Tellum is a systems integrator
for structural steel contractors.
Business systems — not the beam line.
Your contracts, drawings, the shop and your 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.
- Tekla
- Sage
- Piece tracker
- Email & WhatsApp
- +156 systems →
- Contracts — margin live
- Shop — tonnes and WIP
- Cash — month-end builds itself
- Tekla
- Sage
- Piece tracker
- Email & WhatsApp
- +156 systems →
- Contracts — margin live
- Shop — tonnes and WIP
- Cash — month-end builds itself
The systems your structural steel 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.
“Revision C landed after the steel was cut. We ate the rework because nobody priced it in time.”
A revision priced late is a loss; priced the day it lands, it's a variation. We log every revision against the pieces it touches, while there's still time to charge for it.
“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 — steel bought against allowance, design hours, fabrication and erection — with revisions and variations logged against the pieces they touch, 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, Tekla in the office, and a dozen spreadsheets in between.
One contract tracker from tender to erection, Sage kept for the books, Tekla left doing what it's good at — live in six weeks.
Cost per tonne lived in an eight-tab workbook next to the ERP.
NetSuite for finance, Excel for buying, cost-to-complete and variations.
One portal on top of NetSuite — cost per tonne live, steel bought against allowance, revisions captured the day they land, finance stays in NetSuite.
The shop's real capacity was a matter of opinion.
Throughput argued from memory, WIP invisible once pieces left for galv, despatch chased by phone.
One board: tonnes per bay per week against programme, WIP by stage including the galv loop, despatch versus erection — capacity a number, not an opinion.
Nobody could see enquiries turning into quotes and quotes turning into shop slots.
Money in QuickBooks, pipeline in HubSpot, the shop schedule on a whiteboard.
One weekly picture: quote conversion, slots booked against capacity, deposits due, cash by client.
The execution-class audit meant three weeks in the filing room.
Mill certs in folders, welder quals in HR files, weld and NDT records on paper.
One audit pack per contract: mill certs traced to pieces, welder qualifications current, weld and test records attached — assembled in clicks, with workforce and safety reporting alongside.
Three acquisitions, three shops, order books that didn't line up.
Consolidating P&L and shop load by site took most of the month.
A consolidation layer on Intacct — common contract structure, one view of tonnes and load across shops, 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 structural steel: Tekla, StruMIS, Bluebeam, Asta Powerproject, Payapps, 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.