The situation.

Two founders operate nine companies across healthcare, water infrastructure, automated retail, parking technology, environmental technology, and diagnostics. No single company could justify an internal IT hire, but together they needed a full technology function. Domains, inboxes, websites, and third-party systems had accumulated company by company, with no shared ownership model and no one team accountable for the whole estate.

The constraint.

The group had more than thirty domains spread across several registrar accounts, including multiple GoDaddy accounts under different personal Gmail addresses. Business systems were tied to those personal identities, while the founders were expected to remember who owned each login and how it could be recovered. Any solution also had to support two levels of control: group-wide administration today and safe delegation to each operating company later.

What we found.

The presenting request was a website. Inside the operation we found registrations expiring under old contractor accounts, email split across providers, obsolete DNS records, and minor systems still attached to personal inboxes. One regulated ecommerce business was also confined to a managed Hostinger WordPress plan with no server-level control or custom code. A previous IT and development team had not delivered infrastructure or payments suitable for the group's regulated businesses.

What we built.

We consolidated the domains into one client-owned registrar account, moved their DNS to Cloudflare, and brought business administration into a single Google Workspace organization with an organizational unit for each company. Systems previously tied to personal Gmail accounts were moved to a client-owned business admin identity. We documented account ownership, recovery paths, group-wide administrators, and per-company delegated access in a central infrastructure register. We then migrated the WordPress store to a VPS rented directly by the client, built a fully custom Tailwind frontend, secured approval with a specialist high-risk offshore payment processor, integrated it with WooCommerce, and launched it. For a second regulated business, we secured another merchant approval and completed a fully custom integration with its ecommerce platform ahead of launch.

What changed.

A new portfolio company now goes from "we bought the domain" to email, DNS, a placeholder site, and a plan for commerce in a working day, without either founder touching a settings page. The group controls its registrar, administrative identity, and production infrastructure directly rather than depending on personal accounts or resold hosting. Its first regulated store is live with payments built for its category, the second integration is ready for launch, and there is one accountable engineering team across all nine companies.

  • 9 companies
  • 30+ domains
  • Workspace, Cloudflare, WordPress, WooCommerce

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