IT consultancy in Lancashire
Making complexity
feel simple.
As an independent IT consultant in Lancashire, we work with small and medium-sized businesses, providing IT services across strategy, websites, custom software and hosting. The work we recommend is the work your business actually needs, which is usually less than you'd expect.
Services
Our services
We deliberately keep our offering tight. Every project is delivered by Brad and Nicole until the very last step.
IT Strategy & Advisory
We help you work out what your IT is actually for, what's worth keeping and what should be replaced. Audits, procurement, vendor selection, security reviews. You pay us for the time, not for what we end up recommending.
ExploreSmall Business Website Design
Websites that load quickly on a phone, rank in search, and that your own staff can keep up to date. We design, build and hand everything over when we're done: source files, hosting access, accounts, documentation. From £4,000.
ExploreCustom Software Development
Custom software for the jobs that have outgrown a spreadsheet. Booking systems, customer portals, integrations between the tools you already use. We build small, hand over the code, and write down how it works.
ExploreHosting & Infrastructure
Hosting, backups and monitoring for the websites and applications you depend on. We size each setup to what the workload actually needs, which usually means simpler and cheaper than what was there before. From £50 a month.
ExploreCase studies
Three projects, three numbers
Three recent projects, written up with the numbers we can share.
£500
saved / month
Sizing hosting to the actual traffic
A specialist clock-repair business in the North West was paying for three separate hosting plans across two providers. We consolidated everything onto a single setup sized to the actual traffic, then tuned the configuration. The site loads faster, and the monthly bill is £500 lower.
1 week
saved / month
Replacing a month of expenses by hand
A UK medical association was spending around a week each month processing expenses through spreadsheets and email chains. We built them an internal tool that handles the whole flow from submission through to approval, then handed over the code and wrote down how it works. The finance team gets that week back.
Day one
live at launch
A website ready for opening day
A Preston-based takeaway was opening for business with no website, so first customers had no reliable place to check the menu, hours or location. We built a site sized to their budget and handed it over: source files, hosting access, documentation. The menu loads quickly on a phone, and it was live for day one.
Approach
Side by side, start to finish
A fixed quote before we start, and an invoice that matches it. The same person looks after your account from the first call through to handover. We send a short weekly update so you always know where the work is.
Listen
Before we recommend anything, we sit down with you and the people who actually use the systems day to day. Usually that's a working session, two or three stakeholder calls, and a look at what's already running.
Map
We write up the current setup, the version you're aiming at, and the gap between them. The document has real numbers in it and the risks are named in plain language, not buried in colour-coded matrices.
Build
Work happens in short increments and you see progress every week. If scope needs to change we talk about it; you won't get a change order in the post.
Hand over
At handover you get documentation your team can actually use, and full access to everything we've set up. We're around afterwards if you want us, but nothing about the setup needs us to keep running.
Things we get asked
Frequently asked questions
The difference
How this works, and how it usually works
Four working rules, set against what the same money normally buys. Every one of them is testable on your first project.
With us
- The same two people from the first call to handover
- Nothing to resell, so the advice has no destination built in
- A fixed quote agreed before work starts, and it does not move
- Code, access and documentation handed over at the end
- A straight progress update every week
The usual way
- Sold by one person, delivered by someone you have not met
- Advice from a company that also sells what it recommends
- A number that grows once you have signed
- Their hosting, their licences, the login you were never given
- Silence between invoices
Want to talk?
Book a free assessment and we'll come back within two working days.