Field notes

Notes on building software around real operations.

How established businesses centralise scattered data, connect the tools they already use, and build internal software around the way they actually run. Written for owners, not engineers.

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You don't need ERP. You need your own operating layer.

Most established businesses reach for a big off-the-shelf system to fix the mess. That instinct is backwards. The mess is specific to you, and so is the cure.

28 May 20268 min

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Data

Centralising your data is the unglamorous work that changes everything.

Nobody gets excited about a single source of truth. Then they get one, and they cannot believe how they ran the business without it.

12 May 20266 min

Operations

Build around the workflow, not the template.

The fastest way to make good software useless is to design it around how the industry says you should work instead of how you actually do.

22 April 20267 min

Operations

The manual checking tax: what disconnected spreadsheets really cost.

The expensive part of scattered data is not the software you are missing. It is the hours your best people spend checking, copying, and reconciling by hand.

3 April 20266 min

Automation

What to build first: choosing the highest-leverage system in your operation.

You do not build the whole operating layer at once. You find the one bottleneck that, once fixed, makes everything downstream easier, and you start there.

18 March 20267 min

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