Jersey · Channel Islands

Practical
technology help
for Jersey businesses.

Run by Matt McVickers, with 20+ years building and leading technology teams. Now based back in Jersey, helping local businesses get more out of the tech they already have, plan the stuff they don't yet, and occasionally build something new from scratch.

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01About

Matt McVickersFounder

Hi, I'm Matt.

I spent two decades in London leading technology at The Economist, running editorial platforms, migrating core infrastructure to the cloud, and delivering a £5m replacement of the systems the newsroom runs on every day.

I'm now back home in Jersey, running Granite Digital as a small practice doing the same kind of work for local businesses, without the corporate overhead. Alongside the consulting I build products: a couple of websites, a growing portfolio of mobile apps, and some AI tools I'm genuinely excited about.

20+

Years in tech leadership

£5m

Platform delivery

Apps shipped, more in progress

02How I can help

Three things I
get asked for most.

Below are the engagements I take on most often. If what you need doesn't quite fit, it's probably still something I can help with. Just ask.

Fractional tech leadership

If your business is too small for a full-time CTO or IT director but too big to be winging it, I can step in a day or two a month. Strategy, vendor reviews, roadmap planning, and being the person who asks the awkward questions before a supplier does.

Technology strategy and roadmap planning
Vendor, contract and software licensing reviews
IT cost and SaaS spend audits
Post-acquisition IT integration and restructures

ii.

Getting more from what you've got

Most SMEs I talk to are paying for IT they don't fully use, or using IT that isn't quite working. I'll review your systems, contracts, and suppliers and tell you plainly where the waste is and what to do about it.

Microsoft 365, Outlook and email migration help
Single sign-on, MFA and password managers for teams
Cyber Essentials prep and security reviews
Business continuity plans and Microsoft 365 backup
Wi-Fi, office networks and cloud migrations
Website redesigns, hosting and local SEO

iii.

Automation and practical AI

AI is genuinely useful, but most of the advice out there is either overcooked or homework. I help businesses find the two or three places it actually moves the needle, and the workflows that should just be automated, AI or not.

Workflow automation: invoice approvals, onboarding, reminders
Booking system, CRM and accounting integrations
Internal knowledge bases and custom GPTs
Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout and team training

Popular engagements, in plainer terms

Workflow automation

Automate the admin that eats your week. Invoice approvals, new-client onboarding, compliance reminders, supplier chase-ups.

Microsoft 365 & email

Outlook that stops breaking, email migrations that don’t lose mail, and a 365 setup that actually helps your team.

Cyber Essentials & security

Cyber Essentials prep, MFA and single sign-on rollouts, and a plain-English security review for your business.

Business continuity & backup

Microsoft 365 backup, server and file backup, and a written recovery plan so you can sleep at night.

Websites & local SEO

New builds, redesigns, ongoing maintenance, hosting, and being findable on Google for people in Jersey and Guernsey.

Also happy with healthcare systems, booking and scheduling setups, custom builds, and the problems that don't fit a neat category.

03What I've built

Consulting pays the bills;
building things keeps me sharp.

AI · Live

promptrace.ai

A prompt generator for getting genuinely useful results out of large language models. Built to cut through the noise around AI and help people write prompts that actually work.

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