About Solinovo
Engineering, product and business, in the same room.
Solinovo is a software engineering and product company. We build custom software and business systems for organisations, and we design, ship and operate our own products.
Engineering
Architecture, data models, performance and the failure cases. The work that decides whether a system survives its second year.
Product
Complete workflows rather than feature lists. What happens before the screen, after the click, and when something goes wrong.
Business
Software exists to change a business outcome. We build against that, not against a specification alone.
We understand software as a business system.
Not a collection of features.
A feature list describes what software has. A system describes what a business can do because of it. Those are different briefs, and they produce different software.
What we build
- Custom software
- Business systems
- SaaS & products
- Integrations
- AI-powered systems
- Automation
We think beyond the feature list.
A business doesn't need another application. It needs software that understands the six things below, and Solinovo engineers systems around those realities.
Workflows
The sequence people actually follow, including the steps that never made it into the process document.
Data
What's recorded, what's inferred, what's wrong, and what has to reconcile at the end of the month.
People
Who uses it, under what pressure, with what training, and what they'll do when the software gets in the way.
Constraints
Budget, deadlines, regulation, legacy systems and the connection quality on the factory floor.
Customers
What the business promises its own customers, and what the system has to guarantee to keep that promise.
Growth
What breaks at ten times the volume, and which decisions today make that expensive to fix later.
We take our own medicine.
Quick Safa is our own product, an accounting and production management system running in production, with a double-entry ledger, a costing engine and government e-invoicing built in.
Owning it means we live with our own architectural decisions: the migrations, the support load, the regulatory changes, the performance problems we created for ourselves. That's a different education from handing a system over at launch, and it's the reason we argue about data models before anyone writes code.
What we hold to.
Four commitments that shape every system we build, for clients and for ourselves.
Engineering-first
Architecture, maintainability, performance and reliability are the product. A feature that can't be maintained isn't finished.
Product-minded
We think past the feature list to the complete workflow, what happens before the screen, after the click, and when it goes wrong.
Business-aware
Software exists to solve a business problem. Satisfying the technical requirement while missing the business one is still a failure.
Builder mentality
We don't only build client systems. We build, ship and operate our own products, and carry the consequences of our own decisions.
How we work.
Five stages, run in order. The expensive decisions get made early and deliberately, and you see the system running every week.
- 01
Understand
Business, users, workflows, constraints.
We map how the organisation actually runs before proposing anything, including the parts that live in spreadsheets, habits and people's heads.
- Workflow map
- Constraints
- Success criteria
- 02
Architect
System architecture and technical direction.
Data model, system boundaries, integration points and the failure cases. The decisions that are expensive to reverse get made here, deliberately.
- Data model
- System design
- Integration plan
- 03
Design
Product experience and workflows.
Interfaces designed against real data volumes and real roles, so the product holds up when it leaves the demo.
- Interface design
- Workflow design
- Design system
- 04
Build
Engineering, testing, integration.
Built in working increments with a demo every week. You see the system running throughout, not at the end.
- Working increments
- Weekly demos
- Test coverage
- 05
Launch
Deployment, monitoring, iteration.
Deployment, monitoring and the first weeks in production, where a system proves whether it was engineered or assembled.
- Deployment
- Monitoring
- Iteration
Next step
Let's talk about your system.
Tell us what you're trying to build, improve, automate or replace.
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