IT consultancy and professional services

Most engagements in this line start with the first service. An IT health check reviews the whole estate, hardware, software, networks, security and backup readiness, ranks the risks and explains them in person, and the plan is yours to act on with us or without us. It is the right first step when the board wants a technology plan, when a security questionnaire arrives, or when you are weighing up a new supplier.

The other four deliver what a plan tends to call for. Cyber Essentials consultancy takes you from a gap analysis to the certificate, under the stricter requirements that apply from 27 April 2026. Microsoft Azure consultancy designs and migrates workloads into Azure with a cost estimate before anything is built. Cloud infrastructure support looks after the servers afterwards, in Azure, in our private cloud or on your premises. Network infrastructure design produces a documented architecture for your sites that our engineers can install or your own team can.

AI consultancy sits in our Applied AI line and usually starts with an AI readiness assessment: where AI would recover time in your business, where it would not, what your staff already use and what has to be put right first.

Every one of them is priced as a fixed sum or a day rate before it starts, which is the Fixed price engagement model: we survey the work, propose a price, and any overrun is ours. A client on a retainer draws the small pieces from their hours; anything that needs a project manager is a fixed-price project in its own right.

Three more projects are priced the same way. An office move or a new site is planned back from the date, with the connectivity ordered first and engineers on site the first morning. A telecoms audit finds every line, number and contract before the PSTN switch-off and moves them in time. Disaster recovery planning decides what comes back first, how fast and from where, and tests it every year.