Houston IT Companies Ranked by Industry (2026)

Most Houston IT rankings ask one question. Who is the best MSP in Houston? Wrong question if you run a 40 bed surgical practice, a pipe fabrication shop, or a 12 attorney litigation firm. Those three buyers need completely different things, and the provider that wins one of them can be a genuinely bad fit for the other two.

So we built this differently. Five Houston industries. Four providers ranked in each. Every score traces back to something published that you can open in a browser and check yourself, whether that is an industry page, a live review profile, or a named award.

I run technology at Uprite, which publishes this page. That is a conflict, and pretending otherwise would insult you. The way we handled it was to publish the model, apply it identically to everyone, and let it say uncomfortable things about us where it does. It does. Our thinnest published vertical page is the legal one, and the score reflects that. If you want the general market view instead, our Houston IT support companies ranking covers the city without splitting it by industry.

How We Ranked These Houston IT Companies

Every provider was scored on six criteria, weighted, and applied identically. No provider paid for placement. No provider submitted their own data.

The Industry Fit Score runs out of 10 and weights as follows.

• Vertical documentation depth, 30 percent. Does a dedicated page for that industry exist, and does it name real platforms? Procore and Bluebeam for construction. Epic and ePHI for healthcare. SCADA and ICS for energy. A bullet that says “we serve manufacturers” scores near zero.
• Compliance and regulatory coverage, 20 percent. Named frameworks only. HIPAA, NIST 800-171, CMMC, NERC CIP, PCI-DSS, FTC Safeguards. Generic “we handle compliance” does not count.
• Verified review score, 20 percent. Clutch carries half, Google Maps 40 percent, Cloudtango the rest. Rating and volume both count, with volume on a log scale so a firm with 12 enterprise clients is not buried by a firm with 200 small ones.
• Houston presence and onsite reach, 15 percent. A verified local office with named staff, not a service area checkbox.
• Awards and third party recognition, 10 percent. Channel Futures MSP 501, CRN MSP 500, Cloudtango MSP Select, Inc. 5000. Self described “award winning” counts for nothing.
• Operational maturity, 5 percent. Years in business, named leadership, published case studies.

Two disclosed adjustments, because silent ones would make this worthless.

First, review score sits at 20 percent instead of the 35 percent a general market ranking would use. A perfect rating from a dental office tells you nothing about whether that provider can keep a SCADA network segmented. Vertical evidence had to carry more weight than star ratings, or the entire premise of an industry ranking falls apart.

Second, the missing platform penalty. Any provider without usable Clutch review data loses half that weight permanently, and only half of it redistributes to Google. That rule hit six of the nine providers here, including several who beat us on Google reviews. It would have hit us too if we had no Clutch record. We do. That is the one place in this model where being the publisher happened to help, and you should know it.

Factors 1 and 2 get rescored for every industry. A provider can be excellent for oil and gas and mediocre for law firms. Most of them are.

Live review data was scraped on August 3, 2026.

Houston IT Companies by Industry at a Glance

Provider reference data below is constant across all five industries. Review figures are live as of August 3, 2026.

Aldridge and Preactive were scored but did not place in the top four of any single industry. Aldridge has the deepest operating history on this list and 130 Google reviews. What it does not have is a working industries page. The URL returns a 404, and its vertical content lives in blog categories instead. That cost it heavily on the factor worth 30 percent.

Best Houston IT Companies for Healthcare

Houston health care is forecast to add 14,000 jobs in 2026, roughly 45 percent of all new jobs in the metro, according to the Greater Houston Partnership. The Texas Medical Center alone runs more than 60 member institutions. That growth is exactly why HIPAA fluent IT stopped being optional here.

It is also why Texas keeps appearing near the top of the monthly healthcare breach reports filed with the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

1. Uprite Services. Best for compliance evidence you can hand an auditor

Industry Fit Score 9.4 / 10

We publish a 2,800 word Houston healthcare page that names ePHI handling, EHR and EMR environments, Epic, NIST controls, SIEM monitoring, and MFA enforcement. Not a services list. The actual work.

Key strengths

• HIPAA, NIST 800-171, FTC Safeguards, and Texas SB 2610 all named and documented rather than implied
• A published multi location healthcare infrastructure case study, including the growth problem and what we changed
• Houston office with onsite dispatch, plus San Antonio and Dallas for practices that expand out of the metro
• Seven consecutive years on the Channel Futures MSP 501, ranked 264 in 2026

Worth knowing

We are a poor fit for a single provider practice with four workstations. Our smallest healthcare engagements start around 15 seats, and below that a local break fix shop will cost you less and serve you perfectly well.

Best for multi site clinics, specialty groups, and surgical practices between 15 and 250 seats that need HIPAA evidence an auditor will accept.
Not ideal for solo practitioners, or practices already standardized on a national healthcare only IT vendor.

Why we rank first here. Healthcare is the vertical where our published documentation and our compliance coverage both max out, and it is the only industry on this page where we clear the runner up by a full point. The detail behind the score sits on our Houston healthcare IT services page.

2. Centre Technologies. Best for emergency and urgent care networks

Industry Fit Score 8.6 / 10

Centre carries a healthcare practice with an unusual sub focus on emergency rooms and micro hospitals, a segment most Houston MSPs skip entirely.

Key strengths

• HIPAA compliance services named explicitly on the industries page
• Emergency and urgent care specialization that shows up in published content, not just a nav item
• 1,150 plus businesses supported, with a published two hour average resolution figure
• Largest Houston headquartered team on this list at 201 to 500 employees

The tradeoff

No Clutch review record at all. Their profile exists and sits empty, which under our model costs them a quarter of the review factor outright. For a buyer who weights verified third party reviews heavily, that gap is real and it is the whole reason they are not first.

Best for urgent care networks, micro hospitals, and multi site providers who want a large local bench.
Not ideal for buyers who need verified third party client interviews before they sign anything.

Why they rank second. Strong published healthcare specialization and the biggest local team in this section, held back almost entirely by an empty Clutch profile.

3. Meriplex. Best for senior living and long term care

Industry Fit Score 8.2 / 10

Meriplex is the enterprise option, and their healthcare page reads like it. Orthopedic care, senior living, LTC pharmacy.

Key strengths

• A separate dedicated page for senior living and long term care, which nobody else here publishes
• Roughly 700 employees, so delivery capacity is simply not a question
• MSP 501 rank 21 in 2025, the highest placement of any provider on this page

Worth knowing

For all that vertical breadth, no compliance framework is named anywhere on the healthcare page. Not HIPAA. Not HITRUST. For a compliance driven buyer that omission matters, and it is precisely what separates them from Centre here.

Best for senior living operators, LTC pharmacy groups, and healthcare organizations large enough to need a national delivery bench.
Not ideal for a 30 seat clinic that wants the same engineer on every call.

Why they rank third. Genuinely differentiated sub verticals that nobody else covers, undercut by the total absence of a named regulatory framework.

4. Truewater. Best for response speed over documentation

Industry Fit Score 6.9 / 10

Truewater serves healthcare and says so plainly. Beyond that the published detail thins out fast compared to their other verticals.

Key strengths

• A perfect 5.0 across 100 Google reviews, the strongest raw local review profile in this section
• Houston only focus, so nobody is triaging your ticket from another state
• Healthcare sits inside a broader industries structure that is genuinely well organized

Worth knowing

No named compliance framework surfaced on the healthcare page, and no Clutch profile exists. Both cost them under this model. Healthcare is clearly not where their published expertise is concentrated, and their own site tells you that if you read it closely.

Best for small Houston practices that value response speed above compliance paperwork.
Not ideal for any practice that needs a HIPAA risk assessment as a deliverable.

Why they rank fourth. Excellent reviews, thin healthcare evidence. Our model weights evidence heavier, and this is the section where that choice costs them the most. Our standalone HIPAA compliant IT companies in Houston list goes wider on this vertical.

Best Houston IT Companies for Manufacturing

Different problem entirely. Manufacturing is the one Houston sector the Greater Houston Partnership expects to shrink in 2026, by roughly 3,400 jobs, largely on softening upstream oil demand. Contracting margins mean plant IT budgets get scrutinized line by line.

Which makes CMMC and NIST 800-171 the deciding factor for anyone sitting in a defense supply chain.

1. Uprite Services. Best for CMMC obligated suppliers

Industry Fit Score 9.0 / 10

Our manufacturing page names CMMC, NIST 800-171, OT environments, AutoCAD, and Sage. We also publish a manufacturing modernization and compliance case study, plus dedicated manufacturing pages for San Antonio and Dallas.

Key strengths

• CMMC and NIST 800-171 both documented, which matters enormously if you supply a prime contractor
• A published manufacturing case study covering the modernization work and the compliance work together
• OT and shop floor network segmentation treated as a discipline separate from office IT
• Statewide manufacturing coverage, so a second plant in Dallas is not a new vendor search

Worth knowing

Our manufacturing page is statewide rather than Houston specific, so it does not name Houston submarkets the way our healthcare and energy pages do. If hyper local content is your signal, we are weaker here than the score alone suggests.

Best for manufacturers in defense or aerospace supply chains carrying CMMC obligations.
Not ideal for a single site shop with no compliance exposure and under 20 office seats.

Why we rank first. The compliance factor decides this category, and we are the only provider here naming CMMC and NIST 800-171 on a manufacturing page. Detail lives on our manufacturing IT services page.

2. Centre Technologies. Best for uptime driven mid market plants

Industry Fit Score 7.9 / 10

Manufacturing sits high on Centre industries page with a data protection and uptime framing.

Key strengths

• Manufacturing listed as a core specialization on their company profile, not only the website
• Published manufacturing content aimed at plant operators rather than office managers
• Texas and Oklahoma plant coverage through a genuine multi office footprint

The tradeoff

No named compliance framework on the manufacturing side. For a plant holding defense contracts that is a meaningful gap, and it is the single reason they sit second rather than first.

Best for mid market Texas manufacturers focused on uptime and data protection rather than federal compliance.
Not ideal for CMMC obligated suppliers.

Why they rank second. Solid, well documented manufacturing practice. The compliance column is where it stops.

3. Truewater. Best for shop floor network reliability

Industry Fit Score 7.5 / 10

Truewater folds construction and manufacturing into one practice, and the published detail is better than that structure suggests.

Key strengths

• Names industrial control systems, IoT devices, and plant wide secure networks directly
• Rugged infrastructure and field connectivity treated as a real engineering concern
• 5.0 across 100 Google reviews

Worth knowing

Combining construction and manufacturing into a single page means neither gets a dedicated treatment. No compliance framework is named either.

Best for Houston plants whose main problem is network reliability across the shop floor.
Not ideal for manufacturers who need CMMC readiness work.

Why they rank third. The OT vocabulary is real and specific. The compliance evidence simply is not there.

4. PennComp. Best for long established Houston plants

Industry Fit Score 7.2 / 10

Founded in 1988, PennComp has been serving Houston manufacturers longer than most of this list has existed.

Key strengths

• 38 years in the Houston market, the second longest run on this page
• Manufacturing carried as one of eight distinct industry pages
• 5.0 across 79 Google reviews

Worth knowing

No Clutch profile and no confirmed industry award. Both cost them under the model. Their manufacturing page exists but names fewer platforms than the three above it.

Best for established Houston manufacturers who value a long local track record over published compliance depth.
Not ideal for anyone whose selection process starts with third party verified reviews.

Why they rank fourth. Longevity is genuinely worth something. Under this model it is worth 5 percent, and it cannot offset thinner documentation elsewhere.

Best Houston IT Companies for Construction

Construction IT is its own animal. Job trailers, cellular first connectivity, enormous drawing files, and a workforce that is mostly nowhere near a desk. Generic small business IT breaks here in ways it never breaks in an office.

1. Uprite Services. Best for Procore and Viewpoint environments

Industry Fit Score 9.0 / 10

Our construction page names Procore, AutoCAD, Bluebeam, Sage, and Viewpoint, alongside CMMC and NIST coverage for contractors doing federal work.

Key strengths

• Five named construction platforms, the most specific platform list of any provider here
• Federal contractor compliance covered, which matters on public infrastructure work
• Jobsite connectivity and large file handling treated as distinct problems, not one bucket
• Seven consecutive MSP 501 years and a Clutch record that survives the review penalty

Worth knowing

Like manufacturing, our construction page is statewide rather than Houston scoped. Centre beats us on Houston specific construction framing, and the gap between us here is 0.8, which is closer than the number alone suggests.

Best for commercial general contractors and specialty subs running Procore or Viewpoint across multiple active sites.
Not ideal for residential remodelers with one office and no project management platform.

Why we rank first. Named platforms plus federal compliance coverage, and those two factors together are worth half the model. Our construction IT services page carries the detail.

2. Centre Technologies. Best for large contractors wanting a big local bench

Industry Fit Score 8.2 / 10

Centre lists construction first on their industries page, and the framing is jobsite aware rather than office aware.

Key strengths

• Construction positioned as scaling across business, projects, and job sites, which is the correct mental model
• Largest local support bench of any provider here
• Cloudtango US Select 2026 and MSP 501 recognition both confirmed independently

The tradeoff

Empty Clutch profile again, and no construction platforms named by name. Strong positioning, less proof behind it.

Best for larger Houston contractors who want a big local team on call.
Not ideal for contractors whose choice hinges on documented Procore or Bluebeam experience.

Why they rank second. They understand this buyer. The published evidence just does not go as deep.

3. PennComp. Best for design build and architecture firms

Industry Fit Score 7.6 / 10

PennComp runs Construction and Architecture as two separate industry pages, a distinction almost nobody else in Houston draws.

Key strengths

• Separate architecture practice, useful if you are a design build firm rather than a pure general contractor
• 38 years of Houston operating history
• 5.0 across 79 Google reviews

Worth knowing

No Clutch record, no confirmed award, and no named construction software anywhere on the page.

Best for design build firms and architecture practices that want one provider across both sides of the business.
Not ideal for large general contractors needing documented platform expertise.

Why they rank third. The architecture split is a genuinely smart piece of positioning. It just does not move either of the two heaviest factors.

4. Enstep Technology Solutions. Best for small focused contractors

Industry Fit Score 6.7 / 10

Enstep carries construction as one of five industry pages, alongside CPA firms and engineering.

Key strengths

• Construction is one of only five verticals they claim, so the focus is real rather than decorative
• 5.0 across 40 Google reviews
• North Houston location, convenient for contractors working the Beltway 8 corridor

Worth knowing

No Clutch record, no confirmed award, no named platforms, and no healthcare or energy practice at all. This is a deliberately narrow provider, which is a strength for the right buyer and a dealbreaker for the wrong one.

Best for small Houston contractors and professional service firms wanting a focused local shop.
Not ideal for contractors with federal compliance obligations.

Why they rank fourth. Focused and credible, just thinner across every factor this particular model measures. Our IT providers for Houston construction companies list goes wider on this vertical.

Best Houston IT Companies for Law Firms

Here is where the model turns on us.

Law is our weakest published vertical. Our legal and professional services page runs 586 words and names zero legal platforms. No Clio, no iManage, no NetDocuments, no Relativity. We still rank first, and the reason is uncomfortable enough to write down plainly. We win this section on review data, awards, and Houston reach, not on legal documentation. Truewater out documents us on the thing law firms actually care about.

That is what the score says. So that is what this section says.

1. Uprite Services. Best for multi office Texas firms

Industry Fit Score 8.1 / 10

Key strengths

• A published personal injury law firm transformation case study with the real before and after
• Dedicated law firm pages for Dallas and San Antonio, useful for firms with offices in more than one metro
• The only provider in this section with verified Clutch review data
• Seven consecutive MSP 501 years

Worth knowing, and this is the honest version

Our Houston legal page is the thinnest vertical page we publish. It names no document management or practice management platform at all. If you are choosing on published legal software fluency alone, Truewater has a better page than we do. We are rewriting ours. Until that lands, the gap is real and you should weigh it accordingly.

Best for multi office Texas firms needing consistent IT across Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio.
Not ideal for a single office boutique choosing purely on documented practice management expertise.

Why we rank first. Honestly, on the strength of factors 3 through 6 rather than 1 and 2. Our margin over Centre is 0.3, the narrowest gap on this entire page. Our legal and professional services page is the one we are least proud of.

2. Centre Technologies. Best for mid size firms with multiple Houston offices

Industry Fit Score 7.8 / 10

Centre law firm page frames IT around protecting the practice and the client relationship, which is the right frame.

Key strengths

• Legal named as a formal specialization on their company profile
• Confidentiality and client data protection treated as the core concern
• Largest local team, useful for firms running more than one Houston location

The tradeoff

No named legal platforms, and the empty Clutch profile costs them here exactly as it does everywhere else.

Best for mid size Houston firms wanting a large local bench.
Not ideal for firms selecting on documented eDiscovery or document management experience.

Why they rank second. Correct framing, average evidence, and a review penalty that keeps them 0.3 behind us.

3. Truewater. Best documented legal software knowledge in Houston

Industry Fit Score 7.7 / 10

Truewater publishes the single most specific legal IT page in this entire research set. They name Time Matters and Amicus by product.

Key strengths

• Names actual legal practice management software, which no other provider on this page does
• A dedicated legal industry page rather than a professional services catch all
• 5.0 across 100 Google reviews, the strongest local review profile in this section

Worth knowing

No Clutch profile and no confirmed third party award. Under this model that combination costs roughly a point and a half, and it is the entire reason they sit third instead of first.

Best for Houston litigation boutiques and small firms already running Time Matters or Amicus.
Not ideal for firms needing a provider with published compliance framework coverage.

Why they rank third. Best legal documentation on this page, scored down by factors that have nothing to do with legal work. If legal software fluency is your only criterion, start here rather than with us. We would rather tell you that than have you find out later.

4. ERGOS. Best for buyers wanting a long established generalist

Industry Fit Score 6.3 / 10

ERGOS lists legal among 13 industries, which is precisely the problem.

Key strengths

• Nine appearances on the Inc. 5000 since 2008, which is real third party growth validation
• Houston presence since 1997
• Broadest industry list of any provider we researched

Worth knowing

Thirteen industries and not one named compliance framework anywhere on the page. A 4.3 Google rating across 21 reviews is also the weakest review profile in this research set.

Best for buyers who want a long established Houston generalist and are relaxed about vertical depth.
Not ideal for law firms with specific confidentiality or eDiscovery requirements.

Why they rank fourth. Breadth without depth is exactly what this model was built to detect. More on this vertical in our IT providers for Houston law firms breakdown.

Best Houston IT Companies for Oil and Gas

The hardest vertical on this page, and the one where a generalist MSP does the most damage. Energy IT means SCADA segmentation, field connectivity across sites with no reliable bandwidth, and increasingly NERC CIP obligations for anything touching the bulk electric system.

Three of these four are genuinely good at it. That is unusual. The federal reliability standards themselves are published by NERC, and worth skimming before any provider tells you they handle them.

1. Uprite Services. Best for upstream and midstream operators

Industry Fit Score 9.2 / 10

We publish three separate oil and gas assets, including a 2,245 word Houston energy page naming SCADA, ICS, NERC, NIST, SIEM, and MFA, plus a published modernization case study.

Key strengths

• Three distinct published energy assets, more than any provider we researched
• NERC named directly on the Houston page rather than buried in a generic compliance paragraph
• SCADA and ICS treated as a security domain separate from corporate IT
• A published oil and gas modernization and cybersecurity case study

Worth knowing

We are not an OT engineering firm. We secure and support the network layer, integrate with your control systems team, and coordinate. If you need someone to reprogram a PLC, that is a different vendor, and we will tell you so on the first call rather than the third invoice.

Best for upstream and midstream operators between 25 and 400 seats with field sites and a corporate office to connect.
Not ideal for supermajors with an internal OT security function already staffed.

Why we rank first. Depth and compliance are 50 percent of this model, and three published energy assets naming NERC and SCADA is the deepest evidence base in this section. Start at our Houston oil and gas IT services page.

2. Meriplex. Best for enterprise scale energy operations

Industry Fit Score 8.5 / 10

Meriplex runs a dedicated oil and gas practice built around remote operations, and at roughly 700 people they have the bench to staff it properly.

Key strengths

• Oil and gas is one of only six industries they claim, so it is a real practice rather than a checkbox
• Remote operations and field security framed as the core problem, which is the correct read
• MSP 501 rank 21, the strongest award placement on this page
• Enterprise delivery capacity that nobody else here matches

Worth knowing

NERC CIP work is widely attributed to them but does not appear by name on their industries page, so we scored it conservatively rather than take it on faith. If NERC CIP is a hard requirement, ask them directly and get the answer in writing.

Best for larger operators needing a national delivery bench alongside a genuine Houston presence.
Not ideal for a 30 person operator who wants one named local engineer.

Why they rank second. Real energy practice, real scale, edging Centre by four hundredths of a point on enterprise capacity and award placement.

3. Centre Technologies. Best for documented large project delivery

Industry Fit Score 8.5 / 10

Centre energy practice is the best evidenced part of their business, with published case work behind it.

Key strengths

• A published multi million dollar data center deployment for an oil and gas pipeline client
• A round the clock crisis response case study for an energy client
• Oil and Gas plus Energy both named as formal company specializations
• Cloudtango US Select 2026 and MSP 501 both confirmed

The tradeoff

No NERC CIP or ICS terminology on the energy page, and the empty Clutch profile costs them a quarter of the review factor. They lost second place by 0.004, which is a rounding error rather than a judgment.

Best for midstream and energy services firms wanting documented large project delivery.
Not ideal for operators whose primary requirement is NERC CIP evidence.

Why they rank third. The published case studies are the strongest in this section. The compliance vocabulary is where they fall behind.

4. Truewater. Best for Houston focused operators and chemical firms

Industry Fit Score 8.0 / 10

Truewater calls oil, gas, and chemical their favorite specialization, and the page reads like they mean it.

Key strengths

• SCADA protection named explicitly, one of only two providers here to do so
• Multi site infrastructure, field connectivity, and disaster recovery each treated separately
• Chemical sector coverage alongside energy, which is a real Gulf Coast advantage
• 5.0 across 100 Google reviews

Worth knowing

No Clutch profile and no confirmed award. That combination costs them roughly a point and a half, and without it this section would look quite different.

Best for Houston focused operators and chemical firms wanting a specialist with no divided geographic attention.
Not ideal for operators needing formal third party recognition for procurement approval.

Why they rank fourth. Genuinely strong energy documentation. Fourth here is not a criticism, it is a crowded field. Our separate oil and gas IT services in Houston list covers this vertical on its own.

How to Choose an IT Company for Your Industry in Houston

Pick the provider whose published evidence matches your regulator, not the one with the best star rating. Open their industry page. If it names the software you actually run, they have done this before.

Four signals worth more than everything else.

Named platforms beat named industries. Any provider can list construction on a page. Far fewer will write Procore, Bluebeam, and Viewpoint, because writing it invites a buyer to test the claim. When you see specific product names, ask how many clients run each one.

Named frameworks beat the word compliance. HIPAA, NIST 800-171, CMMC, NERC CIP, PCI-DSS. If a provider compliance language never gets more specific than “we handle compliance,” assume they will hand you a questionnaire and wish you luck.

Match provider size to your escalation path. Under 50 seats, a 20 person local shop usually gives you a named engineer who knows your network by heart. Over 300 seats or multi state, you want a bench. Meriplex and Centre have the bench. Truewater, PennComp, and Enstep give you the named engineer. We sit between the two, which is either exactly right or exactly wrong depending on your size.

Ask what they are bad at. Every provider on this page has a real weakness and we published ours. A provider who cannot name a single type of client they turn away has either never thought about it or is not telling you.

One budget check before you shortlist anyone. Houston managed IT generally runs between 90 and 175 dollars per user per month depending on compliance scope, and our Houston managed IT pricing breakdown covers what actually moves that number.

The Short Version

Across five Houston industries and nine providers, we scored highest in four categories and effectively tied in the fifth. Healthcare is where our documentation and compliance evidence are strongest, at 9.4. Law firms are where they are weakest, at 8.1, and where we hold first place by 0.3 on factors that have nothing to do with legal expertise.

If you run a law firm and you are choosing purely on published legal software knowledge, look at Truewater first. If you need enterprise energy scale, Meriplex. If you want the broadest vertical coverage from a single Houston provider, Centre Technologies is a genuinely strong answer and we would not argue with anyone who picked them.

If you want a Houston provider with published evidence in your specific industry, verified third party reviews, and compliance frameworks named rather than implied, that is the case we have made here. Bring the score sheet and check it.

Still comparing more broadly? Our Houston IT support overview covers what we do outside any single vertical.

Questions Houston Buyers Ask Before They Sign

Does industry specialization actually change what an MSP does day to day?

How do I check whether a provider really serves my industry?

Which Houston industry is hardest to find good IT support for?

Uprite published this list and ranked itself first. Why should I believe any of it?

What does industry specific IT support cost in Houston compared to general support?

Should a smaller company just pick the highest rated provider on Google?