Business process applications
Case management, approvals, inspections, onboarding, contract management, request portals and workflow-heavy internal systems.
Application categories
What we build today
The Solution Factory focuses on browser-based business applications where functional fit, Microsoft integration and speed of change genuinely matter.
Microsoft-integrated applications
Applications that use Entra ID, Microsoft Graph, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Exchange, Power Platform, Purview or Azure services as part of the business process.
SaaS replacement applications
Focused replacements for expensive SaaS products, where the business needs a specific subset of functionality or a tighter process fit.
AI-enabled business applications
Applications where intelligent validation, help, search, document understanding, workflow guidance or controlled agentic functions improve the outcome.
Department and operations portals
Browser-based portals that combine data, workflow, reporting, approvals and business rules for a team or business unit.
When the Factory fits
Signals that a custom application is the right answer
- The process is specific enough that generic SaaS forces workarounds
- The workflow spans approvals, roles and business rules that matter
- Microsoft 365 or Azure is already part of how the work gets done
- The data and reporting needs are yours, not a vendor's template
- The process will keep changing, so the application has to change with it
AI built in
AI inside the application, not beside it
A new customer-specific application is the cleanest moment to design practical AI directly into the business process — where it acts on the real data, the real terminology and the real rules, rather than sitting in a separate tab that knows nothing about the work.
Every new solution is assessed for AI opportunities during design, and AI is used only where it improves the business process or the user experience.
Intelligent validation
Checks the meaning, consistency and plausibility of what was entered — not only whether a field is filled in or long enough.
Application help
Answers user questions from the application itself: its workflow, its business process, your terminology and your approved guidance.
Document understanding
Extracts, classifies, summarises and validates information from emails, forms, contracts and case documents.
Natural-language search
Lets users search records, policies, documents and approved knowledge sources in ordinary business language.
Workflow guidance
Suggests next actions, detects missing information, drafts content and highlights risks or exceptions.
Controlled agentic functions
Performs defined multi-step work within approved application and integration boundaries.
Governed, not bolted on
AI designed as an application capability
Application code calls an Athentra-owned AI abstraction rather than coupling business logic directly to one provider's SDK. That lets us change models or providers centrally as the field moves, without redesigning every customer solution.
AI usage, cost, prompts, errors and the relevant safety controls are part of the standard operational baseline from the first deployment — not a later addition.
It is worth separating two things that often get blurred. Inside the Factory, AI accelerates our own engineering work under defined standards, automated quality gates and human review. Separately, AI can be embedded in the application we deliver for you. These roles stay distinct in architecture and in governance.
AI is designed as an application capability with governed access, monitoring, and an abstraction layer that keeps business logic independent from any single model provider.
One supported solution class
Browser-based applications, deliberately
Today the Factory delivers browser-based business applications: a React and TypeScript frontend, a C# and .NET backend, hosted and operated by us in Azure. Concentrating on one solution class is what makes the standard, the automation and the managed service dependable rather than aspirational.
The architecture is built to stay portable, so container hosting and deployment into a customer tenant can be supported as the Factory develops, without redesigning the business application.