12+ YEARS ARCHITECTING AND SHIPPING SERIOUS SOFTWARE
A senior engineering team for founders who want their product built right the first time, and for established businesses that need architecture, builds or advice their own teams can't stretch to. No hand-offs to juniors. No advice from the sidelines.
SCALE
High volume
TRACING
End to end
CLOUD
Azure / AWS
12+ years
Architecting and shipping sophisticated systems
High volume
Transaction-heavy systems built to grow with demand
2 live
Manifold and Octopus, built and run by us
UK · Nigeria
European rigour, African market fluency
01 / WHO WE HELP
FOR FOUNDERS
Too many early products have to be rebuilt because the foundations weren't designed to grow. We build your first version on an architecture that scales with you, so it's the one you grow on.
FOR ESTABLISHED BUSINESSES
Hand us a complete build, bring us in to architect or modernise a critical system, or add senior engineers to your team for as long as you need them.
BUILD
we deliver
EMBED
we join you
ADVISE
we guide
02 / HANDS ON, ALWAYS
The people who design your architecture are the same people who write the code, deploy it, and pick up the phone when something needs fixing.
ADVICE FROM THE SIDELINES
THE TENAFORGE WAY
A strategy document, then you find someone to build it
The architects write the code and ship it
Senior people at the pitch, juniors on the work
Senior engineers on your project from first call to production
Handover on launch day, then you are on your own
We stay accountable for how it runs in production
Best practice applied from a template
Decisions grounded in systems we have built and operated ourselves
Opaque progress until the big reveal
Working software every iteration, so you see exactly where things stand
03 / HOW WE WORK WITH YOU
MODEL A
We own delivery, end to end.
From discovery to launch and beyond. You get a working product and a team accountable for it.
WHAT YOU GET
BEST FOR: FOUNDERS · NEW PRODUCTS · OUTSOURCED BUILDS
MODEL B
Our engineers join your team.
Senior engineers who work in your codebase, your standups and your process, raising the bar as they ship.
WHAT YOU GET
BEST FOR: TEAMS THAT NEED SENIOR CAPACITY NOW
MODEL C
Technical leadership on demand.
Guidance from people who still build, so the advice is grounded in what actually works in production.
WHAT YOU GET
BEST FOR: BOARDS · CTOs · INVESTORS
04 / CAPABILITIES
Strongest where scale, data, integrations and trust matter: financial services, energy, retail, health and logistics.
Target architectures, roadmaps, vendor decisions and technical due diligence.
MVPs, platforms, portals and APIs engineered around how your business works.
Payments, wallets, cards, ledgers and agency banking at transaction scale.
Secure cloud foundations, infrastructure as code and CI/CD on Azure and AWS.
Logs, metrics, tracing and alerting that catch problems before customers do.
Legacy migration paths, plus AI where it measurably cuts manual work.
05 / HOW WE ENGINEER
Over twelve years of building systems that move money, fuel and data has taught us what holds up under real load, and what doesn't.
Access control, auditability and data protection are designed in, never bolted on.
Every system ships with the logs, metrics and traces needed to understand it in production.
Idempotent operations, retries and queues, so a bad minute never becomes a bad day.
We choose the least complex architecture that meets the need, and leave room to grow.
Clean, documented code and clear architecture your team can confidently take forward.
06 / CASE STUDIES
FINTECH / AFRICA
A peak-sensitive transaction platform was failing when demand spiked.
Fewer failures
at peak load
Async
processing absorbs spikes
BEFORE → AFTER
We separated the hot paths, moved heavy work onto queues and made every transaction safe to retry.
ENTERPRISE / UK
An ingestion service needed to handle significantly more traffic without losing data.
Higher volume
significantly more traffic handled
End to end
tracing and alerting
BEFORE → AFTER
We redesigned the ingestion and processing flow with resilience and tracing designed in from the start.
07 / OUR PRODUCT · MANIFOLD
Manifold is the operating platform for petroleum import and distribution companies, bringing product releases, stock across every depot and end-of-day reconciliation into one secure system, so losses surface the same day instead of at month end.
DEPOTS
3
RELEASES TODAY
14
TRUCKS LOADED
11
OPEN VARIANCES
1
| DEPOT | PRODUCT | BOOK (L) | PHYSICAL (L) | STATUS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Depot A | PMS | 412,300 | 412,180 | Within tolerance |
| Depot A | AGO | 198,750 | 198,690 | Within tolerance |
| Depot B | PMS | 305,900 | 303,400 | Investigate |
| Depot B | DPK | 64,500 | 64,470 | Within tolerance |
| Depot C | AGO | 88,200 | 88,160 | Within tolerance |
RELEASE QUEUE
RL-2041
AGO · 33,000 L · Depot A
RL-2042
PMS · 45,000 L · Depot B
RL-2043
PMS · 33,000 L · Depot C
RL-2044
DPK · 33,000 L · Depot B
HOW MANIFOLD FITS YOUR OPERATION
Log cargo receipts and opening stock against each depot and product.
Track stock positions across every depot and tank in real time.
Approve releases against customers and payments, then record loading.
Compare book and physical stock daily and investigate variances immediately.
Live stock positions by depot and product, without chasing spreadsheets.
Book against physical stock every day, with variances surfaced while they are still fixable.
Releases, approvals and loading tied to customers and payments, with a full audit trail.
Designed around downstream operations: permits, products and multi-depot reality.
Hosted and managed by us on your own subdomain, with role-based access for every team.
We set up your depots, products and users with you, so you go live without disruption.
Whether you are just starting out or running an established network, there is a plan that fits.
Plans that suit new oil and gas businesses and established operators alike.
Begin with a single depot and add more as your operation grows.
We onboard your depots, products and users, and host your secure instance.
Tell us about your operation and we will recommend the right fit.
Reconciliation is where the hours go and where product quietly leaks. Book a demo and we'll show you how much time your team would save reconciling across depots, and how Manifold stops losses before they add up.
Book a demo08 / ALSO FROM TENAFORGE · LIVE
The platform pool operators use to run their whole operation: draws, agents, branches, stakes, payouts and reporting, from one secure system built for high volume.
BRANCHES
24
ACTIVE AGENTS
312
OPEN DRAWS
3
Week 18 Draw
Closes Saturday 15:00 · 24 branches
Week 17 Draw
Results entered · payouts processing
Agent float review
3 agents above limit
Building and running our own products keeps us honest. We know what it takes to launch, support and grow software real businesses depend on, because we do it every day.
09 / QUESTIONS
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