You shouldn't have to do this every week.
I set up small systems that handle the parts of your work that repeat. We start with one thing, not ten.
What people actually say
Answers other people gave.
Nobody comes to me asking for an integration. They describe something small that keeps eating their week. Find the one that sounds like you, or write your own further down.
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"People message me and I answer hours later, when they've already booked someone else."
Now every message gets an answer within a minute, and you get a text with the details.
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"I spend half my day on the phone just agreeing on a time."
Now they pick a slot themselves, it lands in your calendar, and they get a reminder the day before.
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"I know I should ask for Google reviews. I ask maybe one customer in five."
Now the request goes out a day after the job is done. Every time, without you remembering.
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"Every evening I sit down and copy receipts into a spreadsheet."
Now you photograph them and they file themselves, sorted and totalled.
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"My inbox has four hundred unread. Every morning I dig through it looking for the ones that actually matter."
Now the ones that need you are pulled to the top, with a reply already drafted underneath. The rest file themselves.
The form on this page runs on the thing I'm selling.
Write to me below and you'll get a real answer in under a minute, one that responds to what you actually wrote. Not a "thanks, we received your message". That is the whole product, and you can test it before you pay me anything.
Below is exactly that, recorded on this page. Someone types the thing that keeps eating their week, presses send, and the answer comes back about their thing.
Answered in 1.5 seconds
A real capture of this form, not a mock-up. The pause you see is the pause there was.
Who this is for
Four people who had the same evening.
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The barber whose phone rings mid haircut
A missed call gets a text back before they try the next shop, and they book themselves into a gap you already have.
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The cleaner running six jobs off one notebook
Every job in one list, each client confirmed the night before, and the invoice written the moment you mark it done.
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The handyman quoting from photos
The photo arrives attached to the request, the quote goes back the same hour, and nothing sits unanswered overnight.
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The shop owner chasing invoices
Unpaid invoices chase themselves, politely, until they are paid or you decide to step in.
None of them came to me wanting software. They came because one part of the week kept eating a whole evening.
It connects to what you already have.
Nothing gets replaced and nothing gets moved. Whatever you use for customers, calendars and payments stays where it is. I connect to it.
What it costs.
One small thing
100 to 800
At the bottom of that range: one thing wired up. A text the moment a form comes in, a reminder that goes out by itself, one tool talking to another. At the top: a job that repeats, set up end to end. Usually done in under a week.
A system that handles your incoming work
1,500 to 4,000
Several pieces working together: forms, calls, replies, your calendar, wherever you keep customers. Keeping it running afterwards, if you want that: $200 to $600 a month.
Where you land depends on three things: how many places the information has to travel between, whether those tools have a proper way to connect, and how much of it needs judgement instead of moving data from A to B. I can usually tell you within a day of hearing what you need.
You get a fixed price before anything starts. Nothing is billed by the hour. If your job turns out to be simpler than it sounded, the price goes down, not up.
Who you're dealing with.
I'm Alex. This is one person, not an agency and not a team you will never meet. I write the thing, I answer the messages, and when something breaks at nine on a Sunday it is still me who fixes it. That is the limit and the point: I take on work I can actually finish.
What are you still doing by hand?
Describe it the way you'd say it out loud. One or two sentences is plenty.