Built by someone who needed it.
Athena started with a frustration, not a business plan. After years of building SharePoint intranets by hand, I was tired of two things: how long the manual setup took, and how ordinary the result looked when it was done. Athena is what I built to fix both.
My career started on an assembly line, building PCs and laptops in the days of Windows 3.1. I was there through Windows 95, the Y2K scare, and everything after. Microsoft technology has been in my blood the whole way. I was an early adopter of what became Microsoft 365, picked up web development skills along the way, and in 2009 I struck out on my own and started a small managed service provider.
We did a bit of everything: helpdesk, domain registrations and renewals, connectivity, graphic design, websites. But the core was always Microsoft 365 migrations. I was there when SharePoint Server was buggy and awkward back in 2007, and I was there when SharePoint Online arrived. I started moving clients off on-premises file shares and old SharePoint farms into the cloud as fast as they were ready to go.
Then I found the SharePoint Framework, and something clicked. The artistic side of me that enjoyed designing client websites could finally be put to work inside SharePoint Online. I had always been frustrated by the limits of Microsoft's off-the-shelf webparts. SPFx meant I no longer had to accept them.
Lockdown was the turning point. Suddenly I was migrating intranet after intranet to support teams who no longer saw each other in person, and I cared a great deal about making those digital workplaces somewhere people actually wanted to spend time. But the building of them was painfully slow. Setting up sites, structure, and permissions by hand, click after click, ate the hours I would rather have spent on the part that mattered: making the intranet engaging.
So I automated it. I wrote a PowerShell system using PnP to spin up and permission a complete intranet in one pass. I called it the Orchestrator. That tool has come a very long way since 2020. Today it is an Athena webpart: a setup wizard that scaffolds a full hub-and-spoke intranet in minutes, so the time you save goes back into the work that people notice. The Orchestrator handles the plumbing. The box of artistry tools makes it beautiful.
For MSPs and agencies
Here is what we believe. If building an intranet is fast, repeatable, and frankly enjoyable, it stops being a specialist project and becomes a service you can offer every client.
Most MSPs and agencies leave intranet work on the table because it means hiring or retaining a SharePoint specialist, and good ones are expensive and hard to find. Athena removes that barrier. The Orchestrator does the heavy lifting that used to need an expert, and the design comes premium out of the box, so your team can deliver an intranet you would be proud to put your name on, in days rather than weeks. It runs inside the client's own Microsoft 365 tenant, with no third-party platform to manage and no per-user pricing that punishes them for growing. For you, that is a new line of recurring revenue attached to engagements you are already winning.
Athena is the product of Lewis Enright Limited, a UK company, and it is founder-led by people who do this work for a living rather than talk about it. I lead the product and the SharePoint craft. Katie is our managing director and the business brain behind the company. She spent years as a senior manager at a multinational insurer, grew tired of the corporate world, and now puts that experience into running Lewis Enright Limited properly. She is also, for what it is worth, the reason any of this got off the ground.
We are independent, we are based in the UK, and we answer our own emails. When you talk to us, you are talking to the people who build the thing.
Athena is the tool I always wished I had. Start a free trial and see what you can build with it.