Ask your own data a question. Get a straight answer.
It hooks up to the system you already keep your records in, so you can ask it the questions you've always wanted to. It runs on your own machine, with no subscription.
Examples, with made-up data
A distributor
"Which items are below their reorder point right now?"
23 items. Six already have a purchase order out; the other 17 don't. Here's the list.
A painting contractor
"What did we charge for a similar three-bedroom repaint last year?"
$6,800, on a job in April: four days, two painters. Here's the invoice.
Any business
"Which invoices are past 30 days?"
8 invoices, $12,400 across three accounts. One of them is past 90.
For businesses that run on their records
If your records hold the answers but getting them out takes an afternoon, this is for you.
Use cases →Ask it, or let it tell you
Capsule
You ask, it answers.
Type a question in plain English and get an answer from your own records, with the records it came from. Your customers, jobs, invoices and inventory, finally answering back.
Working in about a week
Tend8
It watches, and tells you.
Everything Capsule does, plus it keeps an eye on the business so nothing falls off the table: receivables, quotes, purchasing, shipments. A morning brief, a live board, rules that flag what's slipping, and you can ask it things or tell it to do them: "Move the Henderson install to Thursday."
Working in about two weeks
Results
What changed for the businesses we build for
More than $200,000 a year going to competitors
Invoices stopped disappearing
A sales board that refreshes in 2 seconds instead of 8½ minutes
What clients say
When our company was sold and the new owners needed data normalized for their SQL-based system, Rene jumped in without hesitation… He focused on understanding our business needs and building solutions that actually worked.
René was able to take my business from running on scraps of paper to having a central and complete custom database that was exactly what I needed to move my business forward. My employees and I are thrilled with the outcome, and we are enjoying the huge time savings.
I hired Rene years ago to turn a complex vision into a functional reality… He delivered a product that was even better than I imagined. Our collaboration resulted in a system that elevated my entire production workflow.
René is a delight to work with. Knowledgeable, highly competent, efficient, tolerant, patient, and reliable. A craftsman, and a pleasure to work with.
René was one of the most dedicated, focused and business-savvy people I have had the opportunity to work with… There are few people who can claim to have helped lay the groundwork for the digital video revolution. René is one of those people.
Four ways in. Two of them are free.
Free
Read the spec
Capsule's whole design, free on GitHub for anyone to use or change (MIT license).
Free
Build it yourself
Everything you need is in the spec, free to use. Your machine, your data.
Free call, then a discovery
Have us build it
A $250 or $500 discovery, then a proposal with three options, each with its price. Installed on your machine and tuned to your questions.
Optional
Have us keep it running
The Care Plan, once it's built: the data kept fresh, new questions added, and better AI as it comes out.
Rene Kropf has been building business systems since 1990. The thinking behind this work is in his book, The Last Interface.
Have a question your records should be able to answer? Text or email it.