Infrastructure
that stops
costing you
surprises.

JUST GETTING SET UP

“We've grown past sharing files over Dropbox and hoping for the best.”

Five to fifty people, no IT person, and a setup that grew one purchase at a time. You don't need an enterprise architecture — you need the basics done right the first time so they don't have to be redone in two years.

• Getting everyone onto proper accounts and logins
• File sharing where the right people see the right things
• Backups that would actually restore
• Knowing what you're paying for and what you can drop

ALREADY RUNNING AT SCALE

“It works, but nobody's confident it's right — or that we're not overpaying.”

An estate built by several people over several years, a cloud bill nobody fully owns, and a security posture that has never been independently looked at. You need a second set of eyes with no product to sell you.

• Cloud and licence spend nobody has audited
• Flat networks and standing privileged access
• Migrations that stalled halfway
• An in-house team that needs backup, not replacing

CLOUD ENGINEERING

Architecture, migration, right-sizing

AWS, Azure and hybrid estates. Landing zones, workload migration, and the unglamorous work of matching instance classes to what actually runs on them. Aging server in a closet you're tired of babysitting? Moving it up is usually straightforward — and sometimes the honest answer is that it should stay put.

NETWORKING

Segmentation, connectivity, edge

VLAN and subnet architecture, SD-WAN, site-to-site tunnels between offices and cloud, and remote access for staff — client VPN where it's still the right answer, ZTNA where it isn't. Firewall policy someone can still read in two years.

ENTERPRISE IT & WORKPLACE

Domains, servers and app delivery

Active Directory and Windows Server roles, moving a growing shop off workgroup onto a real domain, file shares with permissions that hold up to an audit. Plus published apps and virtual desktops — Citrix Workspace, RDS and Azure Virtual Desktop. If you'd rather not own a server room at all, the same setup runs cloud-first or hybrid — whichever actually costs you less.

INFRASTRUCTURE

Consolidation and resilience

Server and storage consolidation, monitoring that pages a human only when it matters, and restore procedures that have actually been tested.

SECURITY & ZERO-TRUST

Identity-first access control

MFA enforcement, least-privilege review, device posture, conditional access. Rolled out in stages so nobody's workday breaks on a Tuesday.

RANSOMWARE

Assessment, response, recovery

Two full recoveries delivered, neither with a ransom paid. Pre-incident: backup validation and blast-radius review. Post-incident: containment, restore, and hardening so it does not repeat.

PROCESS & AUTOMATION

Automate the steps nobody should be doing

Map the manual workflow, remove the handoffs, script what's left. Includes putting AI tools into the business with real guardrails — so staff stop pasting client data into whatever tab is open.

STACK COST TUNING

Find the spend nobody owns

Idle reserved capacity, duplicate SaaS licenses, over-provisioned tiers, auto-renewals nobody remembers signing. Typically pays for the engagement.

Are we too small for this?

No. A five-person business with one server and a mess of logins is a completely normal engagement. Work is scoped and priced to the size of the problem, not to a minimum contract.

What does it cost?

You get a number before anything starts. Audits are a fixed fee, projects are quoted against a written scope, retainers are a set monthly amount. No hourly meter running in the background, no invoice that surprises you.

Do we have to replace everything?

Almost never. Most engagements are three or four targeted fixes, in priority order, on the equipment you already own. Rip-and-replace is a last resort and you’ll hear the reasoning before it’s ever recommended.

We already have an IT guy — is this a conflict?

Usually the opposite. A lot of this work is backing up an in-house person or MSP on something outside their depth, or giving them the outside opinion they’ve been asking you for. Nobody gets replaced by me.

Will we be locked into you afterward?

No. Everything gets documented and handed over, and whoever runs it next gets trained on it. The roadmap from an audit is yours whether you hire me to execute it or take it somewhere else.

We’re not sure what’s actually wrong.

That’s the normal starting point, and figuring it out is the job. “Things are slow,” “I think we’re overpaying,” and “I’m worried we’d lose everything” are all complete descriptions of a problem.