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Your systems,
elevated.
We untangle the ageing systems, awkward processes and technical baggage that build up in universities, the NHS and public sector organisations.
Ologist is a small team by design. Fewer layers, more direct communication and experienced people doing the work properly.
Trusted by organisations where failure isn’t an option
University of SheffieldLegacy Oracle to AWS, 2025
NHS EnglandNational API platform, 2021 to 2024
KevelAWS to Google Cloud, 2026
G-Cloud 15 supplierCrown Commercial Service, RM1557.15
Complex systems don’t fix themselves.
The problems build quietly. Duplicated systems, rushed handovers, manual workarounds and technology nobody wants to touch anymore.
Add years of temporary fixes and even small problems become expensive and hard to untangle.
That’s why we exist. We help organisations make meaningful technical change without creating new problems along the way.
Our work
See all workChange that stuck.
Rehoming twenty years of Oracle, and the teams who ran it.
20+ yrsof legacy infrastructure modernised in 12 months
Building the front door for healthcare APIs in the UK.
3 yrsfrom prototype to live national service
We’re pleased with the progress we’ve made so far, especially with the overwhelmingly positive reaction we’ve had from our users.
Services
The work behind the work.
Legacy modernisation without the chaos
Most organisations can’t throw everything away and start again. We modernise carefully, improving resilience and maintainability without unnecessary disruption.
- Discovery and options appraisal
- Migration planning
- Cloud moves
Change without new problems
Large-scale change doesn’t happen overnight. We make it practical and sustainable for the people expected to work within it every day.
- Programme and project delivery
- Business analysis
- Transition to live
Engineering teams that work well together
Strong practice is built through trust and clear ways of working. We reduce friction and build habits that keep working after we leave.
- Ways of working
- DevOps practice
- Team coaching
Systems that still make sense in ten years
Good practice shouldn’t disappear when priorities change. Systems, processes and engineering culture should evolve with the organisation that uses them.
- Architecture and standards
- Interoperability
- Digital permaculture
Team
Small by design.
You work directly with the people doing the work. No account managers, no hand-offs to a junior bench.
Josh Finch
Partner · Engineering
Cloud engineer and architect across higher education, healthcare, fintech and the public sector: fourteen years, nine of them in cloud. Hands-on on every engagement, from the NHS API platform to Kevel’s second cloud.
- University of Sheffield: two Oracle estates into AWS, and nine months of peer-to-peer upskilling for the IT teams who inherited them
- Kevel: a mature, heavily engineered AWS estate replicated onto Google Cloud in under six months, with no downtime
- Google Cloud Certified Professional Architect, among the first ten in the UK
Lewis Ford
Partner · Delivery and architecture
Project manager, business analyst and enterprise architect across healthcare, higher education and the private sector.
- Before Ologist: NHS interoperability programmes including GP Connect and cross-border data exchange for Wales
- Student systems discovery and delivery at the University of Sheffield
- APM and ArchiMate qualified
Sarah-Jane Finch
Partner · Operations
Co-founded Ologist in 2020 and runs the business side of every engagement: how work is shaped, contracted and kept on track, so the people doing it can stay on the work. The first call for clients on anything commercial.
- Public sector procurement: Ologist’s G-Cloud 15 listing with the Crown Commercial Service
- NHS England: three years keeping a national platform engagement running alongside the client team
- Owns how Ologist operates, from onboarding to security and supplier assurance
Approach
Digital permaculture.
Treat systems like living things. Work with what is already there, change it in small safe steps, and leave it healthier than you found it.
- 01
Understand
Map what exists, who relies on it and where the workarounds are hiding.
- 02
Stabilise
Reduce risk on the fragile parts before anything moves.
- 03
Modernise
Replace in small, reversible steps so live service keeps running.
- 04
Hand over
Leave practices and documentation your own teams can keep running.
Workarounds becoming standard practice?
Tell us what’s stuck. We’ll reply within two working days.
- hello@ologist.io
- The Leeming Building, Leeds LS2 7HZ
- G-Cloud 15 (RM1557.15)