We measure the quality, value, security and AI posture of the IT you already pay for, then hand your leadership a report they can table at a board meeting: audit-grade evidence within days, with a principal behind every finding.
Measured againstACSC Essential Eight · ISO/IEC 27001:2022 · NIST CSF 2.0 · NIST AI RMF · your insurer’s renewal set
If no one independent has measured yours, a focused Quick-Scan — or a fuller Baseline Audit — sets out where service delivery, commercial discipline, roadmap and governance, security and compliance, and AI adoption and posture stand today, each finding paired with a plain-English remediation path and a named owner.
Retainer clients receive an Adeo Pulse issue at the start of every month: a governance briefing scoring service delivery, commercial discipline, roadmap and governance, security and compliance, and AI adoption and posture, with a pre-written note to your MSP account manager you can forward without further editing. Pulse is onboarding now, and your first monthly issue is scheduled in the written proposal.
See a sample issue →Security engagements are mapped against the prevailing ACSC baseline — currently the Essential Eight — and the controls your insurer asks for at renewal. The same evidence supports your response to an insurer, a parent company, a regulator or your own board, without paying for a separate assessment for each.
Adeo assesses the IT and AI you already run, and grades it against the standards your board, your insurer and your regulator expect you to meet.
We can do that honestly because we have nothing else to sell — no products, no licences, no vendor commissions. Your fee is our only revenue, and we never operate the systems we assess. That distance is the point: a grade a provider cannot credibly give its own work is the one a board, an insurer or a regulator can rely on, and it is what makes the IT you already pay for answerable to you.
Three places an independent, written read can find value you can’t see from inside — and not one of them asks us to touch your systems.
The budget is rarely the problem; what it quietly buys can be — licences never switched on, two tools doing one job, a managed-service tier billed for capability nobody uses. We read what you already pay for line by line, against your own contract, so the next dollar funds something that earns its place.
Most of what oversight is worth is the incident that never happens — and the costliest breaches often begin as small, unwatched gaps. We find the exposures that lead there while they’re still cheap to close, hand the work to your provider, and confirm it was done.
A board paper, an insurer’s proposal form, a client’s security questionnaire, a regulator’s notice — each wants evidence you can hand over in writing. An independent assessment answers all four from a single engagement.
The scorecard on the right is page one. Behind it sits the rest — a complete monthly account of what your MSP delivered, on the leadership desk by the first business day, editorially signed off before it leaves Adeo. Your monthly job becomes hit forward.
Inside every issue
Trust-account handling, matter confidentiality, professional obligation. Renewal scrutiny from your PI carrier — and AI questions now appearing on renewal forms.
APES 110 alignment, client-data custody, and the quiet pressure of being visible to your own clients’ audit committees — including the AI those clients have started adopting.
Privacy Act obligations under the 2024 reforms, My Health Record interactions, AHPRA’s AI principles for practitioners, and demonstrable readiness for a practice-accreditation visit.
You don’t have to be in one of these three to need an independent read. If your IT is outsourced and no one neutral has ever checked it, Adeo does the same work for you — whatever your business does.
A fast, fixed-fee read on one domain.
An independent read on a single area — Microsoft 365 security, backup readiness, cyber-insurance readiness, MSP value and performance, or AI adoption and posture — back within days, for a fixed fee agreed up front.
The flagship engagement.
A thorough independent assessment across all five domains, measured against the Essential Eight and the controls your insurer requires at renewal, concluding in a written audit for leadership and a closing readout.
An independent senior voice, month by month.
Sustained governance for organisations that want an independent technical voice without a full-time IT lead — four tiers, monthly advisory time, and the Adeo Pulse scorecard included, with your first issue scheduled in the written proposal.
The monthly governance document.
A monthly governance briefing on the leadership desk by the first business day — scored across the five domains, with a pre-written note to your MSP account manager in every issue. Onboarding now; the written proposal sets the month your first issue arrives.
See a sample issue →Specified and independently verified.
Adeo writes the specification — what to deploy, how to govern it, how your people are supervised against your professional-body obligations — then independently verifies what your own team, MSP, or partner builds.
Thirty minutes, no cost, no sales script. We scope the question you are trying to answer and whether we are the right firm to help.
A short proposal in plain English, covering scope, fee, dates and the form of the deliverable. Commercial terms sit in the proposal.
Evidence is collected from your own systems, through authenticated API reads where platforms support them and through documents you supply for contracts, invoices and ticket data. Interviews are scheduled around your team, with a weekly check-in. Your MSP is treated as a collaborator throughout.
Executive readout with the document you can forward to your board. Roadmap with owners and dates. An optional retainer if ongoing oversight is the right next step.
A finding is only worth what gets closed. Adeo never holds the screwdriver, by design: the repair sits with the people who already run your systems, at their normal rate. Our part is to say precisely what to fix and in what order, then to confirm independently that it happened.
Every finding is written down, ranked by what it would cost you to leave it, and paired with a plain-English path to close it. Nothing is left as a vague concern.
The work goes to your existing MSP or internal team, inside the service you already pay for wherever the agreement covers it. A prioritised, evidenced work order hands a good provider a clear brief — and the credit for closing it.
We confirm the fix is real. A finding stays open on our record until the evidence says it can close — a closed ticket is not the same as a closed gap.
Each month’s Pulse picks up where the last one closed, scoring the same five domains, so leadership can watch the line move for itself.
Adeo’s work spans five domains, each reviewed against a documented reference. For security that means the formal frameworks — the ACSC Essential Eight, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, NIST CSF 2.0 and the CIS Controls — read alongside your obligations under the Australian Privacy Principles. For AI adoption it means the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and ISO/IEC 42001:2023, set against your professional body’s guidance. For the rest, the client’s own contracted commitments. The set applied is scoped to each engagement, and every finding is cited to the reference it came from; the evidence is documented so it can be handed to a board, insurer or parent company as it stands.
An Australian small or mid-sized business is satisfied with its managed service provider; bills are paid, the help desk is responsive. Then something arrives — a cyber-insurance renewal, an invoice that does not quite add up, a board question about IT spend, a phishing incident — and a question appears that nobody is quite positioned to answer. How is our IT actually performing?
No provider can independently grade its own work, however good that work is; the limitation is structural, and it applies to the best of them. And many of the firms that do offer independent review are geared to far larger organisations, or also resell the products they would be asked to assess, which leaves the same conflict in a different form. Adeo exists to fill the gap in between.
Adeo’s only work is audit, advice and oversight. Nothing else.
A grade your provider cannot issue about its own work, the exact list of what to fix and in what order, and confirmation it was done. The repairs themselves sit with your existing provider — under a standard managed-service agreement, much of that work is already inside the service you pay for. What you buy from Adeo is the independent read and the verification, the same reason a building is surveyed by someone other than the builder. And a clean bill of health is a real result: if there is little to fix, we say so plainly, and you keep the evidence to prove it.
No. Adeo’s primary work is audit, advice and oversight — we don’t run help desks or production systems on an ongoing basis. The engagement is built so your MSP stays exactly where it is, and both sides gain an independent scorecard to work from.
Good, and that is the right starting point. Day-to-day satisfaction is not the same as being defensible when a board or insurer asks for proof. This engagement puts what your provider delivers in writing, so the confidence you already have becomes something you can show, and any gap the contract never covered is named while it is still cheap to close.
Our only revenue is the fee our client pays us, so no vendor commission ever shades a finding. The day-to-day running of IT stays with your MSP; Adeo’s job is to measure whether it is earning its fee. On an AI Enablement engagement we write the specification and independently verify the build — your own team, MSP, or a nominated partner then builds and operates the capability. That boundary is written into every engagement letter we issue, and it is exactly what keeps a later audit of the same work independent.
Scope and depth. A Quick-Scan looks at one domain: Microsoft 365 security, backup readiness, cyber-insurance readiness, MSP value and performance, or AI adoption and posture — and is delivered within days. The right domain is wherever your renewal, your invoice or your board question is most acute. A Baseline Audit is the full assessment across all five domains — service delivery, commercial discipline, roadmap and governance, security and compliance, and AI adoption and posture — a focused multi-week engagement concluding with a 12-month roadmap. If you are unsure which is the right shape, a Quick-Scan is the natural first step: a smaller commitment that tells you whether a full audit is warranted, and its findings roll forward if it is.
Not urgently. The ASD has consulted during 2026 on evolving the Essential Eight into a broader “Essentials” series; the existing Essential Eight is expected to remain the basis, final transition arrangements are not yet published, and the controls you have already invested in still count. The question worth asking is whether your provider is actually delivering what your insurer and contracts require — true under the current framework and any that replaces it. We set out the plain-English version in a short note: is your Essential Eight work still valid?
Start with a thirty-minute conversation at no cost and no obligation: a straight read on whether Adeo can help, and an honest answer if it cannot. Email contact@adeo.au with a line on your sector and the question you are trying to answer; a reply follows within one business day.
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