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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.

9+ yrsLongest ERP engagement
99.5%Attendance accuracy
~95%Less time fraud

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The discipline

Your operation runs on tribal knowledge and forty tabs.

Discipline05 / 14
FocusOperations software
Proof9+ yrs longest ERP engagement
EngagementSenior-led · 30-day warranty

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 9 years and counting.

What you get

One system of record.

The operational core, one module at a time — each one replacing a spreadsheet or a workaround that was never meant to last.

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 live operational data, with no 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

No big-bang go-live.

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, workarounds included, 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. Engagements running 9 years are our reference case.

Your product could be the next case on this page.

Start with a free 4-hour workshop
Running on real shifts

From tap-in to payday.

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

TapTime

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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

The same stack our own products run on.

Your ERP carries payroll and money, so every tool here is one an auditor can trace and a new engineer can pick up quickly.

Node.jsPostgresRedisTemporalMetabaseKeycloakDockerAWSFlutter (mobile modules)
Before you ask

Asked by every ops lead we meet.

Cost, rollout, risk: the eight answers that decide most ERP conversations.

Anything we missed?

Put it in a brief. A senior engineer reads it and replies within one business day.

Why 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.

How 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, and the old process is switched off only once its replacement has proven itself.

Can 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 just another report.

What does a custom ERP cost?

Module by module, with a fixed price agreed before we start. After a free 4-hour workshop we scope the first module and quote it in writing. The cost depends mostly on how many processes and roles it covers, which systems it talks to and how much data moves over from the old tools. You stop paying per-seat licences for good — most clients break even within a couple of years.

How 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.

Can 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.

What 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.

Why 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.