Making complexity
feel simple
We work with small and medium-sized businesses across Lancashire; We do 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
Four things, done meticulously.
We deliberately keep our offering tight. Every project is delivered by Brad and Nicole until the very last step.
IT Strategy & Advisory
Web Platforms
Application Builds
Hosting & Infrastructure
Case studies
Three projects, three numbers.
£500 per month cost savings
A specialist clock repair business in the North West was paying for three separate hosting plans across two providers, with a website that slowed during peak enquiry times.
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 per month time savings
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. The finance team gets that week back.
Top three in member search
An Asia-based medical association needed a member experience that didn’t require an email to staff for every small request.
We rebuilt the website, added a self-service portal so members can manage their own details, and improved the public content for search. Membership-related searches now return them in the top three results.
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
Map
Build
Hand over
Commonly asked questions
Frequently asked questions
It depends on the work. A short advisory engagement, like a strategy review, vendor selection, or security audit, typically lands between £2,000 and £3,000.
Larger projects, like a website, a custom application, or a hosting migration, are quoted as fixed-price after a discovery call.
The quote is written down before any work starts, and the invoice matches it. We don’t bill hourly for advisory work, because hourly billing punishes the kind of conversations you actually need to have.
Often not full-time, no. Most of the businesses we work with already have an IT person, an MSP, or a developer they trust.
We come in for the bigger decisions: which platform to pick, what to do about security, whether a project is being scoped sensibly. The day-to-day stays where it is.
We help you decide what should be on it in the first place.
Carefully, and not in a hurry.
The first step is usually a discovery week: we list everything the current provider runs, document the credentials and access, and flag anything that would break if they walked tomorrow.
The actual switch is then planned in stages, starting with the parts least visible to your customers. Most small businesses can move across fully in four to eight weeks without going offline.
Often, no. Cloud bills compound quickly, especially when the system was first set up by someone optimising for speed rather than cost.
We’ve seen small businesses paying two to three times what an equivalent VPS or dedicated server would cost.
Cloud earns its place when you need elasticity, when you’re integrating with other cloud services, or when you’ve genuinely outgrown your old setup. For a quiet website with steady traffic, usually it doesn’t.
A few things done well will get you further than a £10,000 audit: multi-factor authentication on every account that supports it, backups that are tested rather than just configured, staff who can recognise a phishing email, and a written plan for what happens when something goes wrong.
None of those cost much. They’re just usually missing.
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