Full-service IT consulting built around relationships first. We help organizations across the Puget Sound Region — and nationally — make technology work for the people who depend on it.
From day-to-day support to complex compliance work, we meet clients where they are — and grow with them.
Security policy, risk assessment, NIST 800-171 compliance support, and vendor coordination for clients navigating regulatory frameworks including CMMC certification pathways.
Full M365 deployment, migration, and ongoing management. Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, Azure AD, and licensing strategy for organizations of any size.
Deep expertise in Sage 300, Sage Timberline, Sage Master Builder, and vertical market applications. We keep mission-critical legacy systems running and integrated.
LAN/WAN design and support built around Ubiquiti UniFi — deployed across a dozen client sites. Server procurement, desktop support, and remote monitoring across the full stack.
Database design, middleware, web applications, and business process automation. SQL, PHP, WordPress, and integration work spanning modern and legacy platforms.
Proactive maintenance combined with on-call support. Trusted advisor model for smaller organizations who need a complete IT team without the overhead.
We're not selling AI hype. We're integrating it — carefully, strategically, and with a clear eye on what your organization actually needs. From workflow automation to AI-augmented consulting, KCS brings 40 years of systems thinking to the AI era.
Our work includes AI strategy for small businesses and nonprofits, M365 Copilot deployment, and custom AI tooling. Through K2 Strategic we address policy and management consulting at the intersection of technology and leadership. Our newest venture, Convexus, is a civic technology platform helping communities move from dialogue to coordinated action — AI-assisted facilitation built for governments, organizations, and community initiatives.
The Visual Atlas of Reality — Two-Volume Physics Framework by Charles Keating"Communities everywhere are facing complex challenges, yet the digital spaces where people gather often amplify division rather than progress. Convexus was created to help communities rediscover the ability to listen, find common ground, and move forward together."— Merrill Keating, Founder · convexus.us
Convexus guides communities through a structured progression — Explore, Align, Act — with AI-assisted facilitation that surfaces emerging consensus and translates common ground into coordinated action. Founded by Merrill Keating (BSME, University of Washington) with co-founder Doña Keating.
A small, focused team with deep expertise across the full technology stack.
Programming since 1979, consulting since 1983. Systems thinker across technology, policy, physics, and economics. President, West Sound Technology Association since 2009. West Sound CoderDojo Co-Founder. Partner in Professional Options. Author of The Visual Atlas of Reality — a two-volume geometric physics framework deriving fundamental constants from pure geometry (2026). Expertise spanning CMMC compliance, AI architecture, and four decades of integrating people, business, and technology.
President & CEO of Professional Options LLC — strategic leadership and management consulting from SMB to Fortune 100, nonprofits, and government agencies. Principal, K2 Strategic Solutions. Co-chair, KEDA Broadband Task Force. Author of multiple books including How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Nonprofit Hell and co-author of The Merrill Protocol trilogy. Member, Cybersecurity Tech Accord. Co-founder, West Sound CoderDojo and Convexus.
USA Today 2024 Woman of the Year. Founder of Convexus, Girls Ignited, and The Power of 100 Girls. TEDx organizer, World Bank Youth Summit delegate, UN Generation Equality Forum participant. Co-author of The Merrill Protocol AI trilogy and author of multiple books on youth leadership. BSME, University of Washington. Full profile at merrillkeating.com.
President of AuditWest, Inc. 25+ years in information security. Penetration testing, digital forensics, IT audit, and risk management for enterprises, utilities, and financial institutions. US Air Force veteran.
In 2021, KCS assumed IT services for clients of Bob Haslanger's Bainbridge Computer Services — a practice built over 30+ years on the same philosophy we share: expert, consultative, relationship-first service. If you were a BCS client, you're in familiar hands.
Based on Bainbridge Island and Seattle, we serve clients throughout the Puget Sound Region in person and support clients nationally by remote. We've supported organizations from early-stage startup through IPO, and from individual executives to regional schools and businesses.
With 20–30 active clients across a wide range of industries, we operate as a trusted advisor practice — not a body shop. Relationships come first.
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Whether you're a longtime client, exploring a new engagement, or dealing with something urgent — we respond personally.
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