Capabilities

What we build, and where we've already built it.

Eight areas of product engineering and advice. Each one points at work that's already shipped: products in production, case studies and live tools.

01

AI and agentic systems

AI built into the work, with a person approving anything that acts outside the system.

  • Claude-powered pipelines for contract analysis, daily operational briefs and revenue-assurance assistants.
  • Voice, chat, WhatsApp and Teams agents, and AI outbound calling with a POPIA compliance pack.
  • A shared agent runtime across modules. Actions wait in a queue until a person presses Execute.
  • Cost and safety caps by design, e.g. the Telco Tools AI explainer runs under per-user and global limits.

See it in: The Asterion platform

02

Enterprise workflow platforms

Multi-tenant platforms that replace spreadsheets, paper and disconnected tools.

  • Shutdown and turnaround governance with gates, checkpoints, risk registers and schedule assurance.
  • Safety and permit-to-work with competency-gated approval chains, and contract intelligence with tracked-changes redlines.
  • One sign-in, per-tenant module licensing and row-level security on every tenant's data.

See it in: The Asterion platform

TurnSure shutdown management dashboard: task health, open risk levels, upcoming checkpoints and open risks
TurnSure, shutdown and turnaround management (Asterion demo data).
03

Mobile and field apps

Apps that do real work on the device, including where the network doesn't reach.

  • NetTrax handset agents on iOS, Android and BlackBerry, in production at mobile operators and reaching around 22,000 downloads by 2015.
  • TecTonix, an Android app for passive infrastructure asset tracking.
  • An offline-first field-inspection app, shipped as a signed Android app, that caches work and photos and syncs when back online.

See it in: NetTrax case study · The Asterion platform

Inspecta inspection record with two open findings for a haul truck
Inspecta field inspection, the findings on a pre-start inspection (Asterion demo data, web view).
04

Data platforms

Pipelines that reconcile, so the numbers on the screen can be trusted.

  • Revenue assurance on a hospital group's own finance exports, with ten monthly batches reconciled to the cent.
  • Contract tariffs loaded as data (6,457 rows across 22 funder agreements) and checked case by case.
  • A statement pipeline for a wealth manager: about 1,400 platform statements a month read, reconciled and turned into client reporting, inside the firm's own cloud.
  • A common data layer that keeps parties, assets and obligations consistent across modules, on PostgreSQL with one database per module.

See it in: Wealth-manager statement pipeline · The Asterion platform

05

Systems integration

Connecting software to the systems already running the business.

  • NetTrax events delivered over data or SMS through a mediation layer, hosted or inside an operator's own network.
  • A Redis event backbone, so an incident in one module can trigger a workflow or a message in another.
  • Single sign-on across the platform with Keycloak, and imports from customers' own exports and spreadsheets.

See it in: NetTrax case study · The Asterion platform

06

Telecom engineering

Where RanWorx started in 2010: radio access networks, testing and analysis.

  • NetTrax subscriber-experience monitoring, distributed worldwide by Ascom as TEMS MobileInsight.
  • NetCE automated lab and fixed-site testing, with phones driven over ADB. It became Digitata's CeRC.
  • RanWorx Telco Tools: 27 free tools with ITU-R and 3GPP formulas checked against the standards.

See it in: NetTrax case study · Telco Tools case study · Open the tools

RanWorx Telco Tools microwave rain attenuation calculator showing ITU-R results
Telco Tools microwave rain attenuation, ITU-R P.838-3 and P.530-19 (live at ranworx.com/telco-tools).
07

Operational intelligence

Seeing assets, risk and people across an operation in one place.

  • Asset registry with health scoring, remaining-useful-life estimates and threshold alerts.
  • Reliability engineering, safety and hazard assessments, ESG reporting and workforce fatigue.
  • Cross-module clash detection, e.g. a shutdown task against an open permit or a fatigued crew, queued for a person to decide.

See it in: The Asterion platform

AssetVault dashboard: fleet totals, criticality and status distribution, asset types and recent activity
AssetVault, the asset fleet overview (Asterion demo data).
08

Engineering and AI advisory

Senior engineering advice for teams bringing AI into how they build software, and into what they ship.

  • Readiness for agentic development: what a team needs in place before AI coding agents work in its codebase, such as repository instructions, review rules, protected branches, and test and deploy gates.
  • CI/CD design: pipelines, environments and release gates that let AI-assisted changes ship safely and leave an audit trail.
  • AI in the product: guardrails, evaluation, cost limits and human sign-off for AI features, with privacy designed in, including POPIA's rules on automated decisions about people.
  • Buy versus build: weighing AI tools and platforms against the team's own needs, cost and data obligations.
  • Working alongside the client's security lead: they own governance and assurance, we bring the engineering operating model.

See it in: The practice we run on the Asterion platform

Example engagement: fractional advisory

A fractional advisory role alongside a client's other specialist advisers, scoping best practice for its development team's CI/CD pipeline and for the use of AI in its products.

A weekly working session with the team, plus research, documentation and review time each month, billed by the hour. The outputs are a readiness assessment, a target operating model with clear responsibilities, a buy-versus-build view of tools, and a phased roadmap.

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