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Your customer’s tasks, statuses and documents in one place, not in a chat thread

The customer signs in and sees their tasks: what is running, what is waiting on them, what is done. The files, documents and invoices are there too. No more calls to find out which step the work is on.

What you get
  • →The taskin plain words, with files
  • →The estimatebefore the start, not after
  • →Statusesin words, not in colours
The exact scope and timing are fixed after the diagnostic — before that nobody has an honest picture.
Outcome

What stays with you afterwards

A task written down in the customer’s own words

They describe what the result should be and attach the files. From then on it is one record, not five messages in different places.

An estimate before the start, and the customer’s word

The work begins only after their "yes". Agreement becomes a record rather than a recollection.

Clear statuses instead of "in progress"

Running · waiting on you · done, please check · accepted. There is a "needs changes" button and a field for what exactly — an argument turns into a task.

Documents and invoices in the same place

The contract, the invoices and the files for the job sit in the portal rather than in four chat threads, and can be downloaded at any time.

Who it fits

When people come to us with this

Four situations where a customer portal pays off first.

The work runs for weeks

A renovation, a build, a production run, a project, a legal matter. The longer the work, the more often people ask about it — and the more each retelling costs.

Files travel through the chat

Measurements, photographs, the contract, the latest version of a layout. The only way to find the current one is to scroll, and every time somebody sends the wrong file.

"I thought we agreed that"

The agreement lives in a spoken conversation and three consecutive messages. A month later each side remembers it differently, and that is expensive.

The client is not one person

One decides, another pays, a third signs it off. Each of them has to be told the whole story again.

How the work goes

A clear order, no surprises

1 · A conversation

Half an hour about who asks you what, and how often: customers, dealers, partners, staff. No access to your systems is needed at this step.

2 · A map of the questions, and the first screen

We show which questions eat your people’s time and pick what the portal closes first — usually the status of the work and a place to put files. The map stays with you either way.

3 · We take it into service

We build the portal, connect it to your systems, open it to the first users and stay around: we watch what they actually use and tell you what changed and why.

The figure is named in a quote for your task, once it is clear who signs in, what they do there and which of your systems the portal talks to. There is no price list here on purpose: the spread of work is very wide, and an "average price" would mean averaged work.

Straight talk

What we do ourselves and what we do with partners

We do this ourselves

A portal like this runs for us: it lives on this very site. Sign-in is by a code sent to email or phone — no password to invent; the task is described in plain words with files attached; the status, the estimate and the sign-off are exactly what is described above. We show a working portal, not pictures.

It opens on a phone: no separate app to install, and it is not a cut-down mobile version — the screens are the same.

We build this out for you

Exactly what the customer sees in the status, and which roles we set up (who decides, who pays, who signs off) depends on your work. We settle that before the work starts, not along the way.

Medical and other sensitive data does not go into the portal: where the law requires it, the portal keeps the booking and the correspondence, and health information stays in your own system.

Where a partner does part of the work — say, your accounting system is extended by its own contractor — we stay your single point of contact: we set the task, watch the timing and answer to you for the result. The contract names the contractor honestly — no "we do everything in-house".

Questions

What people usually ask

Customers will not sign in to yet another service.
They sign in where the answer to their question is. So we keep the door short: a code to email or phone, no password and no form to fill in, and the first screen shows the status of their work rather than a menu of ten sections.
What if the customer does not accept the result?
They have a "needs changes" button and a field for what exactly. The remark becomes a dated record instead of a spoken conversation, and both sides see the same thing.
What if the customer wants a person, not a screen?
The portal does not replace the conversation — it removes the questions whose answer is already written down. Everything else stays with people, and that is as it should be.
Enquiry

Let us look at your task

Half an hour about who asks you what and how often — no access to your systems and no commitments.

We call back during working hours. Company details are optional — if you give them, we read the open registries first and come to the conversation prepared.