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For end-user fleets
Forty laptops is a spreadsheet. Four hundred is a control.
End-user devices are the most numerous, most dispersed and most data-dense assets most organisations own. Retiring them well is mostly about reconciliation — every tag, every serial, every drive — and about not letting them accumulate in a store room first.
Start here
An approximate count and the cities involved are enough to begin. Attach your register if you have one and we will start the reconciliation from there.
Request a fleet collection plan
Our position
The store room is where control is lost
Laptops rarely leave an organisation in one clean batch. They come back from employees over weeks, get stacked in a cupboard, occasionally get borrowed back out, and by the time anyone plans a disposal the list and the pile no longer match.
So the useful work starts before collection: reconciling what you think you have against what is physically there, identifying which devices have been wiped in-house and which have not, and separating anything that belongs to a leasing company or a departing client.
We help with that reconciliation, then collect against it. The handover record reflects what actually left, and the variance against your register is shown rather than hidden.
Situations
You will probably recognise one of these.
Refresh cycle
Three- or four-year-old machines replaced across the organisation, with the old fleet returning to IT over several weeks.
Headcount change
Devices returned by leavers, accumulating faster than anyone is disposing of them.
Remote and hybrid fleets
Machines held by staff who rarely come to an office, needing a practical return route before any collection can happen.
Monitors, docks and peripherals
The equipment nobody counts — usually more numerous than the laptops, and bulkier to move.
Our approach
What we do differently for you.
Tags and serials reconciled
Each device is recorded by asset tag and serial and matched against your register. Variances are listed, not absorbed.
Media itemised, handled to instruction
Whether you have wiped in-house, want drives removed, or want media transferred under an agreed process — your instruction governs and the record reflects it.
Reuse assessed before recycling
Recent business laptops frequently carry real residual value. Assessment separates re-deployable units from those for material recovery.
Practical return routes
For distributed staff we help you set up a nominated collection point per city rather than attempting doorstep collection at scale.
Process
Every engagement runs the same six stages.
- Step 01
Asset Discovery
Establish exactly what is being retired, and where it sits.
- Step 02
Collection & Logistics
Move the hardware off your floor without disrupting what stays.
- Step 03
Asset Assessment
Determine what still has working life, and what does not.
- Step 04
Data Security & Processing
Media handled the way you instruct, recorded line by line.
- Step 05
Reuse & Recovery
Keep working hardware working before it becomes material.
- Step 06
Responsible Recycling
Close out end-of-life material through accountable channels.
FAQ
Questions we are asked before the first call
- 01We have already wiped the devices. Does that change anything?
- It simplifies media handling — note it on the scope and the handover record shows the devices as wiped in-house. We still itemise them as data-bearing units, because the record should show the media existed and what was done with it.
- 02Do you take monitors and peripherals as well?
- Yes. They are usually collected alongside the devices and recorded by batch rather than serial where no serial exists.
- 03Can leased devices be included?
- They should go back to the lessor. Flag them at scoping so they are excluded in writing rather than collected by mistake.
Have a fleet to retire?
An approximate count and the cities involved are enough to begin. Attach your register if you have one and we will start the reconciliation from there.