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The standard is the site standard.

My day job since 2022 is senior business analyst and architect on critical infrastructure at a major miner. For the contractors and suppliers who service that world, I speak both dialects: what the site demands and what your back office can actually run.

Live proof

Use it. Right here.

Work through the pre-start checks and permits. The shift cannot start until the gate is satisfied, and every tap lands in the audit trail with a name and time.

live demoPre-start and permits, gated

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Built the way the big sites expect and sized for a contractor: the gate is the feature, the audit trail is the insurance.

The work

Where the hours go, and come back.

Prequalification and compliance, assembled not retyped

Inductions, tickets and expiries tracked in one place, evidence packs assembled automatically for each client portal instead of rebuilt by hand per tender. The paperwork does not shrink, but the hours spent feeding it can.

Asset and maintenance data you can trust

Plant registers reconciled across the three spreadsheets currently fighting over the truth, service histories attached to the asset rather than an inbox, per data & reporting. I led a council-wide asset management platform; the shape of the problem is the same.

Reporting that survives scrutiny

Client reports, safety statistics and cost tracking derived from records rather than recollection, in a format the site's own systems can swallow. A decade of writing for auditors and executives is the difference between a report and a defence.

Field to office without the double handling

Dockets, prestarts and timesheets captured on the phone at the face and landed in payroll and invoicing without retyping, offline-tolerant because site connectivity is a rumour. See mobile apps.

Credibility, checkable

This is not tourism.

Senior analyst and architect on critical infrastructure at BHP, mentoring the junior analysts. Before that, policing and federal service delivery: environments where the tolerance for hand-waving is zero. TOGAF certified, baseline cleared, year-by-year record public. I know why site systems are strict, and I build back offices that keep up with them.

Fair questions

Before you ask.

We're a contractor drowning in client portals.
Every client wants the same evidence in a different shape. The fix is one source of truth on your side and automation that feeds each portal its dialect, so compliance becomes an export, not a week.
Do you understand site constraints, or just software?
Site constraints are my day job: permits, isolation, connectivity that vanishes, crews that will not carry a laptop. Anything I build for the field is designed for gloves, glare and no bars of reception first.
Can you work around our clients' systems (SAP, Pronto, portals)?
Around, yes: clean exports, correct formats, evidence packs their systems accept. I do not pretend to customise a client's SAP from outside it, and you should walk away from anyone who says they can.