Custom Business System

It is usually better not to move everything. We look at repetition, not headcount. The places worth moving are where someone retypes the same value daily, checks the same thing twice, or has to ask how far a task got. Something done once a month is usually cheaper left alone. We build that list together in the first conversation.

We migrate them. Spreadsheets are built to be read by people, though, so importing them as-is often does not work: merged cells, status shown only by colour, the same thing spelled several ways. We agree on cleanup rules first, show you what changes into what, and then migrate.

Usually it is not missing features but that the system takes more steps than the old way. So we do not build everything at once: we ship the one or two most frequent tasks first and let people use them. If those get faster than the spreadsheet, the rest follows. If they do not, that part was not worth moving, and it is better to learn that early.

We build on that assumption. Starting narrow is precisely what makes widening possible later. Permissions and the data model are the expensive things to change afterwards, so we give those room from the start. Tell us roughly which direction you expect to grow and we design with that opening left in.