Why Brihat
Six things that are different, and where each one shows up.
Six differences that look like process on a slide and turn out to be the reason a platform still gets used four years later.
- Enterprise deliveries
- 100+Enterprise deliveries
- Own products live in production
- 6Own products live in production
- Industries served
- 10Industries served
We map the problem before quoting
Discovery is a paid, contracted phase of two to six weeks. Four artefacts land whether or not we build: a problem definition, current-state process maps, a stakeholder and constraint register, and an opportunity sizing. They are written to be buildable by anyone.
Architecture decided for year ten
The cheapest system to build is rarely the cheapest to own. We design for the transaction volume, the integrations and the audit obligations you will have in year five, not the demo you need next month.
One accountable team
Strategy, design, engineering and 2 a.m. operations under one roof. The architect and delivery lead named at kickoff stay on the engagement through to operations — rotation happens with your written sign-off or not at all.
We run what we build
The team carrying the pager is the team that chose the shortcut. That single fact changes how a system gets designed more than any process document.
You own everything
Source in your repository, infrastructure in your cloud account, documentation as a phase deliverable. Nothing we build can be held hostage, and taking it in-house later is a phase we run rather than an argument we have.
Built for the review you have to pass
Security posture, audit trails and data residency designed in from the start. ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 9001 certified, with a posture pack we share before an engagement rather than after a question.
In the contract
6 terms that are standard, not negotiated.
Where your source lives, whose cloud account it runs in, what documentation you receive and when, and what leaving costs. The same on every engagement.
Source from commit one
In your repository, under your organisation, from the first day of the build. Not delivered at the end, not licensed back to us for runtime.
Your infrastructure, your billing
Cloud accounts in your name with our access granted rather than owned. Revoking it is a permission change, not a migration.
Documentation is a phase deliverable
Signed off like any other, including the decisions we would revisit. A handover written after the invoice is a handover nobody reads.
Exit assistance at standard rates
If you take it in-house or move to another firm, transition is a phase we run at normal rates. There is no exit penalty and never has been.
The named team stays
The architect and delivery lead named at kickoff remain through to operations. Rotation happens with your written agreement or it does not happen.
Escrow on request
Source escrow with a third-party agent where your risk function requires it. Uncommon, and we have never objected.
4 things a programme can need that scale alone provides.
Simultaneous multi-country rollout, balance-sheet-backed indemnity, packaged-product implementation, and tender headcount floors. If your brief carries one of these, the shortlist is a different one — worth settling before you write it.
Local presence in a dozen countries at once
Simultaneous rollout with delivery staff on the ground across many markets is a scale problem, and scale is what the large integrators are built for.
An indemnity backed by a balance sheet
Where the contractual risk transfer has to sit with a counterparty of a certain size, that is a procurement constraint rather than a delivery one, and it is decided before capability.
A packaged implementation at scale
A multi-entity SAP or Oracle rollout wants certified consultants and a vendor escalation path — a different kind of firm from one that builds the software itself.
A tender with a headcount or turnover floor
Some public and large-enterprise tenders set minimums in the document. That is a gate applied before any assessment of fit, and it is worth checking early.
Next step
Bring us the problem. We will bring the architecture.
A discovery call takes forty-five minutes. You leave with our read on the problem, the shape of the system we would propose, and a straight answer on whether we are the right team for it.
- No sales deck
- An engineer on the call, not an account manager
- NDA before you share anything