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Customers are described by sector rather than named. We publish a name only with that customer's written consent, and figures only once they reconcile to the engagement report.
A 14-month data centre exit, finished with six weeks to spare
National logistics operator · 380 servers · two co-location facilities · eleven waves
- Delivered six weeks before lease expiry
- Infrastructure run-rate down 31%
- No P1 in the eight months since go-live
$1.9M of annual AWS waste, found and structurally removed
Financial services platform · ~$6M annual AWS spend · 40+ accounts
- $1.4M realised in the first six months
- Untagged spend from 41% to 3%
- First saving landed on day nine
From “we think we're compliant” to an evidence pack in ten weeks
SaaS platform · IRAP readiness · ISO 27001 certification path
- IRAP assessment commenced with no blocking findings
- 63 long-lived IAM keys reduced to zero
- Essential Eight maturity Level 1 → Level 2
Shorter engagements
Not everything needs a retainer or a twelve-month programme.
Peak trading readiness
Load-tested and re-architected the checkout path ahead of a national sale event. Handled 7.4× baseline traffic with no degradation, and infrastructure cost returned to baseline within 48 hours of peak — the part most peak-readiness projects forget to design for.
On-call handover
Took first-line paging from a nine-person engineering team in three weeks. Alert volume cut 68% through hygiene work before we accepted the pager. Two engineers who had been carrying most of the rotation are still there a year later.
Tested disaster recovery
Rebuilt backup and cross-region strategy against RTO/RPO agreed with the business rather than assumed by IT, then ran a live regional failover. Recovery achieved in 41 minutes against a 4-hour commitment.
What you will not find on this page
- Percentages without a baseline. If we say 31%, the page says 31% of what.
- Outcomes we did not measure. Where a number is an estimate, we label it one.
- Quotes we wrote ourselves. Every quote here was said by a named person who approved its use.
- The engagements that went badly being quietly omitted — we will talk about those in a meeting if you ask, and you should ask.
“The wave plan was the first artefact that made the whole estate feel knowable. After that it was just execution.”
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