Advisory Practice

Digital strategy, technical architecture and intelligence for organisations that cannot afford to get it wrong.

A specialist advisory practice. Founded by Damian Roche. Ex-British Army. Twenty years building for the web. Creator of SIBA Digital, the Sefton Coast Network, and The Sandgrounder.


Services

Four service lines. Each with a specific buyer and a specific outcome.

01

Technical SEO & AI Search Architecture

Structural audit and roadmap for web presence that is invisible to both search engines and AI inference systems.

02

Headless Development Consultancy

Architecture decision-making before any agency is commissioned. The scoping document they need to price accurately.

03

Digital Footprint Intelligence

Mapping an organisation's public exposure before a significant event, including what AI systems currently say about it.

04

AI Infrastructure Advisory

Crawler policy, Cloudflare configuration for AI traffic, and attack surface review. Managing how AI systems access your infrastructure.


The work

All three properties are live, owned, and verifiable.

No anonymised results. No projected figures. Everything below can be examined directly.

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Reports published

Investigation platform

SIBA Digital

A public interest investigation platform built using Next.js, structured data and OSINT methodology. Nine published reports. Formal regulatory complaints citing SIBA findings. Solicitors acting for named parties made contact.

4

Sites operated

Publishing network

Sefton Coast Network

Four editorial sites built and operated simultaneously on the same Next.js architecture. SouthportGuide, FormbyGuide, SeftonLinks, SeftonCoastWildlife. All live. All ranking. All owned.

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Pieces published

Independent publication

The Sandgrounder

Independent opinion, satire, and reporting from Southport. Companion to SIBA Digital for a general audience. Full SEO architecture, newsletter, share buttons, contact form. Built and live from day one.

A single SIBA analysis with no paid promotion reached professionals from the House of Commons, MHCLG, Transport for London, and Savills. Over 55% of the audience held senior, director, or executive positions.


Get in touch

If you have a challenge that fits, we should talk.

We do not take on every enquiry. Tell us about your organisation and the challenge. If it is the right fit, we will respond directly.