Built for a real shop
Custom inventory management app
Built for a commercial aquarium service business to fix a pen-and-paper inventory system.
Business consulting for trades, home services and B2B services
Consultingthat ships.
We help you find what is holding your small business back and build the tool that fixes it. On the systems you already use. Tested with your crew. Priced before we start. Yours to keep without a subscription.
- Every price published
- You own the code
- Priced before we start
- Tested with your crew
- No subscription to us
Two things we are not
Not a software shop. Not a consulting firm.
Not a software shop.
A software shop builds what you ask for. If you ask for the wrong thing, you get the wrong thing, on time and on budget. We diagnose first. We will help you decide what to build.
Not a consulting firm.
A consultant tells you what is wrong and leaves a deck. We tell you what is wrong, then we build the fix and stay until the crew is using it.
What you get is a working tool, on the systems you already have, that you own forever. No subscription to us. No deck.
Who it is for
Built to fix businesses that still run on paper.
The CRM is on a floppy disk. The route is on a clipboard. The pricebook is in a drawer and the real one is in someone’s head. It works, and it has worked for twenty years. It just does not scale, and it does not survive a handoff. That is the business we build for.
You just bought it.
You have a crew that is watching, a lender that wants numbers, and a seller whose usefulness runs out around month three. You know what needs building. You do not have the hours to build it.
See the five linesOr all five across year one: the Year-One Pass
You are getting ready to sell it.
You built it and it needs you. A business that runs on systems sells for more and sells faster. You do not have the time to make that change, and you do not want a vendor who tries to change how your people work.
For sellersTrades, home services, B2B services. $1M to $10M in revenue. Not a fit if you want a deck, or code to a spec with no diagnosis.
The five lines
Five lines. One for each thing that breaks.
3 to 5 weeks
Knowledge and Handoff
What the owner knows, written down and in a system you own.
$3,000 to $4,500
See scope and price4 to 6 weeks
Cash and Numbers
See the money: dashboard, job costing, collections, lender pack.
$4,000 to $6,000
See scope and price4 to 8 weeks
Crew and Field
Dispatch, field workflow and training the techs helped design.
$5,000 to $8,000 setup, $3,000 to $5,000 cleanup
See scope and price2 to 4 weeks
Customers and Phones
After-hours calls, RFQs and estimate follow-up that do not fall through.
$2,500 to $4,000
See scope and priceMost under 90 days
Custom Build
The tool no off-the-shelf software does for your shop. You own the code.
From $5,000, most land $5,000 to $12,000
See scope and price
Buy one line, or several. New owners who want all five over the first year can ask about the Year-One Pass.
How we work
Five steps. Written down. Priced.
Every engagement has a written scope, a fixed price and an end date before work begins.
Walk the shop
Brief the plan
Prototype
Test with the crew
Hand it off
See it work
Real tools, built for a real shop.
Built inside a commercial aquarium service business, newly acquired..
From inventory to route optimization, all still in use by the crew.
Most of us didn't really understand what your role was. With all of the changes happening I was always skeptical. But you did amazing things to help out. You did awesome work.
Questions
Straight answers.
Both. We're business professionals who consult first to find the real problem. Then we build. You pay for the solved problem, not for hours or for code.
If it solves the problem. If it is not, we will work with you to find a solution before we build. That is the difference between us and a software shop.
Everything. Documentation, admin access, source code. No subscription to Fiveline. Tools that run on third-party services, like phones or field software, are billed to you directly by the vendor, no markup.
We work with your employees to understand their workflows and build what they will actually use. If a tech will not use it, it is not done.
No. Every line is sold on its own and you can buy one or several. The Pass is for new owners who want all five sequenced across the first year with one team throughout.
Yes. See For Sellers. Short version: a business that runs on systems sells for more.
Two to eight weeks per line. Custom builds mostly under 90 days.
Tell us about the shop.
Thirty minutes. You describe the business. We tell you what we would fix first and what it costs. No deck.