MANAGED VIRTUAL DESKTOPS AND CLOUD PCs

A fully managed Windows 11 cloud desktop for your remote team, run for you, not by you.

Each person gets a Windows 11 virtual desktop (a cloud PC) in a managed, compliant workspace you can actually see. There is no fleet to buy, no new IT team to hire.
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BEFORE WE START
A cloud desktop sounds like less work than managing physical machines. With the big-name platforms, a lot of the running still lands back on your team, and it can quietly become their second job. Here is the part that is easy to miss when you are comparing options.
THE PROBLEM

Run your own virtual desktops, and you can end up operating a small data centre to keep them going.

THE HIDDEN OPERATOR
You are still running it
The big-name providers sell you infrastructure, not an operated service. You license the security suite, prove your posture against SOC2, ISO27001, Essential 8 and PCI DSS, run provisioning, images and patching, and carry every support ticket yourself.
THE ALL-IN COST
You are paying twice
The per-seat bill is only half of it. The other half is the licences and in-house hours to keep it all running. The real cost is both together.
THE POOR EXPERIENCE
Your people get the lag, not you
Shared virtual machines fight for compute when everyone is busy, and the memory, cores and storage per seat are capped for the price you pay, so your remote workers get the stalls and the spinning cursor.
THE OFFER

HIQ takes the whole stack.

HIQ provides a fully managed, compliant, observable Windows 11 virtual desktop (VDI) and operates everything around it: provisioning, images, patching, and the whole security and compliance suite, curated, licensed and integrated, kept continuously compliant against SOC2, ISO27001, Essential 8 and PCI DSS, and the standards you are held to. It comes with an SLA-backed helpdesk for your workers and managers, so even the support tickets leave your team. It runs on HIQ’s own physical servers in data centres close to your people, so your users move across to a faster desktop, not a slower one. Your team keeps people and policy; HIQ runs the machines and the support. You buy the operated outcome, not infrastructure you babysit.
Your team keeps people and policy. HIQ runs the machines, the suite and the support.
WHAT YOU GET

Five things, mapped to the pain.

NO LABOUR
All-inclusive, nothing to run
HIQ operates provisioning, images, patching, security and compliance. Your team does none of it.
SLA AND HELPDESK
Support is theirs, not yours
A helpdesk for your workers and managers under a service level, so the ticket queue leaves your team.
PEAK PERFORMANCE
Fast enough that the lag goes
Physical servers close to your people, with more memory, cores and storage per seat, so the slowdowns of the big-name cloud PC disappear.
CONTINUOUS COMPLIANCE
Named and kept current
Your workstations kept compliant against SOC2, ISO27001, Essential 8 and PCI DSS, and the standards you are held to. Curated, licensed tooling, MFA built in, evidence on tap, all in the seat price.
LOWER ALL-IN COST
Less per seat, and no overhead to run it
Lower on the seat price and no in-house hours or separate tool licences to carry.
HOW IT WORKS

One workspace, four functions run for you.

The worker connects from their own device. HIQ runs the operational functions around the workspace. You get a single dashboard and compliance evidence, all on bare metal infrastructure in data centres local to your workforce.
PRICING

One all-in fee, against a seat price plus the hours to run it.

Current tiers. Custom configurations on request, and you can start with a single seat.
Saver
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$51

AUD
per seat / month · billed monthly
8 GB RAM
6 vCores
128 GB SSD
Standard
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$69

AUD
per seat / month · billed monthly
16 GB RAM
8 vCores
256 GB SSD
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Engineers
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$86

AUD
per seat / month · billed monthly
32 GB RAM
10 vCores
512 GB SSD
No onboarding fee, no minimum commitment, one day's notice to cancel. Custom configurations on request.
THE ECONOMICS

Cheaper all-in, and the move stays small.

There is no onboarding fee. The only cost of moving is your own internal effort, and the one-at-a-time migration is built to keep it small. Because HIQ costs less all-in, you are ahead soon after each seat moves across.
THE ALL-IN COMPARISON
Seat price plus the hours to run it
Compare HIQ against your true all-in cost: the per-seat bill, the licences for your security and compliance suite, and the in-house time on provisioning, images, patching, audits and support. HIQ folds all of it into one lower fee.
A SMALL, MANAGED MOVE
One seat at a time, HIQ-run
HIQ runs the migration in waves, lowest-utilisation users first, and retires each old seat as its user lands on HIQ. No big switch, no onboarding fee, and no fleet-wide double bill.
IT TIME BACK
The hours come back
The time your team spent running desktops goes back to client work and the projects that move the business.
PROOF

AWS WorkSpaces at AU$165 a seat, down to AU$89, faster.

AU$165 → AU$86
per seat
14-week
phased move
THE SITUATION
The Client: an APAC data engineering and BI consultancy, around 240 staff with 110 remote engineers and analysts working on client production data in financial services and telco. It ran AWS WorkSpaces in Sydney, with internal IT handling provisioning, image management and active directory, and a separate compliance lead running SOC2 and ISO27001 cycles. Per-seat cost ran AU$115 to AU$165 depending on the bundle, before counting the in-house time to operate it. Engineers hit slowdowns during peak data processing, and IT carried a backlog on patching and image refresh.
WHAT CHANGED
Weighed against renewing the AWS commitment, HIQ won. The move ran over 14 weeks, lowest-utilisation engineers first. Per-seat cost dropped to AU$89 on the HIQ Engineers tier with more memory and storage, the slowdowns went away, in-house IT hours went back to client delivery, and audit evidence moved from a quarterly project to a continuous dashboard.
Example profile for illustration. Named references available under NDA.
RISK REVERSAL

We run the move, and you can leave with your images any time.

Phased migration
HIQ runs the move, lowest-utilisation users first, so nothing goes dark.
30-day free trial
One seat, no card, no auto-conversion, configured to the user’s tier and role.
30-day money-back guarantee
After a paid start, the first month’s seat fees are refundable.
No lock-in
Your machine images and data are handed back on request, any time.
COMMON QUESTIONS

Objections, answered.

Moving off our current setup will be disruptive.
We run the move, in waves. HIQ handles the migration, lowest-utilisation users first, and teams that make this move usually find it faster, not slower. Nothing goes dark.
We trust our current provider.
This gives you more control, not less. HIQ runs on its own physical servers you can point to, hands you the audit evidence, and lets you leave with your images and data any time. Lower all-in cost, and no black box.
Isn't this just another cloud PC?
You are buying the operated stack, not infrastructure. A cloud PC is how the desktop is delivered. What HIQ gives you is the whole thing run for you, provisioning to compliance, on servers close to your people, for less than paying a licence and operating it yourself.
ABOUT US

Built by someone who lived the problem.

Pouria Rabeti - Founder, Happening Intelligence
15 years in enterprise technology including 6 or more years as Tech Lead at ANZ Bank, and Managing Director of Code Clan, the sister offshore software-engineering business. He founded HIQ in 2021 to solve the workforce problem he saw daily at Code Clan. HIQ and Code Clan operate as a group, HQ Melbourne, with infrastructure and delivery centres across the region.
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