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Senior service-operations expertise, without the permanent hire.

VeriOps is your named, senior ITSM advisory partner — guiding, governing and challenging your team so good service operations becomes something you own, not something you outsource.

What we cover

What we do, and how we engage.

We focus on advisory — setting direction. Here's the full picture of the practices we cover and the retainer model we deliver them through.

Implementation package overview

Incident Management

Restoring service quickly and consistently. We define severity, triage, escalation and communication so incidents are handled the same way every time — not improvised under pressure.

Major Incident Management

A calm, rehearsed response for the worst days. Clear roles, command structure, stakeholder communications and a post-incident review that actually closes the loop.

Problem Management

Finding and removing the root causes behind repeat incidents, so the same failure stops costing you twice.

Service Desk

The front door to IT, run as a capability rather than a queue: structured intake, clear ownership and a service experience your business trusts.

Change Enablement

Governing change so it lands safely and predictably — the right level of assessment, a working CAB, and a forward schedule people can rely on.

Light-touch CMDB

Knowing what you have and how it connects, at a level that's genuinely usable — not a perfect model nobody maintains.

Our retainer

What is fractional advisory consulting?

Not every organisation needs a full-time ITSM hire — and not every engagement needs a contractor sitting in your team. VeriOps operates as your dedicated advisory partner: a named, senior ITSM consultant available on retainer, providing the strategic guidance, process governance and expert challenge your team needs — without the overhead of a permanent resource.

A named senior consultant — one accountable person, not a rotating seat.
Strategic guidance & process governance for the practices that matter.
Expert challenge — we ask the questions your team can't ask itself.
Structured, documented outputs at every stage, so progress is evidenced.
No employer NI, benefits or redundancy risk — senior expertise at a fraction of a permanent hire.
A six-month break clause, and a model designed to upskill your team so the capability stays.

Not sure what good looks like for you yet?

That's exactly the conversation to have. Tell us the decision you're working on and we'll tell you, honestly, whether we can help.

Why VeriOps

Why should you pick us?

Around 20 years of combined experience in IT service management — across insurance, energy, automotive, healthcare, defence, retail and infrastructure. We know what good looks like, and we know what bad looks like, because we've built both and fixed both.

We've sat on both sides

Most advice in this space comes from people who've only seen one: the vendor selling the solution, or the team deploying it. We've built and owned service operations from the inside, and we've come in from outside to evaluate how organisations actually run. That dual view is the difference between advice that sounds right and advice that works.

Senior, named consultants

You get a specific person, accountable for defined outputs — not a body you manage day to day, and not someone an agency rotates out next quarter.

We know what's worth it at your stage

Good service operations isn't about buying the biggest platform or copying a FTSE 100 process. We tell you what genuinely matters for where you are now — and, just as honestly, what doesn't.

Honest about fit

Our retainer carries a six-month break clause. We'd rather be straight about value early than keep taking a fee that isn't earning its place.

See the engagement model

How we cover the practices, and what a fractional advisory retainer actually involves.

How we work →

How we work — from the first call

A lightweight path from introduction to clear, documented findings.

Non-disruptive by design. Here's what engaging VeriOps looks like, step by step.

Step 01

Initial interview

With your Head of IT, Head of Service Management, founder or executive owner. We establish context — your business, your stage, your risk profile — and identify who else needs to be in the room.

Step 02

Follow-on interview

With the people who own the decisions: your internal service manager, delivery lead or process owners. We follow up with the questions you may not know to ask.

Step 03

Requirements & ad-hoc follow-ups

Where specific detail isn't available in the interviews, we request exactly what we need, directly — ensuring clarity without creating noise for your team.

Step 04

Written report

A full assessment and gap analysis covering every area in scope, in plain language.

Step 05

Readout

We walk your leadership team through every finding, with time for questions and a clear view of what to do next.

Ready to start that first call?

Tell us the decision you're working on and what a good outcome looks like. We'll take it from there.

About us

Built it, owned it, and assessed it.

Around 20 years of combined experience across IT service management environments — insurance, energy, automotive, healthcare, defence, retail and infrastructure.

We've advised on, built and owned service operations functions from the inside — and we've come in from outside organisations to evaluate how existing working models actually perform. That's how we know what good IT service management looks like, what's genuinely worth doing at your stage, and what isn't.

Most advice in this space comes from people who have only ever seen one side: the vendor selling the solution, or the team deploying it. We have real experience on both. That's the perspective we bring to every engagement.

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Sandeep Labana

Co-Founder & Implementation Lead Consultant

Juliong Jonah

Co-Founder & Implementation Lead Consultant

Common questions

What clients usually ask first.

Straight answers to the questions that come up before a first conversation.

Insights for leaders

Occasional writing on service operations.

Notes on service operations, the systems that run them, and the shifting landscape of ITIL — written for the people who own these decisions.

Change EnablementJune 20th, 2026

Why most CAB meetings fail — and what to do instead

The weekly change advisory board was meant to reduce risk. In a lot of organisations it's become a rubber stamp, a bottleneck, or both. The fix usually isn't a better meeting — it's a better model for which changes need a meeting at all.

Standard changes shouldn't be in the room. If a change is low-risk, well-understood and repeatable, the value of a board reviewing it live is close to zero — and the cost, in delay and attention, is real. Pre-authorise them against clear criteria and keep the board's time for changes that genuinely need judgement.

Normal changes need assessment, not theatre. A board works when it's reviewing risk, dependencies and readiness — not re-reading a form everyone could have read beforehand. Tighten the peer review upstream and the meeting gets shorter and sharper.

Emergency changes need a route that doesn't depend on a meeting at all. The test of change governance isn't how it handles the easy ones; it's whether the right people can authorise the right change at 2am without breaking the process.

Incident ManagementJune 27th, 2026

Your major incident response is decided before the incident

When a major incident hits, the outcome is usually shaped in the first ten minutes — long before anyone runs a root-cause analysis. The teams that recover fastest aren't the ones with the cleverest tooling; they're the ones who decided who does what while everything was still calm.

Declare early, and make declaring cheap. The most common failure isn't mishandling a major incident — it's not calling one soon enough. People hesitate because the criteria are fuzzy or because raising the alarm feels like an overreaction. Define clear, objective triggers and give your team explicit permission to pull the cord: a false alarm costs minutes, a late declaration costs hours.

Separate the people fixing from the people communicating. The instinct is for everyone to pile onto the technical problem, but leadership, customers and the wider business need a steady stream of honest updates — and your engineers can't do both well at once. A named incident lead and a named communications lead, agreed in advance, is the single biggest predictor of a response that stays calm under pressure.

Close the loop, every time. The review after a major incident isn't paperwork; it's where the next one gets prevented. Keep it blameless, fix the system rather than the person, and track every action through to completion. An incident you learn nothing from is one you've quietly agreed to have again — which is exactly where good problem management begins.