Peterborough based. Working with clients across the UK.
Hi, I'm Rory.
I run Virtually Rory from home in Peterborough and work remotely with small business owners across the UK. It’s just me. No team, no account manager, and nobody else quietly picking up your work.
Twenty-odd years of making things easier.
Before Virtually Rory, I spent more than twenty years working across customer support, operations and technology, including around ten years in technical support in the UK and Finland.
I’d also worked remotely for a number of years, so working with people from a distance was already completely normal to me.
I also have a BTEC in Computer Engineering, so the technical side has been part of my background for a long time.
Alongside the day job, I spent around seven years mentoring. Looking back, there has always been a common thread through everything I’ve done: helping people, solving problems and making things a bit easier.
Virtually Rory started part-time in 2024 and became my full-time business in 2026.
These days, that usually means one of two things: getting the admin and day-to-day jobs under control, or setting up and sorting out the tech behind the business.
Quite often, it’s a bit of both.
That might mean looking after an inbox, following up enquiries, organising appointments, keeping on top of client admin, updating a website, fixing email problems or setting up systems that make the business easier to run.
I work with small business owners who already have enough to do and do not want to spend their evenings catching up on admin or trying to work out why something technical has suddenly stopped working.
A little bit about me
Outside work, life is pretty busy too.
I have three children, one of whom is now grown up, an adorable grandson, a Chihuahua called Dotty, and a very long-suffering partner who has had to listen to far more conversations about websites, email settings and business ideas than anyone reasonably should.
Family is a big part of my life, and I think that comes through in the way I work too. I like being useful, getting things sorted and taking a few things off someone else’s plate.
That is really what Virtually Rory is about: getting things sorted, making life a bit easier and not making things more complicated than they need to be.
A few things worth knowing.
- I fix the actual problem
- If your email is going to spam, the answer might be a DNS record rather than moving you to a new provider. I’d rather fix the actual problem than sell you something around it.
- You deal with me
- Every email, every call, every task. There’s no handover to someone you’ve never met.
- I take access seriously
- Separate logins where the software allows it, credentials shared securely, never by email, and only the permissions I actually need. I’m ICO registered and insured too.
- Plain English
- I’ve spent long enough working with tech to explain things without the jargon. You’ll know what I’ve done, what changed and why.
And this is Dotty.
Chief Morale Officer. Chihuahua. She is not involved in client work, but she does supervise it from the sofa, and she has strong opinions about the postman.
Want to know if I can help?
Send me a message or book a free 15-minute call. Tell me what you need help with and I’ll let you know whether I’m the right person for it. If I’m not, I’ll say so.
No hard sell. Just a quick chat.