Service businesses · 5 to 50 people

Every project tracked.
Every invoice paid.

Agencies, consultancies, engineering practices, installers: your quotes, your projects and your invoices stop living in separate files. We install the system that holds them together, in a matter of weeks, and it belongs to you.

Thirty minutes, no commitment, with the contact who will follow your project.

Your company, on one screen

Up to date
  • Quotes awaiting an answer chased
  • Collected this month current
  • Invoices outstanding tracked
  • Projects running late flagged

Updated · continuously, with no re-entry

48 h
to a costed proposal
8
solutions with the scope fixed up front
$0
mandatory subscription
100 %
of the system in your name
The problem

Your people are working. That isn't it.

None of this is a discipline problem. These are habits that settled in while the company was growing, and that nobody has had time to go back over.

  • A quote went out three weeks ago, and nobody knows whether it was ever chased.
  • You cannot say what the company collected this month without opening a file and counting again.
  • Finding out where a project stands means asking three different people.
  • An invoice only gets chased if somebody remembers. Usually too late.
  • You cannot say which of your projects actually made you any money.
  • Taking on one new client occupies three people for two days.
What changes

When your company runs like a system

Your tools carry on doing their job. We make sure they stop working each in their own corner, and that what repeats stops depending on somebody remembering it.

  • A quote with no answer chases itself.
  • A piece of information exists in exactly one place.
  • Everyone knows what is theirs to do without coming to ask you.
  • You open one screen and you know where the company stands.

1

single source that holds authority

0

follow-up forgotten

24/7

the system runs while you sleep

Before / after

The transformation, line by line

On the left, what gets said around your office today. On the right, what the system does instead.

Before

  • “I must remember to chase that quote.”
  • “Who was supposed to send that invoice?”
  • “Hang on, let me find out where the project is.”
  • “The brief is somewhere in WhatsApp.”
  • “Did we actually make money on that one?”
  • “Nothing moves when I'm not here.”

After

  • The follow-up goes out at the right moment, and you have the record.
  • Every invoice has an owner, a date and a status anyone can see.
  • You open the job, and the progress is already up to date.
  • Everything is in one place, found in ten seconds.
  • Every project shows what it cost and what it brought in.
  • You decide and you sell. The rest carries on without you.

That is the only measure that counts: how much you no longer have to carry yourself.

What we do

Four kinds of work, depending on where it hurts

We don't bill hours of thinking. We install things that already work elsewhere, adapted to your trade, and yours from day one.

Most requested

Knowing where you stand

01

One base holding your clients, your quotes, your projects and your invoices, plus a screen telling you what has come in, what is owed and what is dragging. First scope delivered in five days.

  • Client base and sales tracking
  • Management dashboards

Not doing the same thing twice

02

Quote and invoice follow-ups, the documents that come round again, and the warning when a project starts slipping all go out on their own. You keep control, you stop having to remember.

  • Automating repetitive work
  • Straightening out how things get done

Capturing info without re-typing

03

A form on your site fills your records directly: quote requests, client briefs, updates from site. It is entered once, by the person who holds the information.

  • Website and forms wired into your records
  • Internal web application

No longer depending on memory

04

Your ways of working written down once, as procedures a new hire follows on their own. A departure or a replacement no longer starts from nothing.

  • Procedures and internal documentation
  • Brand and company materials
How it works

Four steps, nothing vague

An audit that takes three weeks costs more than the problem it looks into. Ours fits into one call.

  1. 01 30 minutes

    We look at it together

    Five questions, one call. You leave with the list of what is costing you time and an estimate of how much, whether or not we work together afterwards.

  2. 02 3 to 5 days

    We put the plan down

    What gets sorted, in what order, and what it changes for each person involved. You approve a written plan and a figure, not a sales promise.

  3. 03 2 to 6 weeks

    We set it up

    We start from things already proven elsewhere and adapt them. That is the difference between a few weeks and several months.

  4. 04 1 week

    We hand it over

    Documentation, procedures, training for your team. The stated goal is that you no longer need us for any of it to keep running.

What you get out of it

On Monday morning, you know.

No more files to reconcile, no more “let me check and get back to you”. Quotes awaiting an answer, what has come in, what is unpaid, the projects that are slipping: all of it readable at a glance, and updated because the work moved forward, not because somebody found the time to type it in.

  • A quote with no answer gets chased without anyone remembering
  • Every invoice knows its own status without anyone noting it
  • Late projects flag themselves before you think to look
  • You can see what each project actually brought in
The company

A deliberately small outfit

Business Edge Operating Systems is a US company, registered in New Mexico, working remotely across Europe, North America and Africa.

We work with service businesses that sell projects: agencies, consultancies, engineering practices, installers. These are companies where the same sequence comes round on every job, and that is exactly what automates best.

We stay deliberately small and industrialise instead. What has been solved once gets reused, what repeats gets automated. One contact follows your project from the first call to go-live.

  • Company registered in New Mexico, United States
  • Remote engagements across Europe, North America and Africa
  • Conversations and deliverables in French and English
Our commitments

Three things we don't compromise on

01

What we set up belongs to you

Everything is created on your accounts, in your name. No subscription to Business Edge is needed for any of it to keep working. If we stop tomorrow, nothing switches off.

02

We don't reinvent what exists

Every project starts from something already running elsewhere. What has been solved once isn't paid for twice.

03

Our goal is to become unnecessary

A well-organised company runs without the person who organised it. We measure a project by the hours it gives back to you, not by the hours we bill.

The tools we use

Common, well-documented tools your team can take over and another provider can maintain. No in-house software leaving you dependent on us.

AirtableMakeLooker StudioGoogle Apps ScriptStripe

Let's talk about your company

Thirty minutes, five questions. By the end of the call you know what is costing you time, how much, and where to start. Whether or not we work together afterwards, you keep the document.

Questions

What we get asked most

How is this different from a good spreadsheet?

A file can hold information. It cannot act. It does not chase a quote, does not prepare an invoice, does not warn anyone when a project falls behind, and does not stop two people keeping two different versions of it. We are not replacing your file with a prettier file: we are taking on the human work that happens around it.

What does it cost?

We work to a fixed price by scope, not by time spent: you know the figure before the work starts, and it does not move along the way. The first call is free and carries no obligation, and the costed proposal reaches you within 48 hours of it.

What kind of companies do you work with?

Service businesses that sell projects, from five to fifty people: agencies, consultancies, engineering practices, installers, suppliers to other businesses. What they have in common is the same sequence on every job, from quote to invoice, and that is what organises and automates best.

Who will actually work on our project?

Your contact from the first call stays yours through to go-live. That is the point of the way this is set up: no salesperson who promises, followed by an unknown team who delivers.

What happens once it is set up?

You are self-sufficient, and it keeps running even if we never speak again. You can then choose a monthly arrangement, not to keep things alive but to keep them moving as the company changes. It is optional, has no minimum term, and you stop it whenever you want.

Do we have to change all our tools?

Almost never. In most cases the tools you have do their job perfectly well. The problem is that they don't talk to each other and none of them holds authority. We name one as the reference and connect the rest to it.

What if our team isn't comfortable with technology?

That is the starting assumption. Everything is built to be used by people whose job this isn't, and the last stage of the project exists precisely to walk them through it.

Do you work remotely?

Yes, entirely. We work across Europe, North America and Africa. Conversations happen over video and everything we deliver is digital.