Tellum is a systems integrator
for drilling and exploration companies.
Business systems — not drill rigs.
Your programmes, plods, assays and cash live in different places — and someone has to stitch them together every week.
We join what you already run into one live picture.
Nothing gets replaced.
- MX Deposit
- Sage
- Drill plods
- Email & WhatsApp
- +156 systems →
- Programmes — burn live
- Rigs — metres and standby
- Cash — month-end builds itself
- MX Deposit
- Sage
- Drill plods
- Email & WhatsApp
- +156 systems →
- Programmes — burn live
- Rigs — metres and standby
- Cash — month-end builds itself
The systems your drilling and exploration business already runs on.
If it's on this list, we've connected it before. If it isn't, we probably still have — .
You're not unusual. This is what running a contractor at this stage looks like.
“Same programme, three systems, three different metre counts. I spend Friday afternoons working out which one is right.”
That's plumbing, not people. We fix the plumbing.
“The rig stood on standby for nine days. We invoiced four.”
Standby is revenue with a paper trail — the plods already say when the rig stood and why. We reconcile plods against invoices, every week, before the argument goes stale.
“Month-end takes the FD a week and one spreadsheet nobody else understands.”
Month-end shouldn't be a build project. It should already be there.
Wherever you are with your systems, there's a version of this for you.
You're picking or replacing something.
We help you choose the tools that fit how you actually work — not the ones the salesman liked. Shortlist, trial, decision. Then we set them up properly.
You already have the tools. They don't talk, or they don't do enough.
We customise, connect and extend what you run: integrations, missing reports, automations, the layer on top. Then we keep it working and growing with you.
You have the systems. People use half of them.
We teach your team to run the tools you already pay for — properly, and with the automations that make them worth the money.
Most clients start in the middle. Some start with training and never need the rest.
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.
One live picture. Three things on it.
Every programme: metres against plan, cost per metre against budget, spend against the raise — by hole, by rig, by month — with the answer to “where are we against the box” taking minutes, not weeks.
Nothing gets replaced. Your ERP stays your ERP. We add the layer on top.
Small first step. No migration. Nobody retrains.
We sign an NDA, then walk you through what we'd connect and how. A demo, not a sales call.
We pick the right technical approach and build a working prototype on your numbers — free, typically within 48 hours. Static data at this stage; the live connection comes with the build. You decide if it's worth going further.
Implementation, customisation, the connecting layer, training — the actual engagement begins. Your systems stay where they are; your team keeps working the way it works.
Before and after
Examples of what we can help you with — real engagements, anonymised, names and some details changed.
6 of 6 engagements
About to buy an ERP they'd have spent a year fighting.
Xero, paper plods, and a dozen spreadsheets in between.
Digital plods feeding one programme tracker, Xero kept for the books — live in six weeks.
Fifteen client programmes, fifteen trackers, one partner asking for the portfolio view.
Each programme managed well on its own — budgets, burn and invoicing visible nowhere together.
One portfolio layer: budget, burn and margin per programme and per client, invoicing status alongside — the partner's question answered in one screen.
The board asked for cost per metre. The answer took two weeks.
Drillhole data in one system, spend in another, the budget box in a spreadsheet only the CFO trusted.
One board: metres, spend and cost per metre live against the programme budget — board and market reporting built from the same numbers the team runs on.
Nobody could see proposals turning into surveys and surveys turning into cash.
Money in QuickBooks, pipeline in HubSpot, the crew schedule in a spreadsheet.
One weekly picture: proposal conversion, crews booked against capacity, invoicing by client, cash by project.
Metres drilled, metres invoiced and standby were three different conversations.
Plods on paper, invoices from memory, consumables reconciled at year end.
One board: plods against invoices per rig and per contract, standby billed weekly, bits and rods recharged — with crew rotations and safety reporting alongside.
Three projects, two countries, databases that didn't line up.
Consolidating spend and metres across entities took most of the month.
A consolidation layer on the ERP — common programme and hole structure, spend and metres 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.
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.
Questions we get asked
The stack we see most often in mining & exploration: MX Deposit, acQuire, Leapfrog, Micromine, Zoho Projects, Xero — 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.