Networks and hardware
Connect every site and system on infrastructure built to stay up, engineered end to end and run reliably from day one.
IT and OT technology consulting
Technology built to last.
We bring your operation online, build the systems it runs on, and hand your team full control.
- On-prem + cloud
- Hybrid by design
- Your data
- Hosted and owned by you
- On the ground
- Physical networks and security
Where the machines on the floor meet the software above them. We design, build and operate the full stack, so the operation runs as one system.
Operational technology
Bring legacy equipment online and turn it into data you can act on. Machines that ran blind become measured and controlled.
Cloud and data ownership
Move to hybrid infrastructure you host and control. Reclaim ownership of your data, and lower the cost of running it.
Software and systems
Stand up the platforms your operation runs on, from ERP to access, built to fit the way you actually work.
Dashboards and intelligence
See the whole operation in one place, with AI turning live data into decisions. Computed on site, owned by you.
Security and access
Protect people, assets, and sites with surveillance, access control, and tracking, joined up on a single system.
What we have built for clients
Each of these began as something a client had lived with long enough to stop questioning. A licence renewed every year without review. A system only one person could read. Data held by a vendor rather than the business. If any of it sounds like your operation, it is addressable.
A company taken off Google, onto infrastructure it owns
Every user, every file, every mailbox and every photo moved off a public cloud suite onto self-hosted, open-source systems the business owns outright.
If your business pays per user, per month, for software it will never own, and could not leave that vendor without losing a decade of files, this is the same position. It is reversible.
Clock-in hardware, freed from its licences
An API and SDK that gave a client full read and write access to time-and-attendance hardware they already owned, and removed the per-seat software licences on it.
If your people clock in on hardware you already paid for, and you are still paying a licence to read it, you own the machine but not the data inside it. That is recoverable, and the hours it reports can be made correct.
One dashboard for the whole estate
A single operations dashboard covering hosts, containers, services and network, so triage no longer starts with a console session.
If finding out whether anything is broken means logging into four systems, then only your most senior engineer can do it, and only when they are awake. One view changes who is able to respond.
A mine, built from the ground up
Access control, network, power backup, tracking and ERP delivered as one programme of work rather than six separate contracts.
If you are appointing separate suppliers for network, power, access control and business systems, the integration between them is nobody's responsibility. Delivered as one programme, it is ours.
A borehole pump that runs itself
A single pump brought online end to end, and the smallest complete example of what we do.
Most operations have equipment like this: reliable, paid for, and completely blind. Bringing one machine online is usually the cheapest proof of what the rest of the plant could do.
These are engagements, not products. The work is scoped to the operation in front of us.
We embed in your operation, build alongside your team, and hand the work over in full, so you are never left dependent on us.
Embedded from day one
We embed in your operation, learn the problems first hand, and build the answer alongside your team.
You own what we build
Every system is handed over in full, with your team trained to run it. You are never left dependent on us.
Specialists on site
We bring leading specialists in each discipline to your site, so you get top-of-industry expertise from one accountable team.
Your data, your control
We move you from cloud-only to hybrid infrastructure you host and own. Operating cost falls, and ownership of your data returns to you.
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Engage
Reach us by email, referral, or phone. We meet in person to understand the operation and agree on objectives.
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Assess on site
We bring the full team of specialists to your site to observe the operation and evaluate what it requires.
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Report and recommend
We deliver a written assessment and recommendation, then review it with you in person.
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Scope and deliver
Once approved, we define the scope of work, confirm it with your on-site liaison, and begin delivery.
Why Chrome
Chrome is the element that turns ordinary steel into stainless. The small part that makes the whole stronger, and built to last. That's what we do for your operation.
We believe the technology that runs your business should be yours to control. Chrome Consulting was founded in 2021 by Zian van Niekerk, in response to an industry that kept clients dependent on their providers long after delivery. We introduce better technology, and we make sure you understand and own every system we put in.
Given a clear problem and the commitment to solve it, it can be built.Zian van Niekerk, founder
We work with established operations ready to invest in systems they own and run themselves.
Mining and minerals
Mines and the processing plants around them, where equipment uptime is operationally critical.
Large agriculture
Large agricultural operations with hardware and infrastructure ready to be brought online.
Corporate offices
Established companies whose technology has fallen behind, ready to modernise and take control.