How it works
Four steps. The first two cost you nothing, and you can stop after either one without a conversation about it.
Most of what goes wrong in a software project goes wrong before anybody writes anything, because the person building it never saw how the company actually runs. So that is where this starts, and it stays there longer than you would expect.
Twenty-five questions about how your company runs, scored across eight areas, with the arithmetic shown. No email wall and nothing to unlock — the contact page at the end is optional. You get your results on screen whether or not you ever speak to us, and plenty of people should stop here.
Straight up: this is a sales call. We go through how you actually run, job by job. By the end you will have seen what a system for your company would look like — your name on it, your workflow, not a stock demo — and you will know what it costs.
A written report on your operation, built out of the numbers you gave us on the call, and next to it a proposal: the shape of the system, shown on screens that already exist rather than described in the abstract, and what it would cost to build and to run.
Both are free and both are yours to keep. If the answer is that you should not spend the money this year, the report still tells you where the operation is leaking, and you can act on that with us or without us.
It starts with a specification: the jobs you run, the fields you actually use, the numbers you need out the other end. That document is what gets built from, and it is the reason the result is your system rather than a template with your logo on it.
Then it gets built, on your own domain. Before anything depends on it we run it next to what you have now, on real jobs, and fix what the first real week turns up — because the first real week always turns up something. Only after that does it become the thing the company runs on.
How long that takes depends on what the specification says. We would rather commit to dates in your proposal, against the actual scope, than publish an average here that has nothing to do with your company.
A monthly subscription that covers hosting, support, and the changes you will want once you have lived in it for a season. Because you will: nobody knows exactly how they want a system to work until they have used the first version through a busy month.
That is not an add-on and it is not a support ticket. It is the arrangement.
The honest part
After the evaluation, with your score and nothing else. After the ninety minutes, with the written report and no obligation. Both of those are real endings, not a funnel with a polite face on it — a roofing company that is running fine on what it has does not need us, and finding that out in fifteen minutes is a better outcome for both of us than finding it out in month three.
A conversation about how your company runs, with no proposal attached to it. You can stop after it, and most of what you work out is yours either way.