You keep your client
You keep your clients and all the technical work.
FOR MANAGED IT AND IT SUPPORT PROVIDERS
Working with IT providers.You keep your client.Referrals both ways. Leicester-based.
Goldline is a Leicester consultancy that gets UK startups ready for ISO 27001 and helps them answer customer security questionnaires. We don't do hands-on IT.
- We pass hands-on IT work to you
- You pass ISO 27001 readiness and security questionnaires to us
- Any referral fee is disclosed to the client
Leicester-basedMember of East Midlands Chamber
Book the Free DiagnosticA call with Alfred Obeng, the founder, about passing work each way.
No sales pitch Senior practitioner
- What we pass to you
- What you can pass to us
- How any referral fee is disclosed
CISSP, Project Management Professional (PMP)®, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer and Lead Auditor, ISO 42001 Lead Implementer and Lead Auditor.
What is your client asking for?
- Microsoft 365 set up or tightenedYou. We don't do hands-on IT.
- Devices managedYou
- Backups sortedYou
- A technical fixYou
- ISO 27001 readinessGoldline
- Answers to a security questionnaireGoldline: First Security Questionnaire
- A Cyber Essentials assessmentGoldline, once the IASME licence is issued
- Not sure yetBook the Free Diagnostic
THE ARRANGEMENT AT A GLANCE
Two-way
referrals
We pass IT work to you. You pass ISO 27001 and questionnaire work to us.
Yours
your client stays your client
You keep your client and all the technical work.
Disclosed
any referral fee
Any referral fee is disclosed to the client.
No hands-on IT
from Goldline
Microsoft 365, devices, backups and technical fixes go to you.
Who does what
Your side
- Microsoft 365 set up or tightened
- Devices managed
- Backups sorted
- Any technical fix the client needs
- The client relationship
Goldline's side
- ISO 27001 readiness: scope, policies and the management system
- Security questionnaire answers from the client's own evidence
- Cyber Essentials assessment, once the IASME licence is issued
- Technical gaps passed back to you to fix
We take the paperwork side, policies, evidence and questionnaire answers, and pass the fixes back to you.
How it works
Referrals pass when a client needs the work.
STEP 01
A call
We agree how work passes each way and how any referral fee is disclosed to the client.
STEP 02
We pass IT work to you
When a client needs Microsoft 365 tightened, devices managed or backups sorted, we'd rather send them to a provider we can vouch for.
STEP 03
You pass readiness work to us
When a client needs ISO 27001 readiness or a security questionnaire answered, you introduce them to us. You keep the client.
STEP 04
Fixes come back to you
Where our work finds something technical to fix, we pass it back to you.
The ground rules
Referral fees are disclosed
Any referral fee is disclosed to the client.
The fixes come back to you
We take the paperwork side and pass the technical fixes back to you.
Goldline is applying to become an IASME certification body for Cyber Essentials. Until the licence is issued, Goldline does not carry out Cyber Essentials assessments.
What you can pass to us
ISO 27001 readiness
Gap assessment and scope, then the policies and the management system, with support through the certification audit. An independent certification body assesses.
Security questionnaires
Goldline reads what is being asked, answers from the client's evidence and builds an answer library they can reuse.
Cyber Essentials assessment
Once the IASME licence is issued. Goldline is applying to become an IASME certification body for Cyber Essentials.
What we pass to you
Microsoft 365 set up or tightened
Devices managed
Backups sorted
Any technical fix a client needs
We don't do hands-on IT, so this work goes to a provider we can vouch for.
Is this you?
- A managed IT or IT support provider
- You'd rather pass ISO 27001 readiness and questionnaire work to someone else
- You want to keep your clients and all the technical work
- You're happy for any referral fee to be disclosed to the client
Partner FAQ
Any referral fee is disclosed to the client. You keep your client.
Yes. You keep your clients and all the technical work. We take the paperwork side, policies, evidence and questionnaire answers, and pass the fixes back to you.
Any referral fee is disclosed to the client. We agree how it works on the call.
No. When a client needs Microsoft 365 tightened, devices managed or backups sorted, we'd rather send them to a provider we can vouch for.
Not yet. Goldline is applying to become an IASME certification body for Cyber Essentials. Once the licence is issued, you can pass Cyber Essentials assessments to us.
We scope it, build the policies and the management system with the client, and support them through the certification audit. An independent certification body assesses.