Home & residential
Help for your house — on-site or solved remotely.
- On-site labor$95/hr
- Remote support$75/hr
- Diagnostic — credited to the work$75
Remote is cheaper on purpose — more gets fixed fast, and that saving goes to you.
Capital Region IT · Est. 2026
IT for homes and businesses across New York’s Capital Region — fixed and explained by the person who actually does the work.
What I do
The work, not the sales pitch.
Here’s what people actually call me for — and what gets done.
Straight answer and a clear price before any work starts — every time.
The machine that’s gotten unusable.
A laptop that takes four minutes to boot, a desktop that locks up mid-task, a setup that worked fine until it didn’t. I find the actual cause instead of wiping it and hoping, fix it, and tell you what went wrong so it doesn’t come back.
Wi-Fi that won’t reach the whole house.
Dead spots, drop-offs, the back room that never holds a signal. I map where the network actually fails and fix the layout — placement, hardware, configuration — so every room works and stays working.
A PC built for what you actually do.
Workstations, creator rigs, and gaming builds spec’d to the job and your budget, assembled and tested properly. You get the parts that matter for your work and none of the markup on the ones that don’t.
An office network that isn’t fighting your team.
New office, or an existing one that’s a tangle nobody documented. I build it — wired, wireless, shared drives, security — and hand you a network that’s organized, documented, and supportable, not a mystery the next person has to reverse-engineer.
The systems a small business runs on.
Email, accounts, backups, the line-of-business apps your day depends on. Fifteen years keeping enterprise systems running — EHRs, lab systems, the platforms a hospital can’t let fail — is the same discipline I bring to a five-person office: set it up so it holds, and so you understand it.
The leg-up
I use AI in the open. You pay less because the work goes faster.
Most of the trade still won’t admit they touch it. I’ll tell you exactly where it earns its place: it gets me to the cause of a problem faster, which means fewer billable hours between you and a fix. That’s the whole pitch. No black box, no buzzword.
Faster diagnosis, lower bill.
The expensive part of any fix is the time spent finding the problem. Modern tooling shortens that, so more gets solved in a remote session and fewer jobs need a costly on-site visit. That usually shows up on your invoice.
Caught before it breaks.
The same tooling helps me catch many problems — the failing drive, the misconfiguration, the security gap — before they become a bad day. Cheaper to fix on a Tuesday than after it takes you down.
You can see the receipts.
Ask where it saved you time or money on a job and I’ll show you. It’s a tool I use to do better work for less, not a mystery you’re billed for.
Pricing
Real prices, on the page.
Most shops bury their rates behind “request a quote.” Here are mine. Same rate for everyone, and you’ll know the number before I start, not after.
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The diagnostic is always credited.
You don’t pay to be told what’s wrong and pay again to fix it. Go ahead with the work and the diagnostic comes off the bill.
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Every quote is itemized.
Line by line, no mystery charges, no surprise markup.
Custom PC builds
Spec’d to your budget, built to last.
- Everydayfrom $899
- Work & creatorfrom $1,300
- Gamingfrom $1,800
All-in builds, every line itemized — no upsell, nothing you don’t need. Just want the parts list? $75 for a spec you can build yourself.
Small business
Project work, or ongoing managed support.
- On-site labor$135/hr
- Care plan — the easy on-rampfrom $49/seat/mo
- Managed IT$99–$149/user/mo
Bigger projects are scoped and quoted flat up front, before the work starts.
Not sure which you need? Call, text, or email and I’ll tell you straight, before you spend a dollar.
About
I’ve been building on computers since I was fourteen — self-taught HTML, Perl, and CGI on dial-up, on a site that grew big enough to earn ad revenue and a PC Gamer write-up while I was still in school. The last fifteen years have been the enterprise stack — RMM, PSA, and documentation systems (Datto, Autotask, ITGlue, ServiceNow) keeping EHRs, lab systems, and proprietary platforms running for hospitals, labs, and businesses on a global scale.
- Real stack at scale — Datto / Kaseya VSA / Autotask / ServiceNow.
- ~28 years in computing · ~15 on enterprise IT.
— Christopher Powers, Albany, NY
The kit
The stack I actually work in.
The same enterprise tooling I’ve run at scale — RMM, PSA, and ITSM — plus the platforms and silicon your work actually rides on.
Manage & monitor
Network
Platforms
Licensing
AI
Compute
Get in touch
You reach me directly. Not a queue, not a ticket number.
Text, call, or email and it comes to me — the person who’ll be doing the work. No form into a void, no “we’ll get back to you.”
New name, not a new hand. Powers Computing is new. The twenty-eight years behind it aren’t.
One laptop or a whole company — the size of the job has never been the point. No contract, no appointment: call cold, email out of the blue, and you’ll get a straight answer.