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Who is behind it

Fifteen programs,
already built

No go-between separating who sells from who builds: you talk to the person who designs and writes the software. An answer on feasibility comes right away, and it holds.

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Zenith

In astronomy it is the highest point the sun reaches in the sky: the exact point right above your head. It is not a name chosen because it sounded nice.

The Summer Triangle
Vegadesign
Denebdevelopment
Altairdata

They are the three stars of the Summer Triangle, and they are the names I give to the three parts of my work. Someone who names their tools after stars is not selling «digital solutions»: they are building something they care about.

None of these fifteen
was born from an idea.

Where the fifteen come from

Every program is born from a concrete operational need, never from a market hypothesis.

The first

A real event, not an exercise

The first digital invitation system was born for a real ceremony, with a fixed date and a guest list on paper. The problem was not technical: it was knowing how many people would come, and knowing it in time to tell whoever had to set the tables.

Building for an event that really happens, with a deadline that does not move, sets a different standard from any prototype: either it works on that day, or it is useless. That standard has stayed.

Then

Two languages, and hospitality

The next project was a wedding with guests in Italy and in Romania: two languages to handle at the same time, RSVPs that had to come back on their own, and a list that kept changing until the very last day. That is where the native bilingualism of every Zenith program comes from.

Then hospitality, restaurants, agencies. Every time the same method: start from a concrete operational problem and build the software to solve it. Never the other way round.

Today

Fifteen, and all of them running

What was born for one ceremony is now a multi-event platform. What was born for one restaurant now runs the dining room, the kitchen and the till. None of these fifteen is a prototype: they are programs built to be used, and they work.

That is why an answer on feasibility comes right away and without reservations: it is not an estimate, it is something already built.

The two homes

Italy and Romania

The work takes place between Italy and Romania, in Italian and Romanian. The main base is Venice, with a presence in Mogliano Veneto, Iași, Bucharest and Vaslui. That is why the software is bilingual from the start: not translated later, with sentences that do not fit. Every user reads in their own language, and adding a third one is a single line of configuration.

If adding one thing
means rewriting another,
it was badly designed.

The rule I build by

The method, in six points

These are the procedures applied before touching a system that is already live.

One

First, look

Nothing gets touched without first seeing how it is built today. Most disasters come from a change made with «I know what I’m doing».

Two

No half-finished work

The feature is delivered complete. Something done in bits looks ready, and breaks on the day it is really needed.

Three

Prove it, don’t hope

Every change to something live is checked by comparing before and after. Reassurance comes from facts, not words.

Four

It has to be able to grow

Even the smallest project is built so that tomorrow it can be expanded without rewriting it.

Five

Your data stays yours

The database is yours, the export is yours. No ransom to get your things back, no subscription to keep working.

Six

Saying no, too

If something cannot be done, or is not worth it, I say so beforehand. It costs me a client now and then. It saves many more.

When it makes sense to call me

Four situations where I already know where to start.

If you have repetitive work

What you do twice because the program does not do it once. That is where the hours are won back.

If your business software does not fit you

You pay for twenty modules and use three, and the two things you would need «are not supported».

If you want to talk to the person who builds it

You talk to the person who designs and writes the software, with no go-betweens and no tickets.

If your data has to stay yours

Your database, your export, no ransom to get it back and no subscription to keep working.

Zenith

Venice · Mogliano Veneto · Iași · Bucharest · Vaslui

Describe your business and the point where time gets lost. If there is already software that solves it, you see it working before any quote.

The Zenith world

Choose where to start: every path leads to something that already works.