We build the system we wished our first customer had.

We started by writing a point of sale for one restaurant, because the one they had stopped taking orders every time the broadband did. That fixed the till. It did not fix the Monday morning, when the owner still had to line up a POS export, a kitchen dispatch register and a folder of audit photos to work out what had actually happened over the weekend.

The second product was the central kitchen, because the outlets were buying from it on WhatsApp. The third was the audit system, because nobody could say which of the eleven sites was actually clean on a given Tuesday. Each one worked. Together they were still three systems, and the reconciliation was still manual.

So we rebuilt them onto one platform: one login, one org tree, one user directory, one permission model, one dashboard. An outlet became the same outlet in all three. That platform is ConnectMyFile, and it is the only thing about our products we would call genuinely hard to copy.