Systems that run
mission-critical
operations - daily
These aren't MVPs or proofs of concept. They're the platforms that process payroll for 40,000 employees, route logistics for national supply chains, and manage claims for healthcare providers across multiple regions. What follows is what we actually built, what it cost to get right, and what happened after go-live.
Six enterprise systems.
Six organisations that depend on them daily.
Every project below is live in production. We've included the actual constraints, the decisions that weren't obvious at the time, and the numbers that came out the other end.
Core Banking Integration Middleware
Meridian needed to connect a 22-year-old legacy banking core to modern digital channels - mobile banking, open banking APIs, and a new wealth management platform - without replacing the core system or disrupting live transaction processing. The integration layer had to guarantee message delivery, handle 30,000+ transactions per hour at peak, and maintain a full audit trail for FCA regulatory requirements.
Multi-Region Clinical Operations Platform
ClarityMed operates across 14 hospitals and 60 GP practices across three UK regions. Their clinical and administrative teams were running on five separate, partially integrated systems. We built a unified platform that consolidated patient records, staff scheduling, bed management, and procurement - with NHS data standards compliance and role-based access control down to ward level.
Real-Time National Logistics Management Platform
LogiSense manages freight movement for over 120 retail clients across the UK. Their legacy system couldn't handle real-time GPS telemetry from 3,400 vehicles, route optimisation, or the carrier API integrations their clients were demanding. We rebuilt the core platform over 14 months, migrating 8 years of historical data without interrupting live operations.
Smart Factory ERP & Production Management System
Vantage operates 6 manufacturing facilities across Europe. Their ERP was a customised SAP implementation from 2009 that no longer fit their production workflow, with 14 custom modules that only two external consultants understood. We designed a phased migration to a modern system, preserving institutional data while eliminating the custom module debt.
Automated Claims Processing & Fraud Detection Engine
VeritasCover was processing commercial insurance claims manually - an average of 11 days per claim. We built an automated processing engine with ML-assisted fraud detection, straight-through processing for low-complexity claims, and a human review queue for edge cases. First-pass straight-through processing now handles 68% of all incoming claims automatically.
Unified Omnichannel Commerce & Inventory Platform
NovaTrade was running separate systems for online, in-store, and wholesale channels - with no single view of inventory, customer, or order. We built a unified commerce platform that synchronised inventory across 280 store locations and 4 warehouse facilities in real-time, enabling accurate fulfilment promises and significantly reducing overstock write-offs.
What makes large projects land - and what makes them fail
After 18 enterprise deployments, the failure modes are consistent and entirely avoidable. Here's how we build to avoid all of them.
Discovery-First, Always
We don't write a line of code until we understand the system you're replacing, the data that has to migrate, the integrations that must keep running, and the people who will use this every day.
Every enterprise engagement starts with a two-to-three week discovery phase - stakeholder workshops, existing system audit, data model review, and a written technical specification that both parties sign off before any development begins.
Phased Delivery - No Big Bang
The single most reliable way to fail a large project is to build everything and deploy it at once. We break every enterprise system into deployable phases with defined rollback points at each stage.
Phase planning accounts for data migration complexity, integration dependencies, and user adoption risk. Each phase delivers measurable value independently - so if something needs to change mid-project, we have a working system to change, not a half-built one.
Legacy System Respect
The systems we're replacing almost always contain 15 years of institutional knowledge in the form of edge cases, workarounds, and business rules that aren't documented anywhere. We spend time understanding them rather than assuming the new system can start fresh.
Before decommissioning any legacy system we run a parallel operation period - both systems processing live data simultaneously - to catch behavioural discrepancies before they become production incidents.
Integration Architecture Designed Upfront
The integration layer is the hardest part of most enterprise systems and the part most commonly treated as an afterthought. We design the full integration topology - message schemas, error handling, retry strategies, dead letter queues - before development begins.
Every integration is wrapped in an abstraction layer so vendor changes (a new version of SAP, a Salesforce migration) can be absorbed at the integration layer without rippling through the application codebase.
Change Management Embedded
Technical delivery is only half of an enterprise project. Systems that aren't adopted don't deliver their ROI regardless of how well they're built. We include change management planning, training material development, and user acceptance testing coordination in every enterprise engagement scope.
We work with your internal champions to design the UAT process, structure the training programme, and plan the communication rollout - because the people using the system every day are the ones who determine whether it succeeds.
Where our enterprise work runs today
Financial Services
Core banking, payment infrastructure, regulatory compliance systems, and wealth management platforms.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Clinical platforms, hospital management systems, patient data infrastructure, and NHS-compliant integrations.
Logistics & Supply Chain
Fleet management, warehouse systems, carrier integrations, and demand forecasting platforms.
Retail & E-Commerce
Omnichannel platforms, inventory management, order management systems, and loyalty infrastructure.
Manufacturing
ERP systems, production management, IoT integration, and quality control platforms.
Insurance
Claims processing automation, underwriting platforms, policy management, and fraud detection systems.
Public Sector & GovTech
Citizen service platforms, data sharing infrastructure, and regulatory reporting systems.
Education & EdTech
Student information systems, learning management platforms, and institutional data infrastructure.
What organisations ask before starting an enterprise project
Honest answers on timelines, costs, legacy migration, and what actually determines whether a large project succeeds.
Ask us directly →Let's talk through your enterprise challenge - no pitch deck, no vague promises
Book a 60-minute call with one of our enterprise project leads. We'll look at your current system, the outcomes you need, and the constraints you're working within - and tell you honestly what a realistic scope looks like before you commit to anything.