When you buy or back a business, you inherit its technology — and its technical debt. Domains scattered across registrars nobody remembers. Email controlled by someone who left. Websites without logins, systems without documentation, hosting on a founder's personal card. Someone has to take ownership of all of it, on day one, across everything in the portfolio. That is precisely the role we play.
The technology of an acquired business is usually its least documented asset — and the easiest one to lose. In the first weeks of ownership we routinely find:
Six domains of work, delivered as one service, across every company you own — with a single point of contact for every technical decision.
The completion-day discipline. Before anything can walk out of the door, we take formal control of every technical asset the business owns — and produce the register proving it.
Everything moves onto infrastructure we run and answer for — UK data centres in Coventry and Maidenhead — without downtime and without losing a single email.
Acquired websites are rarely fit for purpose. We rebuild what's broken and run what works — designed, built and hosted by the same team, so fixes never sit in someone else's queue.
The connective tissue between the tools each business runs on — built bespoke where nothing off-the-shelf fits.
Phones and email, provisioned and managed across every site — the systems businesses panic about most, treated with matching care.
A helpdesk that already knows the estate. Staff inside each business get a number to call and a human who can actually fix it.
We work your completion checklist: domains, email, credentials and supplier accounts secured before the ink is dry.
Full technical audit of what you've bought. Every asset found, every credential rotated, every risk written down.
Websites, mail and data move to our UK infrastructure. Broken things triaged; urgent rebuilds begin.
You get the asset register, the risk log, and a plain-English roadmap — then we run it.
The person who answers is the person who does the work. No account managers relaying messages to a team you never meet.
Enterprise work goes to the front of every queue — same-day response, and completion-day availability when you're acquiring.
One retainer covers every company you own. New acquisitions join the estate without renegotiation.
A standing review of the whole estate: risks retired, renewals ahead, and what's next — on one page.
Rotated on day one and held in encrypted storage — never in inboxes or spreadsheets.
Your estates live in our Coventry and Maidenhead data centres, under UK jurisdiction. ICO registration ZC191675.
Everything we build and manage is documented in your asset register. You are never locked in to us — by design.
If we ever part ways, you receive complete handover documentation and every credential. Your estate stays yours.
For one private investor, UKBox acts as the technology department across his entire portfolio. Every acquisition lands on our infrastructure within days — domains secured, email live, websites rebuilt where needed, staff supported remotely, phone systems running. One point of contact for every technical decision across every company he owns.
Alongside them, usually. Internal IT keeps the day-to-day; we take acquisitions, migrations, builds and the portfolio-wide estate. Where there's no internal IT, we simply are the department.
Given notice before completion, we're ready on the day — checklist prepared, transfers queued, credentials rotated within hours of keys changing hands.
A monthly retainer from £10,000, scoped to your estate. No long lock-ins — the documented-exit guarantee means we keep the work by earning it, not by holding your assets.
Case by case. Good suppliers we manage on your behalf; failing ones we replace; mystery ones we identify, document and decide with you.
On our own infrastructure in Coventry and Maidenhead — UK data centres, UK jurisdiction, ICO-registered handling throughout.
Whether it's one acquisition or a portfolio, the first step is a short conversation about what you own and what's broken.
