Company

Black Elephant

Black Elephant builds tools for professional work: the ones people spend a full working day in. Not websites or storefronts — environments where an engineer runs a project, an accountant closes the period and a developer writes code.

Our stance

What matters to us

An engineering company. We develop DockStudio — a platform for building professional applications, and ProMatrix — a client-server environment for business management and collaborative design.

We are a product company, not a contractor by the hour

We have two products of our own that we have been developing for years and use ourselves. We take on custom projects when they strengthen the products, not replace them.

We start with the foundation

Platform first, applications second. DockStudio came before ProMatrix because without a solid framework any large system turns into a tangle of patches within three years.

We give control to the customer

Our products run in an air-gapped environment, without internet access and with no mandatory ties to our servers. The data, the updates and the system's lifespan stay in the owner's hands.

What we do

Our areas of work

Platform development

Application frameworks, windowing systems, plugin systems, SDKs. The things products are later built on — ours and the customer's.

Enterprise systems

Document management, finance, personnel, manufacturing, warehouse. End-to-end processes instead of a set of disconnected programs.

Engineering software

Systems for design and engineering data management: product structure, documentation, calculations, automation of the design engineer's routine.

AI in workflows

We deploy AI agents where rules don't work: preliminary document analysis, comparing revisions, finding equivalents and assignees. The model can run inside your own infrastructure.

Integration and support

We connect the new with what already works: 1C, AD directories, EDI, CAD systems, equipment. And we stay close after launch.

Engineering principles

Rules we never bend

These are not slogans but constraints we build into product architecture and enforce in code review.

01

A long lifespan matters more than a quick start

Layered architecture, versioned contracts, backward compatibility. A system must outlive a change of team, OS versions and a hardware generation.

02

Work must not depend on connectivity

Offline is not an emergency mode but a standard one. The client works autonomously, accumulates changes and syncs when the server is available.

03

Data belongs to its owner

Every product is deployed on your own infrastructure. No hidden outbound calls and no mandatory telemetry.

04

Configuration matters more than custom code

Processes, forms, reports and permissions change without a programmer. Code is written only where it is truly unavoidable.

Working with customers

How a project runs

01

Discovery

We examine processes as they are, pin down bottlenecks, and size data volumes and user counts. The result is a technical specification, not a presentation.

02

Prototype

In 2–4 weeks we build a working prototype of the key scenario on DockStudio. You click through a real interface, not mockups.

03

Implementation

We deploy the environment, migrate data, configure routes and permissions, and train users. A phased launch, not “everything in one day”.

04

Development

Updates, enhancements, new modules and support under an agreed SLA. The system grows with the company instead of going obsolete in a year.

Industries

Where our products are used

Mechanical engineeringInstrument engineeringDesign institutesDesign-and-install contractorsConstructionEnergyProductionDistribution and logisticsIT companiesEngineering bureausService organizations

Shall we get acquainted?

Tell us about your task — we will propose a solution based on our products or build a custom one.