Business Systems · for owner-led businesses

Your business has a systems architect now.

Just not on payroll. We find where your business leaks time and money, document the workflows trapped in everyone's heads, and build the systems that stop the leaks — starting small, proving value, then scaling.

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Three tiers

Pick the engagement that fits.

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Business Visibility Sprint

$2,500

one-time · 10 business days

  • Four documented deliverables
  • Where time and money leak, mapped
  • Bottlenecks diagnosed against evidence
  • A clear next step — build or don't
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Ongoing

Fractional Systems Architect

$5,000/mo

month-to-month

  • A systems architect on call
  • Workflows designed and documented
  • Continuous improvement, not projects
  • Cancel anytime

Always-on

Readable Business Observatory

$7,500/mo

month-to-month

  • Full operational observability
  • Problems flagged before they cost you
  • Regular reporting you can act on
  • Cancel anytime

External costs (software, ads, contractors) are excluded. Month-to-month means month-to-month.

The method

The Readable Loop.

Observe the real work. Document the workflow. Test the smallest change. Adopt what the evidence supports.

Most consultants start with a framework. We start with your floor, your desk, your crew — wherever the work actually happens. The system gets designed around reality, not the other way around.

Boundaries

What we won't do.

  • No surveillance. We measure work, not people. Systems that make a crew feel watched get rejected — by us first.
  • No big-bang overhauls. Small tested changes beat grand redesigns.
  • No black boxes. Everything we build is documented and stays yours.

Founding proof

Built on SitePulse.

SitePulse — daily site reports for builders — is the founding proof case for this method: 90-second check-ins, one morning report, problems flagged same-day. The same ground-truth discipline runs every engagement.

See SitePulse in the Registry →

Inquiry

Start with the problem.

Current path: Business Visibility Sprint. Tell us what's broken — in your words.

So a human can reply. Nothing automated will spam you.

Governed intake: your submission creates one request for human review. It is not an enrollment, a purchase, or a commitment — on either side.

Questions

Before you ask.

What do I get from the Sprint, exactly?

Four documented deliverables in ten business days: a map of where time and money leak, a diagnosis of the bottlenecks against evidence, and a clear recommended next step — which is sometimes "don't build anything yet."

Do you work with my existing team and tools?

Yes. We design around your reality — your people, your software, your constraints. Ripping everything out is the last resort, not the first move.

Is this surveillance?

No. We measure work, not people. If a system would make your crew feel watched, we won't build it — that's a standing rule, not a preference.

What happens after the Sprint?

You get the deliverables and the recommendation. If ongoing work makes sense, Fractional or Observatory are month-to-month. If not, you keep everything we documented.