Much business software is designed in a meeting room. Someone describes how the work is done, and the system is built to match that description.
The description is rarely the whole story. The real process includes the phone call to check stock, the spreadsheet on one person's desktop and the re-key nobody wrote down.
A system built from the description works on paper. Then staff build new workarounds on top of it, and the old problem comes back.
A forward deployed engineer learns your work before building anything
A forward deployed engineer works as part of your team, with the people who do the work. They watch real orders, quotes and reports move through your systems before they design anything.
They learn the words your staff use and where the hours go. Then they build the system around how the work really runs.
The best brief for a new system is the work itself, watched up close.
In work our team has delivered, the real problem was found on the floor
In each of these projects, the engineering started away from the keyboard. You can read the full stories in work our team has delivered.
Some of this work was delivered by Reenva's founder and team before Reenva was formed.
Wholesale horticulture. For the first two weeks, the team's engineer wrote no code. They stood at the trade counter beside the quoting reps and watched the moment margin was lost.
Construction tendering. The team's engineer sat with the estimators through live bids for two weeks. They learned what fifteen years of winning tenders sounded like before an agent drafted one.
Wholesale ERP. The team's engineer started on the warehouse floor and at the order desk, not in the ERP. They found two or three re-key points that no system recorded.
Property development. The team's engineer sat in the weekly scramble to build the reporting pack. They found capital decisions were being made on numbers a week old.
Several of those findings changed the brief. In the property project, a reporting tidy-up became a project about how quickly leaders could decide.
What you get: a system your staff use, and fewer surprises
The system fits the work. It is built around how your people already work, so they are more likely to use it. A dashboard nobody opens doesn't count.
Blockers show up early. An engineer working as part of your team can spot a problem in the first weeks, not at go-live.
You see the cost before you commit. In each project above, the team first put a number on the problem from the company's own data. Then the company decided whether the build was worth it.
It does not replace your people
The engineer learns from your staff. Your staff keep the judgement. In the tender project, for example, the agent drafts and a senior estimator still owns every word that goes out.
Promises to ask for before you sign, and the ones Reenva makes
Ask who will work as part of your team, and what they will learn before they quote the build. Then ask for promises you can hold them to. These are the ones Reenva makes.
A fixed price. Projects are fixed-price. If the agreed work runs over, the cost does not land on you.
A fix if it misses. If a project misses the agreed outcome, we fix it.
Ownership of the work. You own 100% of the IP in custom builds. Your own team, or another firm, can pick it up later.
Engineers who work as part of your team. The people who watch your work are the people who build it.
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