Take the client. Hand off the Intune part.

The short version

Independent IT contractors bring Intune Ready in when a client's Microsoft Intune work runs past the depth they want to take on themselves. There are two ways to do it: subcontract, where Intune Ready delivers the Intune build inside your engagement and you stay the client's point of contact, or refer, where you hand the client over for that piece of work and step back from it. Either way the work is scoped as a project with one fixed price agreed before it begins — tenant configuration, enrollment across Windows, iOS, Android and macOS, Windows Autopilot, compliance policies and Conditional Access — and it ends with documentation and admin training so the environment can be run without the person who built it. The client stays yours: Intune Ready does not solicit the rest of their IT work. None of this says you could not do the job yourself. Intune is learnable and the console is usable; what a specialist saves you is the sequencing and the policy-design judgment that takes several rollouts to acquire, on a job where a client is already waiting.

Two ways to hand it off

Both are fixed-price and both end the same way: a configured tenant, documentation, and admin training. Which one fits is usually decided by who the client expects to invoice them, not by anything technical.

When it's worth bringing in a specialist

Not always — and it is worth being straight about that. A single-platform rollout for a small team is well within reach of a capable generalist, the documentation is public, and nobody needs permission to learn Intune. The jobs where a specialist earns the handoff look like this:

• Compliance or Conditional Access you haven't designed before. Conditional Access in particular is easy to get subtly wrong, and the failure mode is usually invisible until it matters.
• Several platforms that have to behave consistently. Windows, iOS, Android and macOS each enroll differently; getting one right does not get you the other three.
• A tenant somebody already half-configured. Undocumented policies and partial enrollment have to be understood before anything new is layered on top.
• A schedule with no room to learn. A live client project is an expensive place to meet Autopilot for the first time.

If you are not sure which of those you are looking at, the free readiness assessment scores the client's current state in about a minute — no email required to see the result.

What it costs, and how to price it

You get one fixed price for the Intune build before work starts, so whatever you quote your client is a decision you make on top of a known cost rather than a guess against an open meter. What it costs to set up Intune for a small business publishes the ranges and what moves them; what's included at each service tier shows the deliverables each one buys, which is the part clients usually want itemized.

Your client stays your client

The delivery record behind that is public rather than asserted: nine active Microsoft certifications, including the Microsoft 365 Certified: Endpoint Administrator Associate credential built specifically for Intune and endpoint management, on the credentials page.

Running a firm rather than working solo?

MSPs use the same arrangement at larger scale — repeat overflow work, specialty projects, and delivery kept behind their own brand where they prefer it. That version is on the companion page for MSPs.

Common questions from contractors

Can an independent IT contractor bring in an Intune specialist for a client?

Yes, and it is a normal arrangement rather than an admission of anything. Contractors bring Intune Ready in for a defined piece of Microsoft Intune work — a tenant configuration, cross-platform enrollment, Windows Autopilot, a Conditional Access design, or finishing a deployment somebody started and left half-done. The scope and price are set before work begins, so you can commit to your client with a number you already know. MSP firms use the same arrangement at larger scale, on the companion page for MSPs.

What is the difference between subcontracting and referring the client?

Subcontracting keeps you in the middle: you hold the client agreement, Intune Ready delivers the Intune build inside it, and you bill your client for the whole engagement. Referring hands that piece of work to Intune Ready directly, and you step back from it — sometimes the cleaner option if the Intune project is most of what the client wants and you would otherwise be administering a job you are not doing. Both are fixed-price. Which one fits is usually decided by who the client expects to invoice them, not by the technical work.

Will you take my client?

No. The client is yours and stays yours. Intune Ready does not solicit your client during the engagement or after it, and does not treat the Intune work as an opening into the rest of their environment. If the client asks about work beyond the agreed scope, it goes back to you — including when it is work Intune Ready could do.

How do I price it for my client?

You get one fixed price for the Intune build before the work starts, so what you quote your client is your own decision on top of a known cost rather than a guess against an open meter. The range for a given client depends on device count, how many platforms are in play, and how much half-finished configuration has to be cleaned up first — what it costs to set up Intune for a small business publishes the figures and what moves them, and what is included at each service tier shows the deliverables each one buys.

When should I just do the Intune work myself?

When you have the time and the client has the patience, doing it yourself is a perfectly good answer — Intune is learnable, the documentation is public, and a straightforward single-platform rollout for a small team is well within reach of a capable generalist. It is worth bringing in a specialist when the job has compliance or Conditional Access requirements you have not designed before, when several platforms have to behave consistently, when an existing tenant is partly configured in ways nobody documented, or when the schedule does not leave room to learn on a live client. The free readiness assessment is a quick way to see which of those you are actually looking at before deciding.

What does the client end up with?

A configured tenant and documentation describing it: what was set up, why each policy exists, how enrollment works on each platform, and what to check when a device falls out of compliance. Admin training is part of the engagement. That matters more on a contractor's job than on anyone else's — you are usually the person who will be asked about it in six months, and the handover is what makes that answerable without calling anybody.

Do you work with MSP firms as well as independent contractors?

Yes, on the same fixed-price basis, with the difference being scale and paperwork rather than substance: MSPs more often route repeat overflow work and prefer delivery kept behind their own brand, while contractors more often bring in a specialist for a single client project. The arrangements, the scope boundaries and the client-ownership commitment are the same, and they are set out for organizations on the companion page for MSPs.