Sven,
Our conversation confirmed something critical: we don't need to over-engineer this. You mentioned your father's Swedish design philosophy—"the simplest design possible with the least amount of parts." That is exactly how we are going to approach this build.
We are pivoting from a massive platform overhaul to a focused, high-impact execution. Job #1 is the spreadsheet. We will take your team's "bible" and automate 99% of the manual data entry that currently eats up their week. That is our guarantee.
While we're under the hood, we will also target automating the data retrieval (the "logging in and downloading" part). That's not just time saved; it's sanity reclaimed.
But we aren't losing sight of the bigger picture. During this first phase, we will run a parallel track of deep discovery and prototyping for the Client Portal. You'll get the immediate operational win and the blueprint for the future, all in one sprint.
Let's prove it works, then let's scale it.
Gratefully,
We don't build in a vacuum. We work as embedded partners with a rapid cadence of validation and delivery.
Weekly cycles of planning, execution, and review.
We align with you on specific goals for the week. No guessing what's being built.
We ship functional work every week. No black boxes. We demo the flows live to gather immediate feedback.
We start by perfecting the foundation you already have, then we build the future.
The spreadsheet remains the interface.
We automate the entire data flow into your existing "bible" so your team never has to copy-paste again.
Your clients get the white-glove experience.
We take the automated data foundation and pipe it into a branded, self-service portal.
A phased approach designed to validate value immediately and scale with confidence.
Production build of the client-facing experience. Collaborative scope refinement based on Phase 1 discovery.
We can start as early as December to get the automation running before the new year—any invoices issued this month won't be due until January.
Call, text, or email me whenever you're ready.
Looking forward to building something exceptional together (and hopefully some IRL collaboration in Austin soon).