Independent internet consultancy

Technology, put
to work for you .

Independent advice from people who actually run the infrastructure — not a slide deck from someone who'll be gone by implementation. Twenty-five years of doing, not just advising.

01 / Where we help

Plain advice, no jargon tax.

Usually a few focused days rather than a six-month engagement. We come in, work out what's really going on, and leave you with something you can act on.

C / 01 Strategy

What to do next

An honest read on where your technology helps and where it's quietly holding you back — and a sensible order to fix it in.

  • Technology reviews
  • Roadmaps & priorities
  • Buy-vs-build calls
C / 02 Architecture

How to build it

Hosting, email, networks and applications designed to fit your size — not the over-engineered thing a bigger firm would sell you.

  • Infrastructure design
  • Email & DNS architecture
  • Resilience & backups
C / 03 Migration & security

Getting there safely

Moving off a creaking host, tightening up email security, or untangling something a previous supplier left behind.

  • Supplier migrations
  • SPF / DKIM / DMARC
  • Sensible hardening
02 / How it works

Light touch, quick answers.

No retainer you can't escape and no army of juniors. You deal with the senior people throughout — the same ones who'd build it if you asked.

  1. Step 01
    A conversation
    Half an hour on the phone to understand the problem and whether we're even the right people to help. Often we'll just point you somewhere.
  2. Step 02
    A short, scoped piece
    A few focused days with a fixed price — a review, an architecture, a migration plan — not an open-ended engagement.
  3. Step 03
    Something you can act on
    A clear written recommendation in plain English, with the reasoning, the trade-offs and what it'll cost.
  4. Step 04
    And we can do it too
    If you'd rather we just made it happen, we can — email, hosting, servers and the build all sit under this roof.
Advice is cheap when the person giving it won't have to live with it. We will.

Vendor-neutral, with skin in the game. We don't earn commission steering you to a product. But we do run infrastructure ourselves — so we know what the advice costs to implement.

Senior people, start to finish. The person in the first call is the person doing the work. No bait-and-switch to a junior team once the contract's signed.

Here afterwards. We've advised some clients since 2001 and still pick up the phone. Consultancy that disappears at sign-off isn't worth much.

Got a decision you'd like a second opinion on?

Half an hour on the phone costs nothing and usually clears things up. If it's not for us, we'll say so and point you somewhere better.