About ElevateIQ
Endpoint privilege elevation for Windows, built so standard users stay standard.
Our story
ElevateIQ was born from frustration, the kind that comes from watching every IT team in the world choose between giving users local admin or living in a help-desk ticket queue.
Every Windows-shop admin knows the dance: a user needs to install something, change a network setting, or update a driver. They hit UAC, the prompt asks for credentials they don't have, and then it's a Slack message to IT, a remote session, an admin password being typed across someone else's keyboard. Every time. For every install. Forever.
The "fix" the industry settled on was worse than the problem: hand out local admin and pray, or buy a privileged-access tool that bolts a heavy second layer onto every endpoint. Neither felt right.
So we built ElevateIQ instead. A lightweight Windows agent that turns a privilege-elevation request into a one-click MFA approval. The user verifies their identity, writes one line about why, and the elevation goes through, backed by your rules, the audit log, and an AI risk score that helps your team decide faster. Local admin disappears. Help-desk tickets shrink. Every elevation is logged.
Jorge Corona
With over 20 years in IT, Jorge has spent the last decade building the tools he wished he had as an IT manager. Before ElevateIQ he led IT teams through the same cycle every shop knows, local-admin sprawl, audit findings, and weekend tickets that should never have been tickets.
Jorge founded Tiny Electrons LLC in 2017 with a simple mission: make enterprise-grade security accessible to teams that don't have an enterprise security budget. ElevateIQ is the third product in that mission, built on the conviction that privilege elevation should be a one-click MFA tap, not a help-desk ticket.
The problems we solve
Local admin sprawl
Every user with local admin is a security finding waiting to happen. ElevateIQ removes the need to hand it out at all.
Help-desk overhead
"Can you elevate this for me?" is the most common ticket in IT. With ElevateIQ, users self-serve in seconds; admins approve with one click.
Shared admin passwords
Nobody types an admin password into anyone else's machine, ever. ElevateIQ runs each elevation under a managed local admin account, the password is never displayed and never reused.
Audit gaps
Every elevation is signed with MFA, scored by AI, decided by a human (or an explicit rule), and recorded in a tamper-evident log.
Heavy PAM stacks
Enterprise PAM tools assume an enterprise budget, and an enterprise's tolerance for new agents, brokers, and reverse-proxies. ElevateIQ ships one small agent and a SaaS console. That's it.
Rule sprawl
Approve a request once, optionally turn it into a rule. Build your allowlist as you go, no upfront policy work required.
Our mission
Standard users should stay standard. Local admin should belong to nobody. Every privilege change should be MFA-signed, policy-bound, and audited. And it should all happen without a help-desk ticket.
That's the bar. ElevateIQ is how we hit it.