01Who we are
BetterPlatforms is an initiative by Commutatus (opens in a new tab): designers, engineers, and AI engineers who have spent a decade building, running, and scaling platforms for businesses and organisations around the world.
Design, engineering, AI, and support, all under one roof. We take your platform from the first idea to launch, then stay to run it and grow it with you.
Describe the feature or tool you need. Catalyst, the engine behind every platform we build, delivers it on the same tested building blocks, so it scales like everything else on your platform.
Add a leave-approval flow where managers sign off on requests. Built from: Forms, Status flows, Roles and permissions, History.
Built from Catalyst’s blocks
A fraction of the tokens, and whole platforms in a week.
Ask for what you need, right inside your platform.
Anything you prompt, delivered in a way that scales.
02How we got here
We started Commutatus in 2015. By 2022, we had scaled up to 150+ platforms for 70+ clients, serving 4M+ users in 125+ countries.
It all came down to one question -
Could we stop starting from zero every time?
Your platform doesn’t start from scratch. It starts from platform #201.
We started as a small team building digital products. Early projects taught us what it takes to build for scale and to solve for the edge cases.
We realised we were rebuilding the same parts again and again. So we built CM Admin, a reusable foundation that helped us move faster on every project. Every new requirement pushed it to evolve.
We built Bridge, our own ERP, on top of CM Admin: payroll, HRMS, capacity planning, task management, vendor payments, and asset management. We now run our own company on what we ship to clients.
CM Admin had grown into something far more powerful. It became Catalyst, the engine behind every platform we build. Building and using our own tools taught us that what businesses really need from technology can be built with no compromises. That’s what led us to BetterPlatforms.
Learn more about Catalyst03What we believe
We ask before you do
We’re proactive. We’ll ask how your demo with a prospective client went, or how your Black Friday sale did. We stay on top of your metrics and bring you insights before you ask for them (sometimes annoyingly so).
AI engineers, not just AI users
We tune models and workflows in our own systems first, so we know what AI can really do for your platform, and where it shouldn’t be trusted yet.
In it for the long run
The best work happens in year three, not week three. We stay after launch, through the ups and the downs, and get to watch our clients grow.
Your growth is the brief
Tell us how you want to grow your business. We’ll work out the screens, the stack, and the colour of the button.
Practised every week
Features in a week. Whole platforms in an MtF. We stay fast by doing it often, not by cutting corners.
04Our people
We’re proud of how we work as a team. Most of our people have been with us for years, and they’ve seen not just the industry change, but our company grow and evolve with it. They’re the best at what they do, and we’re proud to have them. That’s why we show how long each of them has been with us.
Tell us how you want to grow your business. We’ll fill in the blanks.
