Business automation · Portland & Vancouver
Spreadsheets, paper, and six apps that don’t talk. We come to your operation, find where the information breaks, and build the system around how the work already moves.
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Every one of these took over from something a company depended on daily — spreadsheets, a platform that could not be changed, a rigid ERP, paper. Five of them, in freight, manufacturing and heavy industry.
Case study 01Freight facilities, carriers and shippers
A connected system for facilities, carriers, drivers, and shippers, built to accommodate the fact that every facility works differently.
Case study 02Asset-based transportation
A carrier moved off Google Sheets onto one custom TMS, department by department: dispatch, accounting, shop, HR, compliance and payroll.
Case study 03Freight brokerage
A freight brokerage chose to move off Truckstop ITS onto a custom platform built to its own workflow: bids, carrier documents, invoicing, tracking, load boards and two-way QuickBooks.
Case study 04Manufacturing
A manufacturing system where documents post movements and every balance — stock, cost, margin — is derived rather than stored.
Case study 05Cement, chemicals and steel fabrication
Automation work in heavy industry, long before business automation became a category worth marketing.
The familiar problem
All of it worked when the company was smaller. Then came more customers, more people, more transactions — and more exceptions. Eventually the owner becomes the integration layer.
Management becomes manual
None of this means a business is badly run. It usually means the systems never grew at the same rate as the company.
One record, every desk
Entered once, where the work happens. Every number downstream — stock, cost, margin — is derived from it rather than re-typed beside it.
How we work
Show us how the work actually happens. We find where information breaks down, then design the system around the business.
We come to the business and watch it run. We talk to owners, to managers, and to the people actually doing the work — then map how information becomes a decision.
Automating a bad process makes it permanent. First we work out what can disappear, what should be standard, and where each piece of information ought to originate.
Your accounting, CRM, or scheduling tool may already be the right answer. We keep what works and make information move between systems cleanly, in one direction, from one source of truth.
Where existing software would force the business into bad compromises, we build the missing pieces — web, mobile, backend, integrations. Years of reusable foundations mean custom rarely starts from zero.
Launch is not the end. As volume, people, and priorities change, the system changes with them. In practice we become your business systems department.
What we build
Web systems, native mobile apps, customer portals, terminals, APIs and the integrations between them — phone, email, file transfer, accounting.
Enquiries, quotes, pricing, and orders held in one place, with the history attached. Customers get a portal instead of an email thread.
Purchase orders tied to the demand that created them, receiving that matches what arrived, and approvals that happen where the work is.
Stock that reflects the physical world because it is captured at the point of movement — scanned, not retyped. Production consumes materials and produces cost.
Invoices, bills, commissions, and payroll inputs derived from work that actually happened — so the numbers agree without a monthly reconciliation ritual.
Native iOS and Android applications for people who are outside, in a truck, or on a jobsite — built for gloves, glare, and bad signal.
Dashboards fed by the operation itself, plus the connective tissue: APIs, phone systems, email intake, file transfer, and accounting sync.
Portland · Vancouver
We work with businesses in the Portland–Vancouver area because understanding an operation usually means being in it. Walking the floor. Watching the handoffs. Talking to the people who know where it actually breaks.
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Observe
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Build
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Operate
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Improve
Start with the operation
We'll help you find where better systems create clarity, control, and room to grow. The first conversation costs nothing but the tour.
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