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One action touches a dozen systems
A plan change fans out across CRM, billing, provisioning and inventory, none of which were designed to be called together.
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OSS/BSS integration, provisioning and self-service at carrier scale.
We build the customer-facing and integration layers of telecom: self-service apps and portals, ordering and provisioning journeys, and the API layer that sits between them and the OSS/BSS estate underneath.
Telecom's difficulty is rarely the front end. It is that a single customer action - changing a plan, adding a line, moving address - fans out across a dozen systems that were never designed to be called synchronously, each with its own failure mode and its own idea of the truth.
So the work is orchestration: making a journey that appears instant to the customer while the estate behind it settles asynchronously, and making sure a partially completed order can always be reconciled rather than left stranded between systems.
The constraints that shape every build in this sector, and the ones teams usually meet too late.
A plan change fans out across CRM, billing, provisioning and inventory, none of which were designed to be called together.
The estate settles in minutes or hours; the customer expects the app to say it worked immediately.
When half the systems succeed, an order sits between states and needs reconciliation rather than a retry.
A tariff change, an outage or a marketing campaign brings the entire base to the app within an hour.
App, web, retail and call centre have to show the same account state or trust collapses immediately.
Number portability, billing transparency and switching rules are prescriptive and audited.
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Each one is a system we have built before, not a capability we are willing to try.
Account, usage, billing and support journeys that hold up under campaign load.
An API layer that hides estate complexity without hiding its failures.
Long-running journeys with compensation, so a partial failure resolves itself.
Plan changes, add-ons and payments reconciled with the billing system of record.
One account view shared by app, web, retail and the call centre.
Line and service diagnostics that resolve a fault before it becomes a truck roll.
Engagements across sectors - the same team, the same standards.
Partnering with Thinkdebug to develop the Forever 52 mobile app has been a game-changer for us. They were always open to feedback, and it was clear they were as invested in our success as we were. What really sets them apart, though, is the amazing support we've received since the app launched. They’ve made sure the app continues to run smoothly and are always ready to fix any issues that come up.DMDhruv MehtaBusiness Head, Forever 52
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What we design and document against, from the first commit rather than the week before an audit.
Certification itself belongs to your entity and its assessor. What we provide is software built and documented so the assessment is about evidence rather than remediation.
Most of our work comes from clients we already shipped for. These are the reasons they give.
The API layer is designed for partial failure and compensation, because that is what actually determines whether a journey works.
Long-running flows are modelled explicitly with reconciliation, so a half-completed change resolves rather than needing a manual fix.
Customers get immediate, honest confirmation while the estate settles behind, instead of a spinner tied to the slowest system.
Capacity is planned against a tariff change or outage bringing the whole base in at once.
App, web, retail and call centre read the same source, because disagreement between channels destroys trust immediately.
Porting, switching and billing transparency are modelled as first-class journeys rather than bolted on before an audit.
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