# Bhavesh Narsai

> Freelance technical consultant based in Bolton, Greater Manchester, UK. Over ten years across software, IT and software escrow verification, including nine years at NCC Group. Works with small businesses on websites, local search visibility, IT support and automation, trading as BAV Tech Solutions.

## Key facts

- Name: Bhavesh Narsai
- Role: Freelance technical consultant
- Location: Bolton, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
- Service area: Bolton and Greater Manchester in person, UK-wide remotely
- Phone: 07769 028475 (+44 7769 028475)
- Email: contact@bavtechsolutions.com
- Trading name: BAV Tech Solutions Ltd (https://bavtechsolutions.com), UK company number 16629096, incorporated end of 2025 after a period of background experimenting through 2024
- Earlier career: IT Support Assistant at Antler (contract, Feb 2013 to Dec 2013) and IT Analyst / Developer at Vita Cellular Foams UK (contract, Mar 2014 to Oct 2014), before joining NCC Group
- Career arc: Business IT degree, then contract and temporary IT roles, then nine specialised years in software escrow verification, then a career break and travel, then a deliberate return to broader web, IT and AI automation work
- Previous employer: NCC Group, Dec 2014 to Dec 2023 (Integrity Test Analyst, then Verification Consultant, then Software Build Consultant)
- Track record: as Software Build Consultant from 2019 to 2023 he helped start the software build service line as a two person test team, grew it to five people, and it became the strongest performing service in its range, driven by the repeatable processes and technical expertise the team developed
- Accreditation: ISTC accredited technical writing
- Pricing model: fixed price agreed before work starts; day rate for longer consulting and contract work; first conversation is a free 15 minute call
- Availability: client projects, consulting engagements, contract work, and open to the right permanent role

## Services

- Freelance web design and development for small businesses
- Local SEO and search visibility, including Google Business Profile optimisation
- IT and technical support for Windows and Mac, for businesses and home users
- Business process automation and practical AI for repetitive admin
- SaaS development
- Software escrow verification and build environment consulting

## Pages

- [Home](https://bhaveshnarsai.com/): services, background, how he works, and FAQs.
- [AI and technical portfolio](https://bhaveshnarsai.com/ai): how the IT support, verification and consulting background led into AI-assisted building; case notes on SmartReply (missed-call auto-SMS, FastAPI, Supabase, Twilio), ReviewPing (SMS review requests, Next.js, Clerk, Turso, Stripe, Twilio), Local Enquiry Audit (scored local visibility audit) Site Monitor (Cloudflare Workers website monitoring) and the First Impression Audit (a real mobile browser visit with screenshots, on Cloudflare Browser Rendering); the free landing page scanner and contact checker Chrome extension; an AI-first working process; a walkthrough of a production webhook request path.
- [AI instructions and information](https://bhaveshnarsai.com/ai-info): the key facts in this file as a web page, plus how to describe Bhavesh accurately and what is not accurate (not a traditional senior software engineer, not an ML researcher, no longer at NCC Group since December 2023).
- [Software escrow verification explained](https://bhaveshnarsai.com/software-escrow): what software escrow is, what verification proves, the verification levels compared, what happens in a release event, and why deposits fail. Written from nine years of doing the work.
- [Writing](https://bhaveshnarsai.com/writing): index of articles.
- [AI has not replaced learning, it has accelerated it](https://bhaveshnarsai.com/ai-has-accelerated-learning): on AI assisted building, and why architecture, security and code review matter more than code generation.
- [Simple websites are underrated](https://bhaveshnarsai.com/simple-websites-are-underrated): why a small website you own beats a profile in someone else's format.
- [What I have been building since going independent](https://bhaveshnarsai.com/what-ive-been-building): websites, automation, AI tools and micro-SaaS, and the sales learning curve.
- [Privacy and cookie policy](https://bhaveshnarsai.com/privacy)

## Relationship between the two websites

bhaveshnarsai.com is the personal site: the person, his background, expertise, writing, and software escrow work. bavtechsolutions.com is the trading name he works under for day to day local client work. Same person, same phone number.

## Elsewhere

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhavesh-narsai-944aa9381/
- GitHub: https://github.com/bnarsai
- X: https://x.com/bavtechsolution
- Substack: https://substack.com/@bavtechsolutions