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Retire the spreadsheet empire.

Finance, operations, HR and inventory unified into one live, auditable system — workflows that enforce themselves, numbers that reconcile themselves.

8 yrsLongest ERP engagement
99.5%Attendance accuracy
~95%Less time fraud
The discipline

Your operation runs on tribal knowledge and forty tabs.

Discipline05 / 14
FocusOperations software
Proof8 yrs longest ERP engagement
EngagementSenior-led · Lifetime support

Every growing company hits the same wall: the spreadsheet that runs payroll, the WhatsApp group that runs procurement, the one person who knows how invoicing actually works. It functions — until the volume doubles, the auditor calls, or that one person resigns.

We replace it with an ERP shaped around how your business actually operates — not a 400-module monolith you bend yourself around. Built module by module, adopted team by team, with audit trails on everything. One client has run on ours for eight years and counting.

What you get

One system of record.

The operational core, module by module — each one replacing a spreadsheet, a workaround, or a prayer.

01

HR & payroll

Contracts, attendance, leave and payroll runs — connected to time-tracking with biometric and NFC clock-in.

02

Inventory & procurement

Live stock levels, reorder automation and supplier workflows that close the gap between floor and finance.

03

Accounting & invoicing

Invoices, approvals and reconciliation flowing from real operational data — not month-end archaeology.

04

Workflow automation

Approvals, escalations and hand-offs enforced by the system — with full audit trails for every action.

05

Operational dashboards

Live views per role: the floor sees tasks, managers see exceptions, leadership sees the whole machine.

06

Integrations

Banks, payment providers, e-commerce and legacy tools wired in — so data is entered once, everywhere.

How we deliver

Adoption first, big-bang never.

ERP projects fail by decree. Ours land because each module wins its users before the next one starts.

01Shadow the operation

We map how work actually flows — including the workarounds — before designing the system that replaces them.

02One module, one win

The most painful process goes first. It ships in weeks and pays for the project’s credibility internally.

03Migrate without drama

Parallel runs, reconciliation reports and rollback plans. The old spreadsheet retires when the numbers match.

04Extend for years

New modules join on the same data spine. Eight-year engagements are our reference case, not our anomaly.

Proof, not promises

We have shipped this before.

A workforce module we built into FeelEat’s operations — clock-in to payroll, synced to the ERP in real time.

Case study — Mobile · ERP

TapTime

NFC, QR and biometric attendance for multi-site hourly teams — feeding payroll and operations with real-time, fraud-resistant data.

99.5%Accuracy
~95%Less fraud
Real-timeERP sync
Tools we reach for

Chosen for the problem, not the résumé.

Built on the same hireable, auditable stack as our products — because your ERP is a product.

Node.jsPostgresRedisTemporalMetabaseKeycloakDockerAWSFlutter (mobile modules)
Before you ask

Questions, answered.

The things buyers of ERP ask us most. Anything else — put it in a brief, a senior engineer replies within a business day.

Anything we missed?

Put it in a brief. A senior engineer — not a sales rep — replies within one business day.

Q.01Why custom ERP instead of SAP, Odoo or NetSuite?

If an off-the-shelf ERP genuinely fits, we will say so — it is cheaper and we have no licence to sell you. Custom wins when your operation is your edge: unusual workflows, hardware on the floor, or per-seat licence maths that stops scaling.

Q.02How disruptive is the rollout?

Deliberately minimal. Modules go live one at a time with parallel runs against the old process, training included, and rollback ready. Your operation never stops; the spreadsheet retires only when its replacement has proven itself.

Q.03Can it integrate with our accounting software and banks?

Yes — banks, payment providers, tax tools and legacy systems are wired in via APIs or controlled exports. Data is entered once and flows everywhere; reconciliation becomes a report, not a ritual.

Q.04What does a custom ERP cost?

Module by module, with the first one typically in the $25k–$75k range and a fixed price agreed before we start. You stop paying per-seat licences forever — most clients break even within a couple of years.

Q.05How long until we see ROI?

First-module wins typically land in 8–12 weeks — usually a high-pain workflow (purchase orders, payroll prep, inventory reconciliation). Full platform replacement plays out over 12–18 months.

Q.06Can non-technical staff manage it?

Yes. We design admin UIs so operations leads can add users, edit workflows, configure approval chains, and run reports without engineering tickets.

Q.07What about data migration?

Always part of the engagement. We extract from legacy systems (often spreadsheets and ageing databases), validate against business rules, and load with full audit trail. Migration is a project in itself — we scope it explicitly.

Q.08Why not just keep using a no-code tool like Airtable or Monday?

For small teams those are fine, and we'll tell you to stay on them if they fit. We get called when the no-code tool hits limits — no real audit trail, weak permissions, brittle automations, per-record pricing that explodes at scale, or business logic too complex for their formula language. We often migrate directly off Airtable into a purpose-built backend.

Let’s scope it

Which spreadsheet scares you
the most?

Tell us about the process held together by tabs, exports and one indispensable person. We reply within one business day with an honest modular roadmap.