Bearing — Software studio · est. 2022
Software · Integrations · Dashboards
Your tools weren’tbuilt to work together.Your team is paying for it.
We connect them, build what’s missing, and give you real-time visibility across the business.
150+
SHIPPED
Integrations
Custom software
Dashboards
Internal tools
Compass · BI
Integrations
Custom software
Dashboards
Internal tools
Compass · BI
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What changes
What changes when the systems run smoothly.
Four things that shift when the systems underneath your business run smoothly.
01 / 04
Your team stops doing data entry by hand.
The hours your people lose to copy-pasting between systems get handed back to them.
20+
hrs / week reclaimed across an ops
team
team
02 / 04
Your tools bill goes down.
Most companies carry tools that overlap or that you’ve outgrown. We consolidate what works and retire what doesn’t.
$100k
saved per year for our client on their
investor portal licensing
investor portal licensing
03 / 04
The internal tool you’ve been putting off gets built.
There’s always a system that would change how the business operates if someone finally built it. We build it, you own it when we’re done, and we’re around for ongoing support and updates as your needs evolve.
6–10
weeks from kickoff to a system you own
04 / 04
You can see across the business in real time.
Live dashboards for executives, operations teams, and everyone in between. They’re not just for show - we drive action by bringing visibility into the metrics you care about. Work from a shared source of truth.
Live
data, without waiting for month-end.
What we build
Three services. One team.
We make the systems underneath your business run without the manual overhead. Most clients start with one service and keep us on for the rest.
01 . Active
Connect the stack you already pay for.
Integrations
Data flows where it needs to, without anyone managing it by hand. Most clients start here.
- Reliable data syncing from your source of truth to the other systems you use
- Tied into our custom tool Mission Control to ensure integrations stay online.
- Extensive data quality checks so you know your data is pristine. Avoid garbage-in garbage-out.
02 . Active
When off-the-shelf doesn’t exist or doesn’t fit.
Custom software
Designed from the start to be a long-term part of your business, and tailored to your exact requirements. Owned by your team, maintained by ours.
- Internal tools for data quality and process automation and external-facing client portals
- Build with a modern tech stack and our accumulated best practices for rapid & reliable dev.
- Functionality driven by the people on your team who will use it daily.
03 . Active
Real-time visibility across the business.
Dashboards
We build dashboards that answer the questions your team is asking every week - from executive & board dashboards to operational reports.
- We put answers at your fingertips, so you don't have to be an expert in data wrangling to understand your operations
- Powered by Compass, our custom-built BI stack bringing together our learnings from the last decade of advances in data tooling.
- Granular security and access controls built in
How we work
A players. Clear scope. You own it.
Every Bearing engagement follows the same structure: we understand the big picture before touching the code, agree on scope before we start, build with direct access to the team, and hand over everything when we’re done.
We’re not the cheapest option. We’re the team you bring in when getting it wrong is more expensive than getting it right.
01
Week 1–2
Understand
We look at the big picture before making recommendations. How your systems fit ogether, what the source of truth for each data set, and the pain points you’re feeling currently.
02
Week 2–3
Scope
We’ll give a clear scope outlining what gets built and what it costs before anyone writes a line of code. For hourly projects we send weekly updates. No surprises at invoice time. You know exactly what you’re getting.
03
Week 3–10+
Build
You’re in direct contact with the people doing the work. We ship in stages so you can see progress — not just a delivery date on a Gantt chart three months out.
04
Handover + ongoing
Own
When we’re done, the system is yours. We document it, hand it over properly, and make sure your team can maintain it. Most clients keep us on — not because they have to, but because the system keeps evolving.
The team
The team you talk to is the team building it.
Sam, Jesse, Ethan & the team · Hamilton, NZ
Meet the team
proof
What we’ve shipped.
Three engagements. Real numbers. Named contacts you can call.
20
+ hrs
saved per week on manual data entry
Case 01 / 03 · NZ · Process automation
FEATURED CASE STUDY
Fire Security Services
Fire Security Services were managing a growing operations team across multiple disconnected platforms, with staff entering the same data by hand into each one. Payroll was manual, tasks were dropping through the cracks, and the admin load was growing rapidly as the business gew.
We automated data connections between their systems, streamlined payroll, and eliminated swathes of manual data entry. The team is running more smoothly than ever, and they keep suggesting more manual processes for us to autoate.
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Case 02
US · Investor Portal
NY-based Investment Fund
$100k / yr
saved in licensing costs alone for their investor portal
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Case 03
NZ · SaaS
Caliber
v1 → v3
From pre-launch to paying customers
What clients say
In their words.
5.0 average · 42 reviews
“
Bearing has been an outstanding partner for us. They built an internal app that’s saving us ~$100k per year, and have shipped high-quality dashboards, API integrations, and tools to improve our data quality. I’m consistently impressed by their reliability, how responsive they are, and that they clearly take pride in their work.
Sam and the team have done amazing work improving our processes, and they’ve really taken us to the next level.
Sam and the team have delivered amazing work and the app is really blossoming now.
Ways to work with us
Pick the engagement that fits.
Most clients start with a project and stay on for the partnership. A few come in straight to Compass.
01
Project
A specific system, scoped and shipped.
You come to us with a system to fix, a tool to replace, or an integration to build. We scope it, price it, and ship it.
- Fixed scope, fixed price
- Direct access to the people building it
- Documented handover
Learn more
Fixed
02
Ongoing partnership
We keep building with you.
Most clients keep us on after the initial build. Systems evolve and businesses change. A partnership means we keep building with you rather than starting from scratch each time.
- Roadmap reviewed monthly
- Same team, end-to-end
- Predictable monthly cost
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Monthly
Best fit for Most clients
03
Compass
Bearing’s BI product.
Ask questions about your data in natural language, and get answers that can’t hallucinate. Answers at your fingertips, and dashboards that you can trust.
Fast, easy, correct - choose any three.
Fast, easy, correct - choose any three.
- Hallucinations are impossible by design
- Data sovereignty; hosted on your infrastructure
- The simplest way to get answers from your data
- Robust security & access controls
See Compass
Plan
Get in touch
Book a free consultation.
Thirty minutes. We’ll understand your situation and tell you honestly if we’re the right team for it.
— trusted by over 20 mid-market teams in NZ, AU, and the US