Runway math done on gut feel
A project that looks like $30k of revenue can be a loss once you count whose hours it consumed. Without per-project margin, the services side flies blind and the burn chart lies.
The services side of a startup is a small agency, so run it like one. One OS staffs it: New Business qualifies and scopes the briefs, Delivery tracks the sprints, Money keeps the books and the margin per project, all on shared context and off the founders' calendars.
Every module unlocked for 14 days. Card details at checkout, nothing charged until day 14, cancel any time before then.
The problem
Running services and product at once means every badly priced project is paid for twice: once in cash, once in the product time it displaced.
A project that looks like $30k of revenue can be a loss once you count whose hours it consumed. Without per-project margin, the services side flies blind and the burn chart lies.
The people who should be building the product spend their afternoons qualifying briefs and writing statements of work, because they are the only ones the client will accept.
A PM tool, a spreadsheet for money, a notes app for decisions. Every new hire has to be walked through where everything lives, by the person with the least time to do it.
Where to start
Treat the services arm as what it is, a small agency, and run it on the same discipline you would want in the product's own metrics.
Live profitability per project, worst first, with a projection of where each one lands.
Each client project against what it actually costs in hours and rates, worst first, with a projection of where it lands. This is your runway dashboard for the services side.
Turns a brief into a scope, a plan and acceptance criteria you can defend in a dispute.
Briefs become scopes, plans and acceptance criteria without a founder authoring them. You review a defensible draft in minutes instead of losing an evening.
Sprints, time and workload, with AI estimates played back against reality.
Sprints, time and workload with estimates played back against reality, so you can see when client work starts eating the product roadmap.
Searchable memory for how your business works and what it has decided before.
Decisions and process live in the system instead of a founder's head, which is what makes the first ops hire possible without a month of shadowing.
Pricing
Basic at $99 fits a founder running the services side alone, Money and People departments included. Plus at $199 gives a growing team 3x more usage than Basic, for when the runway math needs to be real.
Every plan runs the whole OS, and every one starts with a 14-day trial of all of it. Card at checkout, nothing charged until day 14.
Every module unlocked for 14 days. Card details at checkout, nothing charged until day 14, cancel any time before then.