MAATWERKSOFTWARE · SAAS · AI-SYSTEMEN

Maatwerksoftware, SaaS-ontwikkeling en AI-automatisering voor groeiende bedrijven

Software gebouwd rond jouw bedrijf.Niet omgekeerd.

Forti8 ontwerpt en bouwt maatwerksoftware, interne platformen, SaaS-producten en AI-automatisering voor bedrijven die ontgroeid zijn aan Excel, generieke tools en handwerk.

Vertrouwd door industriële, rekruterings-, export- en B2B-dienstenbedrijven in Europa, de VS en Latijns-Amerika
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+38%
180
Hours Saved / Week
+9
24
Processes Automated
6mo
-92%
Manual Errors
was 3h
4 min
Quote Turnaround
+62%
$210K
Annual Cost Saved
and counting
12
Systems Live
Trusted by
01 — THE GAP

Your business runs on disconnected tools

De meeste bedrijven hebben geen softwareprobleem. Ze hebben er twaalf — verspreid over spreadsheets, documenten, mailboxen en chatapps die nooit bedoeld waren om samen te werken.

Excel files nobody fully trusts
Word documents copied by hand
Quotes and orders lost in WhatsApp
Data re-typed between systems
Reporting that takes days to assemble
Processes that only one person understands
What changes
Excel spreadsheetsA real database with logic and permissions
Word documentsAutomated document generation
WhatsApp threadsStructured workflows with an audit trail
Manual data entryIntegrations that sync automatically
Guesswork reportingLive dashboards with real numbers
Tribal knowledgeSoftware that encodes how you operate

Every manual step is a recurring cost. Software removes it permanently.

03 / WHAT WE COULD BUILD

INTERACTIEF

Wat zouden we voor jou kunnen bouwen?

Kies het probleem dat het meest op jouw week lijkt. Wij tonen het systeem dat het wegneemt.

Kies een probleem

Het systeem

Operationeel platform

Eén database met echte rechten, validatie en historiek — in plaats van de map Excel-bestanden die maar twee mensen volledig begrijpen.

Wat het omvat

  • Centraal datamodel met rollen en rechten
  • Formulieren die valideren bij invoer, niet achteraf
  • Volledige wijzigingshistoriek en audit trail
  • Opgeslagen weergaves per team, niet per bestand
  • Live dashboards op dezelfde bron

Wat er verandert

Eén versie van de waarheid, en rapportering in seconden in plaats van dagen.

Dit systeem laten afbakenen
02 — WHAT WE BUILD

What we build

Four capabilities. One engineering partner. Built for how your business actually operates.

Tailored
CUSTOM SOFTWARE

Internal platforms & business systems

Software designed around your processes — not a generic tool you bend your business to fit. Quoting, planning, inventory, CRM, project tracking, client portals, back-office operations.

  • Custom internal platforms
  • Client & partner portals
  • Workflow and approval engines
  • Role-based access control
  • Document & quote generation
  • Reporting dashboards
Productised
SAAS DEVELOPMENT

From product idea to live platform

If you want to turn your expertise into a product, we build the full stack: multi-tenant architecture, subscriptions, onboarding, admin tooling and everything needed to run it as a business.

  • Multi-tenant architecture
  • Subscription & billing flows
  • User onboarding & roles
  • Admin & operations console
  • Usage analytics
  • Scalable cloud infrastructure
Leverage
AI & AUTOMATION

AI that does actual work

Not chatbots for the sake of it. AI applied where it removes cost: reading documents, classifying requests, drafting responses, extracting data and running processes without human babysitting.

  • Document & invoice extraction
  • AI assistants on your own data
  • Automated triage & classification
  • Content and proposal generation
  • Process automation pipelines
  • Human-in-the-loop review
Connected
INTEGRATIONS

Make your existing tools talk

Your ERP, accounting software, CRM, e-commerce platform and internal tools should share one source of truth. We build the connections and keep the data clean.

  • ERP & accounting integrations
  • CRM synchronisation
  • E-commerce & payment systems
  • API design & development
  • Data migration & cleanup
  • Monitoring & error handling
05 / SYSTEM EXAMPLES

SYSTEEMVOORBEELDEN

Hoe zulke systemen eruitzien

Illustratieve interfaces van het soort systemen dat we ontwerpen — gebouwd voor echt operationeel werk, niet voor een demo.

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Project & site control

Budgets, site reports and subcontractors in one operational view.

Active projects

18

Budget variance

-2.4%

Open site issues

7

ProjectPhaseBudget usedStatus
Riverside Block CStructure62%On track
Depot RetrofitFinishing91%At risk
Industrial Park 4Groundwork27%On track
Office Fit-out B2Handover78%Review

Illustratieve concepten. Echt klantenwerk staat in de cases hieronder.

06 / BEFORE & AFTER

VOOR / NA

Wat er echt verandert

Hetzelfde proces, voor en nadat het systeem bestaat.

Vandaag

  • Request lands in a personal WhatsApp thread
  • Details retyped into a spreadsheet
  • Pricing checked against an outdated file
  • Confirmation written manually in Word

Met het systeem

  • Request captured as a structured record
  • Pricing applied from live rules
  • Confirmation generated and sent automatically
  • Order visible to everyone who needs it
07 / THE COST OF MANUAL WORK

REKENMODULE

Wat kost handwerk jou?

Ruwe cijfers volstaan. Het gaat om de grootteorde, niet om de komma.

6

Iedereen die het manuele proces aanraakt

8h

Tijd verloren aan admin, herinvoer en opvolging

$45

Loon plus overhead, per uur

$2,500

Correcties, creditnota's, gemiste deadlines

Geschatte jaarlijkse kost

$129,360

48h

Verloren uren per week

2,208h

Verloren uren per jaar

Recupereerbaar per jaar

$90,552

Typische terugverdientijd: Minder dan 12 maanden

Automatisering haalt zelden 100% uit een proces. Deze schatting gaat uit van 70% gewonnen tijd.

Bespreek jouw cijfers

Indicatieve schatting ter bespreking — geen offerte.

08 / CUSTOM VS STANDARD

VERGELIJKING

Maatwerk versus standaardsoftware

Standaardsoftware is vaker het juiste antwoord dan agencies toegeven. Hier houdt dat op.

Standaardsoftware

Systeem op maat

Fit to your process

You adapt the business to the tool

The tool is shaped around how you already work

Cost over 5 years

Per-seat licences that grow with headcount

One build, then hosting and evolution

Time to value

Fast to start, slow to fit

Slower to start, then it fits exactly

Integrations

Only what the vendor supports

Anything with an API or a database

Your data

In the vendor's platform, on their terms

In your infrastructure, exportable at any time

Competitive advantage

Identical to every competitor using it

Encodes what makes you different

Als een standaardtool je probleem oplost, zeggen we dat. We bouwen enkel wat echt gebouwd moet worden.

03 — WHAT BECOMES POSSIBLE

What becomes possible

A few examples of systems we design. Yours will be different — because your business is.

Industrial · Manufacturing

Quote-to-order platform

Configurable pricing rules, instant PDF quotes, approval flow and automatic handover to production planning. Quoting drops from hours to minutes.

Pricing logicPDF generationApprovals
Recruitment · Staffing

Recruitment operating system

Candidate pipeline, AI CV parsing and matching, client portal, automated follow-up and margin reporting in one platform instead of five subscriptions.

AI matchingClient portalReporting
Export · Distribution

Export & logistics tracker

Shipment tracking, document packs generated automatically, customs paperwork, partner visibility and alerts when something slips.

DocumentsTrackingAlerts
Professional services

AI back-office assistant

Reads incoming invoices and emails, extracts the data, files it in the right place and drafts responses your team approves in one click.

ExtractionDraftingHuman review

If you can describe the process, we can build the system.

04 — HOW WE WORK

How we work

Gestructureerd, transparant en opgebouwd om risico in elke fase te beperken.

STEP 01

Discovery

We map how your business actually operates today — the people, the steps, the workarounds and where the time disappears.

STEP 02

System design

We design the architecture, data model and interfaces, and agree on scope, priorities and what gets built first.

STEP 03

Build

Development in short cycles with working software you can use and react to, not slide decks and status reports.

STEP 04

Deploy

Secure cloud deployment, data migration, integrations connected and your team trained on the system they helped shape.

STEP 05

Evolve

Software is never finished. We monitor, improve and extend the system as your business changes.

You always know what is being built, why, and what it costs.

05 — RETURN ON INVESTMENT

Software should pay for itself

A system is not a design expense. It is an operational investment measured against the cost of doing nothing.

Without a system
  • Manual work grows linearly with revenue
  • Knowledge lives in a few people's heads
  • Errors are discovered by customers
  • Reporting is assembled by hand, late
  • Scaling means hiring more admin staff
With a system
  • Volume grows without adding overhead
  • Process is encoded, repeatable and owned by the company
  • Validation catches errors before they ship
  • Live dashboards, always current
  • Scaling means turning up throughput
How we measure it
Hours recovered per week, per person
Errors and rework eliminated
Faster quotes, faster cash collection
Headcount you no longer need to add to grow
Decisions made on real data instead of guesses

If a system saves ten hours a week, it pays for itself long before the year is out.

06 — PHILOSOPHY

Our philosophy

We don't sell software licences and we don't force businesses into templates. We start from how you work, and design the smallest system that removes the most pain.

Everything we build is documented, transparent and yours. No lock-in, no black boxes, no dependency on a single agency to keep the lights on.

  • Eerst het bedrijf, dan de technologie
  • Bouw het minimum dat het resultaat verandert
  • Jouw data en jouw code blijven van jou
  • We meten impact, geen opleveringen
07 — ALSO PART OF THE SYSTEM

Als een systeem een voordeur nodig heeft

Websites verkopen we niet. Als een project een publiek oppervlak nodig heeft — zodat het bedrijf gevonden, vertrouwd en tot conversie gebracht wordt — bouwen we dat met dezelfde engineeringstandaard als de software erachter. SEO, AI-zichtbaarheid en leadcapture verbinden met het systeem. Het is geen pakket.

  • Krachtige React-frontends als het systeem er een nodig heeft
  • SEO, AEO en GEO zodat de entiteit vindbaar is
  • Leadcapture gekoppeld aan de workflow, geen dood formulier
  • Meertalig wanneer de markt het vraagt
08 — PROOF

Bewijs, geen beloftes

/ 01
12+
Systems & platforms delivered
/ 02
6
Countries served
/ 03
Fast-Track
Time to first working release
/ 04
10+
Years digital experience

Trusted by ambitious companies across Europe, the United States and Latin America.

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09 — CASE STUDIES

Real Results From Real Clients.

Every project is measured by one thing: business impact.

FutureFocusedRecruitment
$22K
Revenue in first month
+180%
Inbound applications

A Belgian recruitment firm needed a public platform candidates and clients would actually use. Forti8 built the commercial front door — $22K revenue in the first month and +180% inbound applications.

Euro-ScientificE-Commerce · Lab Supply
1.4K+
Daily product page views
9
New international B2B customers

A lab supplier needed a multilingual catalogue buyers could find by product and spec. 1.4K+ daily product page views and 9 new international B2B customers.

Foxline Wood ConceptsWoodworking · B2B
+140%
Organic search visibility
12+
New inbound inquiries / mo

A premium woodworking brand was hard to find. +140% organic search visibility and 12+ inbound inquiries per month from buyers who now reach them directly.

ICG / Cematec

Industrial · B2B
+95%
Search engine visibility
8
Qualified inquiries / mo

An industrial casting company was absent when technical buyers research suppliers. +95% search visibility and 8 qualified inquiries per month from new markets.

Quercus Coffee

Specialty Coffee · B2B Export
15+
B2B buyer inquiries / mo
5
New buyer countries

A Colombian green-coffee exporter needed a buyer-facing presence international roasters could trust. 15+ B2B buyer inquiries per month and 5 new buyer countries.

10 — INVESTMENT

Scoped, not packaged.

Maatwerksoftware wordt afgebakend, niet in pakketten verkocht — geen twee bedrijven zijn hetzelfde.

Every engagement starts with a conversation about the process you want to fix and the cost it currently carries. From there we scope the smallest system that delivers a measurable return, and give you a fixed proposal before anything is built.

You get a clear scope, a clear price and a clear timeline — with no obligation to continue after the discovery conversation.

Vraag een afgebakend voorstel
What drives the price
  • Number of processes covered
  • Integrations with existing systems
  • Number of user roles and workflows
  • AI and automation depth
  • Ongoing support and evolution
11 — QUESTIONS

Frequently asked.

Custom software: internal business platforms, SaaS products, AI systems, automation pipelines and integrations between the tools you already use. We also build websites when they are part of the system.

Laten we het over jouw systeem hebben

Vertel ons waar je bedrijf op vastloopt. Wij zeggen eerlijk of software het antwoord is — en wat ervoor nodig is.

12 — LET’S TALK

Let's talk about your system.

Vertel ons waar het handwerk zit. Wij brengen in kaart wat een systeem zou vervangen, wat het kost en wat het oplevert.

Geen druk. Geen vaag agencyverhaal. Gewoon duidelijkheid.

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