Capital Region IT
IT for homes and businesses across New York’s Capital Region — done by the person doing the work, on-site or remote.
What you can hire me for
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Fix a slow or broken computer
Laptops and desktops that crawl, crash, or won’t start — diagnosed and actually fixed.
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Set up Wi-Fi & networks
Whole-home and office coverage, wired and wireless — no more dead spots.
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Build a custom PC
Spec’d to what you do and your budget — work, creator, or gaming.
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Ongoing IT for your business
Email, accounts, backups, and the systems your day runs on — kept running.
Windows and Mac. iPhone, Android, tablets, printers. If it’s part of how your day runs, it’s part of what I work on.
Up close
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. The same discipline that keeps enterprise systems running — EHRs, lab systems, the platforms a hospital can’t let fail — is what 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.
Straight talk
Isn’t AI just slop? Isn’t “vibe coding” a bad word?
Fair questions. You’ve heard the horror stories, and plenty of them are true. So here’s exactly where I stand — no spin.
What about all the AI slop?
Slop is what you get when someone with no skill hands the whole job to a machine and ships whatever it spits out — unread, untested, nobody behind it. AI is a power tool, and a power tool doesn’t make a craftsman. In the wrong hands it makes junk faster; in the right ones it makes good work faster. Telling one from the other is the whole job — and that’s what doing this by hand, for a career, teaches you. The machine doesn’t get the final say. I do.
Isn’t “vibe coding” frowned upon in the industry?
It is — and it earned that reputation honestly: people shipping things they don’t understand and can’t fix when they break. I use AI the opposite way: to move faster on work I already know how to do without it. The imitators prompt ChatGPT to fix their spelling. Whether it’s the website you’re reading or a blue screen on your laptop, a real person understands every piece of what you’re getting.
So you’re fine telling people you used it?
More than fine — I’ll say it out loud. I use AI to design websites, track down blue screens, and untangle networks, the same way I’ve used every good tool that’s come along. My goal is to make “I AI’d it” as ordinary as “I googled it” — because the truth is most of the trade is already using it, they just won’t admit it. The edge isn’t having the tool. It’s knowing how to wield it.
So why should you choose me?
Because I’m a real person offering real value. The end goal was never an AI-generated image — it’s your computer, your network, your office actually working at the end of the day. The savings get passed on to you, not pocketed or buried in a black box. Best tools, used out in the open, every step explained. That’s the whole idea.
Welcome to a new way of doing business.
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.
| Service | Detail | Rate |
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| Home | ||
| Remote support | Cheaper on purpose — that saving goes to you | $75.00/hr |
| On-site labor | At your home, one-hour minimum | $95.00/hr |
| Diagnostic | Credited to the work | $75.00 |
| Business | ||
| Remote support | No travel, no trip charge | $105.00/hr |
| On-site labor | Scoped and quoted flat before work starts | $135.00/hr |
| Managed IT | Essentials to Plus | $49.00–$149.00/seat |
| Custom PC builds | ||
| Everyday | All-in, every line itemized | $899.00 |
| Work & creator | All-in, every line itemized | $1,300.00 |
| Gaming | All-in, every line itemized | $1,800.00 |
Just want the parts list? $75 for a spec you can build yourself. Prices shown are before applicable New York State and local sales tax.
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.
- Enterprise systems kept alive at hospital and lab scale.
— 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
These are the tools I work in — not partners, not endorsements.
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.