ConceptBuilt for Kayla at Cardinal Interiors by She Thrives Software Consulting. Every box, client and project below is sample data, created to show how the system works.

Cardinal

Prepared for Kayla at Cardinal Interiors

Four pieces, built to fit
how you already work

You are running a design studio, a warehouse, a garage full of other people’s furniture, and two children under three. This is software shaped around that, so the pieces you own stop living in your head.

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What gets built

All four, together

01

The Studio Ledger

Inventory with tags on the boxes

Every box in the garage and at the warehouse gets a small tag. Touch your phone to it and the box opens on screen: what is inside, whose project it is, what it is worth, and which shelf it belongs on. Log a delivery at the tailgate in about two minutes. On install day, pull up the project and see every box it needs and where each one is sitting.

  • Tags that open a box page with one tap, and a printed code that works on any camera
  • Both buildings in one list, with a running value of client goods on hand
  • Search that reaches inside the boxes, down to a single brass pull
  • An alert when a project installs soon and its boxes are still in two places
02

The client dashboard

Every project, start to install

One screen for where each project stands. Phases, install dates, what has arrived and what has not, and what is waiting on you. Your clients get their own view with the parts you choose to share, so the update questions get answered before anyone asks them.

  • Project timelines with install dates and phase tracking
  • A client-facing view you control, per project
  • Budget and spend against what is actually staged
  • Punch lists and returns with their vendor deadlines
03

Pocket Desk

The five tools become one

The calendar lives in one place, the email list in another, the design files in a third, payments in a fourth. Pocket Desk holds all of it, plus the follow-ups that slip on the days that get away from you.

  • Leads and consults in one pipeline, from the first form to the signed proposal
  • Invoicing and payment, with what is outstanding on the front page
  • Follow-up reminders that fire on their own
  • Works from your phone, which is where you actually are
04

A new website

The design you have, wired correctly

Your site is lovely and the look of it carries over. What changes is everything underneath: the pages that lead nowhere, the links that go to the wrong place, and the way it shows up when someone searches for a designer or shares your work in a text message.

  • Every service page reachable, with the buttons pointing where they should
  • Real page titles and descriptions, so a search result reads like your business
  • A proper preview card when your link gets shared or texted
  • The inquiry form feeding straight into Pocket Desk

Looked at your site, August 3

Six things worth knowing

These are all wiring, and none of them are visible from the front of the site. Every one of them is fixed in the rebuild.

The whole thing

$5,000

All four pieces: the inventory ledger with tags, the client dashboard, Pocket Desk, and the new website. One price, built together so they talk to each other.

Due at signing

$5,000

Tags for your boxes

Included

Your accounts

Yours

Once it is running

Care plan, $250 a month

The system runs, and I keep it running. Hosting and the database, backups, updates, new tags whenever you need them, small changes as the studio changes, and me on the other end when something needs attention.

This is the same plan the dashboards I already run are on. It starts the month after launch.

What running it yourself would involve

Everything here is yours either way, so this is just what it takes to keep it running.

What you would pay

  • Hosting, about $20 a month
  • The database behind the inventory, about $25 a month
  • Your domain, about $20 a year, which you pay either way

What you would need to know

  • Deploying a Next.js app and reading a failed build log at eleven at night
  • Running database migrations without losing a single inventory record
  • Programming replacement tags whenever a label gets torn off a box
  • Restoring from a backup, which is a different skill from making one
  • Keeping certificates, dependencies and security patches current

If you would rather run it yourself, I will hand over every account and walk you through all of it at no charge.

Have a look and tell me
what you think

Everything on this site is clickable. Open a box, search the inventory, log a pretend delivery. Then let me know what fits and what you would change.

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