Transport · Logistics · Oil & Gas · Supply Chain
AI, robotics and field systems for transport, logistics, oil and gas and supply chain. Autonomous maritime inspection, fleet and asset tracking, procurement that survives an audit. Built to keep working where access is hard and the connection drops.
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Where we work
These four share the same hard problems: high-value assets, difficult access, unforgiving compliance. Depth in them is what makes the systems survive contact with the field.
Transport
Transport operations fail at the seams: the handover between road and sea, the vehicle that left without the paperwork, the delay nobody logged. We build the systems that hold those seams together.
Logistics
Logistics operations run on high-value assets moving between people who cannot see each other. We build the systems that let a terminal manager, a yard supervisor and a client all read the same status at the same time.
Oil & Gas
In oil and gas the expensive problems are access problems: getting a person to the asset, getting data back from it, and proving to a regulator that both were done properly. That is the work we do.
Supply Chain
Procurement is where operational money is won and lost, and where scrutiny lands hardest. We build sourcing systems that make the process faster to run and straightforward to defend.
What we do
Most of our work is one of these. Many engagements end up being two.
Software Platforms
We build the operational systems that sit between your assets and the people who have to make decisions about them: tracking, dispatch, maintenance, procurement and reporting, in one place instead of six spreadsheets.
Software Platforms in detail
Field & Offshore Robotics
We build and deploy robotic systems for inspection, monitoring and routine intervention in environments where access is restricted: offshore structures, confined spaces, live plant and remote sites.
Field & Offshore Robotics in detailTechnology Supply & Deployment
We source, configure, install and commission the technology your operation runs on: end-user devices, servers, networking, connectivity and the software stack on top of them, under one accountable contract rather than five vendors pointing at each other.
Technology Supply & Deployment in detailWhy Cipher4
There is a category of technology company that produces very good demonstrations and very poor field results. The difference is almost always whether anyone involved has worked in the conditions the system has to survive.
Our engineers mobilise to terminals, yards, vessels and offshore installations. Systems designed from a Lagos office and never seen in the field fail in predictable ways.
You already run an ERP, a maintenance system and a set of spreadsheets that work. We connect to what exists instead of asking you to abandon it.
Offshore bandwidth is expensive and intermittent. Our field systems capture locally and sync when the link returns, rather than failing when it does not.
Local capability is a scored criterion under the NOGICD Act, and a practical one. Our people are a drive away, not a visa away.
How we work
Engagements run to a defined sequence. You will know what happens next, roughly how long it takes, and what lands in your hands at the end of it.
We go and look. Our engineers walk the operation, sit with the people doing the work, and find out what actually happens rather than what the process document says happens.
Findings report and a written scope, with the things we advise against.
Architecture, integration points, hardware specification and a delivery plan, reviewed with your technical and HSE teams before anything is built.
Design document, integration plan, bill of materials, fixed price.
One site, one route, one asset class. Small enough to be honest about, large enough to prove whether the thing works in your conditions.
Working system in production on a limited scope, with measured results.
Rollout across sites, with our engineers on the ground for installation, network commissioning and integration with the systems you already run.
Commissioned system, integration tested, formally accepted.
Users and administrators trained separately, because they need different things. Documentation written for the person who inherits this in two years.
Trained teams, administrator documentation, handover pack.
Defined response times, named contacts and scheduled preventive maintenance. Support is a contract with numbers in it, not a promise.
Signed support agreement with the tier you have chosen.
Systems in production
Marine bunkering and anchor operations, run end to end: operation records, vessel and truck movement, naval clearances, proof of delivery and the finance trail behind them.
Proof of work
Every vendor says they are reliable. These are the things you can actually do to find out whether we are.
Tell us the sector and scope you are evaluating and we will put you in touch with the closest comparable client, subject to their consent.
One site, one route, one asset class. Small enough that being wrong is cheap, real enough to prove whether the thing works in your conditions.
Registrations, insurance, HSE position, security posture and data-ownership terms, collected in one place for prequalification.
Insights
Written by the engineers doing it, about problems we keep running into.
Offshore and remote-site software fails for a predictable reason. It assumes a network. Here is how we build systems that keep working when the link drops, and what that changes about the architecture.
Most digital procurement systems record the decision but not the reasoning. Two years later that distinction is the whole ballgame. What an auditable sourcing trail actually needs to hold.
Most conversations start with an operational problem rather than a technology. Describe yours and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right people for it. We reply to enquiries within one business day.
