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Your office and lab, ready on day one

From the empty room to the first commit. We plan the space, build the network, prepare every laptop, rack the lab machines and set up the accounts, so new joiners sit down and start working.

Sound familiar?

Most new offices open on the red lines. Ours open on the green ones.

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  • New joiners wait a week for a laptop and their logins.
  • Laptops are imaged, encrypted and signed in before people arrive.
  • One Wi-Fi password, shared with guests, written on a whiteboard.
  • Separate staff, guest and lab networks behind a managed firewall.
  • Test servers sit under a desk, with no backups and no remote access.
  • A racked lab with monitoring, backups and secure remote access.
  • Five vendors for space, furniture, internet and IT, and nobody owns the whole thing.
  • One team plans and coordinates it, from the floor plan to the first deploy.

What you get

Pick the parts you need, or hand us the whole move.

Space and fit-out planning

We help shortlist the space, then plan seats, power, cabling and meeting rooms, and coordinate desks, chairs and fit-out with your landlord and vendors.

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Office network and Wi-Fi

Two internet lines with failover, a managed firewall, switches, access points and VLANs for staff, guests and the lab. Documented, with admin access handed to you.

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Laptops and devices

Laptops sourced to your budget, imaged, encrypted and enrolled in device management with the software your team needs. Printers, displays and meeting-room screens too.

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Labs and self-hosted machines

Server racks, build and test machines, hardware labs, virtualisation and self-hosted CI runners, set up by a senior systems administrator with 30 years in networking and lab setup.

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Accounts and access

Company email, single sign-on, GitHub, Jira and VPN, so every joiner gets the right access on day one and loses it on their last.

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IT support after move-in

A monthly plan for the network, devices and lab: updates, backups, monitoring and someone to call when something breaks.

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How a move-in runs

A typical 20 to 50 seat office. A lab or a small room goes faster.

  1. Week 1

    Plan

    Site visit, seat and network plan, hardware list and a fixed quote.

  2. Weeks 2–3

    Build

    Cabling, firewall, Wi-Fi and lab racks go in. Laptops are imaged and enrolled.

  3. Week 4

    Move in

    Everything tested, accounts ready, handover documents and admin access to you.

Price

Every space is different, so you get a fixed written quote after we have seen it.

Fixed quote after a site visit

Office and lab setup

From a few desks to a full floor, or just the lab.

Fixed quote

After a free call and a site visit

  • Seat, power and network plan
  • Firewall, switches, Wi-Fi and VLANs
  • Laptops imaged, encrypted and enrolled
  • Lab racks, servers and self-hosted runners
  • Day-one email, SSO, GitHub and Jira access
  • Handover documents and admin access
Plan my office

Not included

  • Rent, deposits and brokerage.
  • Hardware, furniture and internet bills. These are bought in your company’s name, with warranties to you.

Monthly IT support

  • Network, devices and lab looked after every month. Quoted after the call, cancel any month.

Office and lab questions

Do you supply the hardware?
We can source laptops, network gear and servers through our vendors at quoted prices, or set up equipment you buy yourself. Either way it is in your company’s name.
Can you set up only a lab, without the office?
Yes. Build machines, test benches, virtualisation hosts and self-hosted runners are a common job on their own.
We are remote-first. Is this useful?
Yes. Laptops arrive at each person’s home ready to use, enrolled in device management, with VPN and accounts set up.
Which cities do you work in?
Planning and remote setup work anywhere. On-site work is quoted by city on the call.
Who owns the admin passwords?
You do. Every admin account and the network documentation are handed over at the end.

Moving into a new office or building a lab?

Tell us the number of seats, the city and the date you want to move in.