The system of record your operation actually runs on
Somewhere in your company, a spreadsheet is doing a platform's job — quoting, scheduling, dispatching, reconciling. We build the operational platforms that replace that layer: one source of truth, shaped to your workflows, fast enough for the people who use it all day.
What an operational platform covers
The four capabilities most operations need under one roof — scoped to yours in the diagnosis.
Order & job management
Every order, job or booking in one place — statuses, documents, margins and history attached, searchable in seconds.
Scheduling & dispatch
Boards that show capacity, conflicts and cost as you plan — not after. Drag-and-drop where it helps, automation where it's rote.
Pricing & quoting engines
Complex tariffs, surcharges and margin rules encoded once — so quotes take minutes and every one is priced with intent.
Live operational reporting
Margins, utilisation and exceptions computed from real activity — not assembled by hand every Friday.
Replacing a spreadsheet layer without stopping the business
The platform earns trust workflow by workflow — nothing is switched off until its replacement has proven itself.
Map the operation
We shadow the people doing the work and read the spreadsheets they've built. The formulas are requirements — nobody writes a macro for fun.
Replace one workflow at a time
The platform goes live workflow by workflow, running alongside the old way until the numbers match. No big-bang cutover.
Wire the edges
Accounting, carriers, ERP, customer systems — integrated with monitoring and retries, so data is entered once, anywhere.
Harden and hand over
Roles and permissions, audit logs, runbooks and training. The platform becomes infrastructure your team operates with confidence.
What ships with every platform
Not just screens — the assets that make a system of record safe to depend on.
Common questions
Can you replace our spreadsheets without disrupting operations?
Yes — that's the default plan. The platform takes over one workflow at a time, running in parallel with the old way until your team trusts the numbers. Nothing is switched off until its replacement has proven itself.
Do you migrate our historical data?
Yes. Migration is scoped as its own milestone, with verification reports that reconcile old against new — totals, counts and spot checks — before anything goes live.
Our process changes often. Won't the platform go stale?
The parts that change — tariffs, rules, statuses, templates — are built as configuration your team edits, not code that needs us. And under a dedicated-team or retainer model, evolving the platform is the point.
How long until we're using it?
First working software in week two; a focused v1 typically runs 2–3 months across 3–4 milestones. Quoting or scheduling usually goes live well before the full platform.
A freight operator cut quote time from 4 hours to 6 minutes
Twelve spreadsheets and three legacy tools became one quoting and dispatch platform — in production from week six.
Read the case study →More custom software
Customer-facing products →
Portals, marketplaces and SaaS products — from first release to real revenue.
Internal tools →
Admin panels, approval flows, dashboards and pricing engines your team actually adopts.
Legacy modernisation →
Strangler-pattern replacement of systems too critical to switch off — no downtime.
The full practice →
Everything we do in custom software.
What's your spreadsheet layer costing you?
The diagnosis session is free — we'll find out together, and tell you honestly if a platform isn't the answer.