For owner-run businesses where everything ends up on one desk
The software, the systems, the website, the presence, the campaigns. One team that takes all of it off your desk, and keeps it running.
Four questions, about ninety seconds. Or skip straight to a call and pick a time in your own timezone.
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Where this usually starts
You did not set out to run a technology department, a marketing function and a helpdesk. It accumulated. Some of the following will sound familiar.
Your website was built by someone you can no longer reach.
They moved on. Nobody is sure who holds the login. Changing a phone number means finding a freelancer and explaining the whole thing from scratch.
You are the IT department.
A new starter needs an email address. Someone is locked out. A licence renewed for a tool nobody uses. None of it is your job and all of it is your problem.
Enquiries arrive and then sit.
One comes in at seven in the evening. You see it at nine. You reply on Tuesday. By Tuesday they have already spoken to someone else.
Social media happens when you remember.
Four posts in a good week, then nothing for a month. There is no plan, because writing the plan is one more job that lands on you.
Every supplier knows a tenth of your business.
The web person, the bookkeeper's software, the marketing freelancer. None of them talk to each other, so you are the part that holds it together.
The tool you actually need does not exist.
You have bent three subscriptions into a shape that almost works, and you still keep the real version in a spreadsheet you don't show anyone.
What we run
Broad on purpose. A business that hands its systems to one supplier and its presence to another spends its own time keeping the two aligned. That coordination is the work we are actually removing.
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Software built around how you actually work, instead of three subscriptions bent into a shape that nearly fits. We build the tools, run the workspace, connect what is already there, and take ownership of the parts nobody wants to think about — accounts, access, backups, hosting, renewals.
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A website that reflects the business as it is now, kept current rather than frozen in the year it launched. Accounts posted to on a plan. Enquiries answered before they go cold. Written, designed, scheduled and measured by people who already understand what you do.
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The part owners rarely get to on a Sunday night. What to do next quarter, what to stop doing, what to say publicly and when. We form a view, argue for it, and then go and execute it — which is the part most advice leaves out.
Every business needs a different mix. Some hand over their systems and nothing else. Some want the whole picture held together. What you need is a conversation, not a package.
How it works
Trusting someone with the running of your business is not a day-one decision, and we don't treat it like one.
Not a workshop. We follow a real process end to end and find where it stalls, what gets typed in twice, and which parts nobody actually owns.
Usually whatever is costing you the most time, or the most goodwill. We will tell you what we would do about it and what better would look like.
It moves off your desk and onto ours. You will know where things stand without having to go and ask.
That is the whole point. A category of work quietly disappears from your week, and stays gone.
The part that's hard to picture
Not a list of deliverables. The difference shows up in what stops happening.
The measure of this working is how little of it ever reaches you.
The renewal nobody diarised. The certificate about to expire. The page still showing last year's prices. These get picked up because somebody is looking, not because you thought to ask.
You stop working out whose problem something is before you can report it. You say what is wrong, to one team, and it gets dealt with.
The site reflects the business as it is this month. The accounts get posted to. The systems stay patched. Not in a panic before an inspection or a big pitch.
Most of this should reach you either as a decision worth your judgement or as something already handled — not as a question you have to go and research the answer to.
How we work with your access
Anyone sensible wants to know this before they hand over a login, so it is worth saying plainly.
An NDA before we look at anything. We do not publish client names, screenshots or numbers without written permission, which is why you will not find a wall of logos on this site.
Named individuals, never shared logins. Access is scoped to the work in hand, reviewed as that work changes, and removed when someone moves off your account.
Where we handle personal data we do it under a Data Processing Agreement, and we will tell you where that data sits and who else is involved in handling it.
If something breaks, you hear it from us first, with what happened and what we are doing about it. We would rather deliver bad news early than be discovered late.
If your insurer, your board or your own IT policy needs a security questionnaire completed, send it over and we will fill it in properly. We would rather answer a hard question than show you a badge.
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Questions
No, and not because agency is a dirty word. An agency sells a deliverable — a campaign, a site, a rebrand — and the relationship ends when it ships. We take on a function and keep running it. Closer to having a department than commissioning a project.
Almost certainly. What our clients have in common is not an industry — it is a shape. An owner-run business where anything technical, and quite a lot that isn't, ends up on one person's desk.
Not necessarily. If someone is doing good work, we would rather work alongside them than replace them. The point is not that every task comes to us. The point is that holding it all together stops being your job.
Whatever is costing you most, which is exactly what a first conversation is for. Sometimes that is obvious inside ten minutes. Fairly often it is not the thing you expected it to be.
That depends entirely on what you hand over, so a figure printed on this page would be a guess dressed up as information. We will talk about scope and cost properly once we understand what you actually need.
A few hours early on, showing us how things really work rather than how the manual says they do. After that, you should be hearing from us with progress and the occasional decision, not with questions you have to research answers to.
Something we have not covered? Email us and a person will reply.
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