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Proven in a real operation. Here for the long term.

VRS is a Norwegian workforce platform proven on the factory floor – self-funded, privately owned, and built by people who've spent a decade inside industrial operations, not just software.

Norwegian-owned Self-funded No outside investors Proven in a real operation HQ Odda, Norway
Origin

Born from real operations.

Not a startup idea. A problem someone had to solve.

VRS didn't start in a co-working space. It was built as an independent product from day one – developed alongside Odda Technology, a Norwegian industrial company managing around 100 people across multiple sites, which became its first customer. Their operations team needed to track people, hours, compliance and payroll without the chaos of spreadsheets and disconnected tools.

Every release was tested where it matters – on a live operation. Rune Torblå founded Visual Registration Systems as an independent company, funded it by building a real estate business alongside it, and grew VRS into a full workforce operating system for Nordic teams.

The short version
The problem
100 people, multiple sites, spreadsheets everywhere. Hours, compliance and payroll lived in different tools that didn't talk.
The first customer
A time-and-workforce product, built by Visual Registration Systems and tested every day inside Odda Technology – the first customer.
The funding
To keep VRS independent, Rune builds a real estate company and uses it to fund the software – no outside investors.
Today
VRS runs operations across manufacturing, field service, project operations and facility services, from capture to payroll-ready export.
Founder

Meet the founder.

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"I built a real estate company to fund this one – because I believed too much in what we were building to give it up to outside investors."
Rune TorblåFounder & CEO · Odda, Norway

Rune grew up in Odda. VRS was built as an independent product from day one, with Odda Technology as its first customer and daily proving ground. To finance the engineering team without giving up ownership or rushing the product, he built a real estate company and used it to self-fund VRS over multiple years. The result: a software company that's privately owned, debt-disciplined, and not chasing a quick exit.

Team

The people behind VRS.

A core team headquartered in Odda and Hardanger, Norway – backed by global engineering and delivery partners.

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Rune Torblå
Founder & CEO
Odda, Norway
TV
Thomas Vervik
CTO
AW
Arend Wessels
Sales & Partnerships Europe
Vienna, Austria
EG
Eirik Gravdal
Sales Manager
Stavanger, Norway
SA
Simone de Alencar
Business Developer
Odda, Norway
SV
Sergii Vozniak
Project Manager
FL
Frode Leonhardsen
Tech Lead
OL
Oleh Leskiv
Frontend Developer
GB
Grigoriy Belous
Backend Developer

The core team is supported by international engineering and delivery partners, including a long-standing development partnership that adds significant capacity when needed. Together, the extended team delivers a mature, supported platform from day one.

Philosophy

Built different. Built to last.

Self-funded, by design.

VRS is privately owned and self-financed. No venture capital, no external exit pressure, no rush to a liquidity event. We're built to be here in ten years – not the next funding round.

Norwegian, all the way through.

From working-time compliance to clean payroll flows in your payroll and ERP systems – VRS is built on the assumption that you operate in the Nordics. Not adapted to it.

Operations first, software second.

The platform was proven inside a real industrial operation. We design for the operations director, the planner and the payroll lead – not for the demo. Our roots run a decade deep into Microsoft ERP integration: Navision, Business Central, and Finance and Operations.

By the numbers

VRS in numbers.

20+
People – headquartered in Norway, global delivery
10+
Years of operations-tech background
0%
Norwegian-owned, no external investors
0%
Fewer payroll corrections at customers like Odda Technology
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