Operator-built.
Every product Lodat ships is one we needed ourselves. The first version is tested against real operating reality before it goes to anyone else.
About Lodat
We build software inside the problems we solve.
Lodat is the operator company behind VenueOS, Keptable and CoreShift. One engineering bench. Three products. One thesis.
How we got here
We started inside a kitchen.
The first version of VenueOS was built because the software we were paying for couldn't actually run a real venue. Bookings, ordering, payments and the kitchen all lived in different systems and refused to talk to each other. Sunday-night spreadsheets. Surprise invoices. The usual.
Then we noticed the pattern.
The same friction shows up in every owner-operated business. Money flowing through five tools, none of which reconcile. Customer information scattered across half a dozen apps. People burning weekends on stuff the software should handle. Keptable came out of that frustration on the revenue side; CoreShift on the personal-life side.
Then we asked the harder question.
If we've built the engineering bench to ship our own SaaS to production, why are local owner-operators down the road still being stitched up by IT contracts they don't understand? So we offered the same bench out as a private IT service. Same engineering, same posture, smaller scope. Fixed prices, written quotes, one named human on the line.
Operating model
Three things we hold to.
One bench.
Three products on one stack, one team, one set of decisions. We can ship fast and support properly because nobody is split across vendors.
Honest scope.
Fixed prices for fixed scope, written quotes, transparent monthly bills. If a job isn't right for us, we say so on the call and point at someone better placed.
Where we work
Mansfield-based. East Midlands on-site. UK remote.
On-site work concentrates on Mansfield, Nottingham, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Chesterfield and Sheffield outskirts. Remote work goes UK-wide.
Lodat
Three products.
One conversation.
Whether you're a hospitality operator, a partner, an investor or a future colleague, start here.