About IUXTA

Guardrails in place. Decided. Built. Followed through.

IUXTA – pronounced /juk-sta/ – is a Norwegian, employee-owned professional firm. The name is Latin for "alongside" – which is where we want to stand: alongside management when decisions are made, and alongside operations when they are carried out. We don't profit from making ourselves indispensable.

How we make money

Project deliveries with predictable cost frames, and hourly advisory where the delivery can't be defined up front. Delivery of third-party services (licences, Coldbyte, Arctic Wolf). We have cross-ownership with Coldbyte and say so out loud.

The people
Pål Gran
Pål Gran
Founder and advisor

Used when management or a board needs someone who can translate between finance, law and technology – and take responsibility for getting it done. Background in P&L leadership in the IT industry, including founding blinQ. Business economist. Prefers a coffee to a slide deck.

Artem Borodai
Artem Borodai
Senior consultant and lead engineer

Builds and secures core infrastructure, Azure and M365 environments so they can be run without us: infrastructure as code, identity and devices, certificate and security architecture. Leads the technical deliveries and estimates honestly. Happy to share what he knows.

Formal competence

A selection of our certifications includes ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Implementer (PECB), FinOps Foundation – Practitioner, Technology Value and AI Value 2026 – and Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert. The rest we document in every engagement.

PECB ISO/IEC 27001 Lead ImplementerFinOps Certified PractitionerFinOps Certified Technology Value 2026FinOps Certified AI Value 2026Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Founded 2026 · Eastern Norway · Employee-owned · Org.nr. NO 937 062 389

For management and boards

Have a coffee with Pål.

Thirty minutes, no slides. You tell us what keeps you up at night; we tell you honestly whether we can help – and who to call if we can't.

For IT leaders and architects

Or let Artem look for skeletons.

An hour on screen with whoever runs your environment. No installation, no access – just the questions that tend to surface what's waiting. You get a list; we get an honest conversation about it. If you want to go deeper afterwards, we do it with read access – by agreement.