Aztek Native Ltd

16/10/2026

A slightly different one from us today. 💭

Our founder, Peter Green, has the best part of 20 years writing the code that keeps cloud systems running. Then AI got good at doing exactly that, and he found himself asking a question a lot of people are asking right now:

"Where's my job gone?"

His answer: it hasn't gone anywhere; it's moved up a level. The AI does more of the doing, and he does more of the deciding: what to test, what good looks like, and when to ask "are you sure?"

If you're using AI in your own business and wondering what it means for your role, you might recognise some of this.

AI can now write the Terraform, run the benchmarks and read the docs faster than I can. For a while that felt like an identity crisis; now it feels like a promotion I never applied for.

12/10/2026

Our director, Peter Green, has been building a climbing wall for his son, with an AI assistant helping him plan it, work out the materials (in the middle of B&Q) and troubleshoot the fiddly bits along the way.

The AI took care of the know-how; it didn't do the work. He's spent days on the project and has the blistered hands to show for it.

Doing your own IT with a bit of AI help is much the same. You can get a sensible answer on almost anything now, but the hours still have to come from somewhere, and it's easy to end up nearly done rather than done. If you're looking after your own IT, a few things worth checking:

✅ Is multi-factor authentication switched on for every account, not just yours?
✅ Have you ever actually restored something from your backups?
✅ Could you answer the security questions on your insurance renewal form with confidence?

If you'd rather someone checked for you, that's what the Groundwork Audit is for. We look over your setup and give you a written report with clear, prioritised recommendations; what you do with it (do it yourself, hand it over, or a bit of both) is up to you.

Link to the full story:

An AI assistant made a DIY project possible for me. It didn't stop my hands blistering, which I think is a great visual metaphor for doing your own IT.

08/10/2026

Quick question: if you couldn't get into your laptop tomorrow, or you got locked out of your email, how long before it started costing you? 🤔

Most small business owners we speak with have never had anyone ask them that. And that's fair enough; your tech works every day, right up until it doesn't.

That's what the Groundwork Audit is for. A friendly, fixed-price check of your IT and security, with a simple report you get to keep.

💷 £200 for a sole trader
💷 £400 for a small team

Red, amber, green on each area, and a clear list of what to fix first. No commitment beyond the check-up itself.

See what's involved: https://aztek-native.com/services/groundwork

24/09/2026

Our founder, Peter Green, can't change a sensor on his own burglar alarm.

He owns it; it's fitted to his house and he paid for it. But when he left the monitoring contract, he was told he had everything he needed to carry on running it himself. It turns out there's an installer code, a higher-level code that controls the configuration of the panel, and he was never given it. To change one sensor on his own equipment, he now has to call the company he already left and pay for an engineer to come out.

He couldn't have asked for that code on the way out, because he didn't know it existed.

The same thing happens in IT, and it costs a good deal more. Administrator credentials that never get handed over. Documentation nobody passes on. Licensing details kept on the provider's side. Everything works fine until the day you need to add a new starter or change a security setting, and you discover the keys to your own systems were never really yours.

When a client leaves us, we hand everything over: credentials, documentation, licences, configuration, the lot. You should be able to walk away and keep running without us.

So it's worth asking your current provider: if I leave, what exactly do you hand over?

Getting that sorted from day one is part of Groundwork, our fixed-price IT support for sole traders and micro businesses.

Have a read:

How a provider treats you when you leave tells you as much as how they treat you when you join. What a locked-down home alarm taught me about IT handovers.

23/09/2026

"Managed IT" sounds vague, so here is what it really means with Groundwork:

✅ Your passwords kept safe and shareable (not on sticky notes)
✅ Your devices protected by a real security team
✅ Your files and emails backed up, so nothing vanishes for good
✅ Someone spotting small tech problems before they grow
✅ Simple training so nobody falls for a dodgy email

That is it. No jargon, one friendly point of contact. It all starts with a Groundwork Audit.

https://aztek-native.com/services/groundwork

17/09/2026

A quick heads-up, because this one is worth knowing about.

Two phishing attempts landed with Peter a couple of weeks ago, disguised as calendar invites. Both claimed he had an unread voice note and asked him to sign in to Google Voice to listen. Neither link went anywhere near Google.

One was filtered into spam. The other wasn't. And because they arrived as calendar invites rather than ordinary emails, both events were added to his calendar anyway; so even the one the filter caught still found a way in front of him.

Most of us are wary of a strange email. Very few of us are wary of our own diary, which is exactly why it works.

Two things worth doing today:

In Google Calendar, change Settings > Event settings > "Add invitations to my calendar" to "Only if the sender is known".
Never sign in to anything from a notification; open the service directly instead.

Knowing what your setup quietly lets through, and deciding about it on purpose, is the whole idea behind Groundwork, our fixed-price IT support for sole traders and micro businesses.

Have a read (it covers the Microsoft 365 equivalent, and what to do if someone has already entered their password):

Two fake voicemail notifications arrived last week as calendar invites. One was filtered as spam; both still ended up on my calendar. Here is why that is clever, and the one setting worth changing today.

16/09/2026

Be honest, has one of these ever crossed your mind? 👇

"If my laptop packed in tomorrow, would I get everything back?"
"Who still has the password to that old email account?"
"Is this actually backed up, or am I just hoping?"

These little worries are easy to put off; right up until they are not.

Groundwork clears them off your plate. It starts with a simple, fixed-price check-up that answers all of it, in plain English. No scare tactics, promise.

Groundwork is managed IT and security for small businesses; the careful, secure setup larger firms take for granted, sized and priced for one to five people. Start with a fixed-price Audit from £200.

09/09/2026

Last week on the blog our founder, Peter Green, wrote about an AI tool changing shape. Workflows were gradually moved from one Claude feature to another and we kept on working.

No harm done in our case. But this is something we specialise in; other organisations are not the same. Case in point: a small business owner online who thought they'd lost the tool their business ran on, when in fact it had only been moved somewhere else in the app. That's a horrible few hours for anyone running a business on their own.

Some of us can absorb constant change. Plenty of businesses can't, and that isn't a failing; it just means something steadier (Microsoft Copilot, say) might suit you better.

Fitting the technology to how you actually work is the whole idea behind Groundwork, our fixed-price IT support for sole traders and micro businesses.

Have a read:

Cowork arrived on my phone and replaced how I used Dispatch. What that taught me about matching an AI tool's pace of change to your business.

08/09/2026

Happy 60th anniversary to Star Trek! We haven't actually prepared any content for this monumental occasion 🫣 , so we're shamelessly re-posting some of thoughts our director, Peter Green, had around AI and The Next Generation!

Live long and prosper! 🖖

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/peter-green-175053a_i-keep-comparing-my-working-with-ai-tooling-activity-7452716273379151873-1ae6

07/09/2026

Big news from Aztek Native: say hello to Groundwork. 👋

It is proper IT support built for small businesses; sole traders and teams of up to five. No jargon, no being treated like you are too small to bother with.

It all starts with a Groundwork Audit: a friendly, fixed-price check-up of your IT and security. You find out what is safe, what needs attention, and what to sort first, in plain English.

Fixed prices: £200 for a sole trader, £400 for a small team.

Curious? Have a look at what is involved: https://aztek-native.com/services/groundwork