Kola is a Glasgow software studio. We build platforms, AI agents, and operational tooling for teams in regulated and operationally serious industries — and ship our own software on the same stack.
A varied ledger of systems that run real operations. Each entry below has a full case study — context, approach, outcome, stack.
| [01] | Project Integral Mesh | On-premise AI platform — plugs into the systems, files, and inbox a business already runs on, and turns them into queries, walkthroughs, and tools. | ai agents · platform · data | 2026 |
| [02] | Project Marrburn | A bespoke operations platform — BoM, inventory, production planning, boning, stock and financial modelling — that replaced scattered spreadsheets at a major UK livestock supplier. | platform · data | 2025 |
| [03] | ClassPro | Scheduling, billing, CRM, portal, and comms for music schools, dance studios, gyms — every class-based business in between. | platform · ai | 2026 |
| [04] | PlanHitch | A wedding planning platform for couples and planners — table planning, invitations, vendor tracking, AI contract analysis, and regional budget comparison. | platform · ai | 2026 |
| [05] | Project SAM | An agent that takes the inbox as a job — filtering, summarising, drafting, booking, and chasing quotes — so a business owner reads three lines a day. | ai agents | 2026 |
| [06] | Sentinel | A plant protection platform — web app and mobile app on one codebase, wired straight into Power BI for real-time analytics. | platform | 2024 |
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We engage as discovery sprints, embedded builds, or advisory retainers. Pricing is per engagement; we don't publish day rates because the day rate isn't the question.
Useful agents start with a workflow, not a model. We map the process, identify where judgement is mechanical, and build an agent that the operations team trusts. We test against the real data, not the demo.
Bespoke software for the operation — internal tools, web platforms, dashboards that replace spreadsheets and inboxes. Built to outlive the schema change, the staff turnover, and the next vendor.
Reporting platforms, semantic models, governance. The deep expertise that makes the other two trustworthy. We build for the day the schema changes, not the demo.
We build client software the same way we build our own — with coding agents doing the heavy, repeatable work, and senior engineers spending their judgement where it changes the outcome.
Plugs into the applications, files, and inbox a business already runs on. Imports the Power BI models in place. Answers natural-language queries with the evidence attached — without lifting any of it off the estate.
Recordings become walkthroughs and skills. The patterns a team uses every day surface as repeatable tools, so today's request becomes tomorrow's button. And because everything stays behind the firewall, it works in environments where most AI platforms can't.
| 2026-05-12 | The 10x is mechanical, not magic | 6 min |
| 2025-10-22 | When AI agents make sense (and when they don't) | 9 min |
| 2025-09-04 | Building for the day the schema changes | 7 min |
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A short brief is enough to start. We read every enquiry ourselves and reply within two working days.