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Case studies using this
Retail ERP and Point of Sale with Fiscal Integration
A complete single-store retail platform: stock ledger, supplier receipts, sales, and a point of sale that prints legally valid fiscal receipts on certified hardware.
CRM Migration and Practice Automation for an Accountancy Group
Extracting a practice from a closed SaaS platform into a system of record it owns — then automating the receivables chasing that had been manual across six entities.
Product-Safety Diagnostics for a Medical Group
An AI system that reads twenty thousand product records, extracts their ingredients, and tells a clinician whether a given product is safe for a given patient.
ForkTex Cloud — Declarative Deployment
Our own deployment platform: one manifest describes a system, and the platform provisions it, routes it, secures it, and cuts traffic over without downtime.
Core Platform Engineering for a Carbon-Markets Business
Migrating a carbon-markets platform off a legacy content system onto typed, tested services — market data, pricing, emissions ingestion, and the operator tooling around them.
Tyre Catalogue and Storefront Rebuild
Replacing an ageing off-the-shelf storefront with a typed catalogue platform: faceted search, an ingestion pipeline, and an admin surface that a non-developer can run.
ForkTex Intelligence — One API for AI Capability
A capability-first AI platform: consumers ask for extraction, retrieval or transcription and never name a provider, so the provider can change without a rewrite.
ForkTex NetWork — Workspace and Work Analytics
A collaboration platform whose work-journal model is the mechanism behind a commitment we make on every engagement: a client can see what was done in every hour they paid for.
E-Commerce Backend for an App Studio
A complete commerce backend — catalogue, cart, orders, discounts, payments and transactional mail — delivered with source and rights transferred to the client.
Articles about this
Primitives That Do Not Drift
Identifiers, timestamps and errors are the three things every service touches and almost nobody specifies. Getting them wrong is cheap on day one and expensive forever after.
Start Any Platform From Scratch
A new engineer should reach a running system with one command, on any of our projects, without reading a wiki page that went stale eight months ago.
Every Hour Accounted For
A bare number on a timesheet is unauditable — it cannot be questioned, verified, or connected to a deliverable. So we do not ship bare numbers.
Receipts That Satisfy the Law
A fiscal receipt is valid or it is not. There is no partial credit, and the device — not your software — is the authority.