Make Safety Easy
Safety compliance software for operations that get inspected.
Stop working around your software.
We build software that works around your business.
Your business has its own processes, its own people and its own way of talking about the work. Your software should fit those. Most software asks you to do it the other way round.
Your business probably has too much software.
You have probably said at least one of these out loud.
- “We are using spreadsheets for something that got too important for spreadsheets.”
- “Our people enter the same information more than once.”
- “We are still running paper in the field.”
- “Our systems do not talk to each other.”
- “The software almost does what we need. Not quite.”
- “Management cannot see what is happening without asking someone.”
- “One person knows how the whole process works.”
- “We have grown. The systems have not.”
- “We pay for several systems and there are still gaps.”
The individual tools are not the problem. The problem is that none of them were built around the way your company actually works, so your people spend their day bridging the gaps by hand.
- Spreadsheets
- Paper forms
- Shared drives
- Two SaaS tools
- Manual re-entry
See it working before you commit.
You should not have to approve a major software project on the strength of a proposal and a handful of screenshots. So we build a working proof first. The part of your workflow that matters most, running as real software, using your terminology and your process. You test it against the way you actually work. If it holds up, we build the rest together.
The scope of that proof is agreed before we start, so nobody is guessing what they are getting.
We start with your business. Not our software.
Spreadsheets, paper, double entry, systems that will not talk. Those are the problems we take on. We work them out in five steps, and the third one is a working piece of your system that you use before you commit to the rest.
Why not just buy something off the shelf?
Sometimes you should. If a product already does the job we will tell you, and that will be the cheapest advice you get all week.
Off the shelf
Change your business to fit the software.
Apex
Build the software around the business.
Built around your workflow.
Not configured. Not customised at the edges. Built for the way the work actually moves through your company.
We know operational businesses.
Field work, approvals, handoffs and records that have to hold up when somebody asks for them later. That is most of what we have built.
Real software, not mockups.
Systems we built and run in production. Not prototypes, not screenshots.
You see it before you commit.
The working proof puts the risk of choosing wrong on us instead of on you.
We do not start from zero.
We have built this kind of system before and we reuse the foundations we have already proven, so you are not paying for us to learn.
This is not a portfolio of concepts.
Some of the systems we have built and run ourselves. Deployed, in production, not pitch decks.
NVES EnviroLog
Environmental compliance software, built in British Columbia.
We are built for companies where:
- Work happens in the field
- Multiple people touch the same process
- Information gets entered more than once
- Paper still exists
- Managers need information from multiple systems
- Compliance matters
- There are expensive mistakes when information gets lost
- One or two people know how everything works
If four or five of those describe your company, we will understand your problem quickly.
Construction, industrial, manufacturing, environmental, transport, marine and field services are where we have spent most of our time, but the pattern matters more than the industry.
We are probably not the right fit if:
- You need a brochure website. That is a different job and other people do it well.
- You are shopping for the cheapest developer. We will not be the cheapest quote.
- You have an app idea but no business running yet. We build around existing operations.
- An off the shelf product already does the job. We will tell you if we think one does.
Saying this upfront saves both of us a month of finding it out slowly.
What is not working?
Do not worry about explaining the software. You do not need to know what the answer looks like.
Tell us what is slowing your business down. Maybe it is spreadsheets. Maybe it is paper. Maybe it is five systems that do not talk. Maybe it is a process everyone hates and nobody has had time to fix.
Tell us how you are doing it today and we will tell you whether we think we can build something better.