# What we build

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> We add the information management systems your business is missing, then we keep them
> running. Your technology, built around how you already work.

What we build, in the order our weight sits: ERP and the systems of record. Business
automation. Ordering and online stores. AI models and agents. Communications software.
Data warehouses and reporting. Applications your team works in. Customer portals.
Integrations between what you already own. Compliance programs. Websites.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| The focus | Information management systems |
| What's covered | All your software and AI work |
| What we do | Build it, host it, run it |
| What changes | Whatever you need next |
| How you pay | One monthly rate |
| Guarantee | 100% money back |
| Vs traditional software | 60% cheaper, 18x faster on average |

**Book a call:** <https://calendly.com/steve-sperandeo>
**Email:** hello@altumo.com

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## Whatever your business is missing.

We add the information management systems your business is missing, then we keep them
running. Your technology, built around how you already work.

## "Any technology" means what, exactly?

Fair question. Most of this list starts the same way: something in your business gets
done by hand, remembered by heart, or missed.

Each one gets built for the business that has it, so no two come out the same, and yours
wouldn't either. The order is where our weight sits; websites are last on purpose,
because we build them and they're not what we're for.

### ERP and the systems of record

The back office your business actually runs on. We extend it where it falls short, or
replace it where it never fit you in the first place.

### Business automation

The steps somebody on your team does by hand every week because no system does them.
Supplier invoices that read themselves, orders that stopped moving raising their hand, a
note in your inbox each morning with what shipped, what stalled, and what is overdue.

### Ordering and online stores

Your customers order, pay, and reorder without phoning anyone. Saved lists so a regular
order goes out in one click, and it keeps taking their orders while you are closed.

### AI models and agents

Trained on your business and given a job you name: reading your invoices, answering the
questions your customers ask all day, drafting what somebody on your team retypes every
week. Not a chatbot bolted to your front page.

### Communications software

The messages your business has to send: confirmations, reminders, status updates, and the
notice that goes out when something changes. Sent by the systems that already know, so
nobody has to type them.

### Data warehouses and reporting

Your numbers in one place, checked against each other before anyone thinks to ask. Month
end becomes a review instead of a scramble.

### Applications your team works in

Shaped around how your work already goes: scheduling, approvals, and records everyone can
keep current, instead of a workbook one person looks after and nobody else dares touch.

### Customer portals

Where your customers see for themselves how their order stands, what has happened so far,
and the paperwork, read live from the same systems your staff use. The where-is-it emails
taper off.

### Integrations between what you already own

Your tools each do their job well and do not talk to each other. We connect them, so what
you enter once is everywhere it needs to be.

### Compliance programs

SOC 2, GDPR, PCI and CCPA, including commissioning the penetration testing. We have taken
companies through these before, not read about them.

### Websites

We do build them. We are not focused on them, and for most of our clients they are the
front door to something else on this list.

## All of it now, on one monthly rate.

A business rarely waits years because nobody knows what it needs. It waits because of the
up front cost, and the risks that come with it.

Buying software as a project means paying a large sum before there is anything to look at.
That is a spike your cashflow has to absorb, and it lands while the outcome is still
unknown. If the work runs over, or what arrives does not fit how you actually operate, the
money has already gone.

We work on a single monthly rate instead. The costs still come, but they come gradually,
in amounts you can plan around, and the risk spreads out with them. Less is riding on any
one decision, it costs less in total, and if you don't love where it's going, you get your
money back.

*You get everything now, and pay for it a month at a time.*

## Nobody here is paid more when it breaks.

A project ends. We don't, and that changes what the software becomes.

Software designed once and handed over is frozen at the moment somebody wrote the
specification. Your business moves, the tools around it move, the rules move, and the
software stays where it was. That gap is where things turn brittle, and where the manual
work quietly piles back up.

Because we stay on, we stay receptive. Your software keeps changing with your business and
with everything around it. And nothing in the arrangement pays us more when something
breaks, or pays us again to repair what we built.

*The longer we're on, the better it fits.*

## What comes with it, and what doesn't.

Building it is the part you picture. Keeping it alive is the part that decides whether it
was worth building for you.

**Comes with it**

- Hosting and operation of everything we build for you.
- Four environments: production, a staging copy where you review changes before they reach
  your customers, and the test and development environments we work in.
- Backups and routine security maintenance of everything we run for you.
- Changes, additions and fixes as your business changes.
- The conversation about what you should build, not just the building.

**We don't do**

- Robotics. We build software and AI, not machines.
- Your laptops, networks, printers and helpdesk. That is a managed IT. While we don't do
  that, we have partners who do. Just ask!
- Administering a product we neither built nor run. We will integrate with what you
  already have; we will not become its administrator.
- Third-party costs, which stay yours: card processing, hardware, domain registration, and
  any subscription you choose to keep. We integrate with them, we do not resell them to
  you.

*A short list of no is worth more to you than a long list of yes.*

## How this would work for you.

01. **You ask.** A phone call is enough. We record it, because the transcript is how what
    you said becomes what gets built, and it means you never have to write a specification
    to be understood.
02. **We build it.** On infrastructure we run, by the engineers who will still be looking
    after it for you next year. You see it on staging and tell us what is wrong before
    your customers ever see it.
03. **It goes live, and stays live.** Monitored, backed up, updated. When something needs
    attention you get the same people, quickly.
04. **Your business changes.** So does your software. The next thing is another
    conversation with us, not another vendor search for you.

*One relationship. Whatever comes next for you goes through it.*

## Start with one thing.

Nobody hands over everything at once, and we wouldn't ask you to. Pick the job your team
still does by hand and walk us through it. We'll tell you honestly where we'd start.

Most people who call us have been burned before, or know somebody who was. So our work
comes with a 100% money-back guarantee, and we stay on, we pick up the phone, and we move
quickly. We'd love to be your technology partner.

*Join us for coffee. We're here to listen.*

[Let's talk](https://calendly.com/steve-sperandeo). A friendly call. Or write us:
hello@altumo.com. Or read [who we are](https://altumo.com/about.md).

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## Where to go next

- [Home](https://altumo.com/index.md)
- [About us](https://altumo.com/about.md)
- [llms.txt](https://altumo.com/llms.txt): the index to every markdown mirror on this site.

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