Practical technology help for small and medium business
Most businesses are running on tools that nearly work.
A website nobody has updated since 2019. A Google listing with the wrong hours. Email on a personal account. Files in three places. None of it is broken enough to fix today, and all of it quietly costs you customers. We fix that kind of thing — properly, and without turning it into a project.
You can’t accidentally spend money here. Nothing to buy, nothing to sign, no card on file. We use the programs Google runs for new and growing businesses to cover almost all of the work, and if anything ever would cost you, you hear it from us before it happens.
What we do
Four things, done properly. If you only need one of them, that’s a perfectly good outcome — you don’t have to take the rest.
Get found on Google
We claim and finish your Google Business Profile so your hours, phone number, location, and photos are actually right. For most local businesses this is the fastest visible improvement available, and almost nobody has fully done it.
A website you own
A clean, quick site that behaves properly on a phone — built from what you already have, so you're reacting to a draft instead of staring at a blank page. It goes on your own account, in your name. Not rented from us.
Know what's working
Measurement set up on the site you already have, so you can see where people come from and what they actually look at. Not a dashboard you'll never open — just the few numbers that answer real questions.
Move off what isn't fitting
Email still on a personal address, or on a licence you outgrew years ago. Files spread across three services and a drive in the back office. Systems nobody has touched since whoever set them up moved on. We handle the move and the setup, then step back out — we don't move into your business.
How we work
The arrangement, in plain terms.
You can't accidentally spend money here
There's nothing to buy, nothing to sign, no card to put on file and no trial clock ticking. Emailing us starts a conversation and nothing else. What the work costs you is a bit of your time — an hour here and there to talk about how your business actually runs, look at a draft, confirm what your hours really are.
How that's possible
Google runs a stack of programs for new and growing businesses: free tiers, setup credits, tools that simply don't charge. Most owners never hear about them, or don't have a spare afternoon to work out which ones apply — and that's as true at two hundred people as it is at five. Knowing that landscape is a good part of our job, and it covers almost all of what this work would otherwise cost. If that sounds too good, ask us straight out and we'll walk you through who pays for what.
If anything would ever cost you, you hear it first
Some tools sit on a free tier or a starter credit, and a few of those can begin costing money as you grow. When that's true we say so before we set it up — what it would be, roughly when, and whether it's even worth doing. Then it's your call, made with the number in front of you. We'd rather lose the work than surprise you with a bill.
Thrifty means we tell you when to stop
There's no upsell waiting at the end of this. If the only thing you need is your hours fixed on Google, we'll fix your hours on Google and call it done. We'll also tell you when something isn't worth doing — being careful with your money is the whole idea. It's in the name.
Everything happens by email, and a real person answers
No phone tree, no hold music, no ticket number that quietly disappears. You write in your own words, whenever it suits you — late at night, between jobs, whenever you actually have a minute — and a person who has looked at your business writes back. Nothing gets lost, and you end up with a written record of every decision instead of a half-remembered phone call.
We're small, and we'd rather say so
Cloud Thrifty is a small operation. That's deliberate — it's why you get someone who remembers your business instead of whoever happened to pick up. We're not going to dress up as a big firm to seem more serious.
Send us an email
Tell us roughly what’s going on — even just “our website is out of date and I don’t know where to start” is plenty. You don’t need to know the right words for any of this. A person reads it and writes back with a real answer, not a brochure.
Email keeps this simple for both of us — you write when it suits you, nothing gets lost, and you keep a record. If something we’re doing genuinely needs a conversation, we’ll arrange one then.