Sean Boyd
Technical Director
Running a business from a Georgian townhouse in a World Heritage city is a particular pleasure, and a particular technical headache. We look after IT for Bath firms who'd rather their technology just worked, listed walls and all.
What to expect
Our average remote first response is under 30 minutes in working hours. Monitoring means we've often started on something before anyone in your office has noticed it.
Pricing starts at £39 per user per month and scales with what you actually use. There's no per-ticket charge, so your team asks for help early instead of working around the problem.
Monitoring runs around the clock as standard. Tell us when your people really work and we'll build out-of-hours cover to match that.
Plenty of Bath offices are listed or Georgian, and cable routes and access points need planning on site rather than off a floorplan. We survey in person and tell you upfront where something needs permission.
How Support Works
Most problems get solved remotely, because that's the fastest route to a working laptop.
When something genuinely needs a person on site, we arrange a visit. We're honest about this: we're a remote-first provider with a South West base and engineers who travel, so we agree onsite visits with you rather than advertising a response time we'd be guessing at. In practice most Bath clients find they need us in the building for projects and hardware, not for day-to-day support.
How We Can Help
We run your technology so your team doesn't have to think about it. That covers the helpdesk your people ring when something breaks, the patching and monitoring that stops most things breaking in the first place, your Microsoft 365 estate, your security, and the hardware planning that means kit gets replaced before it fails rather than after. In Bath that often means making a beautiful but awkward building work properly, and getting firms off local servers into something they can actually work from anywhere.
We also handle the bigger moves. Getting off an ageing server, opening a new office, tightening security before a client audit, or working out what your technology needs to look like at twice your current size. See our managed IT services and IT helpdesk services.
Most Bath clients build on managed IT services, IT helpdesk services, cyber protection and compliance, cloud enablement, and IT consultancy. Which combination is right depends on what you already have in place and where you're heading, and that's the first thing we work out together.
We're a practical AI consultancy that cuts through the hype and only puts AI to work where it saves your team time and makes your business money.
We map the manual processes holding your business back and automate them, so your team can focus on growing the business rather than feeding the spreadsheets.
We move your systems to the cloud and keep them running well afterwards, so your team can work from anywhere and add capacity without waiting on a hardware order.
Your internal IT team knows your business better than anyone, and you want to keep them. Co-managed IT gives them a specialist partner behind the scenes, so round-the-clock monitoring and the heavy security projects stop landing on one desk.
We protect your business from attack and give you the documented compliance your clients and regulators now expect, so you can grow with confidence.
We turn the data you already have into answers you can trust and act on.
A fractional CTO gives your business senior technology leadership on demand, so the big decisions get the experience they deserve without the cost of a full-time hire.
We give you a clear, independent view of your technology, so every decision moves your business forward.
Your team should get unstuck in minutes, not lose half a morning to a laptop that won't connect. Our UK-based IT helpdesk gives them real engineers who answer fast, take ownership of the problem and keep it moving until it's properly fixed.
We give small businesses the kind of IT support that bigger companies take for granted, so your people can get on with the work that grows the business.
We keep your IT running and secure, then we keep making it better, so your people can focus on the work that grows the business.
The team
The same team looks after every city we cover, so the people here are the ones on Bath accounts. Each profile says what they work on and how to get hold of them.
Proof You Can Trust
We'd rather you verified us than took our word for it. We hold ISO/IEC 27001:2022, certified by UKAS, and Cyber Essentials, and we're a Microsoft Solutions Partner. We're also working towards B Corp certification, because how we run the business matters as much to us as what we sell.
More than 200 UK businesses trust us with their technology, with 24/7 monitoring and an average remote response under 30 minutes. You can read what clients say about us on Trustpilot, where we are rated 4.8 out of 5 from 160 verified reviews.
Our Process
We start by understanding your business, your unique needs, and current IT challenges. If you are looking for IT support in Bath tailored to your goals, this conversation is designed to keep your business requirements at the centre.
Our team conducts a thorough audit of your technology, identifying security risks and opportunities for improvement. This comprehensive assessment helps us understand your business network and systems.
We create a bespoke solution aligned with your needs and budget, with clear support packages and measurable outcomes. We tailor our services for your business to ensure optimal results.
We manage the transition carefully, ensuring minimal downtime to your Bath operations. Our service desk and helpdesk team become your trusted tech support resource from day one.
Understanding the Area
Bath's business base is smaller than Bristol's and weighted differently. Professional services dominate the centre, with law firms and accountancy practices around Queen Square, Milsom Street and Manvers Street in BA1 and BA2. Several regional law firms are headquartered here, which is more than a city this size would normally support.
The working side of the economy sits west and south. Brassmill Lane and Locksbrook Road in BA1 hold the trading estates, warehouses and studios. Claverton Down in BA2 has the University of Bath and Wessex Water's head office. Bath Business Park at Peasedown St John serves the Somer Valley, and Bath Quays is being developed as the city's new commercial quarter.
It's also a genuine engineering and software town, which surprises people. Rotork, Buro Happold and Future plc are all headquartered here, and the university's SETsquared centre keeps producing spinouts.
Professional services are the centre of gravity. Law firms, accountancy practices and consultancies where confidentiality is non-negotiable and a slow morning is billable time gone. We know what a client due diligence questionnaire asks for and how to answer it. See our legal practice technology page.
Engineering and manufacturing businesses in and around the city are our other strong area, along with the software and health-tech firms that have come out of the university. Both tend to run specialist software that generic IT support treats as somebody else's problem. We'd rather learn it.
Bath's charity and heritage sector is significant, and it's one we understand well, including the tighter budgets and the safeguarding questions that come with it. See charity and not-for-profit IT.
Bath is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in its entirety, and that has real consequences for your network. We've lost count of the offices where a previous provider installed access points based on a floorplan, then discovered that eighteen inches of Bath stone doesn't care about theoretical coverage. Add the consent requirements around fixing anything to a listed fabric and a straightforward cabling job becomes a planning conversation.
We survey on site before designing anything, work with mesh and cabling routes that don't need consent where we can, and tell you honestly when something does. It takes slightly longer at the start and saves a great deal of frustration later.
One more local point: Bath's clean air zone is Class C, so vans and taxis pay but private cars don't. It's a smaller factor for engineer visits here than it is in Bristol, and we plan onsite work rather than making ad hoc trips into the centre either way.
Reliable support, fast answers, systems that stay secure, and someone who explains things without jargon. That's the baseline anywhere.
In Bath, add one question that matters more than it does almost anywhere else in the country: has your provider worked in listed buildings? A large share of central Bath offices are Grade I or Grade II listed Georgian properties. Cable routing, riser penetrations, external antennas and even surface trunking can need consent, and solid Bath stone walls will defeat a Wi-Fi design drawn from a floorplan.
The other thing worth probing is whether a provider can grow with you. Bath's professional firms and university spinouts have a habit of scaling faster than expected, and the IT setup that suited eight people rarely suits forty.
In Their Words
See what Bath businesses say about working with us
Jamie's Farm
Friendly communication and went above and beyond my initial request for help by offering additional support. Highly recommended.
More client stories
Novia Global
Super quick turn around! A whole bunch of my files disappeared and Josh had them restored for me within the afternoon.
Jamie's Farm
Responsive, automated tickets delivered to inbox (so you know what you were asking about). Good reply times, call back feature.
Jamie's Farm
They replied quickly each time. There was a bit of confusion, messages weren't passed over and se it took a few days and a few emails from me to sort out the problem.
Coverage area
Our Bath team provides IT support across the region. We combine rapid on-site response with 24/7 remote support.
Bath service area
Common Questions
No. We're based in the South West, at Callow Park in Brinkworth, Wiltshire. Bath is well inside the area we cover. Most support is remote, which is faster than waiting for anyone to arrive, and we come to Bath for projects, hardware work and planning sessions. We'd rather tell you that plainly than claim a local office we don't have.
Yes, and it's one of the more common conversations we have in Bath. We survey on site rather than designing from a floorplan, plan cable routes and access point positions around what the building and its consent status allow, and tell you upfront where something needs permission.
Usually, and we'd rather learn it than hand you back to the vendor. Tell us what you run and we'll be honest about how well we know it and what we'd do to get up to speed.
BA1, BA2 and BA3 across the city and the Somer Valley, plus the surrounding towns from Keynsham and Saltford through to Bradford-on-Avon, Trowbridge, Corsham and Frome.
That's a good fit for how we work. We'd rather build something that carries you to forty people than something that just about copes at twelve. Our IT consultancy and fractional CTO services exist for exactly that stage.
Our average remote response is under 30 minutes, and monitoring means we pick up plenty of issues before you notice them. For work that needs someone on site we agree a visit with you rather than quoting a blanket arrival time, because honest scheduling beats a promise we might miss.
Pricing starts from £39 per user per month and scales with what you actually need. There's no per-ticket charge, so nobody in your team hesitates before asking for help. Send us your headcount and a rough picture of your systems and we'll come back with a costed proposal.
Less painful than most people expect. We document what you've got, take over in stages so nothing goes dark, work around your busy periods, and handle the conversation with your outgoing provider if you'd rather not have it. Most staff notice a new number to call and little else.
Yes, that's a large part of what we do. We become the IT department, and we explain decisions in plain English so nobody needs a technical background to sign them off.
Yes. Plenty of clients keep their own people and use us for out-of-hours cover, specialist projects and the strategic thinking, which stops one person carrying the whole business. That's what co-managed IT is built for.
Mainly 10 to 500 staff. Below that we can usually point you to something more proportionate, and above that we'd want a proper conversation about whether we're the right fit.
Yes. We put the technical controls in place and support you through certification. We hold ISO/IEC 27001:2022 through UKAS and Cyber Essentials ourselves, so we know what an assessor wants to see. See cyber protection and compliance.
Yes, and it's one of the more common reasons businesses call us. We document your controls and give you answers you can submit, rather than a technical export you have to translate first.
We monitor around the clock, and out-of-hours support is available where your business needs it. If you run shifts, weekends or overnight operations, tell us and we'll build cover that matches rather than selling you a nine-to-five service with an emergency number.
A short discovery call. We learn how your business runs and where technology gets in the way, then tell you plainly what we'd change. No obligation and no cost to that conversation.
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