FIG. 01 — MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE

We build the system your spreadsheets are pretending to be.

Elevare Foundry designs and builds the internal software a business actually runs on — quoting, scheduling, approvals, reporting — so the work stops living in inboxes, group chats and a file called final_v7.xlsx.

30 minutes · we map one of your processes on the call · no deck

EFFORTLOAD · THE MANUAL PROCESSFULCRUM · THE STEPWE CHANGE FIRSTEFFORT ARM · SIX WEEKS OF BUILDLOAD ARM · YEARS OF MANUAL WORKFIG. 01 · LEVER, CL. 1ELEVARE FOUNDRYSCALENTS
4 hrsInvoice cycle, was 11 days
1Source of truth, not nine tabs
6 wksTo first working release
FIG. 02 — LOAD ANALYSIS
The load

Here's what we usually find

Before writing anything, we map how work actually moves through the business — including the workarounds nobody admits to. These five findings come up almost every time.

  • L-01Quotes live in one person's inbox. When they're on leave, the pipeline stops.≈ 6 hrs / week
  • L-02The real numbers are in a spreadsheet nobody else opens. Two people disagree about revenue and both have evidence.≈ 2 days / month
  • L-03The same data gets typed in three times. Once in the order form, once in the sheet, once in accounting.≈ 1 full-time role
  • L-04Approvals happen in a group chat. Nothing is auditable, and nobody can say what's pending right now.Unmeasured
  • L-05Month-end takes a week. Because closing the books means reconstructing what happened.≈ 5 days / month

None of these need a platform migration or a new ERP. They need one system, correctly placed.

FIG. 03 — STANDARD ASSEMBLIES
What we build

Four systems we build most

"Custom software" is not a product. These are. Each one is built to fit how you already work, not to make you work like the software.

Quoting & orders

One form, one number, one status. Quotes go out from a controlled template, get versioned, and become an order without anyone retyping a line.

Typical build · 4–6 weeks

Scheduling & dispatch

Who is doing what, where, today. Jobs assigned against real capacity, with the field team looking at the same board as the office.

Typical build · 6–8 weeks

Approvals & compliance

Requests with a route, a record and a deadline. Every decision timestamped and attributable, so audits stop being an archaeology project.

Typical build · 3–5 weeks

Operations dashboard

The five numbers you actually run on, computed from the source instead of assembled by hand every Monday morning.

Typical build · 3–4 weeks
FIG. 04 — METHOD
How we work

Fixed scope. Fixed price. Working software in six weeks.

You see it running at the end of every phase, not at the end of the project. If we are wrong about something, you find out in week two, while it is still cheap to fix.

WK 0WK 1WK 3WK 6TYPICAL FIRST RELEASE · SIX WEEKS FROM KICK-OFF
WEEK 0–1

Map the process

We sit with the people doing the work and draw what actually happens, workarounds included. You keep the drawing whether or not you hire us.

We need · 3 hrs from 2–3 staff
WEEK 1–3

Prototype the fix

A clickable version of the new process with your real data in it. This is where we find out what we got wrong, while changing it costs a conversation.

We need · one decision-maker, weekly
WEEK 3–6

Ship the first release

The narrowest useful version, in production, with your team trained on it. Not a pilot — the real thing, doing real work, on day one.

We need · a named owner on your side
ONGOING

Support & extend

We stay on for changes and new modules as the business shifts. Or we hand over the code and documentation and you take it in-house.

Your call · retainer or handover
FIG. 05 — CASE FILES
Case files

Two builds, drawn

Every engagement ends with a schematic of what changed. Red is what we removed. Blue is what we installed.

CASE 01

An 11-day invoice cycle, cut to four hours

Distribution · 40 staff · 9 weeks

Orders arrived by email, were re-keyed into a shared spreadsheet, printed for approval, then re-keyed again into accounting. Nobody could say what was unbilled without opening four files and asking two people.

  1. 01 · Intake

    It starts in an inbox. Orders arrive as email, in whatever shape the customer felt like sending them, and the queue is whoever happens to be reading.

  2. 02 · Re-key

    Someone retypes each one into a shared spreadsheet. There are seven versions of that file, and the live one is whichever was opened last.

  3. 03 · Paper approval

    Approval is printed, signed by hand, and walked back to a desk. The only record that a decision happened is the piece of paper it happened on.

  4. 04 · Re-key, again

    Then the same numbers are typed a second time into accounting, by a different person, into a different system. This is where the two systems of record start to disagree.

  5. 05 · The build

    Six steps become four, in one system. An order becomes a queued job, gets approved in place, and lands in the ledger without anyone retyping anything.

Fig. 05a — Order-to-invoice path, before and after. Drawn from the client's own process map.

BEFORE×3EMAIL INRE-KEYSHEET v7PRINTSIGNRE-KEY11 DAYS · 4 HANDOFFS · 2 SYSTEMS OF RECORDAFTERORDERQUEUEAPPROVELEDGER4 HOURS · 1 HANDOFF · 1 SYSTEM OF RECORD
11 daysInvoice cycle, before
4 hoursInvoice cycle, after
0Re-keyed fields
₱1.4MUnbilled revenue found in month one
CASE 02

One board for an office and eleven field crews

Field services · 60 staff · 7 weeks

Dispatch ran on a whiteboard that was photographed each morning and posted to a group chat. Reschedules reached crews late or not at all, and the office learned a job was finished the following day — if someone remembered to say so.

Next dayJob status visibility, before
LiveJob status visibility, after
+18%Jobs completed per crew, per week
1Board, seen by everyone
FIG. 06 — ENGAGEMENT SHAPES
Pricing

What it costs

Published, because you shouldn't have to sit through a sales call to find out whether we're in your range.

01 · Process map₱85,000Fixed · 2 weeks
  • A drawn schematic of one process, end to end
  • The load analysis, quantified in hours and pesos
  • A build plan with scope, sequence and price
  • Yours to keep — including if you build it elsewhere
02 · First release₱450,000 – ₱900,000Fixed scope · 6–8 weeks
  • Everything in the process map
  • A working system in production, not a pilot
  • Data migrated out of your existing spreadsheets
  • Your team trained, with written runbooks
  • 30 days of changes included after launch
03 · Ongoing₱60,000 / monthRetainer · rolling, 30 days notice
  • New modules and changes as the business shifts
  • Monitoring, backups and updates
  • A standing half-day each month with your ops lead
  • Code and documentation handed over whenever you ask
FIG. 07 — WHO YOU'D WORK WITH
About

A small team, on purpose

Elevare Foundry is small enough that the person who maps your process is the person who builds it. There is no account manager, no discovery team handing notes to a squad you never meet, and no version of this where you explain your business twice.

We work with businesses between roughly 20 and 200 staff — big enough that the manual process is genuinely expensive, small enough that one well-placed system changes how the whole company runs.

The name is Latin. Elevāre, to lift, from levāre — to make light. Taking the weight off is the entire job description.

Founded
2025
Based
Mandaluyong City
Team
Three software engineers
Stack
Boring, documented, and chosen to outlive us
Code
You own it. Repository handed over on request.
FIG. 08 — NEXT STEP
Next step

Book the walkthrough

Thirty minutes. Bring the process that annoys you most — we'll map it on the call and tell you straight whether software is the answer.

  • 01You describe one process. We draw it live on the call.
  • 02We tell you what we would build, roughly what it costs, and how long it takes.
  • 03You get the drawing by email either way. No obligation, no follow-up sequence.