Fractional IT & Cloud Infrastructure Setup
IT setup for new businesses
Email, domains, drives and accounts, set up once and properly.
The work
A new business needs a surprising amount of plumbing before it can trade, and most of it gets set up in a hurry, on somebody's personal account, in the wrong order.
We do it once and properly: domain and DNS in the company's name, mailboxes that arrive rather than land in spam folders, a file structure that survives the tenth employee, and every service owned by the business so nothing leaves when a person does. You end up with a written list of what you own, what it costs and when it renews.
How it runs
Understand
We watch how the work really moves, which is never what the process document says. Where does it stop? What gets typed in twice? What only works because Dawn on the front desk remembers the workaround, and what happens the week Dawn is in Portugal?
Scope
Then we pick. Whatever costs the most hours or carries the most risk goes first, written up as a bounded job with a price on it. You'll know exactly what you're getting before anyone writes a line of code.
Build
We build it, then put it in front of the people who actually have to use it every day, while it is still cheap to change. They always find things we missed, which is the whole reason they see it in week two rather than at the handover.
Handover
You get the working system, clear documentation, and a handover to whoever owns the process. Keep us involved afterwards if it helps. The point is that you do not have to.