A small
workshop.
Serious
software.
Bespoke engineering, AI adoption, and intelligent automation — taken on as commissions, built from the raw material up, and shipped to small businesses across Suffolk and Cambridgeshire that need the real thing, not another subscription.
A note from the proprietor
Twenty years inside the industry taught me something I keep returning to: there is no one size fits all — not technically, not financially, not in the way a small business actually works day to day. The shapes that suit the largest organisations seldom suit the smallest hands. Old Forge is the workshop I wanted to find and couldn't. Commissions, not subscriptions. Built to fit the hand that'll use it.
A.T. — Kennett, Suffolk.
The disciplines of the workshop
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I.
AI Adoption & Implementation cutting through the hype
Practical artificial intelligence that earns its place. Document search that actually finds things. Support that doesn't burn your reputation. Models chosen for the job — not the marketing deck.
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II.
Custom Software Solutions built to fit your hand
When the off-the-shelf doesn't fit the workflow, we build to measure. Web apps, internal tools, integrations — designed around how your business actually runs, not how the vendor thinks it should.
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III.
Intelligent Automation hours, returned
The boring, repeatable work that eats an afternoon — handled. Workflows in n8n and custom code that stitch your tools together and quietly do their job while you get on with something worth doing.
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IV.
Cybersecurity that doesn't get in the way
MSc-level cyber, applied with a light hand. Posture reviews, hardening, secrets management, monitoring — the kind of security that fits the scale of the business, not the anxiety of the vendor.
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V.
Cloud Infrastructure foundations that hold
Hosting, architecture and uptime for people who'd rather not learn Terraform. Set up properly, watched properly, and handed back with runbooks you can read without a decoder ring.
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Monitoring & Observability knowing before they do
Dashboards, alerts and telemetry so the first person to know something is wrong is you — not a customer, not a board, and not a headline on a Monday morning.
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A dispatch from the workshop
Most MSPs own more tooling than they can wield. Wegweiser is the intelligence layer that sits quietly over the top of it.
It ingests telemetry from Windows, Linux and macOS agents, produces hierarchical health scores from the individual device up to the tenant, and exposes a context-aware AI chat at every level of that hierarchy. In one stroke, it takes on the two hardest problems an MSP has: the onboarding-discovery problem and the institutional-knowledge problem.
No rip-and-replace. Agnostic agents (OSQuery + NATS) that ride on whatever RMM you already run. Multi-tenant SaaS, Azure AD SSO, MFA — the grown-up stuff, built in from day one.
Open the case study ↗Also issued from the workshop
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AI Agents for Everyone A field manual for product managers
A British, direct guide to making credible decisions about agentic AI — model tiers, pricing, MCP, safety, ROI — without drowning in transformer maths. Kindle eBook, £9.99. AI Agents — book updates →
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Whirlcrypt Zero-knowledge file sharing
Privacy-first file exchange. Browser-side RFC 8188 encryption, no accounts, no telemetry, automatic expiry, pluggable storage. Open source (MIT).
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Fenrir Multi-tenant vulnerability scanning
OWASP ZAP wrapped in OSINT enrichment and AI-analysed findings. Built for consultants and MSPs running scans across many tenants, with billing, MFA and deduplication baked in.
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DocuVault IT documentation & asset management
A centralised knowledge hub for MSPs: organisations, devices, secrets, certificates and runbooks. First-class MeshCentral integration. Self-hostable, open source.
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SQL Diagnostic Tool Portable SQL Server health analysis
Glenn Berry's 80+ industry-standard queries bundled into a single portable binary. Auto-detects SQL Server 2005–2025 and offers optional AI recommendations via OpenAI or Ollama.
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Lyra AI prompt optimisation system
A 4-D prompt-engineering framework — Deconstruct, Diagnose, Develop, Deliver — for reliably precision-engineering prompts across ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Open source.
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DeCLAI Decentralised compute for LLM inference
A published research paper (DOI 10.13140/RG.2.2.21788.19848) proposing a non-monetary credit model — one GPU-hour given, one GPU-hour earned — to widen access to large-model inference.
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Mantrinol Cross-platform backup
Restic, wrapped in a modern web UI and a visual scheduler, installed as a native service on Windows, macOS and Linux. SMB, NFS and cloud backends out of the box.
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Felinar Voice companion for living with dementia
A voice companion for elderly people living with dementia. You talk, it talks back, and there is nothing else to learn - it remembers across days, redirects gently when a memory slips, and keeps company through the flat hours. Multilingual by design; the alpha speaks Romanian, backed by an ElevenLabs Startup Grant.
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Planetophone A game of speaking with sentient planets
A peaceful, slow trading game set in 2676, where every planet is an eldritch being with a soul and the only way to trade is to speak with it. The Planetophone is the device you tune to find a planet whose voice suits you, then build a relationship with over time. A relationship simulator dressed as a space-trading game.
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Felgate Practice portal for nutritional therapists
An affordable practice portal for nutritional-therapy and functional-health practitioners in their early years. Each practice gets its own branded space for clients and questionnaires, food diaries and clinical notes, protocols, bookings, secure messaging and invoicing, gathered into one calm place. Priced for the people the big vendors tend to look past.
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The proprietor
Twenty years ago, Andrei Trimbitas was running the internet loyalty platform for DHL in Germany. He has since worked at Microsoft, led the EMEA rollout of Kaseya's flagship RMM product, served on the Kaseya Security Council, and travelled to Auckland and Dublin to train support teams that went on to close forty per cent more cases. In 2024 he moved to a village in Suffolk, set up a workshop, and named it Old Forge Technologies.
He holds an MSc in Computer Science with a specialism in Cybersecurity, and has published research on decentralised compute for large language models. He speaks English, German and Romanian natively. The work he's doing now — small clients, serious software, no middle-men — is, he is the first to admit, probably the work he should have been doing all along.
I'm not here to sell the latest trend. I'm here to build the thing that actually works.
When he isn't in the workshop, he is a dad to a son and a daughter who, between them, have given him a very clear understanding of what "can't wait, it needs to work now" really means.
- Experience
- 20+ years in technology DHL · Microsoft · Kaseya
- Education
- MSc Computer Science Cybersecurity specialism
- Languages
- English · German · Romanian
- Research
- DeCLAI DOI 10.13140/RG.2.2.21788.19848
- Council
- Member, Kaseya Security Council
- At home
- Kennett, Suffolk Father of two
Imprimatur
Recognised, accredited, noted.
Cyber EssentialsCertified
Best Managed UKIT · 2025
Best Managed UKIT · 2024
Best Managed UKIT · 2023
MSP AllianceMember
IONOSEco Partner
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