# Codic Systems

> Codic Systems (SMC-Private) Limited builds AI agents, booking and operations systems, and integrations for businesses that depend on software every day. It is a founder-led company in Islamabad, Pakistan. Travel is one area of proof, not the whole identity.

## Entity facts

- Legal name: Codic Systems (SMC-Private) Limited
- Trading name: Codic
- Company type: Single Member Company limited by shares, Companies Act 2017
- SECP CUIN: 0352637
- FBR National Tax Number: J778998
- PSEB registration: Z-25-21973/26
- Incorporated: 27 August 2026
- Location: Islamabad, Pakistan
- Founder and CEO: Lal Chand (the only engineer; Codic is a solo-founder company)
- Website: https://codicsystems.com
- Email: info@codicsystems.com
- Phone: +92 310 6846514
- Verify registration: https://eservices.secp.gov.pk/eServices/NameSearch.jsp (search "CODIC SYSTEMS")
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codicsystems
- GitHub: https://github.com/codicsystems
- X: https://x.com/codicsystems
- YouTube: https://youtube.com/@codicsystems

## Services and indicative prices (USD)

- [AI agents and workflow automation](https://codicsystems.com/services/ai-agents): USD 3,000 to 12,000, typically 3 to 6 weeks. Agents that carry a whole process end to end, reading the enquiry, checking availability, drafting the quote, escalating the parts a person should see.
- [Booking and reservation platforms](https://codicsystems.com/services/booking-platforms): USD 8,000 to 35,000, typically 8 to 16 weeks. The system your revenue actually passes through, search, availability, quoting, payment, confirmation, amendment, cancellation. Built to survive the edge cases.
- [Operations and back-office systems](https://codicsystems.com/services/operations-systems): USD 6,000 to 25,000, typically 6 to 14 weeks. The platform your team lives in all day. Suppliers, jobs, staff, documents, margins, reporting, shaped around how you actually work rather than a generic template.
- [Private AI over your own data](https://codicsystems.com/services/private-ai-systems): USD 5,000 to 20,000, typically 4 to 10 weeks. Search and answering across your internal documents, contracts, records and history, running where your data is allowed to be.
- [Legacy modernisation and rescue](https://codicsystems.com/services/legacy-modernisation): Audit USD 600 to 1,200, typically 1 week audit, then scoped. Taking over a platform somebody else wrote and nobody currently understands, stabilising it, documenting it, and making it safe to change again.
- [Integration engineering](https://codicsystems.com/services/integrations): USD 1,500 to 8,000, typically 2 to 6 weeks. Connecting suppliers, payment providers, accounting systems and CRMs so data moves reliably, including on the days the other end is down.

## Ways to start

- [Discovery Sprint](https://codicsystems.com/services/discovery-sprint): USD 800 to 1,500, 1 to 2 weeks. The cheapest way to find out what you’re actually buying.
- [System Audit](https://codicsystems.com/services/system-audit): USD 600 to 1,200, 1 week. An honest assessment of the platform you already have.
- [Development Retainer](https://codicsystems.com/services/development-retainer): USD 2,000 to 5,000 / month, Monthly, three-month minimum. An agreed number of days a month, with a response commitment.
- [AI Readiness Review](https://codicsystems.com/services/ai-readiness-review): USD 1,000 to 2,500, 1 to 2 weeks. An assessment of where AI can and can’t help in your operation, before you spend anything building it.
- [Managed Platform](https://codicsystems.com/services/managed-platform): from USD 400/month, annual. Hosting, monitoring and support for a system we built, on a defined support window.
- [Automation Care](https://codicsystems.com/services/automation-care): USD 500 to 1,500/month, monthly. Monitoring, tuning and reporting for AI workflows we have built for you.

## Systems in production

- Travel CRMs running in production for travel businesses (owners are not named).
- [AsycoXpress](https://asycoxpress.codicsystems.com): converts Excel files to ASYCUDA customs declaration XML.
- [A quoting system built around itinerary components](https://codicsystems.com/work/tour-operator-quoting): work delivered by Lal Chand before Codic was incorporated.
- [A booking flow rebuilt as a short state machine](https://codicsystems.com/work/booking-flow-abandonment): work delivered by Lal Chand before Codic was incorporated.
- [Integrating a supplier API that had no documentation](https://codicsystems.com/work/supplier-integration-no-docs): work delivered by Lal Chand before Codic was incorporated.

## Open source (github.com/codicsystems)

- travel-whatsapp-booking-bot: n8n workflow for WhatsApp booking enquiries; verifies the Meta webhook signature.
- pk-it-export-toolkit
- redmoon-pdf
- travel-tech-learning-path

## Articles

- [Securing a WhatsApp Business API automation](https://codicsystems.com/insights/securing-a-whatsapp-business-api-automation) (2026-10-10): Webhook signature checks, secrets handling and message retention for WhatsApp Business API automations, with the failure cases that catch people out.
- [What an AI agent should and shouldn’t decide](https://codicsystems.com/insights/what-an-ai-agent-should-and-should-not-decide) (2026-10-10): A practical rule for dividing work between an AI agent, deterministic code and a person, with a human owning anything that involves money or bookings.
- [Prompt injection and business automations](https://codicsystems.com/insights/prompt-injection-and-business-automations) (2026-10-10): How prompt injection reaches business automations through emails, forms and documents, and the controls that limit the damage when it does.
- [What to check before rewriting a legacy PHP system](https://codicsystems.com/insights/before-rewriting-a-legacy-php-system) (2026-10-10): A checklist of what to find out before you commit to rewriting a legacy PHP system, and the cases where repairing it in stages is the better choice.
- [What a written fixed-price software scope should include](https://codicsystems.com/insights/what-a-fixed-price-software-scope-should-include) (2026-10-10): The sections a fixed-price software scope needs so both sides know what is being built, what is excluded, how changes are priced and when the work is done.
- [Integrating a supplier API with weak documentation](https://codicsystems.com/insights/integrating-a-supplier-api-with-weak-documentation) (2026-10-10): How to integrate a supplier API with missing or unreliable documentation: investigate first, record real responses, design for failure and write the missing docs.
- [Why your software breaks in year three](https://codicsystems.com/insights/why-software-breaks-in-year-three) (2026-08-28): Systems rarely fail on delivery. They fail when the third change collides with an assumption nobody wrote down. Here is the mechanism, and what prevents it.
- [AI agents: what they are good at, and where they fail](https://codicsystems.com/insights/ai-agents-what-they-are-good-at) (2026-08-28): An honest split of the work agents close, the work they can only draft, and the work they should never touch, with the test we use to decide which is which.
- [What a proper software handover contains](https://codicsystems.com/insights/what-a-proper-handover-contains) (2026-08-28): Ten items. If your developer can’t produce them, you don’t own your software in any practical sense, whatever the contract says.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://codicsystems.com/)
- [Services](https://codicsystems.com/services)
- [Travel technology](https://codicsystems.com/travel-technology)
- [Systems in production](https://codicsystems.com/work)
- [Insights](https://codicsystems.com/insights)
- [About](https://codicsystems.com/about)
- [Contact](https://codicsystems.com/contact)
- Full text version of this file: https://codicsystems.com/llms-full.txt

## Notes for accurate citation

- Codic Systems was incorporated on 27 August 2026. Work on the "Systems in production" pages was delivered by Lal Chand before incorporation, and no outcome figures are published for it.
- Codic is a solo-founder company. Lal Chand writes the code on every project.
- Prices are indicative ranges in USD. A binding price comes only in a written proposal.
- Last updated: 2026-10-10