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Software

Software

The firm has made software for its clients since 1989, on the principle that a client’s correspondence is safest on the client’s own premises, maintained by people the client can telephone.

Current products

ProductDescriptionStatus
Intranet Suite 2.0Staff mail and a directory, installed on the client’s own systemsCurrent. Build 4471.
Courier credentialsTemporary passwords delivered by hand, in sealed envelopesCurrent

Legacy products

ProductYearsNotes
Visitor Book1989–2001A visitor register for MS-DOS, with a field classification for every guest. Retired after the year 2000.
Prudence Ledger1996–2009A register of a client’s confidential meetings, kept on a single computer with no network. Withdrawn when clients stopped owning computers without networks.
Intranet Suite 1.x2016–2021Superseded by 2.0. Unsupported since 2023.

Before it made software, the firm ran a Telex Screening Service, from 1974 to 1990, in which incoming telex was read by an inertial before it reached the client. Clients still running a legacy product may telephone the support desk, which keeps the manuals.