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Custom business management systems: clients, projects, estimates, invoices, scheduling, and reporting, with permissions that the staff administer themselves after handoff. Custom business management systems →
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internal-toolsI built the back office for my own contracting business. Here is what it does.
A build log for the contracting back office inside tdarby.com: what it holds, why the tokenized share link is the piece I would keep, and what running your own software teaches you about handing one to someone else.
internal-toolsReplacing the spreadsheet without replacing the people
A diagnostic look at when a spreadsheet is still the correct tool, the four signals that it has stopped working, and what a custom internal tool has to preserve so the team actually uses it.
internal-toolsWhen a spreadsheet stops being the right tool: spreadsheet vs database
A plain-English sorting guide for the spreadsheet vs database question in a small business: what spreadsheets are genuinely good at, the specific symptoms of having outgrown one, what a database and a small internal tool change, and how a switch usually goes.