Jacksonville, FL
I build internal tools for companies of 10 to 50 people who have outgrown a spreadsheet, or who are paying platform prices for seats that twelve people actually use.
One operator · fixed price · four to six weeks.
| Job | Client | Stage | Who | Due | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Install 4412 | Marsh & Co | waiting? | DR | 8/14 | ask dana before scheduling |
| 3 | Install 4413 | Kettner | done | tj | Aug 18 | invoiced 8/19 i think |
| 4 | Retro fit | Kettner | OVERDUE?? | ? | 7/30 | DO NOT EDIT THIS ROW |
| 5 | Install 4414 | Bell Ridge | cancelled | DR | 8/2 | moved to other tab |
| 6 | Punch list | Marsh & Co | in prog | TJ | #REF! | see email from Ray |
| 7 | Install 4415 | Sowell | 9/2 | who is covering this |
| Job | Client | Stage | Owner | Due |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Install 4412 | Marsh & Co | Waiting on client | Dana Reese | 14 Aug sign-off due |
| Retro fit | Kettner | Blocked | Unassigned | 30 Jul 28 days overdue |
| Punch list | Marsh & Co | In progress | TJ Bowen | 29 Aug 3 of 4 steps done |
| Install 4413 | Kettner | Done | TJ Bowen | 18 Aug closed 19 Aug |
| Install 4415 | Sowell | Not started | Needs an owner | 2 Sep |
Both views hold the same week of work. One of them was built for the company doing it.
Every stage produces something you keep, whether or not you carry on to the next one.
Bring the spreadsheet everyone complains about, or the renewal invoice that went up again. Either one. You talk, I ask questions. No charge.
Your workflow, running as a clickable app. Your steps, your words, your fields. You tell me what I got wrong.
Fixed price, agreed before I start. You see it working every week rather than at the end.
Hosting, nightly backups and changes for a flat monthly fee. Changes come to me, not to a support queue.
Count the people who log in once a week to do one thing. Submit a request, update a status, check something off, look up where a job stands. They do not need the platform. They need those two or three screens.
| 40 seats at $95 a month | $45,600 a year |
| Seats you still need after | 12 |
| Saved every year | $31,920 |
| Build, fixed price | $14,000 |
| First year of running it | $12,000 |
| Paid back in | about 10 months |
| Kept every year after that | about $20,000 |
Nothing moves. Your platform stays where it is for the handful of people who really live in it, and I never touch the data. If the new tool turns out to be wrong, you add the seats back.
If the payback runs past 18 months I will say so on the call and tell you to go and negotiate your renewal instead. The seat count we work out is worth having either way.
If the saving does not pay the build back inside 18 months, I will tell you on the call and you should negotiate your renewal instead.
Two weeks. A written plan of your process, a clickable prototype, and a fixed quote for the build. Credited in full if you go ahead.
Fixed price. Four to six weeks for a first tool. The code sits in your own GitHub account from week one.
Hosting, nightly backups, support and small changes as the work changes. Cancel with 30 days notice.
Here is what the first one did.
Crews ran shows off a shared spreadsheet and a printed checklist that got marked up on site and typed back in the next morning. The producer could not tell what was ready without phoning someone.
The app holds the checklist for each show, records who signed off on what, and puts the state of every job on one screen. It matches how they already ran shows, so there was nothing to configure and no training day.
No seat-cutting job finished yet. The first company to do one gets the same fixed price, and gets its numbers printed here if it wants them printed.
Cheaper for both of us to find this out now.
Send me the one everybody complains about, or the renewal invoice that went up again. Forty five minutes on a call and I will tell you whether it is worth replacing, including when it is not.