The Technology Framework

For the FD who became the IT department

Your leadership team is making technology decisions without a technology leader in the room.

A named Head of IT. One or two days a week. You keep the MSP. We sit above it, and the board finally has someone who owns the answers.

Named Head of IT at a boardroom table with a laptop dashboard, Clifton Suspension Bridge on the wall behind

The cost of waiting

Every month you wait, the bill renews itself.

Contracts keep auto-renewing. Copilot is sitting on a tenant that would fail an insurer. The next cyber form comes back with questions nobody can answer. A full-time IT director costs £130k before they have started. Fill the seat instead.

  1. £130k

    Full-time IT director, before they have started

  2. Auto-renew

    Contracts that keep signing themselves

  3. No owner

    The next cyber form, and nobody to answer it

  1. 01

    You have an MSP. You still need a Head of IT.

  2. 02

    The board asked about cyber, Copilot, or the cloud bill. Nobody had an answer.

  3. 03

    You are 50-200 people in professional services, South West wealth, or a PE-backed roll-up.

  4. 04

    A full-time director is too much. Another helpdesk will not fix this.

Head of IT presenting an architecture diagram to a leadership team

The seat

Someone on the leadership team who owns IT.

You keep your MSP if it works. We govern it. Operating model, vendors, board paper. One or two days a week, in the room.

The evidence

Walk into the insurance renewal with a pack they can read.

Cyber Essentials and CE+. ISO 27001 when you sell to enterprise, PE or the public sector. We implement the controls.

Cyber Assurance Evidence Pack binder, control checklist and risk dashboard on a desk
Senior operator reviewing a tenant governance console

The tenant

Copilot stays unsafe while the shared drive is.

Purview, oversharing, labels, the right seats. Then a 30-day pilot on the seats you actually need.

The bill

If the cloud bill can fund a hire, it can fund a sprint.

A fixed piece of work a finance director can read. Only when the spend is large enough to matter.

Leadership team reviewing a falling cloud-cost chart around a table
Operator at a standing desk with a workflow builder and an internal IT agent chat

The one workflow

One agent. One KPI. Then we stop.

A Teams bot, a voice front door, or an automation that already earns its keep.

PE carve-out or Day-1 pack. A named project for PE-backed businesses when the TSA clock is running. PE carve-out IT.

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  1. 01

    We sit with the people who actually run the estate.

  2. 02

    A 90-day sprint with a board-readable outcome.

  3. 03

    One or two days a week after that, or we leave the place stronger.

  • 20+

    Years as Head of IT. A named senior does the work.

  • 90%

    Fewer incidents. SLO from 45% to 98%.

  • 12 mo

    ISO 27001 and PCI DSS, implemented in the estate.

  • 80%

    Off a live cloud bill. 250+ servers to Azure.

  • Live

    Production Teams agent, voice agents, n8n / LangChain.

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The next ninety days

In ninety days the board has an operating model, the insurer has evidence, and you stop being the IT department.

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