Integrations & automation

Your team shouldn't be the integration.

Exporting from one system, pasting into another, reconciling on Friday to find out what didn't match. We connect the systems you already run so the handoffs happen in software, get monitored, and reach a person only when something genuinely needs one.

The problem

Your data lives in five systems and your team is the integration.

Someone exports from the CRM. Someone pastes into the spreadsheet. Someone re-keys it into the accounting system, and on Friday someone reconciles all three and finds the four records that didn't match. None of that appears in anyone's job description. All of it is somebody's afternoon.

The handoffs are where it breaks

The export nobody ran. The field that got truncated. The record that exists twice with two spellings of the same customer name. Every one of those lives in the space between two systems.

The truth depends on who you ask

Sales quotes one number, finance reports another, and both are reading their own system correctly. The meeting turns into an argument about data instead of a decision.

The rules live in people, not software

Which system wins when they disagree, which exception is fine, which two customers are really the same customer. That knowledge sits with two employees and leaves when they do.

What you get

Syncs, automations, one shared context.

Built to be owned and watched, rather than stitched together and hoped for.

Two-way syncs with the products you already run

Records stay matched in both directions, with the conflict rules written down and agreed up front: which system is authoritative for which field, what counts as the same record, and what happens to the exceptions.

Automations that survive the edge cases

Cross-system workflows that keep state, retry what's transient, and stop and escalate to a named person when something is genuinely wrong. Monitored and alerting, not fire-and-forget.

One shared context

The people doing the work see a single view assembled from every system, instead of four tabs and a merge they have to do in their head.

How it goes

From five systems to one workflow.

  1. 1

    Trace one record end to end

    First week

    We follow a single customer or order through every system it touches and write down every point where a human moves it by hand.

  2. 2

    Agree the rules

    Before anything is built

    Which system is authoritative for which field, what makes two records the same, what happens on a conflict. This is the step everyone skips and everyone regrets.

  3. 3

    Build one connection, monitored

    Early, then repeatedly

    The first sync or automation goes live with logging, alerting, and a clear escalation path from day one, rather than added after the first incident.

  4. 4

    Extend and watch

    Ongoing

    We add the next connection and keep watching the ones already running. Integrations decay when the systems on either end change; monitoring is how you find out before your customer does.

The difference

Rented glue vs. owned integration.

What mattersRented glueOwned integration
When a step failsIt stops. You hear about it from a customer.It retries, logs, alerts, and escalates to a person.
Edge casesHandled by pretending there aren't any.Written down, built for, and tested.
Who can change itWhoever set it up, if they still work here.Anyone you hand the documentation to.
When a connected system changesIt breaks quietly.Monitoring catches it and somebody gets told.
Where it livesIn a subscription you rent and they reprice.In software you own.
Volume and complexityFine until it isn't.Built for the workload you actually have.

No-code tools are genuinely good. They make a poor load-bearing wall.

The proof

We know what integration debt costs. We built the alternative.

Attain OS runs 19 built-in apps on one shared database. Tasks, messages, calendar, documents, budgets, and customer records aren't synced between apps — they are the same records. There are no pipelines between them because there is nothing to pipe. Where the platform does reach outside itself, it's the real thing: Atty on WhatsApp, transactional email through an MJML engine, Firebase and Cloud Functions underneath. When your systems can't share a database, we make them share a context.

19apps on one shared database
0sync pipelines between them
4Atty channels, WhatsApp among them
2languages, transactional email included

Is this a fit?

A good fit when

  • The same customer, order, or invoice gets entered by hand in more than one place.
  • Somebody's week has a recurring block on it called reconciliation.
  • You've been told the systems don't talk to each other for so long that it stopped sounding like a problem.

Not a fit when

Not a fit if what you need is one trigger connecting two apps. A no-code tool will do that in an afternoon and you shouldn't pay anyone to build it. We come in when the automation has to be owned, monitored, and trusted with work that matters.

Questions we hear about integrations.

Which systems can you integrate with?

Anything with an API, and a surprising amount of what doesn't have one — scheduled exports, database reads, file drops, inbound email. The first question isn't whether we can connect to it, it's whether we can do so reliably and with permission. Legacy and vendor systems with thin interfaces are normal work here, not an exception.

What happens when an automation fails at 2am?

It's built to fail loudly. Transient failures retry on their own. Anything that can't resolve itself stops before it does damage, logs what it was doing, and alerts a named person with enough context to act. Nothing silently half-completes, and nothing waits until Monday for somebody to notice.

How is this different from a no-code automation tool or a middleware subscription?

Those are good at a single trigger between two apps, and we'll tell you when that's the right answer. They get fragile and expensive once the logic grows edge cases, the volume rises, or the workflow becomes load-bearing. What we build is yours: monitored, tested against the edge cases you actually hit, and not dependent on a subscription that reprices.

Do we end up dependent on you?

Not by design. What we build is yours — documented, with the conflict rules and escalation paths written in plain language, and structured so another developer can pick it up. We'd rather you keep working with us because it's useful than because leaving is hard.

What is your team re-typing this week?

Tell us where the copy-paste happens. We'll map what it takes to end it.