Intrepid’s journey started on December 31st, 2010 when Alex Preston and Matt Glace founded the company to build applications using Microsoft Technologies. The company originally focused on Microsoft Windows Phone 7 applications and building a hosted service using Microsoft Pivot Viewer. The latter was the inspiration for the original name of the company “Pivot Engine”.

Change was a big part of our company during this era. There were changes in leadership and overall strategic approach for the company. Building products for the company was deprioritised and a greater emphasis on consulting and services was made. The creation of the Intrepid Service Desk (ISD) offering opened new business opportunities in IT Support and Software Maintenance services.

With our services business line well established, and key accounts secured for consulting, the company was primed for a new era of stability and opportunities to explore new ways to take the company to the next level of scale. During this era, we furthered our expansion into new technologies including sought-after technologies like IoT (Internet of Things). Aviation was becoming a bigger industry for the company with our second major project for the UK’s airports.

We achieved the next level of scale in this era fuelled by aggressive expansion into financial services for the staff-based business and aviation projects for the project-based business. Key engagements during this era saw the company size triple to accommodate the projects that we were delivering.

The future looks bright for the company and we set our sights on hitting new company milestones. The pivot we made in to a holistic delivery approach and advisory services has paid off. A focus on Intrepid Advisory Services has led to many new opportunities for company growth and is deemed the cornerstone for achieving our goals. Specifically, the fractional CTO offering has proved to be an influential part of our business that has led to many new engagement opportunities.