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Workspacebeamcore

The practice

A small Kingswood studio for service-desk reporting

Workspacebeamcore exists because operations meetings were being fed screenshots. We write packs a manager can circulate, and we stay in the room long enough to hear which queue name was wrong.

How this started

Helen Cartwright spent years sitting with university and council desks at month-end, watching first-response figures that no one on the floor believed. The clocks were calendar-blind; the queues had been renamed in April; the abandoned-call count lived in a different file. The work that became Workspacebeamcore is the boring middle: clean the extract, draw the charts, write the note, brief the people who take the contacts.

We keep an office at 74 Stone Cellar Road, Kingswood, BS15 8GL, United Kingdom — close enough to Bristol desks for a same-day briefing, far enough from a vendor floor that we are not selling licences in the same conversation as the pack.

How we work

We never log into your network. You export. We chart. If a field is missing we say so on page one instead of interpolating a line that looks complete. We will not discuss named agents in a briefing. We will mark major-incident weeks rather than delete them.

What we will not pretend

We are not an IT helpdesk, a staffing agency, or a firm that writes SLAs for a procurement tender. If you need those, we will say so and stop. Our craft is the visual pack and the conversation that follows.

People who draw and brief

Portrait of Helen Cartwright

Helen Cartwright

Founder. Former service-desk manager. Writes covering notes and chairs most on-site briefings in the South West and Wales.

Portrait of James Okafor

James Okafor

Charts telephony extracts beside ticket files. Previously a contact-centre planner. Keeps abandoned-call definitions honest.

Portrait of Priya Nair

Priya Nair

Investigations and audit-facing notes. Local-authority background. Insists the original extract is frozen before anyone writes a narrative.