Maximized · Scottsdale, Arizona

Infrastructure consulting and AI-enabled software for teams that need dependable systems.

Maximized brings MSP-scale operations experience to SMBs and internal IT teams — improving stability, cutting ticket volume and response times, and shipping practical AI-enabled software. Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, with remote engagements available.

Max Daylight, founder and principal engineer of Maximized

Who we help

Built for the people who keep systems running

  • Small & mid-sized businesses

    SMBs that need senior infrastructure help without hiring a full-time engineer.

  • Internal IT teams

    Teams that need help with modernization, automation, or documentation they don't have the bandwidth to tackle.

  • Organizations exploring AI

    Groups looking for secure, practical AI use cases in their internal tools and workflows.

What we do

Where we deliver value

We pair deep infrastructure experience with a modern, agent-first approach to building software.

  • IT & Infrastructure Consulting

    Virtualization, Windows and cloud administration, automation, security, and the documentation that keeps it all maintainable.

    Infrastructure services →

  • Agent-First Software Development

    Custom software built with AI agents as first-class collaborators — agentic workflows, LLM-powered features, and self-hosted, private AI that can run on your own infrastructure.

    Software services →

How we build

Built to standards you can trust

  • Standards-driven & CI-validated

    Consistent standards and automated review run in CI before anything ships — the same discipline visible in our public code.

  • Secure by default

    No hardcoded secrets, least-privilege access, and -WhatIf dry-runs before anything changes in production.

  • Documented for handoff

    Runbooks and architecture docs so your team can own and maintain the result long after delivery.

How we build →

Core capabilities

What we work with every day

  • Windows Server & Active Directory

    Domain design, Group Policy, DNS/DHCP, and identity management at scale.

  • Proxmox & Virtualization

    Clustered hypervisors, VM/LXC lifecycle, storage, and high availability.

  • Azure & Microsoft 365

    Entra ID, Intune, Exchange Online, and secure cloud tenant administration.

  • Agent-First Development

    Agentic workflows, LLM integration, and AI-assisted delivery for custom software.

  • PowerShell & Python Automation

    Reusable modules, pipelines, and tooling that eliminate toil and standardize operations.

  • Security, Identity & PKI

    Segmentation, defense-in-depth, certificate authorities, and trust-chain hardening.

See our full approach & capabilities →

Recent work

Representative projects

  • PowerShell administration toolkit

    A standards-driven library of scripts for Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, and Active Directory administration, validated in CI.

    PowerShell Microsoft 365

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  • Webpage change tracker with AI summaries

    A self-hosted app that diffs a page against Wayback snapshots and narrates what changed using a local LLM.

    Python Local LLM

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  • Automated market-monitoring services

    Python services that watch Kraken markets for oversold setups and new listings, emailing alerts from a Proxmox LXC.

    Python systemd

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