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Industries · IT service providers

Know which clientscost you moneybefore renewal.

We build operating systems for IT service providers that connect tickets, SLAs, engineer dispatch, contracts, client assets, licences and recurring billing — so the service desk, field engineers and finance work from the same record of every client.

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All clients · Today
Sample
Open tickets
64
SLA at risk
4
First response
11 min
New9
Outlook not syncing · 3 users
Harbor Trading · WhatsApp
P2 · 18 min
New starter laptop
Meridian Realty · Portal
TK
In progress21
VPN drops at Al Quoz site
Vale Motors · Tech R.
TR
Printer queue stuck
Juniper Clinics · Remote
SM
Waiting on client14
Shared mailbox access
Approval from manager
Paused
Firewall rule change
Change form sent
Approval
  • Tickets & SLAs
  • Engineer dispatch
  • Managed contracts
  • Client assets
  • Licence renewals
  • Projects
  • Recurring billing
  • Client portal

01Where IT providers leak margin

The fixes are fast. The admin around them isn't.

Most IT providers are good at solving technical problems. Where they struggle is everything that surrounds the fix: logging it, billing it, renewing it and proving the contract is worth what the client pays.

01

Support requests arrive everywhere except the ticketing tool

What happens

Clients WhatsApp their favourite engineer, call the office or email a personal address. The ticket — if one is created — is logged after the work is done.

What it costs

SLA reporting is fiction, engineers are interrupted all day, and the work that never became a ticket is never billed or counted against the contract.

With one system

Every channel feeds one service desk: WhatsApp, email, phone logs, the portal and monitoring alerts become tickets with a client, contract, priority and SLA clock from the first minute.

02

Fixed-fee contracts quietly become unprofitable

What happens

A client pays a monthly fee for 40 users. Over the year they grow to 65, raise twice the tickets, and nobody compares effort against what the contract was priced on.

What it costs

The provider discovers at renewal — or never — that its biggest client is its least profitable, and has no data to support a price conversation.

With one system

Each contract tracks covered users and devices, hours spent and tickets raised against what was sold, with a profitability view by client every month.

03

Licence, warranty and domain renewals are tracked in a spreadsheet

What happens

Microsoft 365 seats, firewall subscriptions, antivirus, SSL certificates, domains and hardware warranties all renew on different dates for different clients.

What it costs

Expired certificates take sites down, lapsed security subscriptions leave clients exposed, and renewals the provider should have resold are bought elsewhere.

With one system

Every licence, subscription and warranty sits on the client's asset record with its renewal date, cost and margin — and quotes go out before anything lapses.

04

Engineer visits are planned in a group chat

What happens

Onsite visits across Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi are agreed by message, engineers juggle remote tickets between drives, and nobody can see who is free.

What it costs

Wasted travel, missed appointments and urgent tickets waiting because the right engineer is stuck across town.

With one system

A dispatch board of engineers by time slot, with visits linked to tickets, client locations and skills — so coordinators book the right person in the right area.

05

Time is logged on Friday afternoon from memory

What happens

Engineers reconstruct their week from sent emails and chat history, rounding everything to the nearest hour.

What it costs

Block-hour clients are under-billed, project overruns are invisible until the end, and contract profitability can't be trusted.

With one system

Time is captured on the ticket or visit as the work happens, with suggested entries from activity — and billable time flows straight into the invoice.

02IT services platform preview

What your service desk system could look like.

Move between the views a service desk coordinator, field engineer and managing director would use every day. Every screen is designed per company in discovery.

All clients · Today
Sample
Open tickets
64
Across 31 clients
SLA at risk
4
Within 30 min of breach
New9
Outlook not syncing · 3 users
Harbor Trading · WhatsApp
P2 · 18 min
New starter laptop
Meridian Realty · Portal
TK
Backup job failed
Saffron & Co. · Monitoring alert
P1
In progress21
VPN drops at Al Quoz site
Vale Motors · Tech R.
TR
Printer queue stuck
Juniper Clinics · Remote
SM
Which tickets will breach SLA in the next hour?
Four. The most urgent is the Saffron & Co. backup failure — a P1 still unassigned. Engineer S. is on remote work this morning and has handled this client's backups before. I've drafted the assignment for the coordinator to confirm.
Service desk · open ticketsSLA rules by contract

Illustrative interface with sample data — your system is designed around your services, contracts and team.

Illustrative demo · sample data

Can you picture your service desk on it?

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03Solutions

The parts of an IT services system — chosen for your company.

  • Every request becomes a ticket with a clock

    Service desk & SLAs

    WhatsApp, email, phone logs, the client portal and monitoring alerts feed one queue, with priority, contract and SLA timers applied automatically and escalation before anything breaches.

    • Multi-channel ticket intake
    • SLA rules per contract
    • Escalation and breach alerts
    • Canned replies and knowledge base

Not every company needs every module. We scope the ones your operation actually uses, and add the rest when you need them.

04AI inside the system

AI that runs the desk admin — engineers do the engineering.

AI in your service desk system works on your own tickets, alerts, contracts and documentation. It sorts, drafts and summarises — engineers decide what to change on a client's systems.

AI never runs scripts, changes configurations or touches a client's environment, and it doesn't handle passwords or credentials. It suggests priorities, drafts replies and summarises — engineers carry out the work, client-facing messages wait for approval, and each user sees only the clients and documentation their role allows.

  1. 01

    Ticket triage

    Coordinator confirms
    A client emails: "Nobody in accounts can print and the shared drive is slow."

    The assistant splits it into two tickets, links them to the client's contract and site, suggests priorities and categories from similar past tickets, and proposes the engineer with the right skills.

  2. 02

    Alert noise reduction

    Forty monitoring alerts came in overnight. What actually matters?

    Groups duplicate and self-resolved alerts, highlights the backup failure and the disk-space warning that need action, and opens tickets only for those after the coordinator agrees.

  3. 03

    Reply drafting

    Engineer reviews before sending
    Draft a reply explaining the VPN fix to the client.

    Writes a clear, non-technical update from the engineer's notes and the ticket history, ready to edit and send.

  4. 04

    Time capture

    Engineer approves entries
    What did I work on today that isn't logged yet?

    Suggests time entries from ticket activity, visits and notes, so the engineer approves them in a minute instead of reconstructing the day on Friday.

  5. 05

    Contract insight

    Which managed clients are costing more than their contract covers?

    Answers from your own contracts, timesheets and ticket data, with the clients, the hours behind them and what's driving the extra work.

  6. 06

    Monthly client reports

    Reviewed before sending
    Prepare the October service report for Crescent Build.

    Drafts a report with tickets, SLA performance, projects, renewals coming up and recommendations from the account manager's notes.

05A day with ORCHESTR

A service desk Thursday, two ways.

  1. 07:50Alerts already sortedOvernight alerts are grouped, with one backup failure flagged as a P1 ticket waiting for assignment.
  2. 09:15WhatsApp becomes a ticketThe message becomes a ticket on the client's contract with an SLA clock, and the coordinator assigns it.
  3. 11:00Dispatch board shows who's nearThe dispatch board shows Tech R. free from 14:00 in Business Bay; the visit is booked and the client notified.
  4. 13:30Renewal flagged weeks agoThe certificate was flagged 30 days ahead, quoted and renewed — the portal never goes down.
  5. 16:30Time approved in a minuteEach engineer approves suggested time entries from today's tickets and visits.
  6. 18:00Margin by client, liveThe managing director sees contract margin, SLA performance and unbilled time by client on one screen.

An illustrative day — every system is designed around how your team actually works.

06Integrations

Works with the tools your company already uses.

Integrations depend on what each provider exposes — we confirm every connection in scoping before committing to it. Names are examples of categories we work with, not partnerships.

Messaging & intake
WhatsApp Business APIEmailMicrosoft TeamsPhone system call logs (where available)
RMM & monitoring
RMM platforms (via API, where available)Monitoring alerts by email or webhookBackup tool notifications
Microsoft & cloud
Microsoft 365 / Entra ID (where available)Google Workspace (where available)Cloud provider billing exports
Documentation & credentials
Existing password vault (linked, not copied)SharePoint / OneDriveExisting documentation tools (via API or export)
Distributors & purchasing
Distributor price lists (by import)Supplier quotes and orders by email
Accounting
Zoho BooksQuickBooksXeroExisting ERP (via API or export)
Data
Existing PSA or ticketing tool (via API or export)Spreadsheets & exportsBI tools

07How we build your system

Built around your company — not a template.

  1. 01

    Understand your business

    We learn how the business actually runs — people, tools, hand-offs and where time is lost — before proposing anything.
  2. 02

    Map your workflows

    Every workflow is mapped end to end: who does what, when, with which information, and what should happen automatically.
  3. 03

    Design your system

    Screens, records, permissions and integrations are designed around those workflows, and the scope is agreed in writing.
  4. 04

    Build and integrate

    We build in stages and connect the tools you keep, so your team sees working software early and gives feedback as we go.
  5. 05

    Test and launch

    We test with real scenarios, migrate the agreed data, set up roles and access, and onboard the team.
  6. 06

    Support and improve

    After launch we support the system under an agreed arrangement and extend it as the business changes.

08Why it matters

What changes for the company.

We don't quote savings we haven't measured. In discovery we baseline how your team works today, so improvements can be tracked against your own numbers.

  • SLAs you can actually report

    Every request is a ticket from the first minute, so service levels reflect reality.
  • Contracts priced on evidence

    Effort by client is visible all year, not discovered at renewal.
  • No surprise expiries

    Licences, certificates, domains and warranties are quoted before they lapse.
  • Fewer wasted journeys

    Dispatch sees where engineers are and what skills each job needs.
  • Billable time that gets billed

    Time is captured where the work happens and flows into invoices.
  • Engineers focused on engineering

    Triage, replies, time entries and reports are drafted for them.

09Possible use cases

How different IT providers could use it.

Examples of what we could build — not completed client projects.

Small managed service provider

From WhatsApp support to a real service desk

A team of six engineers moving client requests out of personal phones into one desk with SLAs, contracts and recurring billing.

Service deskContractsBilling
Field-heavy IT support company

Engineers across three emirates

Onsite support for retail, clinic and office clients, with location-aware dispatch, mobile job sheets and client visit notifications.

DispatchService deskClient portal
IT reseller with services

Renewals as a revenue line

Hundreds of licences, subscriptions and warranties tracked per client, with quotes from distributor costs and renewal reminders weeks ahead.

AssetsRenewalsAccounting sync
Projects and infrastructure integrator

Projects that hand over cleanly

Office fit-outs, migrations and rollouts with procurement, budgeted hours and a handover into managed support on the same client record.

ProjectsTime trackingManaged contracts

FAQs

IT provider questions, answered.

Professional services

01We already use a PSA or ticketing tool. Why build something custom?

If your current tool fits, we can build around it — pulling its tickets and time into contract profitability, renewals or client reporting it doesn't do well. If it's forcing your team into workarounds, we can replace it. We'll recommend one or the other after we've seen how your desk actually runs.

02Can it connect to our RMM and monitoring tools?

Where the RMM or monitoring platform offers an API or webhooks, yes — alerts can become tickets and device data can enrich client asset records. Where it doesn't, email-based alerts still work. We confirm each tool during scoping.

03Will AI make changes on our clients' systems?

No. AI works only inside your service desk system: triaging tickets, grouping alerts, drafting replies, suggesting time entries and summarising contracts. Any change to a client's environment is made by an engineer through your existing tools.

04Where are client passwords stored?

We recommend keeping credentials in the password vault you already use and linking to it from the client record, rather than copying secrets into another system. Access to documentation and links is controlled by role and enforced on the server.

05Can it handle per-user, per-device and block-hour contracts together?

Yes. Each client can have its own contract structure — or several — with inclusions, exclusions, SLA levels and billing rules, and usage tracked against each.

06Can clients log tickets on WhatsApp?

Yes, through the WhatsApp Business API, with messages turned into tickets on the right client and contract. Setting up the API requires your WhatsApp Business account to be approved by Meta.

07Can we migrate our tickets, clients and assets?

Usually, from your current tool's export or API and from spreadsheets. We agree what moves — clients, contacts, contracts, assets, open tickets, history — and clean duplicates before go-live.

08Does it support recurring invoices and syncing to accounting?

Yes. Recurring contract invoices, block-hour top-ups, project milestones and resale items can be generated from the system and synced to your accounting software where it allows.

09How is an IT services system priced?

We quote after a discovery call, based on the modules, integrations, data migration and size of your team. Hosting and support are agreed separately and in writing.

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Let's mapyour service desk.

Tell us how your company supports clients today. We'll show you how one system could connect tickets, engineers, contracts and billing.

  1. 01We get back to you to arrange a call.
  2. 02A focused conversation about how your company runs today.
  3. 03If there's a fit, a written scope and quote — no obligation.
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