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Request a ready-made tool

Tell us how your business does this job.

The tool itself is already built and running in a real business. What is left is setting it up around the way you already work: your wording, your forms, your list of services, your own accounts. These questions are how we find that out. It takes about ten minutes, and nothing is charged by filling it in.

You are asking about

Quote, sign, paid

You build a priced quote from your own service list and send a link. They read it, tick the extras, type their name to sign, and pay the deposit on the same page. The sale posts into your bookkeeping by itself.

To set up

$3,900

A month after

$250

Ready in

About two weeks

We confirm the price and exactly what is included, in writing, before anything is charged. The monthly starts the day it goes live rather than the day you agree.

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10 minutes

Six short steps. You can go back and change anything, and nothing you have typed is lost when you do.

No commitment

No charge, no booking and no obligation at any point before you have read a written price and said yes to it.

2 business days

A reply from the person who would actually build it. Not a sales team, because there is not one here.

Before you start

Four things worth having to hand.

None of these is required and you can send the form without any of them. They are simply the four answers that save the most back and forth afterwards.

What you use now

A link to your current site, or the name of the tool you are living with. Two sentences on what is wrong with it are worth more to us than a page of anything else.

A photo of the paper

The job sheet, the spreadsheet, the form your crew fills in at the site. There is a step where you can attach files, and one photograph tells us more than a paragraph.

Roughly what you can spend

A range is all we ask for, never a figure. It is the quickest way for us to say honestly whether this is worth your time, and honestly is the point of asking.

Who says yes

If somebody else signs off on spending, it helps to know now. A second approver found after the price is written is the most expensive kind of surprise there is.

Worth knowingNothing is saved until you press send on the last step, so it is best done in one sitting. Ten uninterrupted minutes is about right.

Anything you attach goes into a private store that only we can open. It is not on a web address anybody could stumble onto, we do not pass it on, and sending this form does not put you on a mailing list.

[ 01 ]  The form

Five short steps, and the first one is your name.

The questions change depending on what you pick, so you are never asked about something that has nothing to do with you. A blue star marks the ones we genuinely need. Everything else can be left blank.

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[ package ] Requesting Quote, sign, paid.

A sentence is plenty — it tells us your industry.

After you press send

Nothing gets built before you have read the price and said yes to it.

This is the whole of it, in order, with the point at which money is first mentioned marked plainly.
  1. You are here

    You fill this in

    About ten minutes

    Nothing is charged and nothing is booked.

  2. We read it

    Within two business days

    One person, who will tell you plainly if this is not a fit.

  3. A call, if it is a fit

    Thirty minutes, free

    You talk, we listen, and you owe nothing afterwards either way.

  4. A written price

    Usually the next working day

    What gets built, what deliberately does not, and one fixed figure.

  5. You decide

    No deadline on this

    Half is due only once you have approved that document.

  6. We build it

    One to eight weeks

    Something you can open and use every Friday, not a drawing of it.

The full version of that, week by week, is on the how it works page.

The document you get

This is what a written price looks like. One page, in plain words, naming what is included and what is deliberately left out, because the second list is the one that stops an argument three weeks later.

Scope and fixed price

Project
A private area for a trades business
Prepared for
Nose Creek Excavating
Dated
3 Sep 2026

What is included

  • One sign-in for staff, one for each subcontractor
  • A job list with status, dates, and the trade assigned
  • Photo upload from a phone, attached to the job
  • A read-only link for the customer
  • One spreadsheet import of the existing job list

What is not included, and would be quoted separately

  • Text messages to subcontractors
  • Anything connecting to the accounting system
  • A public-facing website

What we need from you

  • The logo in the original file
  • The current job spreadsheet
  • One hour of a person who knows how the jobs actually run

Timing

Build 8 Sep to 16 Oct 2026. Launch 19–20 Oct 2026.

Price

Agreed in writing before any work starts. Half on signing, half on launch.

Ownership

The software is yours from the first day, in your own account.

No hourly billing and no surprises means a document like this before anything starts. The figure is agreed with you, so it is not printed here.

Every name, figure and date on these screens is invented. The layout is exactly what the software does.

Before you type anything

The questions people ask us before they fill this in.

Am I committing to anything by sending this?

No. There is no charge, no booking and no obligation of any kind before you have read a written price and said yes to it. If you never reply to us again, nothing happens and nothing is owed.

What if I do not know what I need?

That is the normal starting position and it is the easiest one to work with. Pick “Not sure yet” and describe the part of your week that is worst. What you do twice, what you keep in your head, what you dread. Working out what should be built from that is the job.

What if the honest answer is that I should buy something off a shelf?

Then we will tell you that on the call, and you will not have paid us anything. Sometimes the right answer is forty dollars a month and somebody else’s software, and saying so costs us one conversation and saves you a great deal more.

Who reads this?

One person. The person who reads your form is the person who takes the call, writes the price and builds the thing. There is nobody here to hand you on to. More about that.

Why does it ask what I can spend?

Because the same idea can be built three ways at three prices, and the only unkind thing we could do is spend a fortnight scoping something you were never going to buy. A range is enough. What things cost is written down before you ask.

It is a long form. Is there a shorter way?

Email us a paragraph and we will pick it up from there. The form exists because answering it means the first conversation starts halfway through instead of at the beginning, which usually saves you a call rather than costing you one.

One thing we will not do

We will not take a job we cannot finish, and we will not sell you a monthly fee for something that should have been a one-off. If either of those is what your form describes, we will say so in the reply rather than on the invoice.

Still deciding

Have a look at the software before you write anything.

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Four businesses have had something built for them, and three of the four run their week on it today. These are the actual screens, with every name, figure and date invented.

A boutique's Monday, by fitting room

A safety assessment, printed for the board

The package a lender asks for each month

If a build made from nothing sounds like more than you need, several tools are already built and get set up around your business in weeks rather than months.

Whenever you are ready

Ten minutes now saves a fortnight of working out what you meant.

And if a form is not how you want to do this, an email with a paragraph in it works just as well. Either way the same person reads it.

We reply within two business days, to every one. hello@runsolostack.com