Tell me the piece of work you'd hand to a system tomorrow if it existed. If it's cheap to build and more than one business wants it, I build it. The people who asked get it first, and free to start. The list below is what people have asked for so far; click the ones you'd use too.
What people have asked for
Read our shared inbox and turn each request into a task with an owner, instead of it living in someone's unread mail.
Today: Whoever notices it first.
Draft a quote for a new job from what similar jobs actually cost us in the past.
Today: One or two people's memory, and the last quote in someone's email.
Draft the weekly report for the owners or partners from live numbers, so a person reviews it instead of building it.
Today: Half a day of copying and pasting every week.
Watch every certification, license, insurance, and contract renewal date in one place and warn us in time.
Today: A spreadsheet one person understands, and a wall calendar.
Answer the routine 'where is my order / job / claim' questions from what's in our system, and hand the odd ones to a person.
Today: Customers call or email; someone looks it up and types a reply.
Chase the missing paperwork for us: PODs, signed change orders, certs, lien waivers, whatever is holding up an invoice.
Today: Someone works a list from email and memory.
A one-page morning summary of yesterday: what shipped, what billed, what's stuck, pulled from the systems we already run.
Today: Three exports and a spreadsheet, rebuilt every Monday if there's time.
Turn the PDF purchase orders and RFQs that arrive by email into entries in our system, ready to check, not retype.
Today: Someone reads each PDF and keys the part numbers, quantities, and dates in by hand.
Starter ideas are mine, from patterns I keep seeing. Everything else was typed by a business like yours.
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