About SteadfastIT

Dependable by design.

SteadfastIT is a UK managed IT partner for organisations that want fewer surprises, stronger control and more confidence in how their technology is run.

Our story

Built to remove operational drift.

SteadfastIT was founded in 2018 by James Harrow, a former head of IT operations who had spent fifteen years inside professional services and financial services firms watching the same problems repeat: support tickets that never closed cleanly, identity sprawl after every acquisition, security controls that existed on paper but not in production, and AI pilots that were started without ever being governed.

The firm was set up around a simple operating principle — that most IT failures are operational, not technical, and that a small senior team with named ownership of every service line will outperform a large faceless service desk every time.

Today SteadfastIT supports UK organisations across professional services, manufacturing and financial services, typically between fifty and five hundred staff, from offices in London and Manchester.

At a glance

  • Founded · 2018
  • Headquarters · London, with engineers in Manchester
  • Team · 24 engineers, consultants and service managers
  • Focus · Managed IT, cloud, security and AI readiness
  • Accreditations · Cyber Essentials Plus, ISO 27001, Microsoft Solutions Partner
How we work

Principles that show up in the work.

Named ownership

Every client has a named service owner and a named technical lead. No anonymous ticket queues, no rotating account managers.

Documented operations

We run on documented runbooks, not tribal knowledge. If a senior engineer is on holiday, nothing falls over.

Measured outcomes

Quarterly business reviews against the metrics that matter to the client — uptime, mean time to resolve, security posture, project delivery.

Next step

See whether SteadfastIT is the right fit.

A short consultation will tell you whether our operating model lines up with what you need over the next twelve to twenty-four months.