The Tech Factory exists because too many IT companies make their money from confusion. They sell complexity instead of clarity, and their business model depends on you not understanding your own technology.
We started Quimera Technology in 2008 with a different idea: explain every decision, every trade-off, every recommendation in plain language. If the right answer is "keep what you've got," say so. If a vendor is overcharging you, say that too.
It turns out organisations quite like working with people who aren't trying to sell them things they don't need.
Over the past eighteen years we've worked across a wider range of sectors and geographies than most consultancies twice our size. Live broadcast events where a dropped connection means a lost audience. Defence operations in terrain where the nearest exchange is a hundred miles away. Enterprise networks spanning offices across multiple continents.
That breadth isn't an accident. It comes from saying yes to interesting problems in difficult places, then figuring out how to solve them properly.
We run lean on purpose. No bench of engineers waiting to be billed. No quarterly vendor targets. When we bring in a piece of kit or recommend a platform migration, it's because that specific tool solves your specific problem, not because we need to shift units.
Our longest client relationship is over a decade. Most are measured in years. People don't tend to leave when you're genuinely useful to them.