Construction & Manufacturing
Arcadian Digital is a Melbourne technology company that builds AI for construction and manufacturing businesses: field scheduling, trade portals and the systems that connect them to your ERP. For SteelChief, a nationwide shed manufacturer, Arcadian Digital built an AI Trip Proposer inside its existing Visit Management System that plans delivery and installation trips across more than 18 variables, with schedulers signing off every trip.
Most scheduling, ordering and stock knowledge in these businesses still lives in a few people’s heads and amongst spreadsheets. At SteelChief, building a day’s trips took four to six hours and only the most experienced schedulers could do it, because crew skills, weather, concreting and material volumes all had to be held at once. Trade customers expect accounts, pricing, ordering and payment online, connected to the ERP behind them. Meanwhile data sits in disconnected tools.
What has changed is that this planning logic can now be built into the software a business already uses, with people still making the decision. At SteelChief, the AI was built inside the existing system rather than as a separate platform, and it ran alongside the manual process before go-live so the team could test it against real decisions. On the trade side, our work for Bowens Timber follows the same approach: connect the portal to the ERP, then keep improving it in fortnightly releases.
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How We Can Help
Arcadian Digital builds human-in-the-loop AI planning systems and business automation platforms directly inside your existing software, keeping people in control of critical decisions. For nationwide shed manufacturer SteelChief, the Trip Proposer evaluates more than 18 variables including team skills, weather dependency, concreting completion, and material volumes, automatically ranking and clustering field jobs for final scheduler sign-off.
For building supply businesses that have outgrown off-the-shelf software, Arcadian Digital builds custom trade portals and operations platforms connected directly to the ERP. For family-owned Victorian building supplier Bowens Timber, this included delivering a microservices trade portal with live ERP integration, upgraded cloud infrastructure, and Buy Now, Pay Later payment gateways through fortnightly releases.
Building on these foundations of single sign-on and cloud infrastructure, Arcadian Digital is also delivering an ERP-synced pick and despatch platform for Bowens Timber powered by real-time data pipelines, complete with automated vehicle runsheet planning and a mobile picker app for job queueing and bulk picking.
AI Agents Development
Every business has low value tasks that don’t need an exec involved: chasing an invoice or updating a spreadsheet nobody wants to touch. Arcadian Digital builds custom AI agents that pick up that work alongside your existing processes.
Business Automation Platforms
We build the platform that becomes your business’s operating layer: company knowledge, workflow automation and decision support running in one system, with AI built in from day one rather than bolted on later. This is the same use-case we’re building all the time.
Web Application Development Melbourne
We design and build custom web applications, client portals and internal platforms for Australian businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets and off-the-shelf tools. One in-house team handles the strategy, the build and the cloud infrastructure underneath it, so nothing gets lost between vendors.
AI Consulting Melbourne
Practical AI, built with governance from day one. We turn bottlenecks into an accountable automation plan.
Data Pipeline Development
Develop off-the-shelf and custom data pipelines and ETLs to streamline operations and enable real-time business intelligence.
Digital Business Consulting
Navigate digital transformation with expert guidance. We help businesses streamline operations, enhance customer experiences, and leverage technology to drive growth and long-term success.
Business Operation Dashboards
We bring your key business data into one live dashboard with AI summaries on top, so decisions get made faster.
Related Work
Bowens Timber
Bowens sought to streamline their complex web application built on VueJS, NodeJS, and microservices, turning to Arcadian Digital for technical expertise. Through ongoing collaboration and agile development, we delivered key enhancements like ERP integration, a trade portal, and new payment solutions, helping Bowens scale their digital offering and strengthen their position as an industry leader.
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