The job nobody sells you
Most small business software problems are too small for an agency to care about and too specific for an off the shelf product to solve. That gap is where we work.
Custom work
Tell us what is wasting your time.
We build software and automations for small businesses. Not through an agency, not through a sales team. You talk to the people who would build it.
Why we do this
Every application in our catalogue exists because a small business had a problem and the market answer was either nothing, or something enormous and expensive. Beyond Permit Status began as a favour for a friend who runs a permitting company. Most useful software starts exactly that way, as somebody explaining what is driving them mad.
What we build
Small problems that cost real money
The work is rarely glamorous. It is usually a task somebody repeats by hand, a system that will not talk to another system, or a job that lives in one person’s head.
Automations that remove a task
The thing somebody on your team does by hand every morning, or every Friday, or after every job. Those are usually the cheapest and most valuable things to fix.
Applications built for one business
Software shaped around how you already work, rather than a product you have to reorganise your business to fit.
Systems that talk to each other
The quotes, the invoices, the calls, the calendar and the spreadsheet, connected so a number typed once does not have to be typed again in four places.
How it works
You get an answer either way
The consultation is genuinely free, and it is not a disguised sales call.
A call, not a pitch
You describe what is slow, expensive or annoying. We ask questions. There is no charge for the conversation and no obligation at the end of it.
A plain answer
We tell you what we think the actual problem is and how it could be solved. In plain words, not jargon, and not a proposal document you need help reading.
Including when the answer is no
If a tool you can buy for a small monthly fee already solves it, we will name the tool. If you can fix it yourself in an afternoon, we will explain how. We would rather be the people who told you the truth than the people who sold you a project you did not need.
If it is worth building
You get a scope, a price and a timeline before anything starts. The same release standard applies to your software as to ours.
Who we work with
Mostly people who never get called back.
Small operations with a real problem and no interest in a six figure engagement. We are one studio, so we take on work we can actually finish.
- Contractors and trades
- Permitting and inspection services
- Property and facilities managers
- Local service businesses
- Anyone running the business out of a spreadsheet
Start here
Describe the problem
You do not need to know what the solution is, or what any of it is called. Tell us what is slow and we will work out the rest.
A person reads every message, usually within one working day. Nothing here feeds a sales sequence. If you would rather just write to us, the address is office@beyondllcfl.com and it reaches the same place.