- On site or remote
- Written findings
IT consulting and support
The right technical choice at the right budget — and a written recommendation you can have carried out by whoever you like.
Many IT decisions are taken under pressure from a supplier or from a breakdown: ten identical machines bought because that was the offer, a subscription used at a quarter of its capacity, a server replaced that would have lasted three more years. The cost is not in the purchase, it is in the wrong purchase.
Our role here is to help you decide, not to sell you what follows. We audit what exists, price the options, and hand you a written recommendation. You can have it carried out by us, by your usual provider, or by nobody.
The problems this actually solves
Five situations where an outside opinion costs less than the decision it prevents.
You have been given a quote and no way to judge it
The lines are technical, the part numbers unfamiliar, and the price has no point of comparison. We read the quote, translate each line, and tell you what is necessary, what is comfortable, and what is superfluous.
The estate has grown with no plan
Machines from five generations, three different operating systems, licences whose status nobody knows. Every intervention costs more than it should. We build the inventory and a phased renewal plan.
You do not know what your IT actually costs
Subscriptions, licences, interventions, hardware, lost time. The total is rarely calculated, and it surprises. We reconstruct it and identify what can be dropped without consequence.
A project is under way but nobody is steering it
The supplier moves forward, the internal team has no time, and decisions get taken by default. We provide technical follow-up on the client side, a few hours a month.
There is no plan if the one person who knows everything leaves
In many organisations a single person holds the passwords and the history. We document the installation so that stops being a risk.
What we build
Four forms of engagement, from a one-off diagnosis to training your teams.
Audit and diagnosis
- Estate inventory: hardware, systems, licences, age, warranties
- Audit of what exists: network, servers, backups, security
- Reconstruction of the real cost of IT over twelve months
- Reading and translation of quotes received from other suppliers
- Risk analysis: what stops if a given element fails
- Written findings, ordered by urgency and by cost
Design and selection
- Real needs assessment, department by department
- Hardware and software selection, with several priced options
- Network architecture and a two- to three-year plan
- Cloud: what gains from moving, what gains nothing
- Backup and business continuity strategy
- Annual budget and a phased renewal plan
Ongoing support
- Project follow-up on the client side, facing the suppliers
- Specification writing and comparison of offers
- Technical acceptance of deliveries before payment
- Documentation of the installation, so knowledge does not rest on one person
- Periodic review of the estate and of upcoming decisions
- Outsourced IT-manager support, a few hours a month
Training and coaching
- Training your teams on everyday tools: office software, Microsoft 365, email
- Security awareness: passwords, phishing, attachments
- Small-group sessions, on site or remote, on your own files
- Written handout for every participant
- Guided onboarding when a new tool arrives
- Coaching for managers: running IT without being an IT person
How a project runs
Four stages, and the findings are yours whatever happens next.
Realistic recommendations, not a catalogue
Useful advice takes account of your budget, your teams, and what you are prepared to operate over time.
- Every option is priced, with its cost of ownership over three years
- What can wait is identified as such, not slipped into the urgent list
- What already works is kept when there is no reason to change it
- Risks are stated as concrete consequences, not as abstract severity levels
- Security and backup appear in every scenario, never as an option
- Scalability is assessed: what will hold if you double in headcount
- Documentation is handed over, so knowledge does not depend on one person
We will also tell you when a project has no reason to exist. A recommendation that concludes “change nothing this year” is a valid deliverable, and it happens regularly.
Who it is for
Consulting is for those who must decide without an IT department to advise them.
Owners and managers of small businesses
Budget choices, estate renewal, deciding between in-house and outsourced.
Organisations with no IT department
A technical contact you can trust, a few hours a month.
Growing organisations
The estate that suited eight people no longer suits twenty-five.
Organisations facing a significant quote
A second reading and comparison before signing.
Organisations planning a move
Cabling, links and business continuity anticipated in advance.
Real use cases
Five concrete requests.
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Your request:
“Is this quote reasonable?”
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Line-by-line reading, translated into plain language, and a written opinion on what is necessary, comfortable or superfluous.
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Your request:
“We are going from ten people to thirty”
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Audit, network and server growth plan, budget spread over two financial years.
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Your request:
“Should we move to the cloud?”
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A three-year priced comparison between keeping what exists, moving partly, and moving entirely — with local connectivity constraints taken into account.
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Your request:
“We are moving premises in six months”
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Cabling, internet links, equipment transfer and continuity during the switch, all anticipated.
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Your request:
“Only one person knows how everything works”
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Full documentation of the installation, the access and the procedures, handed to management.
Why give us this work
Nothing unverifiable: no years in business, no client count, no certification. Only the way we work.
We have nothing to sell you at this stage
The findings are a deliverable in their own right. If they conclude that you should buy nothing, that is what they will say.
Options are priced over three years
The purchase price says nothing about the real cost. Licences, maintenance and replacement are included.
The document remains usable elsewhere
You can hand it to another provider. Advice that only its author can understand is not advice.
Our other services
One point of contact for all of your IT.
A decision to make, a quote to have reviewed?
The framing conversation is free and without obligation. If you give us the follow-up, the audit is deducted from the quote.