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Your team shouldn’t be doing the
invoicing
by hand.
We’re a small team of senior software and AI engineers. We find the manual work slowing your business down, then replace it with systems that are built properly, measured, and yours to keep.
- Revenue
- $5M to $100M a year
- Team
- 5 to 200 people
- Industry
- Any. Most of ours are hands-on businesses
- Tender pricing
- Invoice processing
- Permit conditions
- Technical questions
- AI operations assistant
- Time capture
- Hours verification
- Payroll
- Site records
- Live job costing
- Budget vs actual reporting
- Forecast to complete
- Invoice reconciliation
- Project scheduling
- Exception handling
- Customer support
- Plan data extraction
- Admin workflows
- Enquiries and bookings
- Assessment and marking
Why we exist
Most growing businesses run on a few people who know how everything works, and a lot of copying between systems. We find that work, engineer it out, and give your best people their time back.
Selected work
Systems we’ve built for real businesses.
20 systems across 10 industries. Every system is real, and every result is one we measured.
What we do
Software engineering first. AI where it earns its place.
Most of the value is in unglamorous work done properly: the integration, the edge cases, the checks. We use AI where it’s the best tool for the job, and not where it isn’t.
The jobs your team does by copying data from one place to another. Invoices, dockets, approvals, timesheets and the weekly report.
- Invoices
- Approvals
- Reporting
How we work
Four steps. Nothing hidden.
The same process whether it’s one workflow or the whole back office. You always know what’s being built, why, and what it’s worth.
- 1
A conversation
You tell us how the business runs and where the time goes. We ask a lot of questions. No pitch deck, no obligation.
- 2
A clear scope
We map the workflows, pick the ones worth automating, and agree in writing what gets built, how it plugs in, and how success is measured.
- 3
The build
Senior engineers build it inside the tools you already use. You see working software early and often, not a big reveal at the end.
- 4
Handover, then results
Tested, monitored and documented, running in accounts you own. We measure it against the baseline and stay on if you want us to.
You own it
The code, the data and the accounts are in your name from day one.
People stay in the loop
Anything uncertain goes to a person. Nothing is guessed.
Measured, not promised
A baseline before, the numbers after, and the working shown.
Built to last
Tests, logging, monitoring and a runbook, so it keeps working after we leave.
About us
A small team of specialists.
We’re software and AI engineers who came up inside construction, engineering and operations businesses before we built software for them. Between us we’ve priced tenders, drafted subdivisions, run payroll and built a fifteen-person business from nothing.
So the first conversation doesn’t start with you explaining what a purchase order is. You deal directly with the engineers building your system: no account managers, no offshore hand-offs, no layer between what you say and what gets built.
Who we work with
- Owner-led businesses turning over $5M to $100M a year
- Teams of 5 to 200, usually with a small office carrying a lot
- Processes that still run on spreadsheets, inboxes and re-keying
- Owners who want it done properly, not a demo that never ships
Any industry. If your business moves physical things, people or paperwork, we’ll probably recognise the problem.
- systems built for real businesses
- 20
systems built for real businesses
- industries, from site to boardroom
- 10
industries, from site to boardroom
- shipping production AI since
- 2022
shipping production AI since
Start a project
Tell us what’s slowing you down.
Two minutes. No sales call to book, no deck. Just what the work is and who’s doing it.
- 01
Within a day
We read it properly and reply, usually with a few questions about how the work runs today.
- 02
A conversation
Thirty minutes with the engineers who would build it. If it’s not worth doing, we’ll say so.
- 03
A written scope
What gets built, how it plugs in, how we’ll measure it, and when it’s done.