The practice
A consultancy that keeps its advice and its work in the same hands.
AWP IT Consulting Ltd is registered in Scotland with its registered office in Edinburgh. We advise organisations on software and then help them carry that advice out.
Why the practice exists
Advice is only useful if someone stays for the consequences.
There are consultants who recommend and leave, and developers who build what they are asked without question. We set up AWP to do both halves together: to give considered advice about software and then to remain responsible for it once it is built.
That arrangement changes the advice. When you know you will be the one maintaining a system for years, you become cautious about fashionable tools, generous with documentation and firm about scope. Our clients benefit from that caution even when they never need the maintenance.
Principles
What we try to hold to.
Plain words
We write proposals and reports in ordinary English. If a technical term is necessary, we explain it the first time it appears.
Proportion
The right solution is the smallest one that genuinely solves the problem for its expected lifetime. We will recommend doing less whenever less will serve.
Ownership
Code, accounts, domains and documents belong to the client. We keep nothing hostage.
Candour
We say when something is outside our competence, when a date is at risk and when a decision of ours turned out to be wrong.
What we are not
A short list of honest limits.
- We are not a large agency and do not take on more concurrent projects than we can staff properly.
- We do not provide round-the-clock support; our working hours are Monday to Friday, 09:00–18:00 UK time.
- We do not resell hardware or act as a broker for third-party licences.
- We do not publish client names, case studies or testimonials on this website. If you would like to speak to someone we have worked with, ask, and we will see whether they are willing.
Where we are
Edinburgh, and wherever our clients are.
Our registered office is 7 Allan Park Loan, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH14 1LG. It is a correspondence address rather than a walk-in office, so please arrange any meeting in advance. Most of our work is carried out remotely with in-person workshops when they genuinely help.