Tellum is a systems integrator
for surfacing and highways contractors.
Business systems — not the kit on site.
Your schemes, shifts, tonnage and cash live in different places — and someone has to stitch them together before the next night's closure.
We join what you already run into one live picture.
Nothing gets replaced.
- Re-flow
- Sage
- Shift sheets
- Email & WhatsApp
- +156 systems →
- Schemes — margin live
- Shifts — tonnage and waste
- Cash — month-end builds itself
- Re-flow
- Sage
- Shift sheets
- Email & WhatsApp
- +156 systems →
- Schemes — margin live
- Shifts — tonnage and waste
- Cash — month-end builds itself
The systems your surfacing and highways 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.
“Two loads went cold on the back of a wagon on Tuesday night. I found out from the tip ticket.”
A wasted load is margin tipped in a hole. We put the plant's despatches, the deliveries and the laying gang on one clock.
“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 — material, haulage, traffic management, plant and gangs — updated as costs land, with day-works and variations 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 measures, day-works and applications.
One portal on top of NetSuite — cost-to-complete per scheme, day-works captured the night they happen, finance stays in NetSuite.
The framework ran on the client's system; the money ran on ours; nobody joined them.
Call-offs and defects in the authority's system, measures in Excel, response times reported by hand.
One board: call-offs against the schedule of rates, defect response against the framework clocks, permits against progress, measured versus certified — with the evidence attached.
Nobody could see enquiries turning into quotes and quotes turning into shifts.
Money in QuickBooks, pipeline in HubSpot, the works schedule in a spreadsheet.
One weekly picture: framework call-offs, quote conversion, crew utilisation, cash by depot.
Tonnage, waste and plant hours lived in three places and got argued about on Fridays.
Despatch tickets in a folder, shift sheets on paper, telematics in its own portal.
One board: tonnes per shift against plan, wasted loads with reasons, paver and planer hours, 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 month.
A consolidation layer on Intacct — common scheme 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.
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 surfacing & highways: Re-flow, Street Manager, Confirm, Asta Powerproject, Trackunit, 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.