From a first sketch to the app in everyone's hands.

It starts as a sketch.

Before any server, a conversation: what your people do all day, what must never stop, and what you already run. The first drawing is rough on purpose. The questions matter more than the boxes.

Where it runs stays open.

On your own servers, in a cloud account, or hosted and run for you. The estate is the same eight layers either way, so the choice is made on the facts, not up front.

Then it is drawn.

The sketch becomes a drawing of eight layers, and every service is named by the image it runs. The whole estate can be read, questioned and changed before anything is built.

What you already run is marked in.

Your directory, your databases, your network. Each joins the drawing as a marked revision, and the estate is built around what is there instead of over it.

Then it is built, and it runs.

Every service ships as a versioned image from a private registry. A push to the repository becomes a release through CI, and the image before it stays in the registry.

Every night, a backup.

Each volume that holds data is snapshotted at 02:00: encrypted, deduplicated, kept for 14 days, 8 weeks and 12 months. Part of it is read back every week, so damage is found early.

AI over your own records.

A search index built from your own records, and model keys kept on the server, never in the browser.

One door. One sign-in.

Every web service sits behind one proxy and listens only inside; video calls are the one exception, since their media must travel on its own. People sign in once, with your own directory if you have one.

All of it, out of sight.

Eight layers, built and running. The people who use them never see any of it. That is the point.

Your people just open the app.

On the screen: Divan, a work platform running on an estate we built and run, shown with demo data.

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