XLNTECHIT Consultancy

IT consultancy · Reading, United Kingdom

Four disciplines.
One crossing point.

Most IT problems don't sit inside one team. XLNTECH works where data, AI, delivery and security meet, with testing around all four — and that intersection is usually where things are stuck.

Hover an arm — or the ring — to see what it covers.

How we work

Every engagement runs in this order.

01 / Scope

Look before building

A short, fixed-price discovery. We read the systems, talk to the people using them, and write down what's actually in the way.

02 / Plan

Costs and risks, named

A plan with sequence, price and the risks stated plainly. If the honest answer is "not yet", that's what it says.

03 / Build

In your repositories

Small team, fortnightly demos, your engineers in the room. The work lands in your cloud and your code, not ours.

04 / Hand over

Make ourselves optional

Runbooks, documentation and training, so your team can run it after we've gone. Then we go.

Your cloud, your keys

We work inside your accounts and your repositories. Nothing important lives with us.

Fixed price on discovery

You know the cost of finding out before you commit to the build.

One team across all four

The data engineer, the ML engineer and the security lead are in the same conversation.

No lock-in

Documentation and handover are part of the price, not an upsell.

Start here

Tell us what's in the way.

A paragraph is enough. We reply within one working day — usually with questions before a proposal.

Start a conversation

Services

What we're hired to fix.

Four practices, plus the testing that runs through all of them. Most projects start in one and touch at least two — which is the point of keeping them under one roof.

Northwest arm

Data solutions

Warehouses, pipelines and reporting people actually use. Most of our data work starts with someone who doesn't trust a number on a dashboard.

  • Data platform builds on Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks or plain Postgres
  • Pipelines with dbt and Airflow — tested, monitored, and documented
  • Migrations off legacy warehouses, Access databases and spreadsheet sprawl
  • Governance: lineage, cataloguing, access control and GDPR-defensible retention
  • Reporting layers in Power BI, Looker or Metabase that agree with each other

Typical start: a two-week audit of your current data estate, ending in a written plan you own.

Northeast arm

AI

Models in production, not slide decks. Half of this work is deciding which ideas deserve a build — and saying so early.

  • Feasibility reviews that end in a yes or a no, with the reasoning attached
  • Retrieval assistants over your own documents, with citations and access rules
  • Forecasting, classification and document extraction on your existing data
  • Evaluation harnesses, so you find out it's drifting before your customers do
  • Guardrails, cost controls and an AI use policy your risk team can sign

Typical start: one use case, proven or ruled out in six weeks.

Southwest arm

DevOps

Ship on a Tuesday afternoon without holding your breath. If releases only happen at midnight on a Friday, this is the arm you need.

  • CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Azure DevOps
  • Infrastructure as code with Terraform — reviewable, repeatable, no console clicking
  • Containers and Kubernetes, sized to what you actually run
  • Observability: logs, metrics, traces and alerts that someone will act on
  • Cloud cost reviews on AWS, Azure and GCP

Typical start: a delivery review — commit to production, timed and mapped.

Southeast arm

Cyber security

Find the gap before someone else finds it. Then close it, and prove it stayed closed.

  • Security posture reviews against Cyber Essentials and ISO 27001
  • Penetration testing and a vulnerability process that survives the report
  • Identity and access: SSO, MFA, least privilege, joiner-mover-leaver
  • Cloud security posture and secrets management
  • Incident response plans and tabletop exercises with your actual leadership team

Typical start: an external attack-surface review — what the internet can already see.

The ring

Testing & QA

Manual, automated and performance testing. It's the ring rather than an arm because it belongs to all four — a pipeline, a model, a deployment and a firewall rule all fail the same way: quietly, in production.

  • Test strategy — what to automate, what to keep manual, and what isn't worth testing at all
  • Automated suites from unit to end-to-end (Playwright, Cypress, pytest), running in your pipeline
  • Exploratory and manual testing, plus UAT run with your actual users
  • Performance and load testing with k6, JMeter or Gatling — against targets agreed before the run
  • Accessibility testing against WCAG 2.2 AA, which for public sector work isn't optional
  • Regression packs written down and handed over, so releases stop being an act of faith

Typical start: a test strategy review — what's covered, what isn't, and what's failing quietly.

Engagements

Discovery, project, or a day a week.

Fixed-price discovery to find the problem. Scoped projects to fix it. Retained days when you need a senior pair of hands on tap.

Ask about a fit

Contact

Tell us what's in the way.

A paragraph is enough to start. No forms with fourteen fields, no discovery call to book a discovery call.

We'll only use these details to reply to you. Prefer to write yourself? info@xlntech.co.uk

Email
info@xlntech.co.uk
Hours
Monday to Friday, 09:00–17:30 UK
Registered office
200 Brook Drive
Reading, RG2 6UB
England, United Kingdom

What happens next

  • We reply within one working day.
  • A 30-minute call — questions, no pitch deck.
  • If there's a fit, a written scope and a price. If there isn't, we'll say so.

Legal

Privacy policy

What we collect, why, and what you can do about it. Written to be read, not to be scrolled past.

Last updated: 17 July 2026

Who we are

XLNTECH LTD is the data controller for the personal information described below. We're registered in England & Wales, company number 09543742, at 200 Brook Drive, Reading, England, RG2 6UB. For anything in this policy, write to info@xlntech.co.uk.

What we collect

When you send an enquiry

The form on our contact page asks for your name, your email address, your company, what you're interested in, and a message. We receive what you type. Nothing more — we don't buy data about you, and we don't enrich what you've given us with anything bought elsewhere.

When you visit the site

Our host records standard technical information: your IP address, your browser and device type, and which pages you looked at. This happens on every website — it's how the pages reach you and how anyone would spot abuse.

Why we use it

We use your enquiry to reply to it, and to have whatever conversation follows. Our lawful basis is legitimate interests — running a consultancy means responding to people who ask us about consultancy. If a conversation becomes a contract, we process what that contract needs.

We don't send marketing email. We don't add you to a list. If that ever changes, we'll ask you first.

How long we keep it

Enquiries are kept for 24 months from your last contact with us, then deleted. If we start working together, your details move into our client records and stay for the length of the engagement and six years afterwards — what UK tax and contract law expects. Ask us to delete sooner and we will, unless there's a legal reason we can't.

Who else touches it

  • Netlify hosts this site and stores form submissions. Your enquiry sits in their system as well as arriving in our inbox.
  • Zoho carries the email we exchange with you.

We don't sell your information, and we don't share it with anyone else unless the law requires it.

Where it goes

Netlify is a US company, so anything you send through the form leaves the UK. That transfer relies on the safeguards they have in place — standard contractual clauses and the UK extension to the EU–US Data Privacy Framework. Our mailboxes are held by Zoho in their [EU / US — see note] region. If you'd rather not use the form, email us directly at info@xlntech.co.uk.

Cookies

This site doesn't set any. No analytics, no tracking pixels, no advertising, nothing stored on your device. The fonts and photographs are served from our own domain rather than from Google or a stock photo library, so reading this page tells nobody but our host that you were here. That's why there's no cookie banner — we've nothing to ask you about.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR you can ask us to:

  • Show you what we hold about you
  • Correct it, if it's wrong
  • Delete it
  • Stop, or limit, what we're doing with it
  • Hand it over in a portable form
  • Object to us processing it on the basis of legitimate interests

Write to info@xlntech.co.uk. We'll respond within one month, and it costs you nothing.

Complaints

If you think we've handled your information badly, tell us first and we'll try to put it right. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk or on 0303 123 1113. You don't have to come to us first.

Changes

If we change this policy, we'll change the date at the top. If a change is significant and we hold your details, we'll tell you.