Advanced software and systems for critical infrastructure and the environment
OSRS Group works with utilities, public agencies, and infrastructure operators to design and build high-reliability software and cloud systems for geospatial, temporal, and analytic workloads. We are taking on new consulting and development engagements while we grow our portfolio of R&D and IP.
What we do
Consulting, prototypes, and production-grade builds.
We help teams move from ideas and legacy tools to working software:
- Architecture and development of cloud-native, geospatial, spatio-temporal systems
- High-assurance implementation and integration on modern stacks (e.g., .NET, Python, cloud, data services)
- Focused R&D and prototype efforts that can grow into operational capabilities
We’re a small, early-stage firm, so we prioritize a small number of deep, hands-on projects where we can ship real systems, not just slideware.
Who we work with
We tend to be most useful to teams that:
- Operate or regulate critical infrastructure, utilities, or environmental assets
- Need to connect models, data, and operational systems across organizations and boundaries
- Care about reliability, security, and long-term stewardship of their IP and data
If you have a hard, ambiguous software or data problem in this space and no obvious off-the-shelf solution, that’s the kind of work we look for.
The OSRS ecosystem
How the pieces fit together.
OSRS is a small ecosystem of brands we use to separate concerns without adding vendor noise:
- OSRS Group – The core team you engage today for consulting, design, and development.
- OSRS System – Our cloud and SaaS solutions brand, for running capabilities as services with simple plan-plus-usage pricing instead of per-user licensing.
- OSRS Open – Our initiative for open software, specifications, and data, where we publish open-source software, standards, and building blocks that can benefit multiple organizations.
- OSRS Network – The umbrella for collaborators and early adopters across these efforts, which we expect to grow over time with customer participation in governance.
Today, these brands and sites are operated by the same founders. As the ecosystem and customer base grow, we plan to formalize and spin some of them out into distinct entities with customer representation. Read the full background and methods
R&D and IP
R&D and IP you can build on
In addition to client work, we invest in low-TRL research and internal IP focused on:
- Geospatial and temporal data modeling and services
- Environmental and infrastructure analytics and decision support
- Cloud-native, multi-tenant architectures for sensitive workloads
Links to our IP and R&D efforts are available in the footer. These projects are not shrink-wrapped products; they are starting points we can adapt and harden with you into solutions that fit your mission and constraints.
Work with us
Straightforward way to start
We keep the first steps simple:
- Short technical and mission-focused conversation to understand your problem and constraints
- Define a small, concrete engagement (architecture review, prototype, or integration effort)
- Decide together whether the result should stay bespoke, become a shared capability in OSRS Open, or grow into an operated service via OSRS System
If you want to sanity-check an idea or see whether we’re a fit, get in touch—early conversations focus on substance, not a sales funnel.