Get in Touch
Custom operational software · Calgary

Switch your business on.

Software built around how your business actually runs, for companies of 20 to 500 people. Delivered in weeks. Owned by you.

Weeksto a first release, not quarters
100%code, data and infrastructure yours
Calgarybuilt and supported here

For manufacturers, builders, field-service and distribution companies, where operations are the business.

  • Manufacturing
  • Construction
  • Field services
  • Distribution

Real systems, running in real businesses.

Not a platform. Each one is built around the way that company already works, then kept growing with it.

Two options. Both a compromise.

Bend the business to fit the software, or depend on whoever wrote it. There is a third way now.

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.

  • Fits like custom.
  • First release in weeks.
  • Cheap to change.
  • Maintainable by anyone capable.
Ownership

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.

Even we aren’t required.

We build every system so you can leave us. Mainstream technology, predictable architecture, no proprietary runtime. Any capable team can pick it up.

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

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

One mission. Five ways in.

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

01

Modernize

Replace the systems everyone works around.

  • Legacy ERP
  • Access databases
  • Data migration
02

Automate

Hand repetitive work to software and AI.

  • Workflows
  • Document processing
  • Approvals
03

Connect

End the re-keying between systems.

  • Integrations
  • APIs
  • One source of truth
04

Build

Apps for the processes no SaaS product fits.

  • Internal tools
  • Portals
  • Mobile & field apps
05

Evolve

Never finished. Never frozen.

  • Continuous delivery
  • Measurement
  • Fractional CTO
Who it’s for

Too complex for spreadsheets. Too specific for an ERP.

  • 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.
Photo: Edward, on a client’s floor
Edward HuntFounder, Anode Group · Calgary, AB

You talk to the person who builds your system, and you keep talking to them after it ships. That is the whole point of being small and senior.

Just need a better website? ANODE SITES

A designed, fully managed business website. No upfront cost. $100/month.

Explore Anode Sites

Start with one workflow.

Tell us which one hurts the most. We will show you it as software you own, and what it would take to get there.

Start the conversation