PaT was not designed in a lab. It was built inside a working business, by the people who needed it, to solve problems they were living with.
Over thirty years, accounting consolidated into integrated ERP systems. Money is tracked, reconciled and reported from one place, and nobody argues about which spreadsheet is current.
The work people actually do is still spread across email, spreadsheets and a pile of single-purpose apps — most of them conceived in the 1980s, none of them aware of each other.
People Asset Management: a learning management system, built because training people properly was the first bottleneck.
Task Integrity Management: if a task is defined with an outcome, an assignee and a deadline, then integrity against it can be measured.
The two ideas merged and kept growing into a Culture Management Platform: learning, tasks, communication, strategy and reporting in one system.
CEO of SCS NZ, a family-owned 3PL, and the founder of PaT. His experience building nine-figure businesses is where the emphasis on training, systemisation and automation comes from — PaT is the system he wanted and could not buy.
Lead developer. A self-taught software engineer with a background in electrical engineering and mechatronic device design.
Twenty years of coding, a CPA, and a Bachelor of Commerce with a dual major in computer science and accounting — the rare combination of someone who can both build the system and audit it.
Shipping something that helps beats polishing something that does not exist.
Every feature started as a problem someone had while running a company, not as a line on a roadmap.
Good intentions do not survive a busy week. Systems do.