IT consulting
Networks, Microsoft 365 and security reviews for the systems your business relies on. Designed to last, documented for clarity, and quoted as a fixed price before work starts.
01 / Infrastructure
Most business networks were never designed. They accreted: a router from the broadband provider, a switch from Amazon when the ports ran out, a Wi-Fi extender behind the printer, and nobody quite sure which cable does what. It works, mostly, until the day it matters.
The same standard applies to high-performance home networks and smart-system integration, where a property needs it.
This is the physical side of 1NM: cabinets, cables and buildings. We are based in Warwickshire and work on site across the county and the West Midlands, including Coventry and Birmingham. Further afield is a conversation, not a refusal.
A call, then a visit. We look at what you actually have, tell you plainly where it stands, and leave you a one-page account of what we found and what we would do about it, in priority order. That costs nothing. The work that follows is quoted as a fixed price in writing, and hardware is always at cost, stated separately.
Storage, logistics and events. Two UK sites, around 10,000 pallet spaces.
A German manufacturer wanted to run its European distribution from a Coventry warehouse, connected to its own SAP system back home. The specification was sound. There was nobody on this side who could read it.
Read the case study02 / Security reviews
The security industry sells fear by the day rate. Most businesses respond the only sensible way: they ignore all of it, because they cannot tell the real risks from the theatre. Some of it is real, and the difference is precisely what nobody selling to you will say plainly.
A fixed-scope examination of what you actually have: your website and its software, your DNS and email authentication, your exposure as an attacker would map it, and the governance around who can change what. It ends in a written report with a plain verdict and a prioritised list: what is urgent, what can wait, and what you are being oversold elsewhere.
The recommendation is honest even when it is unprofitable. Our flagship review found a critical, actively exploited flaw on a live site, closed it, and then recommended against the expensive rebuild the client had assumed they needed.
The first look is free: a short call, the top-line risks, one page. The full review is quoted in writing before it starts, because its report is the product. Remediation, if any is needed, is quoted separately, and we are equally content if your own people do it with our list in hand.
US financial services. National footprint, website grown over a decade.
An informal favour that turned up a critical, actively exploited vulnerability on a live site. The audit's main recommendation was to spend less, not more.
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Email, accounts, calendars, files. Nobody starts a business to think about any of it, so it accumulates instead: one shared password that everyone knows, a mailbox that three people live out of, files on whichever laptop was nearest. It all works, right up until someone leaves, or something arrives that should never have got in.
A look at the tenant and the mail flow, and a one-page account of where it stands, free. The work that follows is quoted as a fixed price before it starts.
A workshop business of around twenty people, growing quickly.
A workshop business growing faster than expected, with twenty people in it and an IT estate that amounted to a laptop and an email account. Three jobs across the summer, each of which started as a small request.
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