IT consulting for companies in Finland

By Mustafa Tarabya, founder of DT Nova · Published 25 October 2026

IT consulting at a company of 1 to 20 people is rarely strategy. It is someone going through the software you pay for, the work still done by hand, and what to do next. You get a list of decisions with costs attached, not a slide deck, and the hour estimate is in writing before we start.

Who this is for

Founders, international teams and companies in Finland whose working language is English, and EU companies happy to work remotely. Typically a business that has grown its tools one subscription at a time and now wants someone to look at the whole picture before the next purchase.

What an IT consultant does for a small company

• Chooses systems. You have a need, and twenty products claim to solve it. The job is to cut that list to three, show what each costs over three years, and say which fits the way you actually work.
• Untangles the mess. A typical ten-year-old company: invoicing in one service, customer data in another, hours in a spreadsheet, files in two clouds and some still on one person's laptop. Nobody decided this; it grew. We draw it out and propose what to remove, what to merge and what to keep.
• Plans before you buy. The part that usually gets skipped. A system is bought, and only during rollout does anyone notice it does not talk to the accounting software, or that nobody has time to own the project. Planning costs hours; a wrong purchase can cost years.

A consultant who also builds

Most small-company IT consulting ends with a document that says what should be done, and then you have to find someone to do it. Finding that someone is often harder than the decision. We can also build what we recommend, through our software development work. That has two consequences, one good for you and one uncomfortable for us.

The good one: the recommendation does not die in a report, and the build price is known when the advice is written. The uncomfortable one: the advice has to survive reality, because we sit in the rollout. That makes recommendations narrower, which is the point.

It works the other way too. If the right answer is ready-made software we do not sell, we say so and name the product.

How consulting is billed

There are three common models, and they are not equally good for the buyer. Hourly work is safest for you when the scope is still unclear. A fixed project price is safest when it is clear. A monthly retainer is safest for the supplier, which is why it is often offered first. We work by the hour for assessments and agree a project price for any build. Our rate is public on the pricing page. You get a written estimate of the hours before we start, and if it looks like being exceeded, we agree that with you before the work continues.

What the first call covers

• What is costing you money this week. Not a wish list, one concrete thing that breaks or eats time every week.
• Which software you use and what each one costs per month. Surprisingly often two services do the same job and both are paid for.
• Who does what by hand, copying information from one place to another.
• What has been tried before. If a project failed, the reason matters more than any technical detail.
• How much money and staff time is available. Staff time usually runs out first.

After the call you get either an estimate for an assessment or, more often than you would think, a direct answer.

IT consulting or IT support?

Rule of thumb: if the printer does not work, you need support. If there are eight printers and nobody knows why, you need a consultant. For the first kind of problem, see IT support.

What to get in writing from any consultant

• What will be delivered and in what form. An assessment can be two pages or twenty.
• The hour estimate and what happens if it is exceeded. An open-ended bill is the buyer's risk.
• Whether you may use the material yourself. If the recommendation is yours, you can tender the implementation.
• Whether the consultant has ties to the products they recommend. A reseller commission turns advice into sales. We resell no software and take no commission on anything we mention.

When not to buy IT consulting

If you can say in one sentence what you want built, do not pay for an assessment of it. Pay for the building.

How we work

1. Half an hour on the phone, free. We scope the problem and tell you whether an assessment is needed at all.
2. A written hour estimate before we start. What is done, how many hours, what it costs. No open bill.
3. An assessment with costs. Three options, the three-year cost of each, and what we recommend and why.
4. Implementation, if you want us to do it. A separate decision at a separate price. The material is yours either way.

Who does the work

DT Nova Tmi, Business ID 3595452-5, Helsinki. The founder, Mustafa Tarabya, has a background in business development and digital transformation, and you talk to him from the first call to the last. DT Nova has published 22 apps on the App Store (see them on the App Store, counted 25.10.2026). We do not take several large projects at once; if the calendar is full, we say so on the first call. If the question is where AI fits, see AI consulting. This page in Finnish: IT-konsultointi. To start, book a free discovery call.

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