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Who you would be working with

Chad Blair

Role Owner
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An operator who builds

I was a trim carpenter before I sold roofs, and a sales rep and manager before I built software.

The job was drowning in paper. Nothing to organize it with, nothing to schedule with, no way to see two things at once. Ten-plus tools to get one job done, none of them talking to each other.

So I built one that did all of it — every lead, job, document, photo and dollar in one place. Not a sales tool with add-ons: one system that runs the enterprise. It ran a real company — crews, money and permissions in it, every day, with real work moving through it.

I came out of finish carpentry, where the part people see is the part you get judged on. That is why this is built the way it is: the screens your team stares at all day get the same attention as the plumbing behind them.

If there's a process I believe can be improved with technology, I'll build the thing that improves it.

I'm not an agency and I don't have a process deck. I had your problem. I know what it costs, because it cost me.

Chad Blair
Chad Blair
Blair Standard LLC
Wichita, Kansas
01Why this exists

Most businesses this size don't have a software problem. They have ten small ones that nobody owns — a spreadsheet somebody maintains by hand, a folder of photos nobody can find, a schedule that lives in one person's head, numbers that have to be rebuilt every month before anyone can read them.

Each one is survivable on its own. Together they set a ceiling on how big the company can get, because every new job adds more of them. Getting off paper is not a software purchase. It is the thing that lets a company grow without adding a filing cabinet and somebody to mind it.

That's the work. One system that runs the operation, built around how the business actually runs rather than how software wishes it did.

02What that means in practice

What you get

  • One system that runs the enterprise end to end (an ERP), not a CRM with add-ons
  • One person who builds it, runs it, and answers the phone about it
  • Software shaped around your process, not a product you bend to fit
  • Google, social and your online presence run by the same person — leads land in your system, not in a report. Website work is quoted per job.
  • Somebody who has done the paperwork he's deleting
  • Your data is yours, permanently — and a complete, checked export within fifteen business days of asking
  • Plain scope and a plain price, in writing, before anything starts

What you don't get

  • A sales team, a pitch deck, or a bill for the first conversation
  • Seat licenses for features you'll never open
  • A support queue and a ticket number
  • Your name in someone else's marketing
03How it works

No two of these come out the same, on purpose.

  1. 01 Meet

    In person or on a video call. You talk about how the business runs today and where it hurts.

  2. 02 Talk options

    An ERP (one system that runs the enterprise end to end — leads, jobs, scheduling, documents, invoicing and the reporting on top). A CRM. Your website, Google and social. Connecting what you already have instead of replacing it. What fits, and what doesn't need touching.

  3. 03 Agree on the work

    What you want built, and the end goal it has to hit. A demo first, if seeing it helps. The scope goes in writing before anything starts.

  4. 04 Discovery

    A lot of it. How the work really moves, who touches what, where the paper and the spreadsheets live. This is where it gets shaped around you.

  5. 05 Build

    One piece at a time, in the order we agree on. You see it as it comes together.

  6. 06 Run

    It goes live and I stay on it — fixes, changes, and the next piece when you're ready for it. Your data is backed up on a schedule to more than one place, encrypted, and the restores are tested rather than assumed.

04The particulars
BusinessBlair Standard LLC, a Kansas limited liability company
BasedWichita, Kansas. Works with businesses anywhere.
What I amAn independent consultant and software builder. Not a contractor, not an agency.
BackgroundFinish carpentry, running jobs and crews, then operations and sales, then building the systems that run them
The softwareRegistered with the United States Copyright Office — the application and the database design as one work
ClientsNot named publicly. Ever. Who you are is as private as what is inside your system.
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