Emerge Digital

C2S Official Partner

Who we are:

Your servers are up, your laptops work and the tickets get closed. That’s the deal most businesses have with their IT company, and it’s a fair one.

It just doesn’t tell you whether any of it is helping you grow. That’s the question we start with.

We’re Emerge Digital. We look after IT, cyber security, cloud and AI for ambitious businesses across the South West and South Wales. We’re based in Cheltenham and we’re a Certified B Corp, which puts our people, our clients and our impact on the same scorecard as our turnover.

Years of doing this have given us a process, and it runs in a set order.

Foundations first, because nothing survives a network that falls over. Security next, so your risk is managed. Then we point AI at the systems you already own and pay for, which is where most businesses find their biggest win sitting unused. The bigger builds come after that, once your tech stack and your team can carry them. Innovation is the stage where a business starts working in a way it couldn’t before.

Our purpose is using technology to improve people’s working lives. Less stress, less overwhelm, more time on the work that actually matters. That only happens if people use what’s been bought for them.

So we spend as much time with your team as we do with your kit. Workshops, one-to-one help, and honest conversations about who’s going to find it hard.

We’ll tell you what’s working, what isn’t, and what we’d leave alone. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so early.

What we do:

Everything we do revolves around four core areas:

IT support and cloud

IT support and cloud is the day to day. A service desk your team can actually reach, monitoring, patching, kit replaced before it fails, access removed the day someone leaves, and Microsoft 365 set up so people can find what they need.

Cyber security

OnyxSecure is our cyber security service. Most of it is preventative, closing the gaps before anyone finds them. Behind that sits detection, response and recovery, so if something does get through it gets caught early and put right.

AI enablement

OnyxAI is our AI enablement programme. The usual pattern is a business buys the licences, runs a launch session, and waits for the productivity. Six months on, a few enthusiasts use it daily and everyone else has gone back to how they worked before. We stay until it’s habit, and we measure who’s actually using it. OnyxAI reaches 85 to 90% sustained use, more than double the industry norm.

Digital innovation and automation

Digital innovation and automation is where the business really moves. Agents running the repetitive work in the background, and your systems joined up so sales talks to invoicing and the same figure stops being typed into three of them. Your team stops feeding the machine and starts using it.

Our people

Nigel Church

Chief Executive Officer

Nigel leads Emerge and sets the direction of the business. Named by SoGlos as one of Gloucestershire’s most influential entrepreneurs. A serious rugby man and a Gloucester season ticket holder.

Tom Henson

Chief Operating Officer

Tom oversees operations, keeping every part of the business running as it should. Support, delivery and the day to day of a company that’s grown quickly. In a previous life he was a DJ, with sets in Ibiza behind him.

Mel Cheeseman

Chief Experience Officer

Mel leads OnyxAI and oversees client experience. She’s a qualified professional coach, which shows in how she approaches AI adoption: the people part, not the software. No relation to the Spice Girl, though she gets asked. Always up for a conversation with leaders and HR teams about AI adoption.

Mark Atkinson

Chief Revenue Officer

Mark is the one you’re most likely to meet at a C2S event, and the easiest to spot, being the tallest person in most rooms. A former Premiership player with Gloucester Rugby. These days he does a fair amount of his networking on a golf course.