IT Consultancy for Small Businesses
Sometimes you don’t need an engineer to fix something: you need someone to help you think it through. ClearPath provides practical IT consultancy for small businesses that want to use technology more effectively, spend less time firefighting, and build a solid IT foundation for growth.
What We Offer
IT Strategy and Planning
- Understanding where your IT is now and where it needs to be
- Planning for growth: what changes when you go from 5 to 20 people?
- IT budgeting: what to spend, what to defer, and what’s actually needed
- Vendor selection: software, hardware, cloud services
Process Improvement
- Documenting how your IT currently works (and finding the gaps)
- Implementing structured processes for common tasks: onboarding, offboarding, change management
- Building an ITIL-based framework that’s right-sized for a small business
- Reducing reliance on informal “it’s always done like this” knowledge
Tool Selection
- Choosing the right tools for your business, not just the most popular ones
- Microsoft 365 licensing advice: which plan you actually need
- Helpdesk and ticketing systems for businesses with their own IT
- Collaboration tools, project management, remote working setup
Reporting and Operational Insights
- IT health dashboards and reporting for management
- SLA tracking and incident reporting
- Asset registers and software licence tracking
- Simple, practical reports that tell you what you need to know
Experience That Scales Down
Most IT consultancy is aimed at large organisations with large budgets. The frameworks, processes and tools developed for enterprises don’t always translate directly to a 10-person business. My 15 years of experience, including time at Reuters managing complex enterprise systems, gives me the background to know what’s worth applying at small scale and what’s overkill.
The result is practical advice that fits your business now and grows with you.
One-Off or Ongoing
Consultancy can be a single project - for example, an IT review before taking on new staff or moving to new premises - or an ongoing advisory relationship. Either way, you’ll get a clear picture of where you are and a practical plan for where to go next.