Systems engineering for established teams

Systems you
can check.

I help companies turn their expertise into tools people can use. Help customers choose, give your team a clearer workflow, and keep the source and the decision visible.

David Bentley Product, design and engineering

Featured workPublic project

Sofema Aviation · My family’s company

From a rule to a useful next step.

Find
Search for a clause, term or question.
Check
Open the explanation and the dated official text.
Continue
See related training and why it was suggested.
Follow a real search in the case study

01 Where I can help

Start where people get stuck.

Choose a decision, promise or handoff your team already deals with. We’ll agree what a better result would look like before I build anything.

When customers need help choosing

Put your expertise to work.

A finder, calculator or knowledge hub can give people a clear next step from sources your team maintains.

Check it. Can someone reach the right option or know when to ask for help?

When a promise needs approval

Give the decision to the right person.

Let software prepare an answer or change. A named person sees the evidence and approves the exact version.

Check it. Does a change wait for approval, and can someone see what happened afterwards?

When tools tell different stories

Trace the handoff.

Follow one record through the tools it crosses. Reproduce the discrepancy, agree the repair and run the same check again.

Check it. Can your team repeat the check and spot the same failure?

02 Work you can inspect

See how it works in practice.

A public knowledge tool and the system I built to review decisions in my own work.

Sofema’s public Knowledge Hub with search and topics to browse

Sofema Aviation · My family’s company

Find the rule. See the source.

Search by regulation, role or task, read the explanation with its official sources, and see which training relates to the question.

Read the Sofema case

Higher Self · My own operating system

Review the change before it takes effect.

I built HSFOS to turn work into records my future self can use. An agent can propose a change. I see the exact change and decide whether it enters the record.

See how HSFOS handles a decision

03 Try the workflow

Would you approve this?

Follow two fictional decisions from the original source to the wording a person approves.

Choose an example

Checking a draft

Course guide

A foundation certificate is required.

The guide sets out the requirement. The learner’s certificate is still awaiting a check.

Source available

Fictional examples. Approvals in this demo stay in your browser.

04 Working together

Your team can take it from here.

We test the first piece with the people who’ll use it. At handover, they can check the result, operate the system and stop it if they need to.

How I work

Work directly with David

Which decision keeps coming back?

Bring one workflow