Intelligent Automation Consulting

We solve
business problems.
Technology is how.

For 22 years, McKula has delivered measurable outcomes for enterprise clients, government agencies, and growing businesses — starting with the problem, not a product pitch.

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22+ Years in business
300+ Worldwide clients
13 Year longest engagement
Millions Of reports generated
0 Outside consultants — ever
What We Do

Two ways we deliver value

Whether you need expert consulting to solve a specific challenge or a proven SaaS platform for incident management — McKula has been doing this for over two decades.

Intelligent Automation Consulting

We embed with your team to understand the problem, design the right solution, build it, and hand it over — fully documented and yours to own. No vague statements of work, no scope creep surprises.

Power Platform Microsoft Copilot Flutter SharePoint Microsoft Teams
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Incident Tracker

Our flagship SaaS product — built in 2003 for University of Pittsburgh Resident Life and grown entirely through word of mouth. Now trusted by 300+ organizations worldwide to manage millions of incident reports, with zero outside development, ever.

SaaS Platform Higher Education Resident Life Incident Management
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How We Work

A process built around your outcome

No vague statements of work. No scope creep surprises. Four steps — and you own the result at the end.

1

Discovery

We learn your problem, your people, and your constraints — before we suggest anything.

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2

Proposal

Fixed scope. Fixed cost. You know exactly what you're getting before we start.

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3

Build

We design, develop, and test the solution — keeping you in the loop the whole way.

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4

Handover

Fully documented and yours to own. We don't create dependency — we eliminate it.

Case Studies

Outcomes, not just deliverables

A 13-year enterprise engagement. A SaaS product at 300+ clients worldwide. Legacy systems modernized at banks and manufacturers. Real work, real results.

Enterprise · 13-Year Engagement
Westinghouse Electric
Collaboration technology modernization

McKula guided Westinghouse through three generations of collaboration technology — planning, building, and migrating their internal tools at each stage of the journey.

Employees moved from Lotus Notes to a modern Microsoft 365 environment — without losing institutional knowledge or disrupting operations.
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Government Services · Since 2018
Maximus Inc
Proposal management & workflow automation

Brought in to rescue and complete a complex SharePoint proposal management platform — then expanded it with layered permissions, document workflows, Power BI reporting, and automated site provisioning.

A sophisticated system now used across the organization, with a full Teams migration underway.
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SaaS Product · Built 2003
Incident Tracker
From one campus to 300+ organizations worldwide

Built for University of Pittsburgh Resident Life and never handed off to outside developers. Grew organically through word of mouth to 300+ clients across the globe, with millions of reports generated.

A product entirely built and maintained in-house — proof that McKula ships things that last.
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Manufacturing · 2-Month Delivery
Michelin Tire
Lotus Notes → Power Platform migration

A complex CAPEX approval workflow trapped in aging Lotus Notes — rebuilt on Power Platform and deployed to cloud in two months. The client found McKula for a rare combination: deep legacy expertise and modern platform capability.

Delivered on time and beyond scope — with new external access for Michelin corporate leadership that the old system could never have supported.
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Financial Services · 3-Year Engagement
PNC Bank
IBM migration + developer team training

30+ IBM-based applications migrated to modern Microsoft architecture — plus hands-on training for PNC's Run and Change development teams to own and extend the platform independently.

A migration that left the client fully self-sufficient: new platform, new capability, and a team ready to run it.
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Gaming · Partnership 2003
Electronic Arts
From passion project to industry partnership

ClanWars.cc — a grassroots competitive gaming platform built by McKula — caught the attention of Electronic Arts and led to a formal partnership spanning multiple AAA titles and studios.

What started as a community project became a trusted partner for some of the most influential studios in real-time strategy gaming.
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Patrick McKula, Founder
The Founder
Patrick McKula
Founder & Principal — McKula Inc.

Patrick founded McKula in 2002 with a straightforward conviction: technology should be in service of the business problem, not the other way around. Over two decades later, that principle still drives every engagement.

Before starting the company, Patrick served as a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and as Director of Information Technology for Westmoreland County Community College — experience that gave him an unusual combination of academic rigor, teaching ability, and enterprise IT reality. That background shapes how McKula approaches clients: with clarity, patience, and a focus on outcomes that last.

M.S. Telecommunications — University of Pittsburgh
B.S. Mathematics — Allegheny College
Former Professor — University of Pittsburgh
Former Director of IT — Westmoreland County Community College
Ready to get started?

Let's talk about
your business problem.

Start with a 30-minute discovery call. No pitch deck. No sales pressure.
Just an honest conversation about what you're trying to solve.

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