I run a construction company and my crews do not even use computers. Why would I need IT support?

Look past the job site and at how the business actually runs: bids and estimates are written on a computer, plans arrive as PDFs, invoices go out by email, payroll runs on software, the bank account is managed online, and the phones in every crew member's pocket connect to something. No business today runs without computers; in construction they just live in the office and the cloud instead of the truck. The question is not whether you depend on technology; it is whether anyone is taking care of the technology you depend on.

There is also a specific threat that makes contractors some of the most attacked businesses anywhere: payment fraud. Construction runs on large invoices, wire transfers, and email threads with GCs, subs, and suppliers. Criminals target exactly that: a compromised or spoofed email account quietly redirects a six-figure progress payment to a new account number, and the money is gone before anyone talks by phone. This scam works so well in construction that insurers and industry groups warn about it constantly, and defending against it (email security, authentication records, MFA, payment verification habits) is core IT work.

A construction company usually does not need a big IT footprint: protect the office machines and the books, secure the email, back up the estimating and accounting data, and keep the connection to the field reliable. That is a modest plan, sized to reality. The 'we do not use computers' assessment usually lasts until the first ransomware note on the estimating machine or the first misdirected draw payment; it is far cheaper to be wrong about this before that day.