Tellum is a systems integrator
for rail contractors.
Business systems — not signalling and telecoms.
Your schemes, possessions, competence and cash live in different places — and someone has to stitch them together before every shift.
We join what you already run into one live picture.
Nothing gets replaced.
- Asta Powerproject
- Sage
- Sentinel
- Email & WhatsApp
- +156 systems →
- Schemes — margin live
- Service — profit per contract
- Cash — month-end builds itself
- Asta Powerproject
- Sage
- Sentinel
- Email & WhatsApp
- +156 systems →
- Schemes — margin live
- Service — profit per contract
- Cash — month-end builds itself
The systems your rail 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 scheme, three systems, three different numbers. I spend Friday afternoons working out which one is right.”
That's plumbing, not people. We fix the plumbing.
“The possession's booked and the crew's booked — then a card turns out to have expired and we find out on the night.”
Competence, fatigue and rosters shouldn't be three separate checks done by hand. We put them against the shift before it's booked.
“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 scheme, cost-to-date against budget — labour, plant, RRV and materials — updated as costs land, with variations and compensation events where you can see them.
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.
Sage 50, a dozen spreadsheets and a WhatsApp group.
Re-flow for the field, Sage kept for the books, one scheme tracker — live in six weeks.
Cost value reconciliation lived in an eight-tab workbook next to the ERP.
NetSuite for finance, Excel for procurement, cost-to-complete, compensation events and applications.
One portal on top of NetSuite — cost-to-complete per scheme, variations captured the day they happen, finance stays in NetSuite.
Three sources, three answers to “how did the contracts do?”.
Joblogic for works, Intacct for the books, a five-day period-end in Excel.
One reporting layer: contract profitability, inspections completed against programme, labour recovery, retentions — nightly.
Nobody could see survey findings turning into quotes and quotes turning into work.
Money in QuickBooks, pipeline in HubSpot, the survey schedule in a spreadsheet.
One weekly picture: framework call-offs, findings-to-job conversion, crew utilisation, cash by depot.
Competence, fatigue and the roster were three separate checks, all done by hand.
Sentinel in one window, the roster in another, fatigue scored in a spreadsheet after the fact.
One board: cards and expiries, fatigue against the planned roster, possessions planned versus delivered, safety and workforce reporting alongside.
Three acquisitions, three field systems, entities that didn't line up.
Consolidating P&L by depot and division took most of the period.
A consolidation layer on Intacct — common scheme structure, period-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.
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 rail: Sentinel, Asta Powerproject, Primavera P6, Re-flow, Causeway, 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.