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Switch yourbusiness on.

Software built around your business. Owned by your business.

Custom operational software, delivered in weeks. The code, data, and infrastructure are yours.

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Most consultancies hand you a deck. We hand you a working system — built around how your business actually runs, then handed over with the keys.

The old tradeoff

Two options.
Both a compromise.

Bend the business to fit the software, or depend on whoever wrote it.

Option A

Off-the-shelf software

  • Fast to buy.
  • Hard to fit.
  • Rented forever.
  • Their roadmap, not yours.
Option B

Traditional custom software

  • Perfect fit.
  • Slow and expensive.
  • Painful to change.
  • Only its builders understand it.
The new model

AI changed the economics.

Custom software was slow, costly to change, and dependent on its author. AI-assisted engineering fixes the first two. We design away the third.

Read the full argument
  • Fits like custom.
  • First release in weeks.
  • Cheap to change.
  • Maintainable by anyone capable.
How we build

The foundation is standard.
The software is yours alone.

The plumbing is proven and shared. Your budget goes on what makes you different.

Bespoke · your business model
A manufacturerCustomersQuotesOrdersBOMsProductionInventoryShipping
A field-services firmCustomersEstimatesWork ordersDispatchSite visitsInvoicing
A distributorSuppliersPurchasingReceivingWarehouseOrdersFulfilment
Standardized · the anode foundation
Identity & authOrganizations & usersRoles & permissionsPostgres data modelAudit loggingAPIsFile storageBackground jobsNotificationsIntegrationsObservabilityDeploymentAutomated testsDocumentationAI-readable context
Where we start

Start with the bottleneck.

No big-bang cutover. One painful workflow, then the next.

01

Understand

Find the workflow costing you the most.

02

Model

Write your business down, explicitly.

03

Build

Working software every week, not status reports.

04

Deploy

Into your team’s hands, on your infrastructure.

05

Improve

Measure. Refine. Pick the next bottleneck.

A loop, not a launch dateWalk through the full journey →
Where it leads

Eventually, the software becomes
the business operating system.

Workflow by workflow, the patchwork becomes one platform.

Replaced
  • Operational spreadsheets
  • Legacy ERP
  • Access databases
  • Manual approvals
  • Paper processes
  • Disconnected SaaS
One system · built around you

Your operational platform

QuotesOrdersProductionInventoryShippingReporting
Kept · integrated
  • Accounting
  • Payments
  • Banking
  • Microsoft 365
  • Payroll
  • Identity

Keep QuickBooks. Keep Microsoft 365. We build the layer that is specific to you.

And it's yours.

Source codeYour repository.Yours.
DataYour database, readable schema.Yours.
InfrastructureYour cloud accounts.Yours.
DocumentationFor the next engineer — human or AI.Yours.
RoadmapSet by you, not a vendor.Yours.
No lock-in

Even we aren't required.

We build every anode system so you can leave us.

Mainstream technology. Predictable architecture. No proprietary runtime. Any capable team can pick it up.

Stay because we keep creating value — not because switching is impossible.

your-company / operationsin every repository
  • README.mdstart here
  • docs/architecture/how it fits together
  • docs/decisions/why it was built this way
  • docs/runbooks/deploy, restore, recover
  • AGENTS.mdcontext for AI engineers
  • src/domain/your business, modelled
  • tests/proof it still works
  • infra/infrastructure as code

Every system ships with its own manual. Never organizational archaeology.

What we do

One mission.
Five ways in.

Strategy, UX, engineering, AI, and cloud — one senior team, end to end.

01

Modernize

Legacy ERPAccess databasesData migrationReplace the systems everyone works around.
02

Automate

WorkflowsDocument processingApprovalsHand repetitive work to software and AI.
03

Connect

IntegrationsAPIsOne source of truthEnd the re-keying between systems.
04

Build

Internal toolsPortalsMobile & field appsApps for the processes no SaaS product fits.
05

Evolve

Continuous deliveryMeasurementFractional CTONever finished. Never frozen.
Who it's for

Too complex for spreadsheets.
Too specific for an ERP.

Businesses of 20 to 500 people — manufacturing, construction, field services, distribution — where operations are the business.

  • Spreadsheets only one person understands.
  • An old ERP or Access database nobody dares touch.
  • The same data keyed into three systems.
  • Approvals living in inboxes and on paper.
  • A dozen SaaS tools that don’t talk to each other.
  • Workflows no off-the-shelf product fits.
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