About

We gear up when the air should be out.

2nd wind is a specialist IT and security team for law firms, financial firms and engineering and architecture practices, with offices in Munich and London.

The name

Why 2nd wind.

Runners know the moment. Somewhere in a long race your legs go heavy and your breath runs short. That’s the wall. Push through it and something changes: your breathing settles and you find strength you didn’t know you had. That’s your second wind.

IT tends to fail firms at exactly those moments: the night before a filing deadline or a submission, the weekend a provider walks away, the week an auditor or an investor asks for proof. Our job is to be the strength you find when everyone else has run out of air.

When others run out of air, we have more to give.

Who we are

A specialist team, led by its founder.

2nd wind is a team of IT specialists: engineers on the service desk who fix what they pick up, a project team for migrations and CAD and BIM environments, and security specialists who keep the paperwork in order. Every client gets a TechPilot from the team: a named senior lead who owns the result and sits at the table when you decide.

Alan Zacher founded 2nd wind and leads it as managing director. He built it as the opposite of what he saw firms put up with: gatekeepers in front of the engineers, prices that depend on who’s asking, and shrugs when a problem sits between two vendors.

Meet the role How we prove ourselves

Alan Zacher Founder and managing director

How we work

From first principles.

We don’t start from what’s usual. We start from what has to be true for your firm, and build only that.

Our approach First-principles IT

Automation first Anything we do twice gets automated, so changes happen faster, mistakes don’t repeat and every machine is set up the same.
One identity for order and security Everyone gets exactly what their role needs, and access is granted and withdrawn in one place.
IT in the background We’re here to enable, not to get in the way. The goal: your people never have to think about IT.
Fix fast → solve deep → prevent for good First you’re working again, then we find the cause, then we fix it so it doesn’t come back.
Evidence by default Backups we’ve restored, controls we’ve tested, and the record ready before an insurer, a client or a regulator asks.

Our offices

Munich and London.

Our Munich office is run by 2nd wind GmbH, our London office by 2nd wind IT Limited.

Munich 2nd wind GmbH Ludwigstraße 8, 80539 Munich Explore London 2nd wind IT Limited 124 City Road, London EC1V 2NX Explore

Start

Talk it through.

30 minutes with a senior engineer. Deadlines and risk, not buzzwords. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so.

Book a call Meet your TechPilot

No first level
No surprises
Pilot before you buy