01
Estimating
Reading drawings
Doors and windows detected on PDF plans and turned into a schedule estimators can verify.
Built for Cook & Boardman Group
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Construction and manufacturing software for every desk on the job
AI for estimating and back office paperwork, Dynamics 365 for field teams, and custom platforms for contractors and suppliers. Start where your team spends the most time.
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Built for
Cook & Boardman Group
Bartec
Linwood Homes
New York Painting Company
Insulation Snakes
What we build
Six problems we’ve solved across the industry
Each one built for a real client, from the estimating desk to the job site.
02
Back office
Purchase orders and invoices
Supplier acknowledgements and invoices read, matched to the PO and posted to the ERP.
Built for Cook & Boardman Group
03
Platforms
Fire safety compliance
Inspections, incidents, maintenance schedules and documents on one multi tenant platform.
Built for Bartec
04
Platforms
Lead management
A custom CRM taking a construction company from first enquiry to signed customer.
Built for Linwood Homes
05
Platforms
Running the whole business
Leads, accounting, orders, payments, vendors, staff hours and chat in one system.
Built for New York Painting Company
06
Platforms
B2B and B2C ordering
Technical specs, bulk orders, PDF quotes, product configuration and automatic part numbers.
Built for Insulation Snakes
01Estimating
Drawings read by software, checked by your estimators
Take Off AI detects doors and windows on PDF plans, measures them and builds the door schedule. Your estimators verify it before it reaches the ERP. Built for Cook & Boardman Group, a US distributor of commercial doors and hardware.
- 1Upload plansPDF architectural drawings
- 2Detect and measureDoors and windows found, dimensions extracted
- 3Estimator verifiesEvery item cites its page with a confidence score
- 4Post to the ERPOnly after the schedule is checked
Object detection · OCR · Azure · .NET · React
ItemTypeSizePageConfidence
D-201Single
door914 × 2134p. 498%
D-202Pair of
doors1829 × 2134p. 496%
D-203Single
door914 × 2134p. 594%
W-201Window1219 × 1524p.
591%
D-204Single door762 × 2134p. 671%
02Back
office
Purchase orders, invoices and email, handled
Systems that read what arrives, match it to the right order and post it, with people reviewing anything uncertain. All four run at the same distributor.
AP invoice and email responder
Reads inbound emails and attachments, pulls out the PO number, totals and vendor, matches across the company’s divisions and posts to the ERP. Known vendors need no manual data entry.
OCR · Microsoft Graph · ERP integration
Purchase order acknowledgements
PDF and EDI supplier acknowledgements compared side by side with the PO, with a decision recorded for every order line and a full audit trail.
OCR · EDI · ERP integration
PMA platform and Outlook plugin
Project management with lead time tracking, watchlists, overdue alerts and single sign on. The Outlook plugin turns an email into a task, with AI filling in the details for the user to confirm.
.NET · React · Single sign on
Voice and email agents
Voice agents handle the company’s calls every day, and an email agent handles inbound email.
03Field
service
Dynamics 365 Field Service, implemented and supported end to end
For distributors and service companies with technicians in the field, from the office schedule board to the technician’s phone.
In the office
Work ordersCreated, prioritised and tracked to
completion
Schedule board and dispatchJobs assigned to the right
technician
InventoryParts and stock tied to each job
In the field
Technician mobile appJobs, notes and completion on the
phone
AssetsEquipment history at each site
Preventive maintenanceAgreements that create recurring
work
Connected to
ERP
Outlook
Teams
Power BI
Power Automate
Custom plugins
Ongoing support also covers Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations and CRM, plus data warehouse management.
04Contractor and
supplier platforms
Platforms for contractors, installers and suppliers
Nine platforms in three groups, several developed and supported over years.
Compliance and safety3 platforms
Bartec
Fire safety, Canada
Multi tenant SaaS for compliance, incident reporting and trends, equipment maintenance scheduling and documents. Taken over and modernised by Orion.
Laravel · Angular
Contractor safety approval system
Canadian mining and metals company
Subcontractor to a Vancouver based technology firm
Contractors are set up in the system and each is assigned a safety form matched to the work they will do on site. Designated approvers approve or reject completed forms in real time, so safety checks do not hold up work on site.
.NET Core
Inspections and EHS software
A US construction inspections firm and a US EHS software company
Ongoing DevOps services for construction quality and inspections software, and for environment, health and safety software.
DevOps services
Sales and operations3 platforms
Linwood Homes
Construction company
Custom CRM covering the full lead lifecycle from capture to conversion, developed over more than a year and a half.
ASP.NET Core · Angular · MySQL
New York Painting Company
Painting contractor, New York
Leads, accounting, orders, invoices, payments and vendors in one system, with QuickBooks purchase orders, mobile time tracking, HR and internal chat.
ASP.NET Core · Angular · QuickBooks
Solar job management
Solar installer, Australia
Job lifecycle from request and estimate to technician assignment, inventory, site inspection, signed change orders, hours and invoicing.
Azure SQL · Blob Storage
Ordering and portals3 platforms
Insulation Snakes
Industrial insulation supplier, North America
B2B and B2C ordering with technical specs, tutorial videos, bulk orders, PDF quotations, product configuration and automatic part numbers.
PHP · MySQL · Stripe
Construction progress portal
Construction developer
Buyers follow their home’s progress; admins add projects and upload 3D tours and exterior models.
ASP.NET MVC · Angular
Contractor marketplace app
Contractor marketplace
Connects the public with local contractors: subscriptions, nearest business search, appointments and business pages. Live on iOS and Android.
iOS · Android
Case studies
Three clients, three different jobs
A distributor’s estimating team, a fire safety company’s SaaS product, and a contractor’s whole business system.
Cook & Boardman Group, US distributor of commercial doors and hardware
Drawings read by software, checked by estimators
- Problem
- Estimators read every page of a drawing set by hand to count doors and windows and record their sizes. It took most of a day per project, and mistakes meant rework.
- Built
- Software that reads PDF architectural drawings, detects doors and windows, extracts their dimensions and produces the door schedule, citing the page for each item with a confidence score. Estimators check it in an interactive grid, and it flows into the ERP.
- Result
- Plan review takes a fraction of the time, estimators get through more plans a day, and rework has dropped. Measured results are shared in proposals.
Object detection · OCR · Azure · .NET · React
Bartec, full service fire safety company in Canada
A fire safety compliance SaaS, taken over and modernised
- Problem
- An existing fire safety compliance SaaS that needed taking over and modernising.
- Built
- Orion took over and modernised the multi tenant SaaS: compliance management, incident reporting and trend analysis, automated equipment maintenance scheduling and reminders, document management and real time notifications.
- Result
- Taken over and modernised by Orion, running as one multi tenant platform.
Laravel · Angular · Multi tenant SaaS
New York Painting Company, large painting contractor in New York
One business system for leads, money, people and jobs
- Problem
- A large painting contractor wanted one system for leads, accounting, orders, invoices, payments and vendors.
- Built
- A single application covering leads, accounting, orders, invoices, payments and vendors, with document management, QuickBooks purchase orders, employee time tracking through a mobile app, HR, and internal chat between staff and managers.
- Result
- Developed by Orion over more than a year and a half.
ASP.NET Core · Angular · MySQL · QuickBooks
How we work
Three ways to work with Orion
01
Fixed scope project
A defined system delivered against an agreed scope and timeline.
- You bring
- The requirements and a product owner
- Orion brings
- Design, build, testing and launch
- Example
- A lead management CRM
02
Dedicated team
Orion engineers working as part of your team on your roadmap.
- You bring
- The roadmap and day to day priorities
- Orion brings
- Engineers who work in your process
- Example
- A long running SaaS product
03
Managed services
Orion runs and supports the systems after launch.
- You bring
- Goals and sign off on changes
- Orion brings
- Support, maintenance and improvements
- Example
- Dynamics 365 Field Service
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