About

A one-person operation, which is the point.

Solar Grove Assistance is small business technology help that comes without an agency attached. You deal with the person doing the work, every time. Nothing gets passed to a junior, nothing gets explained back to you in language designed to make it sound harder than it is.

The work sits in the gap most small businesses fall into: too small to justify an IT department, too busy to spend a weekend figuring out which tool to buy. That gap is where a spreadsheet quietly becomes load-bearing, where someone stays late retyping numbers between two systems, and where good AI tools go unused because nobody had time to work out where they fit.

I come at it from the infrastructure side — a background in cloud and network engineering, a home server I run and maintain, and a habit of building small tools to solve problems I actually have. That matters less than the other half of it, which is that the hardest part of this work is rarely the technology. It is fitting a system to how people already work during a busy shift, and getting that wrong is how good tools end up abandoned.

I am early in building this business and would rather be accurate about that than dress it up. What I will tell you honestly is whether I can help, what it will take, and when the answer is that you do not need me.

Work

Where this has been put to use

One entry, described plainly. It will grow — and nothing goes on this page that has not actually happened.

The Library on Carson

Independent technology and process work

Technology and process work for a bar, focused on inventory and the day-to-day workflows around it. The interesting part was not the technology — it was fitting a system to how people actually work during a shift, which turned out to be the harder half of the problem.

  • Inventory management
  • Operational workflows
  • Data organization
  • Process improvement

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Honesty

What I will not pretend to be

  • Large organisations needing enterprise systems, procurement processes and a support contract
  • Anyone wanting AI dropped in to replace their staff — that is not the work I do
  • Projects needing a full team, a long roadmap, or 24/7 on-call coverage

Not sure where to start?

Describe the thing that keeps eating your week. If I can help I will tell you how, and if I cannot I will tell you that too.