M&E contractor systems integration
M&E CONTRACTORS

Tellum is a systems integrator
for M&E contractors.
Business systems — not the ones you install.

Mechanical, electrical and public health run the same job from three sets of numbers — and someone has to stitch them together every week.

We join what you already run into one live picture.
Nothing gets replaced.

WHAT WE CONNECT

The systems your M&E business already runs on.

If it's on this list, we've connected it before. If it isn't, we probably still have — .

SOUND FAMILIAR?

You're not unusual. This is what running a contractor at this stage looks like.

WHAT WE DO

Wherever you are with your systems, there's a version of this for you.

Most clients start in the middle. Some start with training and never need the rest.

THE PART THAT'S OURS

Tools get you level. The layer gets you ahead.

Choosing, connecting and training put the right tools in place — the same tools your competitor can buy. The Tellum Operating Layer is ours: it sits on top of what you run and bends to how you work. A new metric lands in days, a new workflow in a week or two. Nothing gets replaced.

WHAT YOU GET

One live picture. Three things on it.

Margin live, not at final account.

Every contract, cost-to-date against budget and split by discipline — mechanical, electrical, public health — labour, materials and plant updated as costs land, with variations and day-works where you can see them.

What feeds it
Tellum layer
What you see
Margin by contract
Mechanical package19%
Electrical package8%
Public health package-2%

Nothing gets replaced. Your ERP stays your ERP. We add the layer on top.

HOW IT WORKS

Small first step. No migration. Nobody retrains.

Before and after

Examples of what we can help you with — real engagements, anonymised, names and some details changed.

SIZE
TECH

6 of 6 engagements

M&E contractor
SmallSageSimPROSpreadsheets

About to buy an ERP they'd have spent a year fighting.

BEFORE

Sage 50, a dozen spreadsheets and a WhatsApp group.

AFTER

SimPRO for works and maintenance, Sage kept for the books, one contract tracker across the disciplines — live in six weeks.

Read about this stage →
M&E subcontractor
Mid-sizeNetSuiteSpreadsheets

Cost value reconciliation lived in an eight-tab workbook next to the ERP.

BEFORE

NetSuite for finance, Excel for procurement, cost-to-complete, variations and applications — one tab per discipline.

AFTER

One portal on top of NetSuite — cost-to-complete by discipline against one job, variations captured the day they happen, finance stays in NetSuite.

Building services group
PE-backedJoblogicSage IntacctSpreadsheets

Three sources, three answers to “how did the contracts do?”.

BEFORE

Joblogic for works, Intacct for the books, a five-day month-end in Excel.

AFTER

One reporting layer: contract profitability by discipline, labour recovery, utilisation, retentions — nightly.

Maintenance and small works company
SmallQuickBooksHubSpotSpreadsheets

Nobody could see PPM findings turning into quotes and quotes turning into work.

BEFORE

Money in QuickBooks, pipeline in HubSpot, the PPM schedule in a spreadsheet.

AFTER

One weekly picture: renewals, remedial-to-job conversion, engineer utilisation, cash by branch.

Mechanical and electrical installer
Mid-sizeProcoreADPSpreadsheets

Every main contractor's project manager asked for the same numbers every Monday.

BEFORE

Progress and safety in Procore, workforce and competency reporting in Excel.

AFTER

Progress, safety, incidents, cards and competencies and workforce reporting in one place, fed from Procore and ADP.

M&E contracting group
PE-backedSage IntacctCOINSLegacy field tools

Three acquisitions, three project systems, entities that didn't line up.

BEFORE

Consolidating P&L by branch, division and discipline took most of the month.

AFTER

A consolidation layer on Intacct — common contract structure, month-end across all entities in days.

Want to see the layer itself? Same numbers, three front-ends — inside NetSuite, as a modern portal, as Power Apps.

Ivan Kochetov
A note from Ivan

You're probably here the way most of our clients arrive — a colleague passed our name on, or you got a note from me. Either way, good to meet you. If the page doesn't answer your question, ask me directly — I read every reply myself.

Ivan Kochetov · runs the M&E practice · 20+ construction projects behind the team
FAQ

Questions we get asked

The stack we see most often in M&E: Procore, Eque2, COINS, Trimble Estimation, SimPRO, Sage — plus Excel, Microsoft 365 and WhatsApp. In total we work with around 160 systems across 21 categories, listed at tellum.works/vendors. If a system has an API, a database or an export, it can be connected.

Pick your first step.

From a free PDF to a working prototype on your own numbers in 48 hours. Pick one — the form below adjusts.

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Where you are now:
Full reference:
The 20 metrics and 20 reports we set up for M&E
Tellum · Dust. Data. Clarity. · Ivan Kochetov · London