Cloud Cost Optimization The company relies on major cloud providers (AWS and Google Cloud) and common web servers (Nginx, Apache). As a very small organization, there is an opportunity to offer a turnkey managed cloud and DevOps package to reduce admin overhead, improve reliability, and optimize ongoing hosting costs.

Security & Compliance With a standard web stack and cloud hosting, there is a need for security hardening, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, a Web Application Firewall, and TLS/certificate management to protect operations and data.

Publishing Platform Modernization As a think tank that publishes research, there is potential to modernize content workflows with a scalable publishing platform, collaborative data sharing tools, and analytics to expand reach and impact.

Low Headcount IT A low-touch IT support model—monitoring, backups, incident response, and periodic optimization reviews—would be attractive for a small team and reduce the risk of downtime without building an in-house IT department.

Grant & Fundraising Enablement Think tanks often rely on grants and donations, creating an opportunity to offer fundraising and donor-management integrations, grant-tracking tools, and donation-enabled website features aligned with the existing cloud hosting.