London, Essex & surrounding areas
Business technology for London & Essex businesses
Forge is a UK business working with small and medium-sized companies across London, Essex and the surrounding areas, including Brentwood — building bespoke applications, automating manual admin and getting Microsoft 365 into a state that actually helps.
Working locally
When being nearby is genuinely useful
Most of this work is done remotely and location makes no difference to the result. There are a few points where it does.
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Watching the process in person
Understanding how a job really flows is much faster stood next to the people doing it than described over a call. Assumptions get corrected on the spot.
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Seeing work as it happens on site
For anything replacing paper in the field, it helps to see the conditions the system has to survive — a phone, one hand free, poor signal, bad weather.
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Hand-over and training
Sitting with a team while they use a new system for the first time surfaces the awkward parts immediately, rather than through a support email a fortnight later.
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Talking to a person, not a queue
You deal directly with the developer who builds the system. There is no account manager layer and no ticket number.
Areas covered
Across Essex and into London
On-site visits cover Essex and the surrounding areas, including Brentwood, Chelmsford, Basildon, Billericay and Romford, as well as London. Remote work is not limited by geography — Forge works with businesses anywhere in the UK.
What Forge does
The work itself
The same services wherever a business is based. These pages go into detail on each one.
Typical starting points are a business that has outgrown its spreadsheets, a team still filling in paper on site, a Microsoft 365 tenant nobody has reviewed since it was set up, or documents spread across drives and inboxes with no agreed home.
Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 setup, support and consultancy across Essex
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Microsoft 365 setup in Basildon, Billericay and across Essex
Forge helps businesses across Essex with Microsoft 365 setup, licensing and migration, including businesses in Basildon and Billericay. See the Microsoft 365 service page for more about what that work covers.
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Ongoing Microsoft 365 support and consultancy
Forge also supports Essex businesses with ongoing Microsoft 365 administration, licensing and practical advice as their requirements change. This can include reviewing the existing setup, helping with changes to Microsoft 365 services and providing support beyond the initial migration or configuration.
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Microsoft 365 for small businesses across London and Essex
Forge helps small and medium-sized businesses across London and Essex get Microsoft 365 set up properly, licensed correctly and reviewed periodically, rather than simply leaving a Microsoft 365 tenant on its original configuration. A free consultation is the starting point for understanding the existing setup and working out what is right for the business.
A real project
Three portals for a facilities management business
GB Solutions UK is a facilities management business whose teams work across many client sites — exactly the pattern of a lot of Essex trade and service companies. Forge replaced paper job reports, manual quotations and disconnected processes with three bespoke portals sharing one set of client and site records, documents filed automatically into SharePoint, and secure access for both staff and approved customers.
Next step
Tell me what you need fixing
A free, no-pressure consultation. Describe the problem in your own words and you will get a straight answer on whether — and how — Forge can help.