Jakub Rimek.
Chaos into order

The problems that stress your team are the ones I enjoy.

Give me the process that keeps breaking and I'll make it run – and stay running.

00 The numbers

Real numbers from systems still in use

Scale – what it runs on
4hygiene teams
27cleaning zones
57staff, two sites
221equipment tracked
500+cleaning cards
Results – what it changed
403,325rows of shift-report data captured over five years
0records lost in a live data-loss incident
2sites audited to BRC & M&S standards

The systems I built help both sites stay audit-ready for BRC and M&S.

Staff figure is the current headcount across the two sites the systems run on.

01 Who I am

On the ground first. Technology second.

I'm a director at DaVinci Enterprise and an assistant hygiene manager at a BRCGS-certified Scottish food manufacturer – two sites, a team of 57, audited to BRC and M&S standards.

I don't come from a computer-science background. I come from the machinery, which is why the tools I build survive a real shift, not just a demo.

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02 Approach

Chaos into order is the method.

I walk into a process nobody fully controls, find the real shape underneath it, and rebuild it as something that runs on its own. Structure creates freedom – rules and routine aren't a cage, they're the frame that lets a team move fast without dropping anything.

I don't need to know your industry on day one. Give me a hard enough problem and I'll learn the field fast enough to fix it.

03 What I do

Seven kinds of work, one job: take the chaos out of how it runs.

01

Operations & process design

I map how the work really flows, then rebuild the parts that keep breaking.

02

Web & app development

Vanilla code you own. No platform lock-in, works offline when it has to.

03

Compliance & documentation

Paperwork that fills itself in and stands up to an audit.

04

Cost & workforce analytics

Turn timesheets and job data into numbers you can act on.

05

Equipment & control-panel work

Clear operator panels and guides for the machines on the floor.

06

Training & instructional video

Filmed SOPs that show the job instead of describing it.

07

Photography & creative support

Product and site photography for when the work needs a picture.

04 Selected work

You have the chaos. I build the order.

The flagship · In development

Hygiene Management System

The big one, and still being built: one place for everything a hygiene department runs on – records, sign-offs, training, stock, the paperwork that usually fills a filing cabinet.

A version is already live and in daily use, and it grows every month. Where it's heading is simple. Replace the paper drawer with a single tablet: every record, every check, every signature in one place, searchable and under control. It's built to stay cheap to run and free to use, and I'm building it open source – so you can host it wherever you like and pay only for your own server, never the tool. Something a real factory can actually afford, quick to learn, and good to look at.

In development Read the story →
Live tool

SOP Maker

Hundreds of Standard Operating Procedures, once scattered across different formats and different programs, pulled into one controlled place – numbered, versioned, and with no way for two authors to clash a number.

Watch the demo
Inside the system

Floor Plan Maker

Every machine on a live map of the floor, colour-banded by area and showing what’s clean or overdue – so cleaning routing and a new starter’s first day begin from a picture, not a list.

Watch the demo
Equipment documents

KPSCAN

A code on the machine that opens its cleaning card and its department folders – instead of someone walking to an office to find them.

Line tooling

Barcode Verification Tool

Checked tray-end barcodes against the master list so a wrong label got caught before the product shipped – built in two days, when a cyber-attack took out the software that used to do it.

Live tool

Panel Instructions

Machine guides overlaid on a photo of the real panel, opened by a QR on the machine, in four languages – so multilingual staff are shown the button, not told.

Inside the system

Holiday Booking

Books and authorises leave for a whole shift operation in one place – entitlement counted, cover protected, and the payroll email written for you.

Inside the system

Performance Dashboard

One screen for the whole night – did the line get cleaned, by whom, on budget – with ring gauges that flag what’s slipping before it becomes an audit finding.

In pilot

Sign-off Sheet + QR sorter

Sign-off paperwork that prints itself, then sorts by QR the moment a sheet is scanned back in.

In development

invoi.uk

One tool to run the whole business: your customers, your invoices and quotes, the money in and out, and your stock – all in one simple app.

Start with what you need today, and it grows with your business as you do. It came out of an invoicing tool I built for DaVinci, now being opened up for everyone else – and priced like the rest, little more than the server it runs on.

Coming soon
Also in the toolkit

Every tool here links straight to where it runs. Most of them live on one hub at kubatools.uk.

  1. 01

    Hygiene Management System

    The database behind every compliance record, live and in daily use.

    LiveOpen →
  2. 02

    Holiday Planner

    Leave booked and authorised for a whole shift operation, entitlement counted.

    LiveOpen →
  3. 03

    CIC Maker

    Free cleaning-instruction cards a food site owns instead of renting.

    LiveOpen →
  4. 04

    SOP Maker

    Hundreds of procedures in one numbered, versioned place.

    LiveOpen →
  5. 05

    Panel Instructions

    Machine guides on a photo of the real panel, opened by QR, in four languages.

    LiveOpen →
  6. 06

    Panel Measurement

    Un-skews a photo of a panel to true scale and reads real feature sizes off it – the maths written from scratch.

    LiveOpen →
  7. 07

    SOP Studio

    Illustrated, annotated work-instructions a worker opens by QR on the machine, in four languages.

    LiveOpen →
  8. 08

    KPSCAN

    A code on the machine that opens its cleaning card and department folders.

    LiveOpen →
  9. 09

    Mentid

    A personal mental-tidy app – journal, decide on purpose, and see how the call turned out.

    LiveOpen →
  10. 10

    KubaOS Desktop

    A website that behaves like a whole operating system – windows, a real terminal, easter eggs.

    LiveOpen →
05 Field Notes

Field Notes.

Build logs and case studies on how each system actually got made.

2026 · 07 · 07 Case study

The Hygiene Management System

Paper records that could go missing without anyone noticing, replaced by one folder, a record that never gets overwritten, and paperwork that builds itself.

Read the note →
Coming soon Build log

The spreadsheet nobody dares touch

Why the scariest file in the building is usually the one holding the whole operation together, and how to replace it without a shutdown.

Write-up coming
Coming soon Build log

Sign-off paper that sorts itself

How a printed sheet, a QR stamp and a phone camera turned an hour of filing into a scan.

Write-up coming
06 How I work

Same shape every time.

01

Understand

I get onto the floor and find the real problem, which usually isn't the one in the brief.

02

Build

I build the smallest thing that solves it, in code that's owned outright – no lock-in, works offline when it has to.

03

Support

I don't disappear once it ships. I make sure it holds up on a real shift and hand it over properly.

Understand the real problem, build the thing, and stay with it until it runs on its own.

Get in touch.

I enjoy solving hard problems – honestly, it's the part of the work I like most. If you've got one you're stuck on, or you're looking for someone who thinks this way, drop me a line. Always up for a good problem.

Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland · jakub@rimek.uk

Chaos into order