Sean Boyd
Technical Director
Reading is a town where your neighbours are Microsoft and Oracle, which sets a certain expectation of what IT should look like. We meet it for businesses that don't have an enterprise budget.
What to expect
Our average remote response is under 30 minutes in working hours, and monitoring catches a fair number of problems first.
From £39 per user per month, moving with your headcount. There's no per-ticket charge.
Monitoring never stops, and we add out-of-hours support where your business genuinely needs it.
Plenty of Reading clients keep their internal IT and use us for out-of-hours cover and the specialist work. That stops one person having to carry the whole business.
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 Reading 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 Reading clients that often means enterprise-grade Microsoft 365 and security without an enterprise price, and support that spans sites across three council areas.
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 Reading clients build on managed IT services, cyber protection and compliance, IT helpdesk services, cloud enablement, 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 Reading 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 Reading business, current IT challenges, and goals for the future. No technical jargon, just straightforward discussion.
Our team conducts a thorough review of your technology, identifying security risks, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement across your infrastructure.
We create a bespoke IT solution aligned with your needs and budget, with transparent flat-rate pricing and measurable outcomes for your business.
We manage the transition carefully, ensuring minimal disruption to your Reading operations while our helpdesk team gets to know your systems.
Understanding the Area
Reading's business estate mostly isn't in Reading, which trips up a lot of providers. Thames Valley Park in RG6 sits in Earley, and Winnersh Triangle in RG41 is Wokingham Borough, as is Arlington Business Park over at Theale in West Berkshire. Thames Valley Science Park is out at Shinfield. Only Green Park and the RG1 town centre fall inside Reading Borough itself.
The town centre in RG1 holds the Grade A stock, including Forbury Place, where SSE occupies one building and KPMG, PwC, Osborne Clarke and IQVIA sit in the others. Green Park in RG2 runs to 195 acres and around 1.5 million square feet with over 6,500 people, and got its own railway station in 2023.
Any provider claiming to cover Reading properly has to work across three local authorities. That sounds like a technicality until it affects which sites they'll actually travel to.
Technology and telecoms dominate the local landscape, and much of our Reading work is with the smaller firms in that ecosystem, the suppliers, consultancies and software businesses that orbit the large players at Thames Valley Park and Green Park.
Financial, insurance and professional services are our other core here, with all the Big Four present in the town and a deep layer of law and accountancy firms behind them. See fintech and financial services IT and legal practice technology.
There's also a defence and nuclear supply chain around AWE at Aldermaston and Burghfield that generates compliance-heavy IT work, and it's the kind we handle regularly. If your contracts require cleared personnel, we'll be straight with you about what we can and can't cover.
The Reading built-up area has a population of around 318,000 spread across Reading Borough, Wokingham Borough and West Berkshire. Reading Borough itself is small, and as the business parks above show, most of the commercial estate sits outside its boundary altogether.
This has a practical effect on IT support. A provider whose coverage is defined by Reading Borough will hesitate at sites that everyone locally considers Reading. We define our area by where businesses actually are, which here means across all three authorities and out towards Bracknell, Newbury, Maidenhead and Basingstoke.
It matters more if you have several sites, which is common in the Thames Valley. A head office in RG1 and a second site at Winnersh or Theale is a normal shape, and both need managing properly rather than one being an afterthought.
The baseline is the same everywhere. In Reading, the interesting questions are about proportion and about compliance.
On proportion: this is a town full of enterprise IT, and a lot of local providers price and structure themselves accordingly. If you're 20 to 200 people, ask whether you'd be a typical client. Enterprise processes applied to a small business feel slow and expensive, and small-business processes applied to a growing one break.
On compliance: Berkshire has a large financial services and insurance base, plus a genuinely significant defence and nuclear supply chain around AWE Aldermaston and Burghfield. If you sit in either, your customers will ask about your security controls and the answers come from your IT setup. Ask to see certifications, not descriptions.
In Their Words
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Lauren
I always have a great experience with Inflection Point. They answer quickly and are consistently helpful. Josh assisted me this time, and he resolved my issue promptly and professionally.
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Matt H.
Joe is always very helpful. He is very patient, and talks me through everything that he is doing. Great service!!
Doug S.
Quick response, informative answers and problem solved! Excellent Customer Service - thank you!
Coverage area
Our Reading team provides IT support across the region. We combine rapid on-site response with 24/7 remote support.
Reading service area
Common Questions
No. We're South West based with UK-wide reach, and we'd rather tell you that than claim otherwise. Most support is remote with an average response under 30 minutes, and we travel for projects, hardware and planning work.
Yes. Most of the Thames Valley's business estate sits outside Reading Borough, so we define our coverage by where businesses actually are. Thames Valley Park, Winnersh Triangle, Theale, Shinfield and Green Park are all within our area.
Yes, because 10 to 500 staff is the range we're built for rather than the bottom of our market. That's a real distinction in this town, where a lot of providers are structured around much larger clients.
Yes. Requirements flow down from the primes, and most of the evidence comes from your IT setup. We put controls in place, document them and give you answers you can submit. If your contract needs security-cleared personnel, tell us early and we'll be honest about what we can cover.
RG1 to RG7, RG30, RG31, RG40 and RG41 across the town and its business parks, plus Bracknell, Newbury, Maidenhead, Henley, Basingstoke and the wider Thames Valley.
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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