Evenings go to admin.

You’ll recognize it if

• You do the books on Sunday night.
• Booking happens by text, and so does double-booking.
• There’s a spreadsheet, and only you understand it.

What gets built

• It depends on what the day finds, which is why this one is priced in the report. Usually some of the following.
• A spreadsheet that does the math: jobs, invoices, weekly totals, built so someone other than you could read it.
• A form that feeds it, so a job or a customer lands as a row instead of a text you retype.
• Booking that runs itself, set up in a tool that already does it well.
• Where two tools need to talk to each other, a simple automation between them.
• I don’t build software. I set up the tools that already exist so they fit how you work.

What it looks like

No sample for this one yet, on purpose. Admin setups are shaped by what a business already uses, and a made-up one would show you my spreadsheet, not yours. The first real one gets built for a real business and goes here, with their permission.

On the record

• 15 hrs

  a week. That’s what owners of very small businesses said they spend on admin rather than the work itself, about a fifth of their time.

  Starling Bank, Make Business Simple, 2019 survey of 1,009 UK micro-businesses. Bank-commissioned and UK-only; the closest honest number I could find. Source →

How it goes

What you own

The spreadsheet, the forms, the accounts. Built in tools you already pay for or that cost nothing.