Practical, hands-on systems work: network design, access-control and door-entry systems, telephony/SIP integration, vendor and contract negotiation, and getting legacy infrastructure back under control. VEDAT gets involved at the level of cabling, configuration, and contracts — not just a slide deck of recommendations. Recent work has included access-control installations for housing cooperatives, SIP/VoIP configuration, and resolving disputed supplier contracts.

One-to-one and small-group guidance for people who didn't sign up to become technical experts but now have to make technical decisions — housing cooperative boards, small organisations, and research staff. This covers reading a technical quote or contract critically, understanding what a vendor is actually proposing, and building the internal confidence to ask the right follow-up question.

Research, analysis, and database design for institutions working on international security, early warning, and foreign policy — drawing on three decades inside the research infrastructure of a leading international peace research institute, EU FP7 security-research projects, and cooperation with UN, EU, and academic partners on early-warning and international-relations data.