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Most of what follows was built for companies we own or operate. That's deliberate. We'd rather show you a system we depend on ourselves than a logo wall.

Also running

Six more, in production today.

  • ShiftHero

    Scheduling and time tracking for hourly staff

    A manager builds next week's schedule on their phone between other jobs, and staff claim open shifts themselves instead of texting whoever is on. Clock-in only works inside the venue's geofence, and breaks are queued so the floor never empties during a rush. Friday payroll is one export, in the format the payroll company actually accepts.

  • Pitstock

    Inventory across multiple venues

    Before this, inventory was a spreadsheet and a walkthrough once a month, where someone counted everything and totalled it up. Between walkthroughs nobody really knew what was on hand. Now counts happen on a phone as stock actually moves, and the picture is current all the time — what is there, what is moving, and what is about to run out, at every location.

  • Vendor Check

    Invoice auditing against supplier contracts

    Each contract is read once, on the way in. After that, every invoice is checked against the terms it was actually billed under, and anything billed above the agreed rate is flagged for a person to rule on. It found money that had been leaking quietly for years, because the alternative was somebody reading every invoice against every contract, and nobody was ever going to do that.

  • Booking and payments

    Self-serve booking for high-volume venues

    Customers see real availability rather than a request form, pay at the time of booking, and move their own reservation when plans change. The venue stops fielding the phone calls that used to be the booking system.

  • Team SMS

    One business number per market, shared by the team

    Sales staff text customers from a business number instead of a personal phone, and every reply lands in a shared inbox where anyone can pick it up. Conversations get assigned, notes stay internal, and nobody loses a thread because one person is off that day.

  • On-premise data, made answerable

    Reporting from systems you cannot get into

    The numbers were sitting in a database behind a firewall, in a system owned by a vendor with no interest in helping. Now they are reachable and current, and can be asked plain questions from the tools the team already has open — without opening a single inbound port.

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