Intellix IT Solutions
Dairy & Food Producer IT · Ireland

Production software, batch traceability and cybersecurity for Irish dairies and food makers — without the €200,000 ERP timeline.

We replace paper batch sheets, retyped COAs and audit-week panic with one production workspace that sits next to your accounts. Built with (and trusted by) Cashel Farmhouse Cheesemakers. Pilot live inside 30 days. Mapped to FSAI, SFPA, BRCGS and SALSA from day one — and grant-funded for eligible Irish SMEs.

What we hear first

Four pains every Irish food producer recognises.

Batch traceability lives in a paper folder

When a retailer or the FSAI ask for one-up / one-down on a specific batch, the answer is two hours, a phone call to the cheesemaker, and a flick through a binder. That's the day before a recall — and it's the gap an auditor flags inside the first hour.

COAs and QC results retyped into emails

Lab results arrive on PDFs. Production retypes them into a Word template. Sales retype them again into a customer-specific format. Three transcription opportunities to misquote a fat-content or coliform number — and one of them eventually ends up on a retailer's spec sheet.

FSAI / SFPA / BRCGS audits soak two weeks of operations time

Surprise audits land. The QA manager spends ten days reconstructing records that should have generated themselves. The production manager loses a week of floor time. The owner pays both salaries to do paperwork that the system should produce on a Tuesday morning at 09:00.

Dispatch notes hand-typed at 06:30

Pallets are picked, weights are written on a clipboard, the dispatch note is typed into Sage from memory, the COA is emailed separately, the customer's portal needs another upload. Five steps for what should be one. Mistakes compound; payment terms slip; margin disappears.

What we actually do

Six capabilities, one accountable partner.

Keystone — production software for food makers

Our flagship Cloudvoro product. Sits between the floor and the accounts: batch recipes, yields, waste capture, QC, dispatch, full one-up / one-down traceability. Built with Cashel Farmhouse Cheesemakers; pilots typically live inside 30 days on one production line.

  • Batch lineage from goods-in lot through to retailer pallet
  • COAs auto-generated from QC results — no retyping
  • Dispatch notes under 4 seconds — picked weights → printed paperwork
  • Mock-recall in under a minute, evidence ready for the auditor

FSAI · SFPA · BRCGS · SALSA audit readiness

We map your existing HACCP plan, allergen matrix and supplier-approval records into a single evidence library that an auditor can read in 20 minutes. No reinvention of your QA system — we surface what's already there and fill the genuine gaps.

  • HACCP / TACCP / VACCP plan digitisation
  • Allergen matrix and label-verification workflow
  • Approved-supplier register with expiring-cert alerts
  • Single audit-evidence library — auditor view + internal view

Sage / AccountsIQ / Xero integration — done properly

Keystone lives next to your accounts package, not on top of it. Goods-in becomes a supplier-invoice draft. Dispatch becomes a customer-invoice draft. Stock valuation reconciles weekly. Your accountant keeps their workflow; the spreadsheet retires with respect.

  • Goods-in → supplier-invoice draft with the right nominal codes
  • Dispatch → customer-invoice draft with COA attached
  • Weekly stock-valuation reconciliation against the bank-feed
  • Multi-entity if you run a group or franchise

AI / OCR — COA extraction, label verification, invoice automation

Practical applied AI — not novelty chatbots. Lab PDFs land in a shared inbox, fields are extracted, a draft COA is queued for approval. Label photos verify allergen and weight statements before a run. Supplier invoices match against POs without re-entry.

  • OCR for lab PDFs → structured QC fields, one approval click
  • Computer-vision label verification on every production run
  • Invoice OCR → matched to PO → approval queue, nothing auto-posts
  • EU data residency on every model call

Cybersecurity & cyber-insurance fit for food

Food producers are under-loved by Irish IT and over-loved by phishing operators — invoice-redirect fraud against the finance mailbox is the most common loss we see. Calm, evidence-led cybersecurity covering DMARC, M365 hardening, OT / SCADA segregation and the public attack surface of your domain.

  • Free initial external cybersecurity brief — DMARC, TLS, headers
  • M365 anti-impersonation for finance & sales
  • OT / SCADA / cold-store telemetry segmentation
  • Cyber-insurance renewal evidence pack, written for an underwriter

Grant-funded route — EI Cyber Review + NCSC Cyber Improvement

Most eligible Irish food producers can fund 80% of an audit and remediation cycle through the Enterprise Ireland Cyber Review Grant (€3K) and the NCSC Cyber Improvement Grant (€25–60K). We map our delivery to both schemes and write the evidence in the format the grant assessor expects.

  • Enterprise Ireland Cyber Review — 80% funded up to €3,000
  • NCSC Cyber Improvement Grant — 80% funded €25,000–€60,000
  • Application support and assessor-ready evidence pack
  • Mapped against ISO 27001 controls and the NIS2 control families
Local context

Dairy and food-producer estates we know by town.

We're based in Cashel — the geographic heart of the Munster food corridor. Every town below has a different commercial reality, and we plan engagements around that, not around a generic "food manufacturing" template.

Cashel

Cashel Farmhouse Cheesemakers + the Golden Vale dairy belt — small batch numbers, every cheese counts in a recall.

Thurles

Tirlán / Glanbia corridor with smaller co-op-aligned producers — mixed Sage / spreadsheet stacks.

Mitchelstown

Heart of Munster dairy — Dairygold member estate, processor-to-retail integrations matter.

Tipperary Town

Prepared-foods, charcuterie and farmhouse-cheese producers feeding SuperValu / Dunnes.

Cork

Pharma-grade cold chain expectations + ABP / SFPA / FSAI multi-site audits across processors.

Limerick

Mid-West meat & ready-meal producers — heavy goods-out paperwork, HSE allergen scrutiny.

Mullingar

Midlands beverage and confectionery — multi-SKU runs, Akeneo PIM integration patterns.

Waterford

Producers running SALSA / BRCGS recertification cycles with mixed paper-and-Excel records.

Galway

Connacht artisan and seafood producers — Origin Green and Bord Bia documentation pressure.

Want a 30-minute call with a senior engineer who knows dairy and food production?

Bring a paper batch sheet and a recent FSAI / BRCGS finding to the call. We'll walk through what Keystone replaces, what an audit-ready evidence pack looks like for your shape of business, and whether grant funding fits your timeline. Honest no-go if we're not a fit.