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Our records live in spreadsheets and nobody trusts them.

There is more than one copy, and nobody is sure which one is right.

  • One copy of the truth, not four that disagree
  • Accounts and roles, so people change only what they should
  • Runs in a browser, and works on a phone
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SessionSmithy, a web app GeekThangs runs, on a laptop

A spreadsheet is an excellent tool that quietly gets promoted.

It starts as one person's list and ends up as the place the business keeps something it cannot afford to lose, edited by several people, emailed around, and forked every time someone needs their own view.

The tell is behavioral rather than technical. People stop trusting the file. They keep a private copy, or they ask a colleague to confirm a number before they act on it, and that hesitation is the real cost.

The answer is usually one small tool that does the specific thing, with one copy of the truth in it.

Apps we run ourselves, live right now.

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Why one copy of the truth changes the day

When the file cannot be trusted, everyone builds a habit around not trusting it. A private copy here, a quick check with a colleague there, a number confirmed before anyone acts on it.

One place to enter it and one place to read it takes those habits away. The version that is open is the version that is right, and nobody has to ask.

  • One copy, not four

    The record lives in one place. There is no v2-final, no private copy, and no question about which one is current.

  • Accounts and roles

    People see what they should and change only what they should, so the data cannot quietly drift.

  • Open it from anywhere

    It runs in a browser and works on a phone, so the people who need it can actually reach it.

  • Yours to export

    Your data comes out whenever you ask, in a format something else can read. You are never locked in.

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What comes with a web app

  • Accounts and roles

    People sign in, see what they should, and change only what they should. The data stops drifting because everyone has their own key.

  • One searchable place

    Your records in one place you can search, instead of five spreadsheets and a folder nobody can find anything in.

  • Built around the job

    The screens your team opens on a Tuesday morning, shaped by how the work actually runs, not a generic template.

  • Runs in a browser

    Nothing to install, and it works on a phone. Your data exports whenever you ask, in a format something else can read.

How an app takes shape

Four steps, and you are using the real thing before it is finished.

We watch the current way

The spreadsheet, the folder, the person who knows. What the software has to replace is whatever they are doing by hand.

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Built from the real job

The screens come from watching how the work actually runs, not from a feature list.

The smallest thing that works

One tool that does the specific job, not a platform you have to grow into.

One copy everyone trusts

The record lives in one place, so the private copies and the double-checking stop.

You are never locked in

Your data exports whenever you ask, in a format something else can read.

We will talk you out of it

If software you can buy already does the job, we say so rather than build a worse version.

Questions worth asking first

Do we have to give up our spreadsheet?

Only when the tool is better than it, and not before. We read the old file in rather than making you retype it, and you keep it until you do not want it.

Is this a big system?

Usually not. The answer is one small tool that does the specific thing with one copy of the truth in it, not a platform you have to grow into.

What if off-the-shelf software already does it?

Then we will tell you that. Sometimes the honest answer is a tool you can buy and an afternoon setting it up, and we would rather say so than build a worse version.

Can our team use it on their phones?

Yes. It runs in a browser, so there is nothing to install and it works on a phone as well as a laptop.

Who owns the data?

You do. Your records export whenever you ask, in a format something else can read, so you are never locked in.

Before you build anything

What we would want to know before replacing a spreadsheet with software.

Tell us what the spreadsheet does.

Describe the thing three people are editing and the job it is holding together. We will tell you whether it needs software or a better spreadsheet.