Independent assessments, technology roadmaps, and vendor guidance. We take no commission on what we recommend you buy.
Businesses rarely need advice on everything. They need it at specific moments, usually when a decision is expensive and hard to reverse.
A structured look at what you have: systems, licences, security posture, backups, contracts, and risk. You get a written picture of where you stand and what needs attention, ranked.
A plan across the next one to three years, sequenced and costed, so upgrades stop arriving as surprises and start being budgeted. It also gives you something to point at when someone asks why.
Someone has proposed a project and you are not sure whether it is right, well priced, or necessary. We read it and tell you, including when the answer is that it looks fine.
Choosing between systems, or replacing one that has stopped fitting. We help you define what you actually need first, which is usually where these decisions go wrong.
Combining two companies' systems, opening a location, or scaling past what your setup was built for. The technology work is knowable in advance and much cheaper when it is.
Where the need is continuous rather than one off, a fractional IT director is usually the better fit than repeated consulting engagements.
Plenty of firms describe themselves as independent while earning margin on everything they recommend. It is worth being specific about what we mean, because it is the whole basis of the service.
We do not earn a referral fee or a margin on hardware and software we recommend. If we suggest a product, it is because it fits, and you are free to buy it wherever you like.
Sometimes the honest answer is that your setup is adequate and the money is better spent elsewhere in the business. That answer is worth paying for too, and it is one a firm selling the replacement will rarely give you.
Some problems need a specialist, and some need a bigger firm than ours. Saying so costs us a project and keeps the relationship, which is the better trade.
The assessment and roadmap are written for you, not as a sales document. If you take them to another provider to implement, that is a legitimate outcome and the documents are built to survive it.
A free assessment from someone who sells a product tends to find that you need that product. Ours is not attached to a sale, which is also why it is more direct about the things nobody is selling a fix for.
No. Plenty of clients take the roadmap and implement it themselves or with an existing provider. The document is written to be useful in that case rather than dependent on us.
Usually a couple of weeks from first conversation to written findings, depending on the size of the environment and how quickly we can get access to what we need to look at.
A written assessment: what you have, where the risks are, what it is costing you, and a prioritised list of what to address with rough sizing. Written to be read by an owner, not only by a technician.
Yes, and we will give you a straight answer even when it is that you should. There is a size at which an internal hire is better value than any outside firm, and pretending otherwise is not a service.
That is a perfectly good engagement and a common one. It does not need to become a project.
The first conversation is free and there is no obligation. Worst case, you get an honest second opinion from someone with no stake in the answer.
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