Software, systems and digital products built for ambitious businesses.
Olystique designs, engineers and operates custom software, SaaS platforms and integrations: systems built to be depended on, and to keep working as the business grows.
Not sure where to start? Describe the problem and we will tell you whether we are the right fit.
We work across the full arc of a system, from product strategy and architecture through engineering, integration and automation, to the operational work of running it in production.
- Product strategy
- Software engineering
- Systems integration
- Process automation
- Cloud infrastructure
- Technical consultancy
What we build
Six kinds of system, one engineering standard.
Most engagements begin in one of these areas and expand as the business finds the next constraint.
Custom Software
Systems shaped around how your business actually operates, replacing the spreadsheets and manual steps holding the process together.
- Internal platforms
- Operational tooling
- Data migration
SaaS Platforms
Multi-tenant products with the tenancy, billing and permission models designed in from the start rather than retrofitted under pressure.
- Multi-tenancy
- Subscription billing
- Admin tooling
Business Systems
Workflow, approval and reporting systems that make the state of the business visible, auditable and current.
- Approval chains
- Audit trails
- Reporting
APIs & Integrations
Documented, versioned interfaces and integrations built for the realities of retries, duplicates and provider outages.
- REST & GraphQL
- Webhook handling
- Reconciliation
Automation
Removing the repetitive work between the steps that add value, with genuine exceptions routed to a person instead of failing silently.
- Workflow engines
- Scheduled jobs
- Exception queues
Digital Products
Customer-facing applications built to perform on the devices and networks your customers actually have.
- Customer portals
- Performance budgets
- Accessibility
The Olystique approach
A process designed to remove ambiguity early.
Most project failures are decided before any code is written. Each stage below exists to close a specific class of risk while closing it is still cheap.
- 01
Discover
We establish what the business needs to be true, observe how the work is performed today, and identify where cost and risk actually sit, before any solution is proposed.
Findings, constraints, success criteria
- 02
Define
Scope is agreed in writing: what is being built, what is deliberately excluded, how it will be judged, and what it depends on. Ambiguity is resolved here, where it is cheap.
Scope, architecture, delivery plan
- 03
Design
Data model, system boundaries and interface designed together. Tenancy, permissions and integration points are expensive to reverse, so they are settled deliberately at this stage.
Data model, interface design, technical spec
- 04
Build
Delivered in working increments you can review. Code review, automated tests and continuous integration are part of the process rather than a phase at the end.
Working software, reviewable each increment
- 05
Launch
Deployment, monitoring, alerting and rollback are in place before release, not after. Your team is trained on the system and given the documentation to operate it.
Production release, handover, documentation
- 06
Scale
Support, iteration and capacity planning informed by how the system behaves under real usage. What gets built next is decided from evidence rather than assumption.
Ongoing support, iteration, capacity planning
Why Olystique
Judgement you can check, not adjectives you have to trust.
Every claim below describes something you can verify in how we work: in the documents you receive, the code you own and the decisions we explain.
Engineering-first
Decisions are made on technical merit and explained in business terms. You will always know what was chosen, what the alternatives were, and why one was preferred.
Architecture that holds
Data model, tenancy and service boundaries are expensive to reverse, so we settle them deliberately and early. Growth then extends the system rather than forcing a rewrite.
Measured against outcomes
Success is defined as a change in how the business operates: hours removed, errors reduced, a product in market. Delivery is judged against that, not against a feature list.
Secure and operable
Access control, credential handling, logging, backup and recovery are treated as requirements from the first commit rather than remediation after an incident.
Built to be handed over
Documentation, tests and legible code are part of what you receive. Whether we continue together or your own team takes over, the system stays maintainable.
Direct engagement
You work with the people writing the software. Context is not lost through layers of account management, and questions are answered by someone who knows the answer.
Solutions
Technology is only worth what it changes about the business.
These are the situations businesses come to us with. Each links to how we approach it and what the result looks like.
- 01
Digitise Your Operations
Move the business off spreadsheets and into a system of record.
- 02
Automate Your Business
Remove the repetitive work between the steps that add value.
- 03
Launch a New Digital Product
Take an idea to a product real customers can use and pay for.
- 04
Modernise Legacy Systems
Reduce the risk in systems that work but can no longer change.
- 05
Connect Your Business Systems
Make the tools you already pay for behave like one system.
- 06
Build Customer-Facing Platforms
Give customers a self-service surface instead of an inbox.
- 07
Scale Your Technology
Make a platform that works at current volume work at ten times it.
Selected capabilities
What we are equipped to build.
Olystique is newly incorporated, so rather than publish client work we do not have, these describe reference architectures and the scope we deliver. Each is labelled for exactly what it is.
Custom software · Backend engineering
Financial Operations Platform
A ledger-backed platform for businesses that move money on behalf of others and need every figure to reconcile.
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Event-driven jobs
Custom software · Process automation
Business Management System
An operational system of record for businesses running on spreadsheets, replacing scattered files with auditable process.
Web application · Integrations
Customer Engagement Platform
A self-service customer portal that absorbs the routine requests currently handled by a support inbox.
Have a problem worth solving?
Tell us what is not working, or what you want to exist. If we are the right team for it we will say so, and if we are not, we will tell you that too.