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We modernize the systems your business runs on — cloud, data and AI — with the scope and the price agreed before a single line of code is written.
Why companies call us
Nobody schedules a modernization project. It gets forced by a bill, an outage, or someone leaving. These are the moments our clients call.
Your cloud bill goes up every month and nobody can explain exactly why.
Month-end reporting takes three days, a shared drive and a lot of copy-paste.
The system the business runs on was built by someone who left years ago.
Two systems disagree about the same customer and nobody knows which is right.
You can see what AI could do for you, but every demo assumes you have a data team.
Your last IT partner left you with something only they know how to maintain.
What we do
Most engagements combine two or three of these. You are not buying a department — you are buying an outcome, and you see the first piece of it inside two weeks.
Practical AI that earns back its cost, not another pilot that stalls.
Infrastructure sized for your business, with a bill you can predict.
One version of the truth, so meetings stop arguing about whose number is right.
Retire the system nobody wants to touch — without a big-bang rewrite.
From an idea on a whiteboard to something your customers or staff can use.
Senior help by the week, for the stretch where you need more hands than you can hire.
How we work
Open-ended consulting is how technology projects get a bad name. Every stage here has a defined end, a defined deliverable and a number you approve in advance.
Week one
A 30-minute call, then a short review of your systems, spend and pain points. We look at what you run, what it costs and where the manual work is hiding.
Weeks two onward
We work in two-week increments against the scope you approved. You see working software at the end of every increment — not a status report claiming it is 70 percent done.
Ongoing — optional
Some clients take the keys and run. Others keep us on for monitoring, support and a monthly review. Either is fine; the handover happens regardless.
Engagements
Three ways to work together. Whichever one fits, you get the number in writing before anything starts.
For when you know something is wrong but not what to fix first.
For a defined outcome: a migration, a warehouse, an AI workflow, a rebuild.
For ongoing senior capacity without adding to headcount.
We do not publish rate cards, because the honest number depends on how many systems are involved and how much of your data needs untangling first. Working that out is exactly what the free audit is for — and it is the same conversation whether the answer turns out to be small or large.
How we operate
We are a small firm, which means we compete on how we work rather than how many people we can put in a room.
Everything runs in your cloud accounts under your billing. Source code lives in your repositories. If you replace us, nothing breaks.
You approve scope and price before work starts. If we find something unexpected, we tell you before it costs you anything.
Status updates a non-technical owner can read and act on. If you need a glossary to understand our report, we wrote it badly.
The people who scope your project are the people who deliver it. Nothing gets reassigned to a team you have never met once the contract is signed.
Documentation, runbooks and a training session for your team are included in the price, not sold back to you as an extra.
We take a limited number of clients at a time. That is why your email reaches the people doing the work, and why we sometimes say the timing is wrong.
Questions
Something not covered here? Ask it in the form below and you will get a straight answer, not a discovery call.
Almost certainly not. We work with solo operators and one-person consultancies as readily as with companies running several departments — the work scales down as well as up. A single automation that removes a recurring manual job is a perfectly good engagement.
What we will tell you honestly, in the free audit, is when an off-the-shelf tool would serve you better than anything custom. That answer costs you nothing and saves you a project you did not need.
The audit is free. After it, you get a single fixed number covering the whole scope, in writing, before you commit to anything.
We deliberately do not publish a rate card. Two projects that sound identical in a sentence can differ by an order of magnitude once you look at how many systems are involved and what state the data is in, so any number we printed here would be wrong for most people reading it.
If your budget is smaller than the work needs, we will say so in the audit and point you at the version that does fit.
Usually yes, but not in the order most vendors suggest. The useful AI work for a company your size is narrow and boring: reading documents, routing requests, drafting replies, catching anomalies. None of it needs a data science team.
What it does need is your data being reachable and consistent, which is why data engineering is often the first step rather than the last.
You do, from day one. We work inside your accounts and your repositories rather than ours. There is no proprietary platform in the middle and nothing you have to license from us afterwards.
Your data stays in your cloud tenancy. Where an AI engagement uses a third-party model provider, we use enterprise endpoints with training on your data switched off, and we document exactly which data leaves your environment and where it goes before anything is connected.
We sign your NDA, and access is scoped to what the work requires and revoked when it ends.
The audit call usually happens within a few days of you getting in touch. Project starts depend on current capacity — we will tell you the real date on the first call rather than promising Monday and meaning next month.
Because work happens in two-week increments, the most you can be wrong by is two weeks. You can stop at the end of any increment and keep everything built so far, in your own accounts, documented. Ongoing retainers end on thirty days’ notice with no penalty.
Get in touch
A couple of sentences is plenty. We read every message ourselves and reply within one business day — with an actual answer, not a calendar link and a brochure.