See your software working before you commit.
Most software companies sell you a system on the strength of a slide deck and a demo of somebody else’s business. We build a working piece of yours, in your terminology, around your workflow and let you use it before you commit to the full project.
The five steps
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Tell us what is not working.
A conversation about how your business actually runs. Where the bottlenecks are, what lives in spreadsheets, what gets entered twice, what only one person knows how to do. No pitch and no obligation.
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We map the workflow.
Before anything gets built we agree what the core problem is and what a working proof needs to demonstrate. That scope is agreed upfront and written down, so nobody is guessing what they are getting.
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We build the proof.
Not a mockup. Not a slide deck. Not a demo of another company’s system. Working software that handles the core of your workflow, using your terminology and your real use case. We build it at our cost.
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You use it.
Open it. Click through it. Put it in front of the people who would be using it every day. This is the point of the whole thing: you find out whether it fits before you commit to a full build, not after.
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You decide with evidence instead of a brochure.
If it works the way you need, we scope and build the complete system. If it does not, you have spent a conversation and you understand your own process better than when you started.
Why we do it this way
Because software decisions are hard to reverse.
Picking the wrong system costs more than the software. It costs the year you spend working around it and the disruption of replacing it.
Because a demo proves nothing about your business.
Every system looks good demonstrated on the vendor’s data. The only question that matters is how it behaves on yours.
Because we would rather find out early too.
If your workflow is not something we can build well, both of us should know that before there is a contract, not six months into one.
What does the broken process actually cost?
Nobody budgets for a broken process, because it never arrives as a bill. It arrives as half an hour a day, spread across the people bridging the gap by hand.
Somebody else’s numbers, to show the shape of it:
12 people × 30 minutes × 250 working days
= 1,500 hours a year
at $40 an hour = $60,000 a year
And that is before the errors, the work done twice, the delays, the information that went missing, the management time spent chasing it and the compliance risk of not being able to prove what happened.
No system recovers all of that, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. The point of the number is the scale, not the promise. Put your own headcount and your own hourly rate against it and see what you get, because the figure you work out yourself is the only one worth anything.
Straight answers
What does the working proof cost me?
We build it at our cost. What we ask in return is the time to understand your workflow properly and a straight answer at the end.
Is this a free trial of a product?
No. There is no product. It is built for your workflow, and it is yours to judge on whether it fits your business rather than whether it fits software in general.
How big is the proof?
Bounded, and agreed before we start. It demonstrates the core of the workflow, not the finished system. Anyone promising to build your entire system for nothing is telling you something about how much they value their time.
What if it is not right?
Then we have both learned something cheaply. There is no invoice and no argument.
What happens if I go ahead?
We scope the full build together, agree terms and finish it with you. The last stretch is the part only you can direct, because only you know how it needs to feel in daily use.
How long does a build take?
It depends on what you need. It could be a week. It could be six months. What moves it is how much of the process is being replaced, how many people and systems touch it and whether it is one workflow or the whole operation. We will not know until we have talked, and we would rather tell you that than pick a number to make this page look confident.