Tellum is a systems integrator
for scaffolding and access contractors.
Business systems — not system scaffolds.
Your contracts, standing scaffolds, stock 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.
- SMART Scaffolder
- Sage
- Hire schedule
- Email & WhatsApp
- +156 systems →
- Contracts — margin live
- Hire — standing and billed
- Cash — month-end builds itself
- SMART Scaffolder
- Sage
- Hire schedule
- Email & WhatsApp
- +156 systems →
- Contracts — margin live
- Hire — standing and billed
- Cash — month-end builds itself
The systems your scaffolding and access 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 contract, 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 scaffold stood for nineteen weeks. We invoiced eight.”
The meter was running the whole time — the billing just never heard about it. We put handover, standing and dismantle dates on the same clock as the invoices.
“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 contract, cost-to-date against budget — gangs, transport and materials — updated as costs land, with adaptations and variations where you can see them, priced or not yet.
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.
SMART Scaffolder for pricing, Sage kept for the books, one contract-and-hire tracker — live in six weeks.
Erect margin and hire income lived in different worlds.
NetSuite for finance, Excel for the hire schedule, adaptations priced from memory.
One portal on top of NetSuite — erect-and-dismantle margin per contract, the hire book live, adaptations captured the day they happen.
An audit of the hire book found weeks nobody had invoiced — on dozens of scaffolds.
Handover certificates in folders, dismantle dates in site diaries, hire lines raised by hand.
One board: every standing scaffold with its meter running, hire due versus invoiced, overstand flagged weekly — the leak closed.
Nobody could see enquiries turning into quotes and quotes turning into standing hire.
Money in QuickBooks, pipeline in HubSpot, the works schedule in a spreadsheet.
One weekly picture: quote conversion, gang utilisation, hire book by client, cash by depot.
Inspection records were fine — until someone asked to see them all at once.
Seven-day inspections in an app, handover certs on paper, scaffolder cards in a folder.
One audit pack per contract: inspections due and done with records attached, handover certificates, cards and competencies — plus safety and workforce reporting alongside.
Three acquisitions, three ways of running the hire book, stock nobody could count.
Consolidating P&L and material stock by depot took most of the month.
A consolidation layer on Intacct — common contract structure, one hire book, stock by depot and site, month-end 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 scaffolding: SMART Scaffolder, Avontus Quantify, Re-flow, BigChange, SafetyCulture, 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.