solvern

About

Independent by design

Solvern Consulting is an independent technical consultancy in Perth for organisations without an IT manager, internal IT teams and MSPs. We bring senior experience from both sides of the table, inside IT departments and alongside managed service providers, to one question: what's actually worth doing?

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A group of vendors and resellers, tied together by partner deals and commission. Solvern stands apart from the group, tied to nobody.

Why Solvern exists

The project that gets funded is rarely the one that fixes the problem

We've spent years on both sides of the IT scoping table: inside internal IT teams building the case for, or against, major spend, and alongside MSPs scoping work for their clients. The same pattern kept showing up, and it's the reason Solvern exists.

See how it works

Independence

Structured to stay impartial

The recommendation you get is the one we'd make if it were our own budget on the line. That's the point of bringing in an outside view.

$0 earned on any hardware or licence we recommend
0 referral agreements with any providers
1 team from the first call to the written verdict. No account managers, no handoffs.

Who we work with

Three kinds of client

Organisations without an IT manager

Twenty to a hundred and fifty staff, an MSP doing the work, and IT decisions landing on whoever is nearest. We become the IT Manager for a fixed number of days a month.

IT Manager as a Service

Internal IT teams

A second opinion before a big spend, or someone senior to scope a project properly before it goes to tender. We report to you, not to a vendor.

IT strategy & review

MSPs

Senior scoping capacity for a client engagement without carrying the headcount. We work white-label, under your brand, on your timelines.

White-label consulting
Lewis Carpenter, Principal Consultant at Solvern Consulting
Lewis Carpenter Principal Consultant

Experience

We've sat in the chairs we now advise

The advice comes from having done these jobs, not from watching them done: running the operation, owning the IT function, delivering the projects and answering for the service.

  • Chief Operating Officer

    Accountable for how the whole business ran, technology included.

    We see IT the way your leadership team has to.

  • IT Manager

    Owning the IT function: the budget, the vendors, the risk and the decisions.

    Internal to the business, own the outcomes. See our IT Manager as a Service for more.

  • Project Manager

    Taking technology projects from an agreed scope to a finished handover.

    Our scoping is accurately drafted by someone with experience in delivery.

  • Service Delivery Manager

    Answering for the service clients actually received: service levels, escalations and the reviews that follow.

    We know how the MSP operates from the inside, and how to get the best from it.

Talk to us directly

Book thirty minutes, describe what's in front of you, and hear what we'd actually do about it.

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