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What is it actually like to work with you?

Fixed prices agreed before we start, a free Walk on your floor first, and an honest answer when the right recommendation is to do nothing.

The engagement

Three things, in order.

01

The Systems Inventory

A free Walk on your floor, then a data export and three short interviews. You keep the signed report whether or not we build anything.

02

Build

We design and build the system, connect it to what you already run, then put it in front of the people who’ll use it and correct it until they’d complain if we took it away.

03

Support — optional

If a system needs support, an upgrade, or its next version: a named certified engineering technologist, a response commitment, and tuning as your operation changes. Per system, quoted with or after the build. Never required.

The whole arc

Day one to month six.

What a complete engagement actually looks like, start to finish.

FirstThe free Walk — 30–60 minutes on your floor; the Inventory is quoted at the end of it
Day 0You fill in the portal — 15 minutes
Day 1We reply with an export guide and three interview slots
Days 2–5You send the export · ~10 minutes of your time
Days 5–8Three interviews, 30 minutes each
Day 14Report delivered on a call — not emailed cold
Day 16If you want a Build: costed options with fixed quotes
Weeks 3–4Scope agreed, system designed, fixed quote signed
Weeks 4–10Build, integrate, test, train — your people see it early and unfinished
Go-liveRunning. 30 days of correction at no charge
Month 4Support begins — only if you want it
Month 6First re-check — did the numbers actually move?

You can stop at any point. Roughly a third of Inventories end at day 14 with a report the customer acts on themselves, and that’s a legitimate outcome.

Timelines

How long things take.

Systems InventoryTwo weeks from receiving your data
Single-system buildTwo to four weeks
Connected buildFour to eight weeks
Hardware + software buildSix to twelve weeks after the Inventory
Your time, total, for the InventoryAbout two hours

Delivery

Your floor first. Remote after.

Data arrives by export. Interviews happen by video, scheduled around your operation. Implementation runs over APIs and a screen share with whoever looks after your systems.

We’re in Ontario and we’ll come and stand in your building if it helps — particularly early on, when you’re deciding whether to trust us. That’s our cost, not yours.

Ownership

Who owns what.

You own your stack

Every account and every system we build is in your name — source, configuration, documentation. If you walk away tomorrow, it all keeps running.

You own your data

All of it, always. We’ll export it for you on request, in a usable format, at any time — including if you’re leaving.

You own your documentation

The system map, the Systems Inventory, the configuration record, and the reasoning behind every decision. Handed over so nobody inherits a black box, including whoever replaces us.

We own our method

Our Inventory method, templates, internal tooling, and general-purpose components we wrote. The plumbing, not your business logic.

On benchmark data. With your written permission we keep anonymised, aggregated timing figures — never your name, your customers or your commercial detail — so we can tell the next operation how they compare. Entirely opt-in — decline it and nothing changes.

Boundaries

What we don’t do.

Bill hourly

Fixed price, agreed before work starts. You never pay for our learning curve.

Take revenue share

No percentage of your business, no attribution arguments, no ongoing claim.

Sell and disappear

An implementation nobody maintains stops being used. That’s what optional Support prevents — and why everything we hand over is documented either way.

Oversell a build

If a process change fixes it, we say so — including when it costs us the project.

Tell us what’s broken.

One conversation, no deck. Describe it in plain language and we will tell you honestly whether it is a tooling fix, a process fix, or something you should not spend money on at all.

Tell us what’s broken