About Burt Consultants

A distinctive UK consultancy combining AI, fractional C-suite leadership, deep technical expertise, and strategic capital capability.

We deliver workplace AI with measurable ROI, provide hands-on executive leadership with clear accountability for delivery, bring proven experience across software and platform engineering, CI/CD, bespoke private cloud, ISP operations, data centres, and growth, restructuring, and transformation programmes — with capital partnerships available for qualifying engagements.

Leadership

The people behind Burt Consultants.

Senior practitioners who stay personally involved in client engagements rather than handing delivery to junior teams.

Trevor Burt

Founder

Trevor founded Burt Consultants to close the gap between strategy and execution. He helps organisations turn technology ambition into secure, resilient, working capability, bringing CTO and CIO-level leadership across critical digital infrastructure, cloud platforms, AI delivery, cybersecurity, and transformation.

With particular depth in FinTech, carrier-grade connectivity infrastructure, and technology-led businesses across multiple sectors, Trevor advises clients operating in regulated, complex, and commercially sensitive environments. He brings together trusted specialist consultants to strengthen resilience, reduce risk, unlock growth, and deliver transformation with clear senior oversight.

Simon Hall

Senior Business Change and Transformation Consultant

Simon Hall works with Burt Consultants to help organisations turn strategic intent into embedded, sustainable improvement. He brings deep experience in requirements capture, process optimisation, implementation, and organisational adoption, working closely with stakeholders to shape practical solutions that align with their people, processes, and culture.

Žilvinas Rubinas

Principal Chartered Structural & Civil Engineering Consultant

Žilvinas Rubinas is a Chartered Structural and Civil Engineering Consultant at Burt Consultants, bringing extensive experience across complex, regulated, and commercially demanding sectors.

His background spans nuclear, defence, pharmaceuticals, power generation, industrial, commercial, and residential projects, with experience supporting Amazon, Transport for London, the Duchy of Cornwall, The Salvation Army, multiple local authorities, and projects connected with royal households in Oman and Abu Dhabi.

At Burt Consultants, Žilvinas supports AI-first, technology-led engagements by combining chartered engineering judgement with AI-assisted analysis, digital workflows, and clear technical reporting to help clients make faster, better-informed decisions.

He is a Chartered Member of both the Institution of Structural Engineers and the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Dontas Zinkus

Consultant & Business Start-up Adviser

Dontas Zinkus is a Vilnius-based consultant, company director and business start-up adviser, with a particular focus on technology and e-commerce. An excellent communicator, he helps founders and growing businesses with strategy, leadership and commercial development.

Outside his business activities, Dontas is a familiar face on Lithuanian television and social media, where he is best known for his passion for food and his reputation as a plovas chef.

Pantelis Ioannides

TBC

Bio coming soon.

Erik Shmat

TBC

Bio coming soon.

What we do

Operators, not PowerPointers.

Burt Consultants was built on a simple conviction: too many consultancies charge premium fees for slide decks and strategy papers that never see the light of day. We are different. We design, build, and run real infrastructure — from ISP datacentres and dark-fibre networks to AI-powered legal document pipelines and custom streaming platforms serving millions of homes. When we advise, we do so from the perspective of people who have personally racked servers, negotiated Tier-1 transit contracts, written the Python, and restored data after ransomware attacks.

30+ Years of hands-on technical operations

ISP Own-built internet service provider platforms

3M+ Homes reached by custom streaming infrastructure

48h Fastest custom AI solution delivery on record

Why we exist

Built by operators who got tired of watching consultants leave without leaving anything behind.

Burt Consultants was founded after years of watching traditional consultancies — the powerpoint factories — parachute into organisations, deliver impressive binders, and depart before a single line of code was written or a rack was powered on. The gap between strategy and execution was enormous, and the client was always left holding the risk.

We set out to build something fundamentally different: a consultancy that actually operates the services it recommends. We run ISP networks. We manage Veeam backup estates. We write Terraform for cloud infrastructure. We build custom OTT streaming encoders. We restore data after ransomware incidents. We don't just talk about AI governance — we build the pipelines, train the models, and scan the code for vulnerabilities.

This operator-first mindset means our fractional leaders don't just advise boards — they sit in the war room during outages, review pull requests, negotiate vendor contracts, and sign off on disaster-recovery runbooks. When we commit to an outcome, we have the technical depth to deliver it personally. And when transformation needs capital to succeed, we can bring investment partnerships to the table — because capital constraints shouldn't be the reason good transformations fail.

Where we've delivered

From regulated boardrooms to broadcast towers.

Our work spans heavily regulated industries — FinTech, legal services, telecommunications — and high-scale consumer platforms. Every engagement carries the same standard: we leave working systems, not recommendations.

Legal Services

AI-Powered Litigation Intelligence

Built a custom document-intelligence pipeline in 48 hours to process thousands of emails and attachments for legal defense, producing AI summaries and a chronological Master Evidence File.

Media / Broadcasting

Custom OTT Streaming Platform

Designed and deployed a bespoke sports-streaming solution for Sub-Saharan Africa, including custom encode/decode hardware and SRT delivery to 3 million homes.

Telecommunications

Ground-Up ISP Infrastructure

Built a complete ISP from bare concrete: datacentre with UPS and generator, dark-fibre CWDM/DWDM backbone, Tier-1 transit, RIPE coordination, and wholesale VoIP platform.

Cybersecurity

Ransomware Recovery & Immune Architecture

Led decryption and full data restoration after a ransomware incident, then rebuilt the infrastructure with immutable Veeam backups, Proxmox virtualisation, and hardened recovery playbooks.

Software Development

AI-Augmented Secure Code Review

Deployed AI-driven vulnerability scanning following OWASP protocols to detect IDOR flaws, missing security headers, and authorisation gaps across production codebases.

FinTech / Cloud

Secure Cloud Migration & Data Warehousing

Migrated legacy WordPress estates to static React sites on Cloudflare/S3 with Terraform, and built modern Redshift/DBT data-warehousing pipelines powering real-time analytics dashboards.

Enterprise IT

Microsoft 365 & Endpoint Management

Deployed and managed Intune endpoint policies and Exchange Online environments for regulated clients, ensuring compliance, secure device management, and zero-trust email hygiene.

DevOps / SaaS

Custom Multi-Tenant Monitoring Platform

Developed a bespoke observability platform using Next.js, React, and PostgreSQL in Docker, with full multi-tenant support for managed-service clients.

Our story

From technical foundations to integrated transformation.

Thirty years of technical experience positioned not as legacy constraint but as accumulated wisdom. Continuous evolution and intelligent adaptation through every market shift.

2012–2017

Foundation

Voice and connectivity services. ISP infrastructure, VoIP platforms, data centre operations, and enterprise network deployments. Building deep operational expertise through hands-on delivery.

2017–2022

Expansion

Cloud and modern platform services. AWS/Azure capability, cybersecurity practice, software development, and managed services. Intelligent adaptation of heritage to address evolving market needs.

2022–2024

Transformation

AI integration, fractional leadership formalisation, and strategic capital partnerships. AI workplace solutions, fractional executive services, capital markets focus, and investment partnership capability. Recognising that technology alone doesn't transform organisations — and that capital constraints shouldn't delay transformation.

Our approach

Structured methodology, pragmatic execution.

Not methodology-heavy. Pragmatic, adaptable, and outcome-focused rather than process-constrained. Four phases with governance, change management, and knowledge transfer integrated throughout.

Assess

Comprehensive evaluation of current state, opportunity identification, and strategic prioritisation with clear success criteria.

Design

Solution architecture incorporating governance, change management, and knowledge transfer from the outset.

Implement

Execution with stage gates, iterative validation, and continuous stakeholder communication throughout.

Optimise

Continuous improvement, performance monitoring, capability building, and sustainable knowledge transfer.

Our principles

How we engage.

Partnership not vendor

Leaders who become part of client teams, not advisors who observe from outside. Outcome accountability with transparent communication.

Outcome accountability

Every engagement is measured against business outcomes, not activity metrics. We frame services in terms of client value created rather than activities performed.

Knowledge transfer

Sustainable capability building so clients are stronger after engagement, not dependent on continued consultancy.

Ethical AI commitment

Responsible development with fairness, transparency, explainability, human oversight, privacy, and security as non-negotiable foundations.

Why Burt

The intersection creates the moat.

Operators, not theorists

We have built ISPs, run backup estates, restored ransomware victims, and negotiated Tier-1 transit contracts. Our advice comes from lived experience, not textbooks.

Full fractional C-suite coverage

CEO/CTO/CFO/COO enabling unified transformation leadership with execution accountability. We don't just recommend — we implement.

Deep infrastructure expertise

Spanning ISP operations from bare concrete to peering exchange, voice platforms, data centre build, dark fibre, and Layer 2/3 networking.

Regulated industry credibility

Proven delivery in FinTech, legal services, and telecommunications where compliance, audit trails, and zero-downtime tolerance are non-negotiable.

Capital-backed transformation

The only AI-native transformation partner that can also bring strategic capital to qualifying engagements. Faster decisions, aligned incentives, single accountability from leadership through to investment.

Competitors may match individual elements, but the integrated offering requires organisational capabilities that cannot be rapidly replicated. The 12-year establishment and 30-year technical heritage — combined with real operational experience running the services we advise on and capital partnerships for qualifying engagements — provide time-based competitive protection that slide-deck consultancies cannot touch.

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