A single source of truth database
The same price lives in your site, your app and your reports, and sooner or later they disagree. We build a single source of truth database: change a fact once and all three show it.
One build, quoted after a 30 minute call. Live in four to six weeks.
- 194 systems live
- 0 data lost
- $0 systems cost
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The work this takes off your week
By hand, every fact lives in three places.
- A price change means editing the site, the app and the price sheet one by one.
- Reports pull from another copy. The numbers rarely match.
- A customer sees an old price and someone has to explain it.
With the system, every fact is typed once.
- Your site, your app and your reports read from the same records.
- Edit a price or a status and every page and report that uses it updates on its own.
- Every change to the records is logged, so nothing gets lost along the way.
What it would cost you to keep doing it by hand
Example
Where the hours go by hand.
| # | Situation | What it takes by hand | Hours a month | Cost a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A price change across the site, the app and the price sheet | The same number found and edited in every place it appears | 6 hours | $900 |
| 2 | Monthly reports that do not match the app | Figures reconciled line by line before anyone trusts them | 10 hours | $1,500 |
| 3 | A customer quoted an old price | The error traced, the customer called, every copy corrected | 4 hours | $600 |
Together: 20 hours and $3,000, every month.
Example with illustrative figures, priced at $150 an hour.
What a single source of truth database gets you
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One edit, everywhere.
Edit a price or a profile once, and every place it shows follows.
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Reports you can trust.
Your reports read the same records as your site. The numbers match what customers see.
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Changes made safely.
Every change to the records is a recorded step. Nothing is lost as the business grows.
How it runs
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A 30 minute call.
We look at where your prices, profiles and statuses live today, then quote one price for the build. -
Access and a walkthrough.
You show us how a change travels today and approve the plan before anything is built. -
Built and tested in draft.
Your records are moved and checked against the originals. Nothing your customers see changes yet. -
Live, with a monitor.
The switch happens once you approve, and a monitor flags any failed update.
Proof from one services business
We built this system first for a national services business.
Fully automated operations
One owner runs a multi location services business on 194 systems and no office staff
A national multi location brand with 84 service contractors. Every recurring job, from a new hire to the monthly reports, runs as a system.
0
data lost across every change shipped live
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automatic checks before any change goes live
$0
systems and architecture cost
- A new hire fills in their profile and their page is on Google. Nobody touches it.
- Mark someone as left and every page that mentioned them updates that night.
Anonymized under NDA. The numbers are real.
What moves the price
Sources.
How many places hold the same facts today.
Readers.
Whether a site, an app, reports, or all three read the records.
Clean up.
How far the copies have drifted apart.
What exists.
A database, spreadsheets or a mix to start from.
Operations
Your site, app and reports agree every day.
One 30 minute call about where your facts live today. One price for the build, and you decide after the call.
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Single source of truth questions
Do we need a single source of truth database at our size?
You do if the same price or status gets typed in more than one place. If one tool already holds every fact, you have it.
What do you need from us?
A 30 minute call and access to the places your facts live today. Then a short walkthrough of how a change gets made.
What if our copies already disagree?
Most do. Before the switch we compare every copy, and you choose which version is right.
Will our site or app go down during the move?
The build runs in draft next to what you have today. Nothing switches until you approve it.
Can we keep using spreadsheets?
Yes. A spreadsheet can read from the same records, so it shows current figures every time you open it.