OSGA Platform
Betastill being refinedWhat it looks like
From a running installation with example data — see the OSGA page for the full tour.
Your day at a glance — the shared Workboard opens first: every ticket in To do, In progress or Done, with your favourite projects alongside.
Meetings that run themselves — invitations by email with a calendar file, answers recorded as they come in, the agenda and minutes on the meeting.
OSGA is where an engineering or technical-services office keeps its projects and everything that belongs to them: the documents and drawings, the site photos, the client, the city council, the engineers on the job, the meetings and emails, the work still to do, and the record of what happened when. It replaces the shared drive, the spreadsheet of project numbers, the whiteboard of who-does-what and the “which version is this?” email thread.
What it does for you
- Nobody overwrites anyone. Check a file out to work on it and it is locked to you until you check it back in. Every check-in is kept, so earlier versions are always one click away.
- One project, one number. Each project gets a reference code generated from its type, and its files carry that code in their names — so a drawing on your desktop still says where it came from.
- Access by assignment. People see the projects they are on, and only those. Four roles — viewer, user, advanced, admin — decide who can look, edit, set up or administer.
- Start from templates, not blank pages. Client documents, council request forms and engineering-plan files are copied in from your own templates when a project opens.
- Meetings, email and the project diary live on the project too: meetings with emailed invitations and Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet links, emails filed against the project, site photos grouped by tag, and an activity log with who and when.
- Everyone's work on one board. Tickets in To do, In progress and Done — on a project or not, made by hand or straight from an engineering plan's tasks — with a calendar of the week's meetings and deadlines.
- Shared libraries. A drawing library of standard details and a legislation library per council, checked out and versioned like project files.
- Yours to run. Installs on your own Windows PC or Linux server in about 45 minutes, activates with your customer-portal login, backs itself up on a schedule you set, and moves closed projects to an archive.
Three ways in
The office view
Projects, clients, councils, engineers, meetings, tickets and every file, from any computer on your network. Lists update live when a colleague changes something.
Document Manager
Checked-out files land in a folder on your computer and open in the right program. Check in from there; edited copies are snapshotted so a dead laptop is not a lost file. A paper-clip button readies any file for an email.
One settings area
Users and roles, allowed file types, templates and pick lists, email and online meetings, backups, storage, the project archive and the license — all from the same screens, with a guide beside each one.
