Built to run.
Not just to grow.
Anyone can hand you a roadmap. ALLANEX builds the ones that survive contact with reality: technology strategy, architecture and cybersecurity direction from operators who have run the function, not just advised on it. We also fix how scaling businesses operate, and run network, cyber and technology functions for organisations that want an executive hand instead of another vendor.
Built Basis Networks from zero to exit, then scaled CyberCX through dozens of acquisitions to 1,000+ people.
Strategy and architecture engagements bring in one or two specialist experts, matched to the problem.
Every engagement is led and delivered by people who have carried the outcome before.
Growth breaks companies.
Guesswork breaks the rest.
Some businesses are scaling past the way they operate. Others are running critical infrastructure nobody actually designed. Different symptoms, same root cause: decisions that were never made on purpose, made permanent by momentum.
The roadmap that's actually a slide
Eighteen months of initiatives, ranked by enthusiasm, presented once and rarely opened again. It survives the steering meeting. It rarely survives the first budget cut.
A stack nobody actually designed
Finance, CRM, ERP, PSA, O365, the AI tools bolted on this year. Most businesses are running a system stack that grew one urgent purchase at a time, not one anyone deliberately designed. Nobody can tell you what's redundant, what's misconfigured, or what it's quietly costing.
The two-month invoice
Work delivered in one month, invoiced two months later, chased in the third. Your working capital is quietly funding your clients' patience, and nobody owns the gap.
The unowned technology function
The network runs on one engineer's goodwill. Cyber is a policy folder from three years ago. Nobody at the executive table owns either, until the incident that makes everyone own it.
Strategy, architecture
and operations, run properly.
Technology Strategy & Architecture
Roadmaps, transformation strategy, cybersecurity strategy and technical architecture (network and security), designed by a small senior team and handed over ready to run.
- Not a slide deck. A sequenced, costed plan.
- Not a fractional seat. A defined engagement with a start and an end.
- Delivered by a small senior team, one or two specialist technical experts.
Operational Improvement
We trace how work moves from quote to cash, put a dollar figure on every leak, then fix it alongside your team. It ends when the operation runs better, not when the deck lands.
More detail →Technology Leadership
Ongoing, executive-grade ownership of network, cyber and infrastructure, shaped to fit your structure, for organisations that need the function led, not just administered.
More detail →Operating Leadership
Interim executive capacity for acquisitions, exits and leadership gaps. An operator in the seat, not a consultant observing it, with a defined exit built in from day one.
More detail →Built for organisations
ready for what's next.
Founders & CEOs
You built the company. Now growth has outrun the plan you're running it on, and every week is triage. We take the operational and technical weight so you can get back to leading.
01Executive teams & boards
Your leaders are capable and buried. We bring outside pattern recognition, senior technical expertise and extra hands to shift the things the day job never leaves room for.
02Investors & acquirers
You need the technical truth of a tech business before you sign, not after. We run the due diligence that tells you what the data room doesn't show.
03Technology-dependent organisations
You're not a technology company, but you stop when the technology does. We put executive ownership, strategy and architecture over your network, cyber and infrastructure without the full-time headcount.
04In the business,
not above it.
Diagnose
Two to three weeks in your systems, your architecture and your meetings. We come out with numbers, not impressions: what's at risk, what's leaking, what it's worth to fix.
Design
A sequenced plan your team can actually run. Every fix or initiative ranked by value and effort, with an owner and a date. No initiative theatre.
Deliver
We stay to implement, or hand over a plan built to be run without us. Either way, we leave when it works, and not before.
Built by an operator.
ALLANEX was founded by Tom Allan, who has spent twenty years on the operating side of technology businesses: founding them, scaling them, integrating them and selling them. Advice here comes from someone who has personally carried the P&L, and the architecture, it affects.
- FoundedBasis Networks, built from the ground up and sold
- ScaledCOO at CyberCX through dozens of acquisitions
- OperatingStrategy, architecture and interim executive roles inside client businesses today
From the field.
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Read →Stepping Up: What It Really Takes to Scale a Cyber Business Beyond $20M
What it really takes to scale sustainably when you're already doing $15–25M in revenue and aiming for $100M+. At that level, the game changes.
Read →Bring us the messiest thing on your desk.
One conversation. No discovery workshop, no proposal theatre. Describe the problem and we'll tell you honestly whether we can fix it and what that takes.
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