Stratum
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An operating system for software services firms

Stratum.

Projects, milestones, time, billing, capacity, audit — and the people who do the work — in one tightly-tuned workspace. Built by JBS for the way a software services firm actually ships.

Tenancy
One per customer
Deployment
JBS-hosted · AWS
Surface
Web · responsive
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JBS · 40+ years building enterprise software · Karachi, Pakistan
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Delivering to 12+ countries
§ 01What it is

One workspace
for the entire shape of running a software services firm.

Stratum is the operating system JBS built to run JBS. Every client, every project, every milestone, every billable hour, every cron run — surveyed and recorded in one place, by the people who depend on it being right.

It replaces the stack of half-fitting tools that most services firms cobble together — a project tracker here, a timesheet app there, a billing spreadsheet somewhere else, a permissions matrix that nobody trusts. Stratum is the single source of truth across all of it.

Built on the technology stack JBS uses every day — TypeScript end-to-end, NestJS on the server, React on the client, PostgreSQL underneath, AWS-hosted, Argon2id auth, append-only audit log. One tenant per customer. Nothing shared between firms.

§ 02Inside

Six surfaces.
One tool.

v1 scope2026
01 · Workspace

Project tracking that doesn't leak.

Kanban and sprint, custom statuses, dependencies, in-app discussion, attachments. The milestone state machine runs from pending through achieved.

02 · Time

Timers the server owns.

One timer per work item. Stopped on the server, not the tab. Survives client crashes, lid closes, network hiccups. Audit-only — no approval gate.

03 · Billing

Rules. Exports. Cron.

Billable-by-task-type rules. AMs, PMs, and the CTO can pull a draft any time. A cron drafts one for every project on the first of the month.

04 · People

Roles that decide what you see.

System roles, freeform designations, manager hierarchy from reports_to. Permissions follow role. Designation is for display, not gating.

05 · Insight

Capacity at a glance. Anomalies before standup.

Heat-grids across the delivery team. Anomaly flags. Role-aware home dashboards — each tuned to the work that role actually owns.

06 · Audit

Append-only. Actor-lineaged.

Every state change, every export, every cron run, every override — recorded with the actor and source. Nothing in this system is forgettable.

This is what a project
looks like.

Fig. 01 · Project workspace
The tools you trust most are the ones built by the people who use them.
JBS Engineering · Karachi · 2026