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We help businesses take back control of their tech.

We run your assets, licences and vendors. We build your own versions of the software you’re overpaying for. And we put AI to work with rules that hold up, then teach your team to use it. Straight answers, no jargon.

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2 products shipped
App Store and Microsoft Store
4 platforms
Mac, iPhone, Windows and web
12 standards
mapped in our compliance evidence
On-device AI
in production, not in a deck
Is this you?

If one of these sounds familiar, let’s talk.

Thirty minutes, free. You tell me what’s going on, I tell you straight what I’d do.

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  • You’re paying for software nobody is sure you still use.
  • A vendor sent an audit letter and you don’t know what you owe.
  • Nobody can tell you where every laptop is, or who has it.
  • A renewal is coming and the price went up again.
  • Your team is using AI and there are no rules for it.
  • You need someone senior in IT, but not full time.
Who you’ll work with

20 years in IT, on both sides of the table.

Five years at an MSP, hands on keyboard, doing the work for small and mid-size businesses. Fifteen years in enterprise IT at Fortune 500 companies, choosing and buying the tools and owning budgets in the millions.

I know what it’s like to do the work and to pay for it. That’s what I bring to yours.

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What we do

We run your IT estate,

build the apps you’d

otherwise rent,

teach AI to work.

Services

Spend less on tech. Get more out of AI.

The six things clients bring us most. Hire us for one, or let us run the lot.

IT asset management

Every laptop, lease, warranty and contract in one register, tracked from purchase to retirement.

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Licensing & vendor audits

Find the shelfware, get ready before the audit letter, and renegotiate with the vendor.

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App replacement

Overpaying for an app your team uses one way? We build your own version. You own it, no per-seat rent.

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AI engineering & agents

Assistants and agents that work over your own data, with permissions designed before the first prompt.

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AI governance

An AI policy, data rules and spend limits, written by someone who builds AI and knows where it breaks.

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AI training

Workshops for leaders, staff and builders on what AI is good at, what it costs and how to use it safely.

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Also: cybersecurity, cloud migration, and a part-time IT lead when you need one. All services →

Who we work with

Two kinds of clients. One standard of care.

Small Business

Need help cutting software costs, staying secure, managing your assets and vendors, or building a cheaper internal version of an app you’re overpaying for?

Vendor contracts Cybersecurity Cut tech waste Custom apps & AI
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Enterprise & Mid-Market

Dealing with a software audit, cloud migration, complex licensing, or need senior IT leadership without the full-time hire?

Audit defense Cloud migration License management IT leadership
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Proof

We don’t just advise. We ship.

When the market charged too much for a tool, we built our own. The same engineering and the same rules go into your project.

Starkive Manifest Live on the App Store

11 weeks from the first line of code to the App Store.

The asset management system we built to replace a rented one. A full IT asset register for Mac and iPhone, on the App Store since 8 September 2026. Every device, contract, lease and warranty from purchase to retirement, with an assistant that answers on-device. Windows version in development.

  • 72 controls, 12 standards and 16 evidence reports
  • Ask for any report in a sentence, answered with Apple Intelligence
  • Free to download, with a 3-day demo company of 1,000 assets
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The Compliance Portal in Starkive Manifest, with evidence reports prepared ahead of an audit.
Starkive Studio Mac App Store · Microsoft Store

5 weeks to ship: 2 to understand the job, 3 to build it.

Private AI for the documents you’d never upload. File encryption, a password vault, and on the Mac a PDF workspace that summarizes, answers questions and reads scans without sending anything anywhere.

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Agent servers Agent platform

AI agents inside an audited register, safely.

MCP servers that let outside agents read Manifest. Read-only by design, keys they can’t reach, and every answer traceable to its source.

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