“Everything important lives in spreadsheets, and nobody fully trusts them”
Spreadsheets are excellent at working things out and terrible at being the place work lives. They were never meant to be a shared system of record, so once more than one person depends on one, it starts to drift.
Who feels it daily
- Operations
- Finance
- Whoever owns the master file
How long the fix takes
Usually 6–10 weeks from the end of discovery
Quoted as a fixed price once the scope is written.
Left alone, this is what it takes from you
- One person becomes the only one who understands the file — and they take holidays
- Two people edit two copies, and the business now has two versions of the truth
- Every month-end turns into a manual reconciliation instead of a report
The fix
We move the work into one place your team actually uses, with the calculations you already rely on kept intact. The spreadsheet becomes a report you can export, not the machine the business runs on.
- One system where a record can only exist once
- The same numbers on everyone's screen, updated as work happens
- A full history of who changed what and when
- Your existing spreadsheets still exportable, for as long as you want them
For your technical people — how it actually works
A single-writer relational model with an append-only audit trail.
- Postgres as the single writer for the core record, with an append-only event log so any row's history is reconstructable
- Existing spreadsheet formulas ported to tested server-side calculations, with a parity harness comparing old and new outputs during changeover
- CSV/XLSX export retained as a first-class feature so finance workflows are never blocked on us
Same five steps, whatever the problem
- 01
Tell us what you need
40 minutes, free
- 02
We scope it properly
A few days to two weeks
- 03
We build the smallest thing that fixes it
2–16 weeks, by size
- 04
We put it live carefully
1–2 weeks
- 05
We hand it over properly
2 weeks, included
Fixing this typically starts at $8,000, quoted as a fixed price against the written scope the diagnosis produces. What that includes.
These usually travel together
Problems rarely arrive alone. If more than one of these is true, say so on the call — it changes what we fix first.
Describe the problem in your
own words
No technical vocabulary needed. Forty minutes on a call and you will get a written summary of what we think is actually wrong, a rough range, and a straight answer on whether we are the right people. That part is free.