Lodat for hire
Most local businesses get IT help from someone who has never had to run a business. Lodat builds and runs its own production software every day. We bring that to the SMEs we work with. Fixed prices, written quotes, no monthly surprises.
Where to start
30 minutes · £0
In-person or Zoom. We walk through your current setup and give you a one-pager: 3 things broken, 3 risks, 3 quick wins. With fixed-price quotes for any of it.
£600 – £1,200 fixed
The cert that most insurance, grants and public-sector tenders now require. We do the gap analysis, fix the gaps, then guide you through the IASME assessment.
From £25 / user / month
We keep your team's tech running. Patching, M365 admin, Defender, MFA, basic helpdesk over WhatsApp/email, monthly health report. Direct debit, no contract surprise.
Managed IT pricing
Direct debit. Minimum 5 seats.
Essentials
£25 / user / mo
Standard
£35 / user / mo
Pro
£45 / user / mo
One-off jobs
When you don't need a retainer, just want a thing done. All prices are guides; real quote in 48 hours after a free call.
£500 – £1,500
Tenant setup, email + DNS, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams. From-scratch or off-Gmail/legacy migration with no email downtime.
£250 – £500
Email not landing, domain in the wrong place, DNS broken after a hand-off. We fix it inside a day, in writing.
£450 – £600 / day
Site survey, mesh + AP install, guest network, segmentation, the lot. Most small-office jobs are a single day.
£800 – £1,800
MFA on every account, Defender for Business, Conditional Access, backup verification, password manager rolled out.
From £1,500
Power BI, Looker Studio or custom. Pulling from QuickBooks, Xero, your CRM or POS. Live KPIs your team actually checks.
From £1,500
Custom GPT or Claude-backed assistant trained on your docs, SOPs and FAQs. For staff training, customer support or internal Q&A.
£600 – £1,200
Cloud backups for M365 and Google Workspace, server / NAS backup, monthly restore drills, documented runbook.
£150 first hour, £100 / hr after
Something stopped working and you need it fixed today. Onsite or remote, same-day where possible.
Bigger work
Quotes from £3,000
Bespoke web apps, internal tools, online ordering, booking systems, dashboards. Built on the same modern stack we ship into production every day.
Discuss a buildFrom £3,000 / month
One to three days a week as your senior tech voice. Strategy, architecture, vendor selection, hiring, plus some hands-on. Right fit when you're too small for a full-time CTO but too big to wing it.
Talk about a fitHow we work
Tell us what's going on. We listen, ask questions, no pitch.
Fixed price for one-off, monthly for retainer. No surprise add-ons.
Most work starts the week you say yes. Urgent stuff, same day.
WhatsApp updates while we work. Monthly report once retained.
No pitch, no obligation. You leave with a one-page action plan even if you never hire us.
Lodat
Whether you're a hospitality operator, a partner, an investor or a future colleague, start here.