The client supplies meat to the UK's biggest supermarkets — a serious operation, run on a sprawl of spreadsheets, with most of the operational visibility living in the heads of the people closest to the work. As the business grew, the spreadsheets grew with it, and the gaps between them grew faster. Stock valuations took days to assemble. Production planning meant cross-referencing six workbooks. BoM changes propagated by phone.
Kola built a bespoke operations platform on top of a medallion data architecture — raw files ingested automatically, cleaned and conformed into a trusted middle layer, and shaped at the top into the views the business needs to run. The platform covers the full production cycle: BoM control, inventory management, production planning, the boning process, stock valuations, and financial modelling. Files that used to land in mailboxes are ingested and processed without anyone touching them.
We built it with agentic development — Claude Code doing the mechanical volume of CRUD, schema work, and integration; senior engineers holding the model, the data contracts, and the operational judgement. That's why a platform of this scope was a build, not a multi-year programme.
The spreadsheets are gone. Production planning, stock, and financial modelling run on one system the team trusts. Operational visibility — what's in, what's planned, what it's worth — is now a view rather than a reconstruction. The platform absorbs new files as they arrive, so the data layer keeps pace with how the business actually runs.
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