The audit path · a fixed-scope, paid review

IT Audit

A fixed-scope, paid audit of your IT as a piece of work in its own right: what you have, where the risks are, what to fix first, in a written report you keep.

What it is

Keeping track of what a business actually runs on is harder than it sounds. Software, hardware and cloud services find their way in every month, people change, and the last inventory is a spreadsheet from a previous IT person. Not knowing is where the risk lives: the admin account nobody remembers, the licence paid for twice, the backup that stopped in March.

The audit is a fixed piece of work that answers the question. An engineer, with the tools to do the counting, looks at the whole estate and writes down what is there, what is at risk, and what to do first. You get the report and the priorities. What you do next is your decision.

How it runs

  1. Discovery. An hour with you, then access for the tools: what the business runs on, who has what, what has been bought and forgotten.
  2. Analysis. Security, backups, licences, network, single points of failure, staff habits, each checked against what good looks like.
  3. Report. Plain words, findings in priority order, the risk and the cost of fixing each.
  4. Recommendations and a plan. What to do first, what can wait, what to leave alone. Yours to act on, with us or without.

Start with the free version

The 60-second health check asks eight questions and gives you a first reading on the spot. If it shows something worth a proper look, the audit is the next step.

Who it is for
  • Companies not ready to change provider but no longer sure what they have.
  • Owners about to sign a renewal, a lease, an insurance form or a tender.
  • New finance directors and managers who inherited the IT and want a plain-English picture.
What is included

In plain words

  • Inventory: hardware, software, licences, cloud services, and who has admin rights
  • Accounts still open for people who have left; passwords and multi-factor sign-in, checked not assumed
  • Single points of failure: one person who holds all the IT knowledge, one internet line, one server nobody dares restart
  • Security review against the Cyber Essentials controls, with the gaps named; a phishing test if you want one
  • Which cloud apps and AI tools are actually in use across the business, including the ones nobody approved
  • Backup and continuity check: what is protected, what is not, whether a restore has ever been tested
  • A map of the network and the sites, as they really are
  • Findings in priority order, with what each one would take to fix
  • A written report you keep, whether or not you do anything with us
In the portal

How it shows up day to day

If you go on to work with us, the audit becomes the starting record in the portal: the inventory, the licences and the fixes, already there on day one.

See the portal →

Senior engineer

Reads what the tools found, judges what matters, and writes the plan.

Assistant

Runs the inventory, cross-checks licences against people, drafts the report.

The same job, both sides. An engineer decides; the assistant does the running around.
2006
Established
20
Years, and counting
3
London-area offices
6
Regions with client sites
8
Services, one agreement

Live service numbers, measured weekly and dated, are coming to this strip. We publish nothing we have not measured.

Questions

Questions people ask

Is this a sales exercise?
No. It is priced, scoped and delivered as a piece of work, and the report is yours. Some clients act on it with their existing provider; some do nothing for a year; some come to us. All three are fine.
How is it priced?
By the size of the business, agreed in writing before we start. The 60-second health check on this site gives you a first idea of where you stand for free; the audit is the full version.
What do we have to do?
Give an engineer access for a short time and an hour of someone's attention. Most of the work is ours.

Book the audit.

Fixed scope, agreed in writing, the report is yours.