Local AI · Information visualisation · Process automation
Software that fits your business — not the other way around.
We're two senior engineers. We build the systems you can't buy off the shelf: a private AI that answers from your own documents, in your own house; dashboards and CRMs over data you can actually trust; automation that ends the retyping. Shipped to production in weeks, not quarters — and yours to keep, on your own infrastructure.
The problem
Off-the-shelf doesn't fit. Big consulting doesn't scale down.
Somewhere in your operation there's a process everyone knows should be automated, and somehow never is. The reasons are always the same:
- A process runs on someone's patience. Every day a person retypes, copies, reconciles, forwards: work a machine should be doing, done by hand because no tool ever fit.
- Off-the-shelf almost fits. The product you priced does a hundred things; you need seven. And for those seven, it still forces its own workflow onto your team.
- Per-seat pricing punishes you. Software rent grows with your headcount, forever: whether the tool fits or not, whether you use it or not.
- The big firms quote programs, not projects. You asked for a tool; the proposal came back with a steering committee, a discovery phase, and two quarters.
- Hiring in-house makes no sense. One project's worth of work doesn't justify a developer's salary, so the project simply never gets built.
- AI is everywhere — except where your data may go. Everyone around you is using it; your confidential files can't end up in a public chatbot. So your business watches from the sidelines.
- The workaround becomes the system. A spreadsheet beside the "real" software, email as the database, a whiteboard as the planner. It works — until the one person who runs it is on leave.
Between buying a platform and commissioning a program sits a gap: systems too specific for a product, too small for a consultancy, and exactly the size of the processes a real business runs on. That gap is where we work.
What we offer
Three offerings. One rule: it's yours.
Not "digital transformation" — three concrete things we build and run. Start with the one that hurts most; underneath they share one foundation, and each makes the next one easier.
Local & private AI
A company-internal AI assistant that answers from your own documents and data, running on infrastructure you control, up to a model that never leaves your building. We deliver the whole thing: the software, the integration, and the right hardware, sized to the job. The usefulness of modern AI, on your terms — a data-protection story you can tell your clients with a straight face.
See how it works Offering 02Information visualisation
One live picture of your operation — dashboards, and the systems of record behind them: a CRM shaped to how you actually sell, a tenant overview, an order book. The difference to classic BI tools: they assume clean, connected data already exists. It rarely does. We do the mile before the chart — reconcile, unify, structure — so the numbers can be trusted and everything downstream runs smoother.
See how it works Offering 03Process automation
The retyping, copying, and reconciling between your systems, done by software instead of someone's patience. Files and emails that enter themselves into the system, reports that assemble themselves, a number typed once appearing everywhere. Built around one concrete workflow at a time, on the tools your team already uses.
See how it worksIn practice, that looks like this: the first is live in production today; the rest show the shape of what the same approach produces:
Plain answers from your own data
Ask a question in plain language, get an answer from your own database: read-only, with data flows you approve, up to a model that runs entirely on your own hardware.
A live operations dashboard
A commodity-procurement operation ran on a dozen daily Excel reports, emailed around. Now a file is emailed in and the dashboard updates about five seconds later: one live view of the whole operation, with every number checked on arrival.
Order intake, without the retyping
Orders arrive by email and someone types them into the accounting system. A small parser does it instead, and flags anything unusual for a human to look at first.
An assistant that knows your paperwork
Contracts, offers, correspondence — ask "what did we agree with X?" and get the answer with the source document instead of a folder hunt. It runs where your files live: on your own hardware, if nothing may leave the building.
A tenant & lease CRM
Tenants, leases, rents, and deadlines — kept today in folders and one person's memory — become one system that knows when every contract renews and who hasn't paid. The same shape carries any customer book: a CRM built around your actual process.
The month-end pack, on one click
The report a controller spends three days assembling builds itself: same numbers, same layout the boss expects, in minutes instead of days.
None of these needs a platform. Each is one scoped build, and they compound: the clean, machine-readable data behind a dashboard is exactly what a private AI answers from and what an automation acts on.
How we work
One system at a time: scope, build, run.
Scope
We sit with the people who actually do the work and map one process end to end. You get a fixed-price proposal, and an honest recommendation, including "a tool you already own can do this" when that's true.
Build
Senior engineers only, no handoffs, no junior pyramid. You see a first working version within weeks, running on your real data, and it adapts to how your team works.
Run
We hand over a system your own people can operate: plain-language guides, an operator runbook, no proprietary dependencies. Keep us on a retainer for changes and the next process — or don't. It's yours either way.
We build around your process, not over it.
Your team keeps working the way it already works: the system adapts to them, down to honoring habits like "copy yesterday's sheet, change the numbers." That's why what we build actually gets used.
Right-sized, boring, ownable.
One inexpensive server, portable open formats, a front end one person can maintain. No framework fashion, no licence meter, nothing exotic to hire for later.
Honest scoping.
If off-the-shelf fits, we say so. If a process isn't worth automating, we say that too. And we'll tell you when you've outgrown our architecture, because nobody else will.
AI, in its place.
When private AI is the thing you want, it's our first offering, delivered on your terms, up to fully offline on your own hardware. In everything else, AI is leverage, not the product: it makes us faster and your system better, is never a requirement, and you always decide what it may see.
Data sovereignty
Your data lives in your house — as architecture, not as a promise.
For many businesses — advisors, practices, anyone holding trade secrets or personal records — the real blocker to new software is rarely the price. The question is "where does our data end up?" Our answer is built into the construction, the same for the AI, the dashboards, and the automation:
On your servers, or in your building.
Everything we build runs on infrastructure you control — your own hardware, or a single EU server rented in your name. Not on a US SaaS platform, not scattered across vendor clouds.
No third parties you didn't approve.
No per-seat cloud tools passing your records around, no trackers, no hidden services. Open, portable formats: a database and files you can copy, back up, and walk away with.
AI strictly on your terms.
If a solution includes AI at all, you approve exactly what it may see. And where nothing may leave the building, the model runs on your own hardware — offline.
A GDPR story you can actually tell.
When someone asks "where is our data and who touches it?", the answer fits in one sentence: on our own server, in the EU — or in our building. Few processors, written agreements, no surprises.
This website practices what it preaches: it loads nothing from third parties: no trackers, no external fonts, no analytics.
Proof
We've shipped this — to production, not to a slide deck.
Our flagship engagement: a mid-size procurement operation in Kazakhstan ran its entire daily reporting on roughly a dozen hand-kept Excel layouts, emailed around, reconciled by eye. We built the system that reads those files as they are, checks every number against the totals the files themselves carry, and publishes a live dashboard — about five seconds after a file is emailed in. Then we redesigned the worst entry templates with the staff who keep them, side by side with the old ones, so the cutover was reversible.
- Runs 24/7 on one small server, with guides and a runbook the owner's own people can follow
- No manual rekeying anywhere in the daily flow — file in, dashboard updated
- Nine of ten reporting templates modernized with the people who use them
- Real errors surfaced that had looked like correct data, including a 2,500-unit contract that "summed" to 4,601
That's one engagement, told honestly — not a logo wall. It's the depth we bring to the next specific process, whatever industry it lives in. And we'll always tell you what new ground costs.
Candor
Who this is for — and who it isn't.
You're a fit if
- You run an owner-led or operations-heavy business, and there's a process you know should be automated that never gets done.
- You've priced the software and the consultancy, and neither answer felt right-sized.
- You want to own the tool outright: no subscription, no platform, no dependency on us by design.
- One process matters enough to fix properly, and you want the people who build it in the room, with no account manager between you.
- Your data is sensitive enough that "just put it in a cloud tool" — or "just paste it into a public chatbot" — was never really an option.
Not a fit — yet — if
- You need enterprise SSO, hundreds of user accounts, or multi-server scale from day one.
- You want a full ERP replacement. We automate specific processes; we don't rip out core systems wholesale.
- Our architecture is right-sized for one operation or a small team. When you outgrow it, you'll hear it from us first.
Fair questions
The six things buyers ask us.
Why not just buy software for this?
Sometimes you should, and our scoping says so when it's true. But when the process is specific to how you work, custom fits better and often costs less over time: one fixed price instead of rent that grows with your headcount.
We have Excel and a BI tool — why isn't that enough?
A BI tool draws whatever it's handed, duplicates and drift included. Our work starts earlier: getting your data clean, connected, and trustworthy in the first place. Once it's machine-readable, everything downstream gets easier; the dashboard is only the visible end of it.
Can AI really be useful without the cloud?
Yes. Current open models run well on a single machine in your office, and for answering from your own documents and data they're more than enough. We size the model to the job and say where a bigger cloud model would do better; then you decide what, if anything, it may see.
Isn't custom software a maintenance trap?
Only when it's built clever. We build boring on purpose: a portable database, plain files, a front end one person can own, handed over with guides and a runbook your own people can follow.
How can two people outpace a firm?
No pyramid, no handoffs, no one learning on your invoice. The people you talk to are the people who build, with modern tooling we operate ourselves, and nothing lost in translation between salespeople, managers, and engineers.
You're two people. What if you disappear?
Everything we ship is built to outlive us: plain-language guides, an operator runbook, code with no proprietary dependencies. Any competent developer can pick it up, and we put maintenance terms in writing.
How to start
Tell us what eats your week.
A scoping conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing. Describe what you're dealing with — a process done by hand, numbers nobody trusts, data that can't go to a cloud — and we'll tell you which it is: buy, build, or leave it alone. If it's build, you get a fixed-price proposal you can take anywhere.