$2,500 a month.
Twelve months. One partner company per market. You keep everything I build.
The co-founding seat.
Seats open now: 9. This is one of them: the first implementation outside Emerald, and priced that way: no setup fee, and nothing due until I hand you the keys.
what the seat changes →Compared to what
- The stackYou already know what your AccuLynx and QuickBooks seats cost. You’re already spending a lot. Now price whatever else you’d like to have, à la carte — each piece with its own subscription, its own login, and its own gap where it meets everything else. For less than all the add-ons, you get the tools, and somebody accountable for making them work, who’s also accountable for what you’re spending on software in the first place.
- The hireAn operations-literate controller costs six figures and isn’t available at your size. Your bookkeeper can’t do this work either — not for lack of skill, but because nobody has the hours to check every charge against what was agreed. The finance seats you don’t have to fill cover it on their own.
- The adviceYour banker, your CPA, your business coach — they know exactly what clean books and an efficient operation require, and they’ll tell you where your gaps are. None of them will close one.
- Doing nothingLeakage and inefficiencies you’d never think to look for. In month 1 at Emerald, it was a $7,500 materials invoice, billed twice. And every month you wait is another month of operating history that never existed.
Profits pay your bills, not sales. The visibility I provide will save you far more than I cost.
What you’re signing
- Implementation$10–15k one time, depending on how dialed in your AccuLynx and QuickBooks implementations are today. $5,000 at signing; the balance when I hand over the keys.
- Ongoing$2,500 a month — the bookkeeping or active support of your bookkeeper, the exceptions, the reporting, ongoing improvements, and a meeting cadence set to how you actually run the business.
- TermTwelve months, renewed annually.
- ExclusivityOne partner company per market, held for the life of the agreement.
- CapacityTen partner companies, total.
- OwnershipYou keep everything I build.
The first thirty days
Most implementations should land inside thirty days.
- 01$5,000 at signing.
- 02I come onsite and review how things move through the company today.
- 03A full implementation plan, with the remaining cost in it.
- 04The build — and the few hours I need from whoever knows the office.
- 05Handover. Full administrative control, and the balance due then.
The opportunity for savings will show up in weeks. The new way will be in muscle memory within a quarter.
One partner company per market
One partner company per market, held for the life of the agreement. You hold approval over any new partner company I sign within 150 miles of you, measured straight-line.
That is an approval right, not an exclusion zone. It commits me to a conversation before I sign somebody near you — not to taking whole regions off the board. If you’re a residential-focused company in Kansas City that has never done a true commercial project, it might get weird if a commercial-only company in Wichita wants to get on board. But I won’t embarrass myself by bringing you proposals of things I know should be off the table. If I didn’t believe this exclusivity clause wasn’t important to the relationship I hope to build, I wouldn’t be offering it.
Shared, but never with your competition.
What you own
An asset, not a subscription.
The $2,500 buys an operator. What the operator leaves behind is built the way a company builds software it intends to keep — because one day it has to run without me in the room.
- 01Written down — specs, cost-code decisions, documentation.
- 02Built on AccuLynx’s and QuickBooks’ own published interfaces.
- 03Running in cloud space you own, under your administrative control.
- 04Not a clever spreadsheet that dies with its author.
So if something happens with me, nothing stops. Your costs keep getting coded and your jobs keep getting matched, inside your own systems — and what’s here can be picked up by somebody who isn’t me.
If you fire me
You keep everything I built, and nothing switches off.
Our first year together will be contractually solid, so let’s plan on that not happening through month 12. But if I haven’t proven my value into month 13, nothing migrates, and nothing gets held hostage. Everything runs on your AccuLynx and your QuickBooks, through the systems’ own interfaces. The cloud space where my software runs belongs to you, and I’ll make sure upon implementation that you know enough about how that cloud space works. There is no login you lose, no server of mine to move off, and no month where the office goes back to doing it by hand while somebody figures out what I was doing.
Every invoice, receipt and job is captured on your own Google Drive as it happens — so a year with me leaves you less dependent on any single system, any single vendor, and any one employee who knows where things are.
And your numbers never leave your company. Not to the other nine, not into a case study, not into a benchmark report. Your pricing, your customers, the way you run a job: nobody else sees any of it.
Your risk
| The possible switching cost | The protection |
|---|---|
| “I’ll be stuck on a platform I hate.” | Nothing migrates. Your systems stay exactly as they are. |
| “My team will have to relearn everything.” | Their habits don’t change. The field does less than before, not more. |
| “I’ll lose access to my own history.” | Every invoice and receipt captured on your own Google Drive — and every job document in AccuLynx as well. |
| “I’ll spend $15k to find out.” | The implementation is expected to pay for itself before it finishes. The co-founding seat has no implementation fee at all. |
| “I’ll be locked in.” | One year. And you keep what was built. |
| “I’ll be taking somebody’s word for it.” | Bill will take your call. |
Questions
What decides whether implementation is $10k or $15k?
How much of your AccuLynx and QuickBooks is already implemented well when I get there. Disciplined job numbers and a chart of accounts somebody has actually maintained put you at the low end. Cost info living in three places, and an unwieldy chart of accounts take longer.
You won’t get a number from me before I’ve looked. That is what the $5,000 and the onsite review buy you — a plan with the real figure in it, before the build starts.
What do you need from me and my team during setup?
Less than you’d expect, and most of it from you rather than your team. I’ll need administrative access to your AccuLynx and QuickBooks, and a few hours with whoever knows how costs actually move through your office today.
I’ll need decisions from you on cost codes, and on what counts as an exception worth stopping a payment for. If there’s a lot of prework that needs to be done (like developing a current chart of accounts) and you delegate the decisions to me, it will take less of your time than if you want me to walk you through it. I’ll be happy to handle it either way. Your field team changes one habit, maybe: photograph a receipt and move on. If they’re already uploading them into AccuLynx, it’s the same habit — just a different place.
What if my market is already taken?
Let’s connect anyway. We can likely figure it out over a quick text exchange.
If the seat nearest you is genuinely spoken for, I won’t waste your time — but I’ll also know to reach out if that ever changes.
Is this secure?
Nothing that I’ve built holds your data. It all lives across 4 places: your AccuLynx, your QuickBooks Online, your Google Workspace, and a Google Cloud you’ll own that I will help you set up, and that’s where I’ll put your code that I write. I will also help you set up an Anthropic account, for the AI data processing — but they don’t store your data. As you know, all of these companies have world-class security, and you will know my login credentials for each of these services, and have the power to remove them at any time.
With that said, I also carry professional liability insurance, and I’m bonded — just like you. You’ll have the certificates before you sign.
That’s the whole agreement. Nothing in it gets sprung on you later.
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