The kind of partner we wished we'd had when we were on the operating side.
Old Forrest Consulting is a Utah-based firm founded by Christopher Ledbetter and Taylor Westmoreland. We built it to sit in the gap operations-heavy mid-market businesses fall into — too small for the BI consultancies, too complicated for generalist MSPs, and not well served by the sea of single-purpose vendors competing for the budget.
We do what used to take a fractional CTO, an MSP, a BI consultancy, and an integration partner — combined, coordinated, and delivered by the same team that knows your business. AI-enabled where it matters; human where it has to be.
We built Old Forrest to be the kind of partner we wished we'd had when we were on the operating side — honest, fast, and present.
Two operators who've been on the inside.
Christopher Ledbetter
Christopher's background spans technical leadership at NetApp and Dropbox, with hands-on work across infrastructure, data platforms, and AI tooling. He runs the firm — leading engagement strategy, technical architecture, and the AI-enabled workflows that let a small team ship at the pace of an agency. He's the partner on the first call and the one who keeps scope honest from intake through handoff.
chris@oldforrest.netTaylor Westmoreland
Taylor is an aerospace engineer turned operator, with engineering experience at Orbital ATK. He brings the discipline of process-heavy engineering to the integration and configuration work, with a deep instinct for how operations actually run. He's the senior operator on the engagements — the person walking the shop, sitting with leadership, and owning the stack end-to-end.
taylor@oldforrest.netAuthorized testing, defense, and research.
Old Forrest's security work is led by Christopher Ledbetter, the firm's security lead. We run authorized security testing and remediation for client systems under signed engagements — vulnerability identification, exploit validation, credential-exposure review, and patch verification across web applications, infrastructure, and firmware. Alongside the client work, Christopher competes and researches in the open: extracting a conference badge's master signing key and responsibly disclosing a bug in its official firmware uploader at DEF CON, clearing an eleven-lesson CAN-bus vehicle-security course, and playing the SAINTCON Hackers Challenge across web, reverse engineering, cryptanalysis, forensics, and hardware.
- Offensive testing.
Authorized penetration testing and exploit validation against client web applications, infrastructure, and hardware — every test scoped in writing and approved by the system owner before it starts, with findings reported back to the owner.
- Defense & forensics.
Credential-exposure review and remediation, clean-room legacy-software forensics, data recovery, and npm/PyPI supply-chain compromise auditing.
- Research & hardware.
Firmware and hardware reverse engineering, vehicle (CAN-bus) security, and browser-to-hardware (WebUSB) work — the research depth behind the testing.
Four things that don't change.
- Honest about fit.
We tell you on the first call whether we're the right partner. The wrong engagement is bad for both of us.
- Fast where it counts.
AI-enabled where it matters; human where it has to be. Configuration, integration, and dashboard work that took agencies three months takes us three weeks.
- Present after the build.
Most consultants hand off and disappear. We're still here — monitoring, iterating, answering the phone.
- One number to call.
We own the relationships with your CRM, field tools, hardware, internet, and website vendors. You stop being the integration manager for your own business.