solo stack

SoloStack Sessions

You leave with one thing in your business running by itself.

One to one, ninety minutes, on your own screen, working on your own business. Not a course you watch on your own at half past nine at night. We take the job that eats your week and we do not stop until it runs without you. Then we do the next one.

90 minutes a sessionOn your screen, and recorded$1,800 for four sessionsCalgary in person on request

The sort of thing we build in one
a price estimator on your own website

[ 01 ]  What actually happens

Ninety minutes, your screen, one job at a time.

There is no curriculum to get through and no slides. You bring the part of your week you dread, and we do not stop until it is doing itself.

Before

You send over the job that eats your week

The session

Ninety minutes, on your screen, on the real thing

The end of it

It runs, and it keeps running without you

Until next time

You use it. Notes and the recording to lean on

The ninety minutes, in the order it happens

First ten minutes

You show us the job. Screen shared, the real thing open, no tidying up first. We agree out loud what would count as finished today.

The next hour

We build it while you drive. You do the parts you will have to do again next week, and we talk you through the parts you will not.

Last twenty minutes

We run it start to finish on your own real information, twice. Then you write down, in your words, what you are going to use it for before the next session.

We work on your real job

Not an example, not a sample company. Your quote, your inbox, your Monday morning. If it is not something you actually do, we are not doing it.

You drive where it counts

Watching somebody else do it is how people forget. You do the parts you will have to do again on your own, and we sit with you while you do them.

Nothing is finished until it runs

A session does not end on a good idea. It ends with a thing that works when you close the window, or it is not finished and we say so.


What you have at the end of every one

  • One thing working that was not working before
  • The recording of the session
  • Short written notes, in plain words
  • One small thing to try before the next one

Where most people start

Writing quotesChasing unpaid invoicesThe same five emails, againTurning site notes into a reportWriting a job advertThe Monday numbersReplying to enquiries at 11pmFirst drafts of anything

[ 02 ]  What you walk away owning

The kind of thing a session ends with.

A price estimator sitting on a landscaping business's own website. A visitor works out roughly what a fence costs at eleven at night, and the owner gets the name and the number in the morning. The business here is an invented one, drawn to show the shape of the thing.
They put in the length, the height, the material, and whether the old fence is coming out. They get a real figure, and it costs nobody a phone call to find out.
bigrocklandscaping.ca/fence-quote

Work out your fence, before you call us

Length

140 ft

Height

6 ft

Material

Cedar

Gates

2

Old fence to remove

Yes

Your estimate

$8,940

before GST

Materials 5,180

Labour 2,760

Gates 700

Removal and disposal 300

This is an estimate. A quote follows a site visit.

Email me this and have someone call me
An illustration of what session six is meant to end with: a working tool on the owner's own website. The business, the prices and every figure here are invented.

Illustration. The business, the prices and every figure on this screen are invented.

6

sessions is the size of job this is, from the first hour to it being live and taking enquiries.

0

experience needed to start. Nobody in the four-session track writes any software at all.

Yours

Your website, your account, yours to change. Nothing you make in a session depends on us still being here.

[ 03 ]  Two ways to do it

Pick how far you want to take it.

Both are one to one and ninety minutes a session. The difference is whether you want the work off your plate, or want to be the one who built the thing. Prices are in Canadian dollars, paid before the first session, and nothing runs on after the last one unless you ask it to.

Four sessions

Put it to work

For an owner who wants the boring half of the week doing itself, and has no interest in building anything.

$1,800

Four sessions · 90 minutes each

You walk away with

  • One job off your plate for good, running whether you are there or not
  • Answers that read like you wrote them, not like a stranger did
  • Something set up that already knows your prices, your customers and your words
I get a few hours back every week, and it stopped sounding like a robot.

Eight sessions

Build your own tool

For an owner who has been describing the same missing tool for two years and wants to be the one who builds it.

$3,600

Eight sessions · 90 minutes each

You walk away with

  • Several jobs running on their own, joined up to the things you already pay for
  • Answers drawn from your own records rather than from the internet
  • A working tool, live on your own web address, that other people can use
I built it. It is live. People use it.

Put it to work

session by session · $1,800

01

Find the three jobs worth handing over

We go through your actual week and pick the three jobs that eat the most time and need the least judgement. You finish the hour knowing which one we do first, and why it is that one.

02

Get answers you would put your name on

We work on your real emails, your real quotes, your real reports. We keep going until what comes back is a first draft you would send, rather than something you have to rewrite anyway.

03

One job that runs without you

We build one thing, live, in the session. Something that happens on its own from that day on. Not a demonstration you watch. A real one, still going when you shut the laptop.

04

Something that knows your business

We set it up with your own words, your prices, your customers and the jobs you do most often. It stops guessing at your business, because it has been told about it.

Build your own tool

session by session · $3,600

01+02

The ground work

The four-session track, compressed into two. Enough to be quick and confident before we start building anything, so the building time is spent building.

03+04

Work that happens on its own

Real jobs joined up end to end. An enquiry that files itself. A reminder that sends itself. A record that writes itself. Joined to the things you already use, not to a demonstration account.

05+06

Answers out of your own records

Your customer list, your documents, your price list. The answers start coming out of your business instead of out of the internet, and you can see which line each one came from.

07+08

Build it, and put it live

We build the thing you have been describing for two years and put it live on your own web address, with your name on it. Then we make sure you can change it yourself afterwards.

If you outgrow it

If what you build gets bigger than you want to look after, we can take it over and build it properly. Sessions clients pay less for a build than anyone else, because half the work of a build is understanding the business, and by then we already do.

[ 04 ]  Why not just buy a course

Because a course does not know anything about your business.

Courses are cheap for a reason, and for some things they are the right answer. Here is where they stop being it.

A video cannot look at your screen

Anybody can show you the buttons. Nobody on the internet can look at your prices, your customers and the way you actually put a quote together, and tell you what to change. That gap is the entire job, and it is the only thing we do.

You finish, because somebody is waiting

A video waits for you forever, and there is always something more urgent than a video. A booked hour with a person in it does not wait. You turn up, and something gets finished that day.

It is right for this month

This moves faster than anything can be recorded. A course filmed in the spring is already partly wrong by the autumn. What happens in a session is what works now, on the tools as they are today.

Nothing you do not need

A course teaches everybody everything, in order, from the beginning. Four sessions do the parts of your own job and skip the rest, which is why they are four and not forty.

And the honest version

Sometimes the right answer is something you can buy off a shelf for forty dollars a month. If that is what your business needs, you will hear it in the first session, rather than after the fourth.

[ 05 ]  The standard we hold it to

If it cannot show you where a fact came from, it does not get to say it.

This is the part most people never get taught, and it is the part that decides whether any of this is safe to put in front of a customer. Every draft has to point at the line in your own words that it came from.
A drafted post on the left, and on the right every check that ran on it. Two claims were taken out: one because the source never said it, one because it was on the owner's own list of words never to use.

drafting — Fieldstone Safety Consulting

Drafted post

Three things an assessor looks for in your inspection records, and none of them is how many inspections you did. First: does every finding have a name against it? Second: does it have a date it was closed? Third: can you show the one that was not closed, and say why? A binder full of clean inspections with no closed findings scores worse than a thin binder with a story.

From your article “What we look for in inspection records”, published 14 Jul 2026.

31

open inspection findings with no closure date

Text on a card is drawn as text, so it is never misspelled

What was checked

  • Every figure traces to the source article. 3 of 3 checked.
  • Removed: “cuts your insurance premium by 30%” — the source article does not say this.
  • Removed: “game-changing” — on your do-not-say list.
  • ~ Brand check: colours and typeface read from your website. High confidence on colour, medium on typeface.
Nothing leaves this screen until you approve it. With nothing connected, you copy the finished post and post it yourself.
The check that stops a rewrite inventing a statistic or a price the original never claimed.

Illustration. Every name, figure and date on this screen is invented. The checks are exactly what the software does.

What drafting does not do

Nothing goes out on its own. You read and approve every piece before it can leave. An approved email arrives in your own mail tool as a draft for you to send, and an approved post only goes anywhere if you have connected a scheduling account of your own. With nothing connected, you copy it and post it yourself.

It drafts, you decide

Nothing you set up in a session sends anything to a customer on its own. A person reads it first, every time, and that person is you.

Made-up facts are the risk

Left alone it will invent a figure that sounds right. We spend a whole session on stopping that, because one invented number in front of a client costs more than this.

Your words, not its words

We feed it what you have already written and said, so what comes back sounds like your business. That is most of the difference between useful and embarrassing.

[ 06 ]  Before you book

Who this suits, and who it does not.

Both halves of this are honest. Reading the right-hand column and deciding against it saves us both an afternoon.

This is for you if

  • You run a real business, and there are jobs in your week you would happily never do again
  • You have tried the chat tools, got something out of them, and can tell you are only scratching at it
  • You want somebody to look at your setup and say what to do, rather than hand you a list of things to look at
  • You can give ninety minutes a session, and half an hour between them

This is not for you if

  • You want it all done for you and handed over finished. That is a build, and we do those. It is not this.
  • You want a certificate. Nothing here is examined and nothing is accredited.
  • You want to be taught to write software properly. This gets you to a working thing, not to a trade.
  • Nothing can be decided without three other people in the room who are not in the session.

Businesses this fits well

Trades and constructionSafety and compliance consultanciesProfessional practices, legal, accounting, hiringShops and anything with an appointment bookOne-person agencies and consultants

Not on that list? It still works. Every business has a week with the same three jobs in it. Tell us what yours are and we will say honestly whether this is the right thing to spend the money on.

[ 07 ]  Afterwards, if you want it

Staying current, once you have finished a track.

This changes faster than anybody running a business has time to follow. What was the right way to do something in January is not in June. This is for people who would rather somebody else read all of it and only tell them the parts that matter.

Stay current

For people who have finished a track

$500

a month

  • Two sessions a month, sixty minutes each
  • Questions answered by email in between, not saved up for the next one
  • One short note a month on what changed, and whether any of it matters to you
  • We try the new thing first, so you do not spend an evening finding out it was nothing

Month to month. Stop any month, nothing to cancel but the payment.

The things people ask before they book

How long does the whole thing take?

Four sessions usually run across four to six weeks, one a week, with a gap where you need one. Eight run across eight to twelve. You set the pace, and pausing costs nothing.

Do I need to be good with computers?

No. If you run a business on email, a phone and a spreadsheet, you can do this. Nobody is asked to write a line of software in the four-session track.

What if I have to miss one?

Move it. Sessions do not expire and there is no clock running against you. Busy season is a reason to pause, not a reason to lose anything.

Can two of us come?

Yes, at no extra cost, as long as it is the same business and the same screen. More than two and it stops being a session and starts being a class, which is a different thing and not as useful.

Does it have to be remote?

Remote on a shared screen is normal, and it is the better way to do it, because we are working on your machine. In person around Calgary can be arranged.

What if it turns out I do not need this?

Then you will hear that in the first session. If the answer for your business is something you can buy off a shelf for forty dollars a month, we will say so rather than sell you three more sessions.

Booking a session

Start with a call. Twenty minutes, and it costs nothing.

Tell us what your week actually looks like. We will tell you which track fits, what the first session would cover, and whether it is worth doing at all. There is no pitch on that call, and no obligation afterwards.

A few questions about what you want working, and nothing is charged or booked by answering them. One person reads every one of these and replies within two business days with some times to choose from.