Starting up
Decide how it runs before employee ten.
Twelve tools in eighteen months happens to most companies that don’t decide first. A few days of design now saves a year of untangling later.
Why now
The cheapest moment you’ll ever have.
Nobody chooses twelve tools. They accumulate, each one a reasonable decision by whoever needed it that week. This is the easiest version of the problem to solve, because you’re designing the operating architecture before the complexity sets, not excavating it afterwards. The competitor who raised at the same time as you isn’t smarter. They’ll simply absorb their tenth customer, and then their fiftieth, without stopping to rebuild how the company works.
The first decisions
Eight decisions to make on purpose.
- 01
How work comes in, and who owns it from the first call to the invoice.
- 02
Where the numbers live: the books, the chart of accounts, a month-end routine you can keep.
- 03
Which tool holds the truth for customers, for money and for the work.
- 04
Who decides what: roles and approvals for the first ten hires.
- 05
The procedures worth writing now: onboarding, invoicing, and the thing customers buy most.
- 06
Who owns the accounts: the domain, the logins, the admin rights. (Set up and secured by our managed IT team at opsworq.net.)
- 07
Your public surface: the domain, the Business Profile, a first site, email that can’t be spoofed.
- 08
Five numbers to look at every week.
Printable as one page: the startup operating architecture.
Pricing
What it costs.
A few focused sessions by the hour at $150, or a small project quoted and fixed in writing.
Every rate, every termQuestions
Questions people ask.
We’re five people. Isn’t this premature?
It’s the cheapest moment there is. We keep it small: a few days, not a program.
Can you set up our books and our tools?
Yes. Jennifer sets up the books and the month-end routine, and coordinates with your CPA; our managed IT team at opsworq.net sets up and secures the accounts and devices.
Do you work with founders outside your region?
Yes. This work is remote and runs anywhere in the U.S.
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