The Two-Minute Version
BOS
Business Operating System
Built by recruiters. Engineered by AI.
The complete workforce operating platform for construction, trades and labour recruitment. One scroll tells you what it does. And it is already running.
Donna Maplesden · Jacob Stray · Oliver Tatler
Watch it run
Live
Operational system, not a prototype
Multi-Site
High-volume, labour-intensive business
100%
Of capabilities are in production today
You are not buying a promise, and you are not the first implementation. You are buying an established platform that already works.
01The Problem
You Already Know the Problem
Notepads at reception.
Phones ringing off the hook.
Compliance gaps found on site.
Commission discovered at month end.
“There is no shortage of opportunity. There is a shortage of operational control.”
02What BOS Is
One System. The Whole Lifecycle.
From client order, through candidate onboarding, placement and finishers, back to available again - one AI-powered system, replacing:
BOS does not add tools to your stack. It replaces the stack.
03Meet Millie
Your 24/7 Virtual Resourcer
Millie is the BOS candidate-facing AI agent - not a chatbot. She handles every inbound enquiry on WhatsApp and Telegram, day and night, in 11 languages: qualification, documents, job offers, availability. Watch her register a real candidate - and tap the link she sends.
Millie
online · 24/7
A real conversation from the live system - tap the link Millie sends
04Three Things to Remember
If You Take Nothing Else From This Page
01
It sells for you
Every reference request captures the referee as a warm sales lead - a branded intro goes out automatically if they are not already a client. And every morning, the availables list shows who you can sell today: a compliant, graded carpenter sitting available in Sheffield is a sales call waiting to happen.
02
You see the money live
Consultants watch their commission build placement by placement - they know at 10am what they have earned today. You see margin, revenue and P&L in real time, with a margin floor no one can place below.
03
Nothing non-compliant reaches site
Compliance is a hard gate, not a policy: the system physically blocks placement if documents are not in order, and chases every expiry at 60, 30, 14, 7 and 0 days across the whole database.
05Who We Are
Built by People Who Know Recruitment
BOS was not designed by software engineers who studied recruitment. It was designed by a recruiter and engineered by Cold Lava, a UK company building AI systems for owner-run businesses.
Donna Maplesden
Director · Strategic Consultant
Thirty years running recruitment operations. The workflows inside BOS are hers - solved manually first, long before AI.
Jacob Stray
Managing Director, Cold Lava
Runs the company and the client relationship - diagnoses your operation and translates it into plain English.
Oliver Tatler
Chief Technology Officer, Cold Lava
Designs and writes every system Cold Lava ships. If it runs in your business, he built it.
The people you talk to are the people who build it.
Next Step
We don't do slide-deck demos.
Every question gets answered with a working demonstration, not a promise. See the system running live on real workflows - or read the full version first.