What we could build
Nine starting points, none of them hypothetical
Every idea below is anchored to something on this site that already
exists and already runs. That is the point of listing them this way —
you can click through and watch the version that was built for somebody
else before deciding whether you want your own.
None of these are products for sale. They are shapes that a build
tends to take, and the nearest one to your business is usually the
right place to start.
Trades · home services · contractors
Job intake and triage
- A request form that actually scopes the job instead of collecting a name and a phone number.
- Safety rules that override what the customer guessed — a burning smell is an emergency whatever box they ticked.
- An office board where every request arrives already sorted, emergencies first, out-of-area caught at submit.
Proven in: Withrow Electric
Property · construction · insurance
Offline field inspection sheet
- Works with no signal — a basement, a crawlspace, a site with no coverage.
- Fixed condition tiers, so a problem is visible at a glance and a punch list falls out of the data.
- Queues everything and syncs to one master sheet when the phone finds signal again.
Proven in: DD Walk
Solo operators · chair and booth renters
Client book with tax holdback
- Log a job in about ten seconds; see who has not been in for a while.
- Know what you actually earned over any date range, and which work pays.
- Know what to hold back for tax — on profit, not turnover, so logging your costs drops the number.
Proven in: Chaotic Kuts
Field sales · outside reps
Territory lead desk
- Every prospect in the territory, with its priority, its stage and what happens next.
- Filter and sort by whatever you are working today — city, category, how hot it is.
- Export the list, work it on paper, put it back.
Proven in: Merchant services lead desk
Recruiters · B2B sales
Verified prospect list from public records
- Built from primary records — licence files, registrations — not scraped guesses.
- Every field shows where it came from, and a confidence level where matching was involved.
- A section that says plainly what is still not verified, so you know what you are working with.
Proven in: Corridor
Acquirers · investors
Market map from public filings
- A whole regulated market assembled from the filings everyone can read but nobody parses.
- Nationwide view, filtered down to the handful that fit what you are looking for.
- Every value traceable back to the specific filing it came from.
Proven in: AdvisorSearch
Buyers of small businesses
Succession and owner-transition finder
- Find owners likely approaching a sale or retirement, from public directory and registration data.
- Scored and filtered, across as many states as the sources cover.
- Missing data stays missing — a wrong phone number is worse than a blank one.
Proven in: Boomer
Funds · small acquirers
Deal workbench
- Drop in the documents, get the numbers crunched and a memo out the other side.
- One place per deal that survives from first sighting through years of ownership.
- Built so the expensive part runs on a subscription rather than a metered bill.
Proven in: Deal Desk
Any small partnership
Internal HQ dashboard
- The one screen everybody opens first — what is active, what is overdue, what is owed.
- Shared between partners, with the totals adding themselves up.
- Ships empty. No fake sample data pretending the business is busier than it is.
Proven in: Bellvue HQ
A tenth, and a different shape
Signal watch
Everything above is a thing you open. This one is a thing that runs
without you and tells you when something changed.
A standing agent crew re-runs on a schedule against public records
and reports the difference: new business registrations in your
counties, new licences issued in your trade, filings that appear, and
— often the most valuable signal of all — filings that quietly
withdraw. You get the changes, not another dashboard to check.
The discipline underneath it already exists. Boomer logs every
collection run and checks what it parsed against what the source said
it should have found, so a truncated pull is caught rather than
silently accepted. AdvisorSearch already tracks withdrawals as a
first-class signal rather than treating a disappeared record as a
data error.
Being straight about this one: Signal watch is a
capability that can be assembled from parts that already work. It is
not a finished product sitting on a shelf, and it is the only thing on
this page described that way. Everything else above, you can click and
use right now.
What none of this says
There are no prices and no timelines on this page. Both depend
entirely on what you actually need, and quoting either before that
conversation would be making it up.
