A water management platform, built from scratch
A three-person 2C team designed and built the MVP of a B2B platform that replaced spreadsheets for water quality and compliance work across hundreds of sites.
Client
100s
of sites run on the platform
3engineers
from a blank page to the MVP
2apps
for the office and the field
About Acutro WM
Acutro WM provides water quality monitoring and compliance services for commercial buildings, hospitals and industrial facilities.
What needed solving
Water quality management is compliance-heavy and highly specialised: engineers sampling in the field, labs processing results, assets spread across hundreds of sites, and strict regulatory requirements. Acutro was running all of it on spreadsheets and disconnected tools.
The hardest part was the domain itself - specialist terminology, regulatory constraints and operational edge cases, with little structured input up front. Someone had to model it.
We didn’t wait to be told what to build. We understood the domain and drove the architecture ourselves.
What we built
A three-person 2C team built the whole system from the ground up, in direct contact with the client. We took the time to understand water compliance properly, then turned its workflows into a structured system - designing the architecture, the domain model and the frontend ourselves, with minimal hand-holding.
The backend is a modular monolith in Node.js and Express on MongoDB, with clear domain modules, a dedicated authentication layer and audit logging. Managers, labs and clients use a React web app; field engineers use a React Native mobile app.
- Hierarchical model: clients → sites → systems → assets → tasks
- QR codes that link physical assets to their digital records
- Mobile task lists for field engineers, with sampling records and uploads
- Lab results recorded against systems and assets
- Role-based access for engineers, labs and clients
- Audit logging and soft deletes for compliance traceability
What changed
Spreadsheets replaced by one operational platform
Less manual coordination, faster scheduling and reporting
Compliance traceability in one place
The operational backbone across hundreds of sites
Ready for automated compliance evaluation and lab integrations
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