Find out exactly what's working across your estate, and what isn't
A free 60-minute conversation with your senior team covering what you can see, how fast you respond, and what it's costing you. You'll receive a written report within five working days. Pick a slot below.
The time between a problem and understanding it is the part nobody measures
Your tools tell you when something changes. A latency spike, a device dropping off, a terminal responding more slowly than it did an hour ago. What takes longer is establishing that those events are one incident, working out which sites it touches and identifying what is causing it.
That gap sits inside how quickly your team can prioritise and act, and on most estates it is larger than it needs to be.
Stores find it first
Frontline colleagues raise the symptom before central monitoring shows the pattern across sites.
Root cause takes legwork
Establishing whether it is POS, network, IoT or energy means cross-referencing systems that do not talk to each other.
One dashboard per vendor
Each supplier brings its own view, and none of them describes the estate as a whole.
The review puts a clear picture on each of these for your estate.
Pick any slot in the calendar below. You will get a confirmation and a calendar invite straight away.
Five areas, scored against how multi-site retail estates operate
The session works through five areas. Each is scored, and each score comes with the reasoning behind it.
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Each area is scored on a five-point scale, with your strongest and weakest points called out individually.
How the 60 minutes runs
Choose a time
Pick a slot in the calendar. You'll get a confirmation and a calendar invite straight away. 60 minutes by video with your IT/operations lead or larger team.
The session
We work through the five areas together. No system access, no credentials and no installation.
Scoring and analysis
We score each area against how multi-site retail estates typically operate and identify the points where operational understanding is slowest to form.
Your report
A written report follows within five working days, covering your scores and the reasoning behind them.
From booking to findings is usually a single 60-minute call.
What you walk away with
The review is built to be useful whether or not you continue with HelmCore afterwards.
A written report
Delivered within five working days, with a score for each of the five areas and the reasoning behind it.
Strongest and weakest points
Named individually on the call, not buried in a general summary.
A signal coverage map
Which sources reach a central view today, and which do not.
A prioritised list
What to address first, second and third.
For the budget conversation
The findings are framed so they can go to Finance without translation: where operational exposure sits in your estate, and what would need to change to reduce it.
Built for multi-site retail estates with a central IT function
The review is designed around how distributed retail estates operate. It fits best where the following are true.
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30 or more sites
The review is built around physical store estates and the systems inside them.
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Centrally managed IT
Infrastructure run centrally, not site by site.
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Right sector
Convenience & fuel, grocery, food & beverage including QSR, or logistics.
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Estate uptime owner
A team already carrying responsibility for uptime.
A conversation, not a connection
The review runs on what you tell us during the call. There is no installation, no integration and no access to your systems or credentials at any point. Anything you share stays inside the review and is covered by our confidentiality terms.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022
HelmCore is a trading name of Fastcom AS Limited, certified under certificate 537204, issued by Amtivo Ireland and valid until August 2028.
Single-tenant by design
Every HelmCore customer runs on an isolated instance.
Your data stays yours
Information shared during the review is used for your report and nothing else.
Common questions
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