Sean Boyd
Technical Director
Oxford businesses tend to grow in jumps, especially the ones that came out of a lab. We build technology that survives the jump, and we're honest that in this city most of the useful work happens remotely.
What to expect
Average remote response is under 30 minutes in working hours, and monitoring flags plenty of faults before your team runs into them.
From £39 per user per month, scaling with what you use. Nothing is billed per ticket.
Systems are watched around the clock as standard, and out-of-hours support is built around your actual hours.
Oxford organisations often run across more than one building, so we keep connectivity and collaboration consistent between them and give you a single named lead for all of it.
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 Oxford 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. For Oxford clients that often means protecting research data and IP, and building setups that can triple in size without being rebuilt.
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 Oxford clients build on managed IT services, cyber protection and compliance, cloud enablement, IT consultancy, and fractional CTO. 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 Oxford 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 with a conversation to understand your Oxford business, current IT challenges, and goals for the future.
Our team conducts a thorough review of your technology, identifying risks and opportunities for improvement.
We create a bespoke solution aligned with your needs and budget, with clear pricing and measurable outcomes.
We manage the transition carefully, ensuring minimal disruption to your Oxford operations.
Understanding the Area
The thing generic pages miss about Oxford is that most of the economy isn't in the city. The centre in OX1 and OX2 holds legal, accountancy, agency and university administration, plus Oxford University Press on Great Clarendon Street and the professional cluster in Summertown. Headington in OX3 is the hospitals and Old Road research campus.
Cowley in OX4 is the commercial engine: MINI Plant Oxford, Unipart's headquarters, Oxford Business Park and the Oxford Science Park at Littlemore with around 3,500 people. Then there's the ring beyond, which is where the real employment mass sits. Harwell in OX11 has more than 250 organisations and over 6,000 people. Milton Park in OX14 has around 250 companies and more than 9,000 people. Culham has UKAEA and 45 or more commercial businesses, and Oxford Technology Park and Begbroke sit north in OX5.
If you're at Harwell, Milton Park or Culham, you are not really an Oxford city business, and a provider who doesn't grasp that will keep planning around the wrong geography.
Life sciences and university spinouts are the defining local sector, and they bring specific demands: protecting IP, controlling how data is shared with collaborators, and standing up to investor and partner due diligence. Our audit-readiness work transfers directly, and we hold ISO/IEC 27001:2022 through UKAS and Cyber Essentials ourselves.
Professional services across the city centre, Summertown and Oxford Business Park are core ground for us, particularly law and accountancy. See legal practice technology.
We also work with engineering and high-performance manufacturing firms in the county, and with charities and not-for-profits across Oxfordshire. See charity and not-for-profit IT and construction and professional services IT.
Botley Road, the direct route from the city centre out to the station and the A34, has been closed for Network Rail's bridge works for years, and the county's camera-enforced traffic filters will only begin once it reopens. A zero emission zone pilot already covers several central streets, and a wider city centre zone is under consideration. Worth checking the current position before planning around any of it.
We raise it because any provider promising to be at your central Oxford desk within the hour is either guessing or hasn't tried recently. It's also a large part of why so many Oxford businesses sit in the OX4, OX5, OX11 and OX14 ring rather than the centre.
Our answer is to be straight about it. Most issues we solve remotely, with an average remote response under 30 minutes, and we schedule onsite work rather than promising arrival times we'd miss. For clients at Harwell, Milton Park or Culham, access is considerably easier anyway.
Reliable support, real security, plain speaking. In Oxford, two specific things are worth pressing on.
First, can they handle research-grade data and intellectual property? Oxford topped the UK university spinout rankings in the 2025 report, and a spinout's value often sits in data and IP that has to be protected properly and shared selectively with collaborators and investors. That's a different problem from protecting an office.
Second, can they scale at the speed you might? A company can go from six people to sixty inside a funding round, and an IT setup built for a small team becomes the bottleneck. Ask what happens to your systems and your licensing at three times the headcount, and who's watching security while everyone is busy hiring.
It's also worth asking honestly about onsite access, given how hard central Oxford currently is to reach.
In Their Words
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Mark
Great service,really nice chatty guy who was also pretty chilled and relaxed,very impressed and Josh needs a pat on the back
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Joe was very helpful and professional during our phone call.
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We use Inflection point as our IT support partners, and have done so for just under 12 months. Up to now they have been nothing short of exemplary! I'd like to say a special thanks to Rob Devereux, who worked through the night to get our systems back online following a massive hardware failure. They definitely get my recommendation!
Coverage area
Our Oxford team provides IT support across the region. We combine rapid on-site response with 24/7 remote support.
Oxford service area
Common Questions
No. We're South West based with UK-wide reach, and we'd rather be straight about that than claim a local office. Most support is remote with an average response under 30 minutes, and we travel to Oxford for projects, hardware and planning sessions.
With access controls that limit who can see what, encryption, multi-factor authentication, monitored endpoints and clear processes for sharing with collaborators, which is usually where the real exposure sits. We also help you evidence all of it when an investor or partner runs due diligence.
That's a good fit for how we work. We'd rather build something that carries you through the next funding round than something that only just copes today. Our IT consultancy and fractional CTO services are built for that stage.
It makes things easier, if anything. Access is far better than central Oxford, and those campuses are where a lot of the county's employment actually sits. We treat them as their own thing rather than as an Oxford postcode.
OX1 to OX5 across the city and Kidlington, plus the science and business campuses in OX11, OX12, OX13 and OX14, and the county towns from Bicester and Banbury to Witney, Thame and Wallingford.
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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