Notes for owners.
What your software really costs, where the handoffs between tools break, and how operators in your industry are fixing it. Sourced, specific, and written for the person running the business.
What Third-Party Delivery Really Costs a Restaurant
Commission tiers, processing fees, menu markup, payout timing, and fee caps: what a delivery order actually leaves you, and how to keep more of it.
Accounting Firm Workflow: When the Spreadsheet Tracker Breaks
What a tax and bookkeeping tracker is really doing, the signs it has stopped working, and what to fix before extension deadlines arrive.
Construction Time Tracking to Payroll, Without the Re-Entry
Follow one hour of field labor to the paycheck and the job cost report, and remove the places it gets typed twice.
Seven Signs Your Business Has Outgrown Off-the-Shelf Software
How to tell when workarounds have become the system, and when staying put is still the right call.
Multi-Location Restaurant Inventory, Without the Spreadsheets
Counts, par levels, transfers, and food cost variance: what changes when you run more than one kitchen, and how to keep the numbers honest.
Law Firm Intake to Billing: Where Revenue Slips Between Tools
How a matter moves from first call to trust reconciliation, where each handoff loses time or money, and how to check your own firm in a week.
Procore and QuickBooks: Where Construction Data Breaks
An integration moves specific records on a specific schedule, and knowing which ones is the difference between trusted job costs and Friday reconciliations.
The Real Cost of Running Your Business on Seven Tools
The subscription invoices are only part of the bill. Here is how to count the rest.
What the HL7 Interoperability Push Changes for Multi-Location Groups
New standards and federal deadlines will make clinical and payer data easier to move. They won't connect your practice's operations for you.
Southwest Airlines Flies One Plane. Your Practice Should Too.
What a single-aircraft airline can teach a multi-location practice about standardization, and where the analogy stops.