Case Files · Fol. I

Evidence from
the field.

real engagements · anonymised clients · accurate numbers

Every case file on this site is a real engagement. Every client name is not. The numbers are accurate. The methodology is the same whether the engagement is a 5-person professional practice or a manufacturing group running twelve factories across five countries.

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Case Files · Fol. I · IndexNottingham · MMXXVI
Fol. II·The Rule
The rule · Fol. II

Real cases.
No logos.

Clients don’t always want to be used as marketing. Some would be fine with it; others wouldn’t. Rather than cherry-picking the ones who said yes and ignoring the rest, the bureau anonymises everything. Every case file describes a real engagement. The sector, the size, the geography, the problem, and the result, all accurate. The name, the logo, and any detail that would identify the specific business, all removed.

The numbers are the anchor. £2M+ saved. £24,520/year recovered. 85% connectivity cost reduction. These aren’t approximations and they aren’t marketing copy. They’re documented outcomes from real engagements with real invoices. If a prospect asks for verification during a triage call, Alex can share the detail under NDA. The public site keeps it clean.

If you’re curious whether the bureau has worked on something like your problem before, the 15-minute triage is the right place to ask. Not every engagement ends up in a published case file.

Fol. III·The Catalogue
Case File 01.A · UK Recruitment Operation · ~1,070 usersPublished
The chaos

A specialist UK recruitment
operation on eight systems.

Eight disconnected tools, none of them talking. Compliance records replicated manually across four locations. The operations team had stopped trusting any of it. Onboarding took weeks longer than it needed to.

The outcome

Cross-departmental audit, HRIS consolidation, onboarding rebuilt end-to-end. Eight systems into one unified platform for ~1,070 users.

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The result
£24,520
saved per year on licences
14 h/wk
recovered per worker
1
platform instead of eight
Case File 02.A · Global Aerospace Group · 12 factories, 5 countriesPublished · Authority Proof
The chaos

A global aerospace group.
Seven security vendors.
No one accountable.

Seven security vendors with overlapping capabilities, an IT budget spread across ~140 line items, and a transformation programme nobody had fully scoped. Twelve factories across five countries, none running the same stack.

The outcome

Took over the entire IT budget. Consolidated seven security vendors into Microsoft E5. Led a two-year transformation programme with CEO sponsorship. Total annual saving: £2M+.

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The result
£2M+
annual savings, documented
85%
connectivity cost reduction
7→1
security vendors consolidated
Case File 03.A · UK Professional Practice · 4 usersPublished
The chaos

A UK professional practice on a
£99/month firewall contract.

A four-person office paying £99/month for a managed firewall. Overpriced, no hardware ownership, and a contract that kept renewing without question.

The outcome

Replaced the monthly contract with a one-time UniFi hardware build for £1,487. No more monthly bill. Full hardware ownership.

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The result
£4,453
saved over 5 years
£0/mo
recurring cost
1 day
to deploy
Case File 04.A · Global ManufacturingPublished · Authority Proof
The chaos

A 5-country manufacturer
on legacy MPLS.

Sixteen sites across five countries paying £186k/year for a legacy MPLS network. Nobody had challenged the cost in years.

The outcome

Designed and led the migration to SD-WAN on Ubiquiti. £186k/year cut to £28k/year. 16 sites migrated with zero business disruption.

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The result
85%
cost reduction
£158k/yr
saved annually
16
sites migrated
Case File 05.A · Enterprise LicencesPublished · Authority Proof
The chaos

Seven vendors.
One renegotiation.

An enterprise licence stack at £873k/year across seven vendors with significant overlap. Three of them doing endpoint security in slightly different ways.

The outcome

Full licence audit, capability mapping to Microsoft E5, and a 3-year phased exit plan. £873k/year down to £391k/year with zero early termination penalties.

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The result
£481,855/yr
saved on licences
7→2
vendor consolidation
3 yr
phased exit
Fol. IV·More on Request
More on request · Fol. IV

There’s more
in the file.

Five published case files doesn’t cover every engagement. The track record includes network infrastructure builds, managed hosting migrations, custom software builds, and operational audits for businesses from 4-user professional practices up to global manufacturing groups. Not all of them end up on the site. Some clients prefer it that way.

If you’re curious whether the bureau has worked on your specific problem type (a particular sector, a particular tool stack, a particular scale of mess), the 15-minute triage is where to ask. Bring the question and you’ll get an honest answer on what’s been done before and whether it’s relevant.

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