
Practice · Operating software
Software built for the work.
Websites, dashboards, and operational systems delivered with the same discipline that commissions our water and energy projects. Owned outright by the client, documented from day one, and built to hold under scrutiny. Discovery, build, and a documented handover run under one named partner, with stewardship retained after go-live.
- Established
- 2003
- Practice
- Partner-led
- Regional hubs
- 6
- Handover
- Documented
Representative engagement posture for operating-software mandates. Stack, licensing, and handover scope are fixed in the written brief.
Regional desks
Austria and Nigeria, held through city desks.
Vienna, Lagos, and Abuja carry priority-market review and field delivery. Accra, Lisbon, and Bucharest remain available for regional coordination.
Mandate fit
Digital systems governed like infrastructure.
The digital brief is treated like a commissioning package: ownership, risk, performance, data flow, and handover are fixed before production build.
- 01
Operating case
The workflow, audience, and failure cost are written before interface work.
- 02
Resilient delivery
Security, performance, accessibility, and editorial control are baseline.
- 03
Named stewardship
Hosting, monitoring, and change control stay with the same accountable team.
Capabilities
Software that holds its shape under load.
Purpose-built systems for organisations where downtime, data loss, or a brittle interface carry real operational cost. Not templates, not low-code, not outsourced.
Corporate and institutional websites
Next.js sites with accessibility, performance, and editorial workflows built in. Designed for regulated industries where copy, structure, and compliance change often.
Operator and control dashboards
Custom dashboards over SCADA, historian, and plant data. Built to replace fragile Excel workflows with auditable, role-controlled interfaces.
Commissioning and validation portals
Branded portals for issuing validation packs, acceptance test records, and O&M documentation to clients, regulators, and insurers.
Customer and booking systems
Payment, scheduling, and client portal software for service businesses with complex product catalogues. Multi-currency, multi-locale, auditable.
Integrations and data pipelines
ERP, CRM, and IoT integrations where operating data needs to land cleanly in business systems without custom middleware that no one maintains.
Hosting, monitoring, and stewardship
We host what we build. VPS infrastructure, uptime monitoring, quarterly reviews, and a named technical lead on the account.
Delivery
Survey. Design. Build. Steward.
Four stages, one partner across all of them. From written brief to retained hosting.
Engagement cadence
i–iv · single partner
- Listen
Survey
Stakeholder interviews, workflow mapping, and a written brief of what the system must do, and what it must never do.
1 – 2 weeks
- Write
Design
Information architecture, security model, and data flow issued as a stamped package. Scope fixed before any code is written.
2 – 3 weeks
- Deliver
Build + commission
Fortnightly demos, full test pass, and production cutover under the name of the partner who signed the brief.
6 – 12 weeks
- Hold
Stewardship
Hosting, monitoring, quarterly reviews, and a retained line back to the engineers who built the system.
Retained
One partner signs across all four stages. No subcontracted handovers.
Next step
A short call, a written scope.
Thirty minutes to understand what the system has to do, who uses it, and what it must never do. You leave with a written brief and a realistic cost estimate.