What IT consulting actually gets you #
IT consulting is an assessment of where your technology is today and a plan for where it needs to be. A useful engagement produces decisions — not a deck. Ours covers infrastructure and application review, a cloud adoption or modernisation roadmap, a security and compliance gap analysis, a cost review, and a prioritised delivery plan with owners and dates against each item.
The reason to start here rather than with a build is economics. A two-week assessment that tells you a rewrite is unnecessary is worth considerably more than a six-month rewrite that nobody questioned.
Where we do the work #
IT strategy and roadmap #
We assess the current landscape and produce a roadmap you can actually finance: what to fix now, what to defer, what to stop paying for, and what to leave alone. Sequenced against your business calendar rather than a vendor's.
Cloud, Infrastructure as Code and modernisation #
Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure, in your repository, reviewed like application code. The value is not that the infrastructure is scripted; it is that infrastructure changes become diffs a second engineer can read before they reach production, and a rebuilt environment is identical to the one it replaced.
Most legacy systems do not need a rewrite. Containerising the existing application, moving the database to a managed service, and putting a proper delivery pipeline around it usually removes the majority of the operational pain at a fraction of the cost — and it is reversible, which a rewrite is not.
Security and compliance #
We handle the technical control side: access management, encryption in transit and at rest, logging and audit trails, backup and disaster recovery, vulnerability scanning, and the evidence your auditor will ask for. For ISO 27001, SOC 2 and DPDP work we operate alongside your compliance advisor rather than replacing them — that division of labour is cheaper and produces better evidence than either party attempting both.
Managed IT support #
Once it is live, someone has to hold it. Monitoring, alerting, patching and cost review on a monthly retainer, including support for distributed and remote teams. Either as your entire platform function or alongside engineers you already have.
How we price it #
Short fixed-scope assessments are the most predictable way to buy consulting. A one-week production readiness review or a two-week cost optimisation sprint is quoted as a single fixed fee, agreed in writing before work starts. Longer programmes are quoted per phase. Fractional retainers are priced on a fixed number of hours per month.
No hourly meters, and no scope that quietly expands.
Who this is a good fit for #
- Startups and SMBs that need senior architectural judgement without carrying a senior salary.
- Teams inheriting infrastructure nobody documented, who need to know what they actually have.
- Companies facing an audit who need the technical evidence to exist before the auditor arrives.
- Engineering leaders who want a second senior opinion before committing to a large build.
Who it is not #
If you need desktop support, procurement or a helpdesk, we are the wrong firm and will say so on the first call. We work on cloud infrastructure, delivery pipelines and the platforms underneath applications — not end-user IT.