Area 16 · Data, AI and consulting

IT consulting and audit

An eighteen-person accountancy practice in Alicante asks for prices to retire its old server and move to the cloud. Three quotes come back: €9,000, €22,000 and €41,000, all claiming to do the same thing. Without someone to read the small print, the choice comes down to instinct or the friendliest salesperson. That is where we come in: an independent, numbers-based opinion on what to do with your IT and whether what you already run can be trusted. We always work remotely.

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services under this heading
Remote
interviews held on Teams or Google Meet
€75/h
+ VAT, or a fixed fee once scope is set
No strings
the report is yours to hand to any provider

Typical moments to ask for a second opinion

Most engagements begin at one of these six points. Each involves money or deadlines, and neutral information is hard to come by.

Three quotes with nothing in common

We break them into matching line items. Migration, training, first-year support and licences tend to be in one bid and missing from the next.

Your long-standing IT person is retiring

We take stock before the handover. Logins, domains, licences registered in their name and everything they carried in their head, so the successor does not start blind.

A big customer sends a questionnaire

We answer with evidence, not good intentions. Questions on NIS2, backups, MFA and suppliers need proof, plus a plan for anything still missing.

Your bespoke program issues invoices

We measure the distance to Verifactu. Logging, chaining and retention of every invoice: what is already compliant, what is not, and the cost of closing the gap.

Buying or merging with a company

We examine the technology in the deal. In-house software, licences, technical debt and indispensable individuals affect the price as much as the balance sheet.

A tender requires the ENS

We prepare the route to certification. If you want public sector work, we help you put measures and paperwork in order ahead of the formal audit.

A good consulting report fits in fifteen pages. One that needs a hundred is probably hiding the fact that it never took a position. Ours opens with a single page of conclusions for the directors, continues with decisions ranked by amount and leaves technical detail to the appendices. One clarification: if you are considering Kit Consulting from Red.es, Apply is not a registered digital adviser and does not process those grants.

From your first message to the finished report

No travel and no site visits: the whole engagement runs on video calls, read-only remote access and shared documents. From day one you know how long it will take and what it will cost.

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Scoping call

Forty-five minutes on video to understand what must be decided, who decides and which deadline rules. Free of charge.

02

Fixed proposal

In writing: what gets reviewed, whom we interview, which access we need, delivery date and price. If scope shifts, you hear about it before another hour is billed.

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Remote fieldwork

Conversations with management and with daily users of the software, a read of contracts and settings, hands-on testing. Anything urgent reaches you straight away, not at the end.

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Report and wrap-up session

A document with conclusions, decisions and amounts, and a meeting with the directors to debate it. Reasonable amendments are included in the price.

Common questions

A PDF plus an editable copy, containing a summary for the directors, the recommended decisions with cost and sequence, and technical appendices for whoever implements them. Reviews also include the full list of findings graded by severity. Everything stays with you.

For strategy work, very little: interviews, contracts and perhaps a licence export. For a review, read-only accounts on the repository, hosting console and logs, created by you and revocable at any moment. We never ask for administrator passwords by email.

On the technical and organisational front, yes. We help you gauge whether Spain’s NIS2 transposition is likely to cover your activity, identify gaps and propose measures: risk management, incident notification, supplier control. If you supply, or plan to supply, public bodies, we help you prepare for ENS certification. We apply ISO 27001 principles and issue no certificates; the final legal view is for a lawyer.

Yes, remotely, exactly as with private firms. We produce the technical papers a procurement file under Law 9/2017 on Public Sector Contracts usually needs: diagnosis, statement of requirements and cost estimate. Invoices can be lodged through FACe with the DIR3 codes your managing body provides. For tenders and minor contracts, write to tender@apply.es.

That depends on the number of systems and people involved. Our rate is €75 per hour + VAT, and after the scoping call you can ask for a fixed price. Receiving the report places you under no obligation to buy anything else.

Tell us which decision you are facing

Explain what needs deciding and where the doubts lie. We come back with a scope, a duration and a fixed price for the analysis.

Hours
Monday to Friday, 9:00-18:00 Spanish time (CET), answers within a working day
Meetings
Video calls via Google Meet or Teams

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