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Setting up cloud environments that don’t need babysitting — sized for what they actually do, patched, and watched.
- AWS, Google Cloud & hybrid setups
- Migrations planned, not rushed
- Costs kept visible
Cloud · Infrastructure · AI
Good systems,
quietly run.
Cloud Square is a deliberately small company — one engineer, end to end. We design, host, and look after business systems: cloud, storage, networking, integration, and lately some genuinely useful AI — for a few long-standing clients, and for ourselves.
- Deliberately small
- Security-minded
- Any scale
Platforms we've spent real years with
VMwareMicrosoft 365Amazon Web ServicesGoogle CloudCloudflare
What we do
The work, in six buckets
The disciplines Cloud Square works across — for a small set of long-standing clients, from a nonprofit to part of a global insurer's support systems, and for its own operations. The same careful approach whether it's one system or a large build.
Storage & Backup
Data that survives mistakes and bad days. Backups that actually restore — because they get tested before they’re needed.
- Automated backups, verified restores
- Off-site copies
- Recovery steps written down
Networking
Networks that behave — segmented, secured, and documented, from the firewall down to the Wi-Fi.
- Site-to-site VPN
- Sensible access controls
- Wi-Fi, switching & firewalls
Systems Integration
Getting systems that were never meant to meet to work together — without throwing out the parts that still earn their keep.
- Legacy & on-prem connectors
- APIs & data pipelines
- Gradual modernization
Practical AI
AI worked into real workflows — receipts, documents, bookkeeping, reporting — on private data, kept in-house and shipped as real apps.
- Private assistants & automation
- Document intelligence
- Web, iOS & Android apps
Keeping Things Running
The unglamorous part: monitoring, updates, and fixing what breaks — calmly, and preferably before it becomes a story.
- Proactive monitoring
- Plain-language write-ups
- Small fixes before big ones
New · Practical AI
AI that earns its keep
Cloud Square didn't need an AI strategy — it needed the tedious parts of running a business to disappear. So practical AI got built into the operations we already run: bookkeeping, receipts, statements, reporting. Private by default, on our own data and infrastructure.
Private assistants
Assistants that know the company’s documents, records, and systems — and answer us, not the internet. Nothing leaves the house.
Workflow automation
Receipts that scan and file themselves, statements that categorize themselves, reports that write themselves. The boring 20% of every week, gone.
Document intelligence
Search, summarize, and extract from the contracts, statements, and paperwork that used to be write-only storage.
Assisted operations
Smarter alerting and assisted triage layered onto infrastructure that was already being watched.
How we approach it
Private by design — nothing trains on client or company data.
you Which invoices from Q2 are still unapproved?
ai 14 invoices pending, totaling $86,420. 9 are waiting on Finance, 5 on department heads. Drafted reminders for each — send?
you Send, and flag anything overdue 30+ days.
ai Done. 3 invoices flagged and escalated to you. Summary posted to #finance-ops.
workflow complete · 11:42:07 · audit log updated
How we work
Run like it's ours — because it is
Client systems and Cloud Square's own are held to one standard: does it work, will it recover, and can someone explain it plainly when it doesn't.
Boringis a compliment, in infrastructure
Testedbackups — not hopeful ones
Writtendown, so the next person can fix it
Ownedaccounts, data, and docs stay the client’s
One engineer, fully accountable
Everything Cloud Square runs is designed, operated, and repaired by the same pair of hands. When something breaks, there is no queue to hide behind.
Small by choice
Staying small keeps decisions fast and honest — no account managers, no upsells, no meetings about meetings. When a build needs more hands, it gets them; the standard stays the same at any scale.
Security as a habit
Least privilege, encrypted storage, second factors, tested restores — because client data and our own are held to the same standard.
Nothing held hostage
Portable architectures, plain notes, and exports that actually work. Any system we build, a client should be able to walk away with cleanly.
Integration
Past, present, and future — one system
Technology arrives in layers, and most of the old layers still matter. The craft is making every generation talk to the next.
Past
Legacy systems, still earning their keep
On-prem servers, aging ERPs, file shares, industry-specific software that will never see a rewrite. We connect it, secure it, and keep it useful instead of forcing a risky rip-and-replace.
- On-prem & co-located servers
- Legacy ERP / line-of-business apps
- File servers & databases
Present
Cloud and SaaS, working as one
The current stack — cloud workloads, Microsoft 365, identity, SaaS tools — unified with single sign-on, shared data, and one security model instead of a pile of subscriptions.
- Cloud & hybrid workloads
- Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace
- Identity & single sign-on
Future
AI and automation, ready when you are
When the infrastructure and data are already in good order, layering on AI assistants, automation, and analytics is an upgrade — not a migration project.
- Private AI assistants
- Process automation
- Analytics & forecasting
Get in touch
Have something worth building well?
Cloud Square stays small on purpose — but not small in what it can take on. From a single stubborn system to a large, multi-team build, we handle the planning, architecture, and hands-on implementation, and scale up when a project needs it. If that's the kind of help you're after, let's talk.