetings all day. Something had to give."
— Every mid-market CTO, eventually
What INTA Does
We have the ability to handle the full vendor lifecycle — From figuring out what to prioritize first and expediting who to include, to managing the paper process and everything in between.
Effort Prioritization
Proprietary scoring ranks your top projects by impact, cost, complexity, and urgency. A defensible, data-driven starting point.
Evaluation Management
End-to-end coordination of vendor presentations, demos, solution design, and proposals. Structured. Efficient. Thorough.
Negotiation & Contracts
We advocate on your side through pricing negotiations and legal coordination. We know what fair looks like and how to get it for you.
Proof of Concept
Managed PoCs with clear evaluation criteria. Test in your real environment, or a comparable sandbox, before committing.
The Evaluation Process
Four structured meetings. No surprises.
Intro & Presentation
Vendors present their capabilities. We ensure the right questions get asked from day one.
Technical Demo
Hands-on demonstration of the solution against your specific requirements and use cases.
Solution Design Review
Map the solution to your environment, integrations, and workflows.
Proposal & Selection
Vendor proposals reviewed, compared, and scored. You pick with clarity and confidence.
Why INTA
Decades of Experience
Deep expertise across Telecom, Unified Communications, Cybersecurity, Hosting/Colocation, Cloud, Data Connectivity, P2P, ATM, Frame Relay, MPLS, SD-WAN, SASE, SaaS, managed services and more! We've evaluated the vendors you're considering — probably more than once.
Vendor-Neutral
We work for you, not the vendors. We also have established agreements to compensate for our time, energy and efforts. Flat fee consultations and process management services are also available (upon request).
Time is Valuable
We manage the meeting process, follow-ups, all presale vendor coordination and communications. This gives your team time back - Your engineers and managers get to stay focused on evaluation deployment and service delivery.
Flexibility
Each client gets to select how and when we engage. Some prefer early and often, while others bring us in to manage the paper process and negotiations. Our efforts are based on what you and your company need, when you need it most.
Proprietary Framework
You are in full control with INTA, including our proprietary initative scoring system. While not a requirement, it provides a defensible data-driven basis for decisions about effort prioritization and focus. Together you receive the greater return for time, energy, efforts and fiscal investments.
Win-Win Relationships
We focus on establishing win-win relationships by efficiently helping with immediate needs. The foundation is that simple. We establish and build greater value based on our approach. That includes focusing on needs, goals and challenges.
Our optimized process expedites introductions, and provides access to managed evaluations. We help with negotiations and provide paths to resolution, while focusing on on reaching the desired state. This all starts with our understanding of the immediate needs spectrum and our approach. It ends with the way we are compensated.
Future Focus
As we continue to move forward at an accelerated rate, we recognize the value of being a strategic business partner and trusted advisor. Since before the age of Cloud Computing, Big Data and Machine Learning, this has been true. Now we are entering into the age of Quantum Computing and AI. Our future focus is more valuable than ever and we are not looking back.
Founder
Brooks
Brooks Jowett has held Senior Leadership Roles at Major Carriers, International Data Centers, SD-WAN and Cloud pioneers, as well as Cybersecurity Firms. He launched the Comcast Business Major Account Program and has spent decades navigating the full vendor landscape helping clients.
That experience is INTA's edge — knowing how vendors think, how deals really work, and where the leverage lives in every negotiation.
Let's talk about your priorities
Book a 30-minute call. We'll discuss your immediate needs, goals and upcoming challenges, then show you how INTA can help.