Can you take over or extend an existing system another vendor built?

Yes — after a technical due-diligence pass so we know what we're inheriting. Roughly a third of our platform engagements begin as rescues or extensions of existing systems.

How do you migrate without stopping the business?

Strangler-pattern migration: the legacy system keeps running while capabilities move module by module, with parallel-run verification before every cutover. Month-end has closed on both systems simultaneously during our transitions — by design.

What does "platform" mean here — is this just custom software?

A platform is software the organisation runs on rather than software it uses: the system of record for a core process, with the integrations, reporting and operational surface around it. The practical difference is lifespan and blast radius. A tool can be replaced over a weekend; a platform is a decision the business lives with for a decade, which is why the discovery and the data model get the attention they do.

Can you build on top of SAP or Oracle rather than replacing them?

Frequently, and it is often the cheaper answer. Where the core does its job and the gap is at the edges — a portal, a field application, a workflow the ERP cannot represent — building around it beats replacing it. The engineering caution is to treat the core as a system with its own availability obligations: read through a staging layer, never let a customer-facing screen depend on an ERP being up.

Who operates the platform after launch?

We do, by default, with the architects who designed it — hypercare first, then a support arrangement scaled to what the platform needs. The alternative is equally available: full handover with documentation, runbooks and knowledge transfer, or a transfer to your own team on an agreed date. Which one is chosen at the start, because it changes how much of the operational tooling gets built.

Practice

Enterprise Platform Engineering

Custom ERP and CRM cores, ground-up product engineering, legacy modernization, and integration platforms — the systems of record that carry your operations for a decade.

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Process mapping before a line is written: 4 wksProcess mapping before a line is written
You own the source, with no runtime licence back: Day oneYou own the source, with no runtime licence back
Shipped into a live environment: Every 2 wksShipped into a live environment

The problem

When spreadsheets multiply, when the off-the-shelf ERP fights your process, when five systems disagree about the truth — that's when enterprises call us. Platform engineering is building the system your business actually runs on: unglamorous, mission-critical, and transformative when done right.

How we approach it

We map how material, money, and information actually move through your organisation before proposing a single module.

Accountability

What this practice owns.

Not a scope of works — the things that stay our problem for as long as the engagement runs.

The domain model — the vocabulary your business already uses, encoded so the software agrees with the floor.

Migration from whatever runs today, including the data nobody has looked at in nine years.

Integration with the systems that are staying, which is usually the half nobody scoped.

The handover: documentation another team could work from without calling us.

Capabilities

7 services in this practice

Each one is a full capability with its own page — the method, what you are handed, the stack, and who it is not for.

Custom Software Engineering

Bespoke systems for the processes that make your business yours.

One source of truth where five systems used to disagree

Enterprise Product Development

Zero-to-one product engineering for ventures and institutions — like IRFC Invest.

A product real users adopt — measured, not assumed

Custom ERP Solutions

The operational core — orders, production, inventory, finance — built around your reality.

Month-end closing in days, not weeks

Custom CRM Solutions

Sales, service, and customer truth — modelled on your funnel, not a template's.

Rep adoption because the tool finally matches the job

Legacy Modernization

Escape aging systems without betting the business on a big-bang rewrite.

Zero big-bang risk — every step reversible

Systems Integration & APIs

Make a dozen systems behave like one platform.

Re-keying eliminated and reconciliation automated

SaaS Engineering

Multi-tenant product engineering for companies building software as their business.

A platform that scales customers without scaling ops headcount

What an engagement looks like

How this practice usually starts.

We do not publish prices — scope drives them, and a number without scope is a guess. Everything else about the shape, here.

Starts with: Four weeks on site mapping how the work actually happens
Time to production: 4–7 months to first production release, phased after that
Who you get: A delivery lead, two to five engineers, and an architect who stays past go-live
Commercial model: Discovery fixed, build phased against agreed milestones

What drives the number is on engagement models.

Typical stack

TypeScript & Node.js
PostgreSQL
React/Next.js
Event-driven architecture
Enterprise SSO
Mobile & web product stacks
Secure API platforms
Cloud-native infrastructure
Analytics instrumentation
Modular monolith / services
Reporting engines
E-invoice & e-way APIs
Barcode/IoT capture
Web & mobile CRM stacks
Telephony & WhatsApp APIs
Geo services
Analytics dashboards
Strangler-fig architecture
CDC & data pipelines
API façades
Parallel-run harnesses
Kafka / event streams
API gateways
iPaaS where it fits
Webhook infrastructures
OpenAPI
Multi-tenant Postgres patterns
Stripe/Razorpay billing
Feature flagging
Usage metering
SOC2-aligned practices

Proof

Where this practice has shipped.

All case studies

IRFC Invest — a digital front door for Section 54EC bond investors

We engineered IRFC Invest, the investor-facing application where Section 54EC bond investors can view and track their bond holdings — bringing a paper-heavy, registrar-dependent experience into a secure digital product.

54ECBond class digitised for investors

A custom ERP that ended month-end chaos for a steel manufacturer

Replaced five disconnected systems and a wall of spreadsheets with a single custom ERP — order-to-dispatch in one flow, month-end closing down from 9 days to 2.

9→2 daysMonth-end closing time

A live control tower for a national logistics fleet

Real-time visibility over 3,000+ vehicles with exception-first alerts — detention hours cut 41%, and customers now track shipments without calling.

41%Reduction in detention hours

Sectors

Where enterprise platform engineering comes up most.

Manufacturing & Industry 4.0

Custom ERP, shop-floor systems, and vision AI for plants that outgrew their spreadsheets.

BFSI & Fintech

Institutional-grade platforms for banks, NBFCs, insurers, and fintechs — proven at IRFC scale.

Education

Admissions-to-alumni platforms for institutions that run like the enterprises they are.

Energy & Utilities

Field-force platforms, asset systems, and offline-first operations for utilities.

Before you ask

Questions we hear about enterprise platform engineering

When your process is a differentiator, when license-per-seat costs multiply painfully, or when template workarounds have spawned a shadow layer of spreadsheets. If a standard ERP fits, that is the cheaper and faster route.

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Next step

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