Working with EMPIST® feels like having a smart neighbor in your corner, not a distant firm sending PDFs and invoices. You get practical guidance that respects your budget, your people, and the reality of running a business in the Loop, on the floor, or across multiple locations. The right partner helps you make confident calls on infrastructure, cloud, security, and growth plans, translating complexity into clear next steps and showing up when decisions turn into deployments.
Call 1-312-724-6896 to speak with a real person in our Chicago office or schedule an assessment for when you and the team are available. An IT professional from EMPIST will be in touch.
We’re built in Chicago, based in the Loop, and shaped by 25 years of keeping local businesses running, secure, and sane. When you work with us, you’re not talking to a ticket system; you’re talking to people who know what a bad Monday outage feels like and what it takes to prevent the next one.
Our team blends seasoned IT strategists, security consultants, cloud architects, and support specialists who actually speak your language. We’re here to listen, then make recommendations: from tightening up security and compliance, to rethinking your infrastructure, to helping your team work smarter with the tools you already own.
You don’t need another vendor auditioning for the starring role. You need a clear read on what’s happening, what it’s costing you, and what to do next. We assess, translate the technical into plain English, and lay out options with honest tradeoffs so you can make decisions with confidence.
Then we respect the part most firms forget: it’s your business. You choose the path, the pace, and the priorities. If you want us to stay involved, we can help run the project and keep everyone accountable. If you’d rather take it in house, you’ll still leave with a roadmap that stands on its own.
Names, faces, direct lines—no mystery, no maze. Just a Chicago team in the Loop, ready to sit across the table, roll up our sleeves, and get to work on your next chapter.
Security conversations often swing between panic and denial. Neither is useful.
We review your environment—accounts, devices, email, backups, network, remote access—and translate it into something you can act on: where an incident is most likely to start, what it would cost you, and what a sensible first line of defense looks like.
You don’t get a 60-page scare report. You get a short list of “do these things first, here’s why, and here’s roughly what it will take.”
Most teams live in email, calendars, files, chat, and a handful of core apps. When those are messy, everything is harder than it needs to be.
We help you clean that up:
organizing Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, tightening permissions, simplifying how people share and store information, and planning the move off any aging systems that are holding you hostage.
The goal isn’t “be in the cloud.” The goal is that your staff can find what they need, work securely, and stop wrestling with tools that were never set up for the way they actually work.
Choppy Wi-Fi, cranky VPNs, random slowness—these things aren’t charming quirks. They’re symptoms.
We look at the foundation: internet connections, firewalls, switches, Wi-Fi, servers, and how your offices and remote sites are connected. Then we sketch a future state that makes sense for your size and risk level: what stays on-prem, what moves to the cloud, where redundancy matters, and where you can simplify.
The outcome is a plan you can execute in phases, instead of a terrifying all-or-nothing proposal.
It’s surprisingly easy to end up with a shelf full of software you barely use. Every demo looks good in isolation.
We help you define what you actually need, compare options, and read the fine print before you sign. That might be for a new phone system, document management, a line-of-business app, or a full platform shift.
If you’d like, we also stick around to help run the project, translating between vendors and your internal teams, keeping scope honest, and making sure the thing you were sold is the thing that gets delivered.
EMPIST works with organizations where downtime isn’t an inconvenience, it’s a liability. Law firms racing against court deadlines. Nonprofits stretching every dollar and every donor. Financial firms living under a microscope of regulators and auditors. Healthcare teams who can’t have the network go down in the middle of patient care. Manufacturers who measure interruptions in lost output, not minutes. We bring that context with us to every project.
Security tuned to your risk profile.
Compliance mapped to your industry
Support that respects how your people actually work
Design around the line-of-business tools you actually live in.
Build predictable, scalable plans that grow with you.
55 W Monroe St. Suite 400
Chicago, IL 60603
Shoot Us An Email: hello@empist.com
Call Us Today: 1-312-724-6896