ERPNext · Grafana · Mattermost · Twenty · Umbraco

The UK’s largest open-source deployment specialist.

We deploy, configure and run open-source business platforms. You own the software and the data. We make it work, and keep it working.

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Founded 2018 in Manchester. 210 people across three UK offices.

Platform deployments: 900+Platform deploymentsSince 2018
Environments managed: 640+Environments managedProduction and non-production
Hosting uptime: 99.97%Hosting uptimeMeasured, rolling 12 months
Upstream contributions: 4,000+Upstream contributionsAcross the five projects we deploy

Platforms

Five platforms, deployed properly

We deploy a deliberately narrow set. Depth in five platforms is worth more to you than a brochure listing thirty.

ERPNext

GPLv3

Finance, stock and manufacturing on one system you own.

ERPNext deployment

Grafana

AGPLv3

Know what your systems are doing before your customers tell you.

Grafana deployment

Mattermost

AGPLv3 / MIT, per component

Team messaging where the history has to stay in your estate.

Mattermost deployment

Twenty

AGPLv3

A CRM that does not hold your pipeline hostage.

Twenty deployment

Umbraco

MIT

A content platform your editors will actually use.

Umbraco deployment

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What we do

Deploy it, move your data into it, and keep it running

Four services that wrap every platform we work with. Most engagements use two or three of them.

Deployment & configuration

Design, deploy and configure an open-source platform against how your organisation actually works.

How it works

Data migration

Profiling, mapping, dry runs at production volume, and reconciliation reporting at every stage.

How it works

Managed hosting

Patching, backups with tested restores, monitoring and upgrades — in your cloud account or ours.

How it works

Support & maintenance

Annual support against a deployed platform, with response targets and a quarterly review.

How it works

Precision engineering

11 → 4

Working days to close the month, across two sites

ERPNext replacing a legacy ERP and a spreadsheet estate across two sites, with three years of transaction history migrated and reconciled.

Read the Brightforge Engineering case study

Organisations running on platforms we deployed

Manufacturing, logistics, pharmaceutical, professional services, charity and utilities.

How it works

Four stages, with a genuine stop point after each

You can stop after discovery and take the assessment elsewhere. Several clients have.

Scoping conversation
An hour, no charge. What you run now, what is not working, and whether one of our five platforms is genuinely the right answer. Sometimes it is not, and we say so.
Discovery and fit assessment
A fixed-price piece of work producing a written assessment: what works as standard, what needs configuration, what needs building, and what you should change about the process instead. Yours whether or not you continue.
Build and migrate
Reproducible environments, configuration against the assessment, and a migration with reconciliation evidence at every dry run.
Go live, then run it
A planned cutover with a rollback position and a defined hypercare period. Then managed hosting and support, or a handover to your team with the runbooks.

The commercial model

You own it. All of it.

We have never invoiced a client for a software licence, and the company has no mechanism to. The platforms are open source and cost nothing. We charge for deployment, support and hosting — which means we have no reason to recommend a bigger edition than you need.

Your configuration, your data, and any extension we write are yours outright, in your repository, from the first commit.

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