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Practice One

Custom internal systems.

Focused build ₹3L–₹6L · Full system ₹6L–₹15L · 4–6 weeks to 8–12 weeks

Tailor-built web applications for founder-led businesses doing ₹5cr to ₹50cr in India. We capture what actually happens in the business. Quotations, orders, leads, inventory movement, fulfillment, team coordination. Presented as reliable data the founder can act on.

What we build

Typical engagements.

Each industry has a small number of operational workflows that decide whether the business compounds or stalls. These are the workflows we build around.

Custom ERP for manufacturers, Custom ERP for distributors, Custom ERP for showrooms, Custom ERP for institutions. The workflow shape differs by vertical, the principle does not. Each system is built around the actual operational reality of the firm, not around a generic data model.

01
Showroom management
Lead tracking, walk-in capture, sales pipeline, delivery and installation coordination. Built for jewellery, furniture, interiors, automobiles.
02
Manufacturing operations
Job cards, production status, materials, dispatch. Plant floor to founder dashboard.
03
Distribution + inventory
Stock movement, multi-location, GRN and GIN, transfer recommendations, aging.
04
Institute management
Admissions, attendance, fees, communication. Built for institutes running on goodwill.
05
Quotation + order (CPQ)
High-ticket configurable products. Structured estimates. Lifecycle from draft to won or lost.
06
Internal CRM
For founder-led service businesses. Lead capture to retainer, no marketing-CRM bloat.

Quotation time

45 min6 min
Time per quotation at ISM Business Associates after the custom calculator and quotation module shipped.
Why custom

Generic software cannot fit every business.

Off-the-shelf ERPs sell a fixed model of how a business should work. The buyer is supposed to bend operations to the software. That works for businesses that look like every other business. It does not work for businesses where the workflow is the moat.

Excel scales to a point, then collapses under coordination cost. WhatsApp coordination is fast for a team of five and fatal at fifty. Tally was designed for accounting, not operations.

We design the system to the way the business already runs. Where the existing workflow is good, we capture it. Where it is broken, we redesign it before writing a line of code. The result is software the team adopts because it makes their day easier, not because the founder mandated it.

Custom ERP for businesses that have outgrown Tally.

When Tally stops being enough, the next layer is rarely another accounting package. It is an operational system that holds orders, inventory, dispatch, and customer records in one place, with Tally or Zoho Books bridged on the finance side. The firm keeps its accounting tool. The operational record moves to software designed for the way the business actually runs.

We connect direct WhatsApp Business Cloud API integration, no BSP middleware, into the operational record. The client owns the messaging account, the templates, and the cost structure.

What we refuse to build
  • White-labelled generic ERPs dressed as custom
  • Reskinned templates
  • SaaS we resell across clients
  • Cosmetic dashboards that do not change a decision
  • Features the founder did not ask for and will not use
Pricing

What a system costs.

Ranges, not exact prices. Every project is scoped after a diagnostic. Long-term technology partnerships sit on top of the build, optional but recommended.

  • EngagementOperational audit
    Range₹1L–₹3L
    Timeline1–2 weeks
  • EngagementFocused system (single workflow)
    Range₹3L–₹6L
    Timeline4–6 weeks
  • EngagementFull operational system
    Range₹6L–₹15L
    Timeline8–12 weeks
  • EngagementTechnology Partner retainer (optional)
    Range₹50k–₹1.5L / month
    TimelineOngoing
Enterprise scope sits on a separate page · /enterprise
Practice principle

Decision infrastructure, not features. We refuse to build the cosmetic.

Next step

Tell us about the workflow.

The first conversation is short and direct. We ask about the business, the workflows, and the questions you cannot answer today. By the end we both know whether to keep going.