IT consultancy in Lancashire
feel simple.
We deliberately keep our offering tight. Every project is delivered by Brad and Nicole until the very last step.
IT Strategy & Advisory
Small Business Website Design
Custom Software Development
Hosting & Infrastructure
Three projects, three numbers.
£500 saved / month
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 saved / month
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 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.
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
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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