SharePoint · Microsoft Purview · AI governance
We sort out where your documents live, how long you keep them and who can see them. Then Copilot and other AI tools work from information you can stand behind.
Services
AI answers from whatever it can reach. If your files are duplicated, unlabelled and open to everyone, so are its answers. Our work starts there.
Classification schemes, retention and disposal, and the rules that keep them working after we leave.
Information architecture people can find their way around, and a clean move out of file shares.
Sensitivity and retention labels, data loss prevention and environment hardening, sized to your licences.
Copilot and Claude set up to work from governed content, with pilots that prove the value first.
Policies drift as your business changes. We monitor your Purview rules, tune them so they keep catching what matters without flooding people with false alarms, and report back on a regular cycle.
Our software
Imirce is our own SharePoint migration tool. We use it on our engagements, so your records arrive with their metadata, history and permissions intact.
Imirce moves content from file shares and other sources into SharePoint Online. Every file is surveyed before it moves and verified after it lands, so your records manager gets proof, not a progress bar.
Three steps home.
The name
Imirce is the Irish (Gaeilge) word for migration: moving from one place to settle in another. It was named by Robert McGrath, the Irish developer who built it, which is exactly what the tool does with your records.
How to say it
Stress on the first syllable. The Irish c is always hard, like a k.
The mark
The logo is the method. Each i is a stage the data has already passed through: Survey, Move, Verify. The last one lands with a green dot. The file is home and governed.
The promise
Approach
Every project gets a weekly status report, a risk and issue register and a document register. You always know where things stand.
Recent work
A selection of current and recent engagements across government, construction and the not-for-profit sector.
Local government
A regional council's records sat in deep category folders that were hard to browse. We piloted flat, metadata-driven libraries with views that look like folders, and a new way to assign disposal codes without document sets.
Construction
For a construction firm of about 200 people we designed a hub-and-spoke SharePoint estate with construction content types, mapped file-share permissions to SharePoint groups, and are migrating it under weekly governance reporting.
International aid, not-for-profit
An aid organisation bought Microsoft Purview for its staff while running volunteers, overseas partners and service accounts on other licences. We are rolling it out without disrupting the partner-facing systems they depend on.
Government-connected
For a client with government connectivity we designed Purview sensitivity labels aligned to the Australian Government's PSPF and ISM, alongside a records audit of HR material against its disposal standard.
Client names are withheld. References are available on request.
Engagements
We scope the work, agree the price and carry the risk. No hourly meter running in the background.
Small
Data hardening of your Microsoft 365 environment and a starter set of sensitivity and retention labels. No changes to your sites or libraries.
Fixed price
Medium
Everything in the foundation, plus an information architecture for SharePoint: sites, libraries, metadata and a migration plan.
Fixed price
Large or custom
Full migrations with Imirce, records programmes and AI rollouts. Scoped with you and priced as a fixed proposal.
Fixed price after scoping
About
You deal directly with the people doing the work. One of us designs how your information should be governed; the other builds the software that moves it.
Partner · Strategy & information governance
Derrick is a CIO-level technology leader who has run IT organisations across ports, publishing, labour hire, telecommunications, state government and consulting, including global enterprises. He has shaped IT and digital strategies, delivered ERP and core systems, and simplified IT functions by consolidating contracts and sorting out the mess. A PRINCE2 and ITIL practitioner with a background in development and programme management, he now brings that governance to records management, SharePoint and Microsoft Purview. An early adopter of AI, he works daily with Claude and Microsoft Copilot, with a focus on governing them well. He is as comfortable in front of a board or a minister as with the team doing the work.
Partner · Software & platforms
Robert is a Microsoft Power Platform and SharePoint developer and senior analyst programmer with 30 years’ experience across Europe and Australia. He has built systems for global logistics, maritime, IT services, marketing, recruitment, financial services, consumer goods and commercial real estate. His work spans data migration and integration, database development and process automation, including RPA and workflow. He brings advanced skills in AI development and governance, building AI solutions that stay secure and compliant. A Microsoft Certified Professional Developer for SharePoint applications, he designed and built Imirce, our SharePoint migration tool.
Contact
A short call is usually enough to say which engagement fits and what a fixed price would cover.