Square One
The operating system for governed work

Run your business on governed work.

One governed place for the work your business runs on: knowledge, documents, plant and people, and the AI your team already uses. Built on the Microsoft 365 you already own.

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Deployments: every machine, every site, every hire, on the record.Real product · captured 13 Jul 2026 · demonstration organisation
Square One deployments board: machines on hire across sites, with availability and billing
Built for organisations that run real thingsPlant and equipment hireCivil and earthworksMining servicesEngineeringInfrastructureIndustrial services
The problem

Your people are already using AI. They’re not the problem.

They’re using ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot because those tools help them do their jobs. That’s initiative, not misconduct. The business just hasn’t given that work a governed place to happen, so it happens anyway: in personal accounts, outside your evidence, beyond your policies.

And ungoverned AI is only the newest version of an old condition. The quoting spreadsheet with fourteen versions. The approval in an inbox. The pricing method in one person’s head. AI has simply made it faster.

Not on the record
Quoting master, v14 FINAL (2)
Shared drive. Owner unknown.
Not on the record
The approval for the Karratha variation
An inbox, three replies deep.
Outside the perimeter
Client cost breakdown, rewritten
A personal ChatGPT account.
Undocumented
How wet-hire jobs are priced
One person’s head. Retired in March.
In practice

Not a theory. Work, running.

The same governed foundation carries very different work. Three examples, each shown in the real product.

Asset hire schedule in Square One
01 DocumentsDocuments that defend themselvesProposals, reports, environmental management plans and board papers, drafted from evidence you already hold, every sentence traceable to its source.See how documents work
Asset movement history in Square One
02 KnowledgeA governed place to ask anythingAI over your own knowledge, permission-aware, instead of pasting company data into public tools. Your most experienced people’s judgement stays, even after they leave.See how knowledge works
Asset record in Square One
03 OperationsOperations that stay on the recordVehicles and plant, wet and dry hire, telemetry, inspections, maintenance and compliance in one view, with nothing rewritten after the fact.See how operations work
The foundation

Works with Microsoft 365. Says no when it should.

You don’t buy a model. You buy the governed environment that uses the right one.

Access is inherited from Microsoft 365, never invented here. Share a workspace and its evidence tightens to what every member is entitled to see. Square One narrows access rather than quietly widening it.

The same discipline governs AI. Every request runs through your policy: approved providers, for approved tasks, at a known cost, metered and logged. The gate is permanent. The model behind it is replaceable.

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Square One is built by Inhouse CX, a Microsoft Solutions Partner in Data and AI, and in Digital and App Innovation, on Azure.
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Standing still is also a decision.

Two businesses start in the same place and drift years apart without a single dramatic event. Capability compounds quietly; so does entropy. Responsible adoption is the safe move; doing nothing only feels like one.

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Confidence in everything your business produces and decides.

That’s what a governed foundation is for, and it’s what to put in place before you scale AI on top of it. Square One is ready when you are.