Straight answers about AI and cyber.
Practical help for smaller businesses. No jargon, no scare stories, and prices published before you get in touch.
You do not need an IT team to make a good decision
Three situations account for most of the calls we get.
Your team uses AI, and nobody set the rules
Staff are pasting work into free tools because it saves time. Nobody decided that was allowed, and nobody knows what has gone into them.
A client is asking how you protect their data
A security questionnaire has landed, or a contract renewal has conditions attached, and you are not sure what an honest answer looks like.
People are doing work a machine could do
Someone spends a day a week retyping the same information between two systems, and everyone has stopped noticing what it costs.
Find the problem that sounds like yours
Pick an area, then the situation closest to yours.
Your situation
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What we would do
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What you would have
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Ten defined pieces of work
A short review of your business that tells you what is worth trying, what to avoid, and what to do first. It is the cheapest way to find out whether there is a project worth doing at all — including finding out that there isn’t.
Nine other services sit behind this one, from team training through to custom automation and ongoing advice. Prices below change with the size of your business, using the selector below.
AI and Automation
Working out where AI genuinely helps, getting your team using it properly, and building small tools that take repetitive work off their hands.
Where AI Could Help You
Getting Your Team Using AI
AI Training for Your Team
Finding the Time-Wasters
Automating a Job You Do Every Week
Cyber and Quantum Resilience
Understanding where you are actually exposed, training the people most likely to be targeted, and getting ahead of the national deadline for replacing today’s encryption.
Cyber Health Check
Cyber Training for Your Team
Future-Proofing Your Encryption
Ongoing Support
For organisations that need judgement available continuously rather than a one-off piece of work. Both cover either area.
Someone to Ask
A Technology Lead Without the Salary
Four steps, no surprises
A conversation
Twenty minutes. We tell you honestly whether this is something we should be doing for you.
A written scope
What gets done, what you receive, what it costs. Before any money changes hands.
The work
Mostly remote, on site where it helps. The same person throughout.
Something you can use
Plain English, prioritised, ready to hand to your board, insurer or client.
You will be working with one named person
Rossnet is a small independent practice led by Dr Joseph Ross. The work you buy is the work he does — there is no team of juniors behind the proposal.
- PhD — Digital Transformation & Artificial Intelligence
- CITP FBCS — Chartered IT Professional and Fellow of the BCS
- Qualified teacher — secondary through to Master’s level
- CISMP — Information Security Management
- Former Director — South West Cyber Resilience Centre
Research work for the Ministry of Defence, a cyber assurance assessment for a UK police force, and several years directing a police-led Cyber Resilience Centre set up to help smaller businesses.
The questions we get asked most
Are we too small for this?
No. Most of the smaller organisations we work with have no IT department at all. Prices are banded by size so a six-person firm is not paying for a fifty-person engagement.
We have already paid for Copilot. Is that money wasted?
Usually not. The problem is rarely the tool — it is licences nobody uses because no one showed the team how it fits their actual work.
Do you sell software?
Rossnet resells some security and cloud products, and those relationships include commercial margin. That is set out in the Trust Centre. No client is required to buy through us, and recommendations are made on technical fit.
Is the price fixed?
For fixed-scope services, yes — confirmed in writing before work starts. Services shown as from vary with the size of the job and are quoted after a short conversation.
What actually changes at 2035 for encryption?
The NCSC has set a national timeline for moving off today’s encryption, which quantum computers are expected to break: planning by 2028, priority upgrades by 2031, full migration by 2035. For most small businesses the work is knowing which suppliers carry that risk on your behalf.
Tell us what you need
No obligation. If we are not the right people for it, we will say so.
- [email protected]
- Phone
- 01803 303710
- Location
- Torquay, Devon — working across the South West and the UK
- Reply time
- Usually within one working day
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