One developer, one month, replacing a failing custom build

Planning execution across multiple industrial contracts at once is a complex, resource-heavy activity. A freelancer-built custom app organised projects, customers and people well at first, but couldn't keep pace with growth: as data and requirements grew it turned sluggish, and the original developer struggled to keep up.

The team fell back on external spreadsheets to prop up the failing app, and ended up where they started: high-stakes projects run on disconnected, manual tools that couldn't be changed fast enough.

Delivered through the Preux network on our compliance-ready platform: we replaced the fragmented tooling with a single modelled execution engine. One developer modelled all of the required processes, maintenance and hour tracking, in a single month.

Because the system is modelled on a standardised platform rather than hand-coded, there is no technical silo. It can be maintained and extended by any qualified developer or partner, so support and ownership no longer depend on one person.