Idea to workflow.
Two systems that never spoke, connected and then left alone. The morning export stops being somebody's job.
If any of this sounds familiar.
Someone exports a CSV every morning, and it holds until they take leave.
A person is the integration between two systems, and nobody wrote down what they do.
Your portal, your spreadsheet and your accounting each hold a different version of the truth.
What comes out.
The point is not the pipeline. The point is that nobody has to think about it again.
Continuous
Records move as they change, rather than once a morning when somebody remembers.
One definition
The number means the same thing in every place it appears, because there is one place it is calculated.
Same day
A discrepancy surfaces the day it happens. That is the difference between a correction and an investigation.
Somewhere to look
A dashboard that reads from the warehouse rather than from four exports of different ages.
Yours
Infrastructure in your accounts, defined in code, handed over with the keys.
Half of these should not be built.
A lot of what looks like an integration problem is a process problem wearing a costume. If the two systems disagree because two teams enter things differently, connecting them faster only spreads it faster. We will say so before quoting, which is why the first conversation costs nothing.
What it runs on.
- AWS
- Azure
- Docker
- Terraform
- n8n
- Make.com
- SQL
- Snowflake
- Power BI
- Tableau
- ArcGIS
- HubSpot
- Dynamics
- Salesforce
- Zoho
What we will not do.
- Automate a process that should be fixed first.
- Build a warehouse when a scheduled export would have done the job.
- Move your data somewhere you cannot get it back out of.
- Leave you with something only we know how to maintain.
Questions we get asked.
Including the two kinds of business this comes up in most.
Do you work with logistics and back office teams?
Constantly, and the situation is usually identical: two systems that do not exchange data, bridged by one person and a spreadsheet. It holds until that person is unavailable, and discrepancies surface at month end rather than on the day.
Connecting the two is the small half. Making a discrepancy visible the day it happens is the half that changes the month.
What about property and asset management?
Yes. The portal, the spreadsheet and the accounting system each hold a different version of the same record, and reconciling them is a recurring monthly exercise with no output beyond agreement.
That is a one-definition problem before it is an integration problem, which is why the first conversation is about where the number is calculated rather than about tooling.
Do we need a data warehouse?
Often not, and it is the thing most likely to be sold to you anyway. A scheduled export answers a surprising number of these. We will say when a warehouse earns its keep and when it is a larger version of a problem you do not have.
What if our systems have no API?
It is workable, and it is also where most of the cost goes when it happens. A documented API is straightforward; working around a system that does not want to be automated is not. We would rather tell you that before quoting than after.
Where does our data end up living?
In your accounts. Infrastructure is provisioned in your name, defined in code, and handed over with the keys. We will not move your data somewhere you cannot get it back out of.
Is this worth doing if it is only a few hours a week?
Sometimes not, and we will say so. The honest test is whether those hours are load-bearing. An hour only one person can do, or that stops when they take leave, costs more than an hour anybody can pick up.
Tell us the idea.
You do not need a spec. Tell us what you want the business to do and we will tell you whether it is worth building, including when the honest answer is not yet.
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What it costs
The first conversation costs nothing, and you keep what comes out of it either way.