Enterprise Software
The systems that run your business for a decade, not a quarter.
Most enterprise software we meet was not designed for its third year. It limps forward on patches until somebody proposes a full rewrite. We do not work that way. Every system we build is shaped on day one for its operators — the people who will run it when we are gone. Clear boundaries. Boring technology. An obvious place to add the next feature.
Offerings in this practice
Greenfield line-of-business systems
CRMs, ERPs, portals, and workflow engines built with a ten-year horizon. We design for the second team — the one that will maintain it.
Legacy modernisation
Strangle-fig migrations out of monoliths, AS/400s, and vendor platforms that have outlived their purpose. Incremental, reversible, business-as-usual during.
System integration
Integrating your ERP, CRM, accounting, and custom systems through well-behaved APIs, idempotent messaging, and event contracts that outlast any one project.
Engineering team embedding
Senior engineers embedded with your team to raise the bar — code review, architecture, mentoring — with a defined handover milestone.
What "done" looks like.
- 01 A codebase your own team can modify without calling us.
- 02 Documented architectural decisions that make the next trade-off easier, not harder.
- 03 A deployment story that a small ops team can run, reliably, with pager rotations that do not burn people out.
- 04 Measurable reduction in total cost of ownership versus the vendor platform you are replacing.
Thinking about replacing — or rescuing — a business system?
We will spend two weeks in your codebase and your business, and come back with a plan you can act on.