Process
Assess first. Recommend second. Build third.
We are an engineering consultancy that also implements what it designs. That order matters, and it is why clients can engage us for advice without buying equipment.
A firm that only sells equipment will recommend equipment. We would rather be the firm a client can ask what they actually need, including when the answer is smaller than they expected.
Every engagement runs through the same eight stages. Clients join at whichever stage fits, and can stop at the end of any of them.
Assess
Understand the existing environment as it is, not as the documentation describes it. Inventory, configuration, capacity, condition and exposure.
Advise
Set out the risks, gaps and opportunities, ordered by what matters most, with what each one costs to address.
Design
Produce the architecture, specifications, equipment schedule, implementation plan and the acceptance criteria the result will be tested against.
Implement
Supply and deploy hardware, software and systems to the design, recording any deviation rather than absorbing it quietly.
Integrate
Make the parts work as one environment, including the systems that were already there and are staying.
Validate
Test function, performance and security against the design. A control that was not tested has not been implemented.
Hand over
As built documentation, configuration records, credential transfer and training, so the client’s own team can operate and extend the environment.
Support
Maintain, monitor and improve, with the team that built it and knows why each decision was made.
Engaging us for advice only
Assessment, advisory and design can be bought on their own. Some clients take our design to tender and award the implementation elsewhere. We would rather write a design that can be tendered honestly than one only we can build.
Tell us what you need to build or secure.
Send a short description of the environment and the requirement. We will tell you what we would assess first, and whether we are the right firm for the work.