If your business runs on physical goods and your problem involves a computer, it probably fits. The domain varies. The shape rarely does: useful data trapped in disconnected systems, and decisions made from spreadsheets and memory.
We build and run software for small and mid-sized operators: planning engines, data platforms, integrations, and the unglamorous glue between them. What we ship is ordinary, dependable software with no hidden AI cost. It goes live in weeks, and it's priced so you can leave it switched on.
If your business runs on physical goods and your problem involves a computer, it probably fits. The domain varies. The shape rarely does: useful data trapped in disconnected systems, and decisions made from spreadsheets and memory.
Routine questions shouldn't burn AI tokens or give a different answer every time. Deterministic engines do the daily work. We use AI where it makes most sense: reading messy documents, turning a question into a query.
Weeks, not months. Before we build anything, we agree in writing what "working" means for your operation. If it doesn't pass, you've spent little and learned a lot. If it does, you already trust the next step.
Data engineering, the model, the software, the hosting, the maintenance: the same people carry the problem end to end. Nothing gets lost between a strategy deck and an implementation partner, because there isn't one.
Modern AI has collapsed the cost of building software. We pass that on as speed and scope, not as a chatbot bolted to your invoices.
These aren't off-the-shelf products you configure yourself. They're our tools: proven components we shape to your operation, so you get the speed of a product with the fit of something built for you. Together, there are no seams.
Gets your data out of the ERP and spreadsheets it's trapped in, and into a model you can plan on.
Schedules, allocations, procurement plans, price curves, all computed by real optimisation against your actual constraints.
The record of the work itself: jobs, decisions, and the systems they touch, tied together so nothing lives only in one person's head.
The domains vary. The shape of the problem, and the shape of the fix, stay recognisably the same.
A full platform for a joint venture between two of the world's largest shipping and commodities businesses: fixture ingestion, a governed data warehouse, pricing analytics, and forward-curve construction for a market with no clean benchmark.
Cloud data platform design for a central bank's development programme: lakehouse architecture, governance, and a security model for institution-wide analytics.
Optimisation-driven production planning for manufacturers, delivered directly or as the engine inside a systems integrator's implementation. If you deliver ERP or MES projects and need the hard mathematical core, talk to us.
Hands-on workshops and automations for small businesses that move real goods. We cover cases where AI helps, where it doesn't, and how to tell the difference before spending money.
There's a sea of AI startups out there with sleek one-syllable names and not much underneath. We went the other way: a name with a few more words in it, in the spirit of Iain M. Banks's ship Minds. That Would Work is also the standard. Not "that would demo well". That would work.
tw2 is two practitioners with over forty years of AI, data science and operations research between them. They cover every part of bringing these systems to life, from strategy to hardened production. AI is easy to use and can do remarkable things now. Figuring out how to extract value is hard work.
Twenty years in tech and AI across financial services, public sector, telecoms, manufacturing, mining and retail. John shapes AI strategy, finds the ideas actually worth doing, and builds them: data science, old-school AI, GenAI, and getting systems into production. The business problem comes first; the tech comes next. Based in Ireland, working internationally.
Ani learned supply chain mathematics at Apple, at a scale where the numbers really have to hold up, then built Callisto Analytics: forecasting, optimisation and planning systems for manufacturing, retail and logistics. If your problem has moving parts, constraints and consequences, it's Ani's kind of problem. Based in Perth after years in Singapore, working across APAC, Europe and the US.
A conversation, on us. You describe the problem in your language; we tell you honestly whether it's worth solving with software, including when the answer is no.
A fixed-price pilot in weeks, with the success test agreed in writing before we start. Real data, real users, a real go/no‑go.
One monthly number: the platform licence plus continuous development. We host it, maintain it, and keep building. Your standing technical team, without the headcount.
Software becomes an unmanageable black box without continuous attention. The subscription means your system improves every month it runs. It also means we're accountable for outcomes over years, not invoices. Most clients pay less than the cost of a single technical hire for a team that already knows their operation.
We want to hear it from the most sceptical person in your operation. If a proposal can't get there in plain language, it doesn't get built.