Case Studies
Real engagements with real Indiana businesses. Three are below, with more on the way as clients sign off on sharing.
Northeast Indiana farm management firm
A four-generation farm management firm with 11 staff. Decades of know-how lived in 6+ disconnected systems and a handful of long-tenured heads.
A new hire spent two days hunting for an answer that should have taken five minutes. Every onboarding looked the same. The senior team kept getting pulled off real work to fill the gap.
We built one Desk on top of their own knowledge base. Search first. Their language. The procedures, exceptions, and context all in one place a new employee could actually use.
Answers in seconds, not hours. The 11th employee performs like the 22nd. Onboarding stopped being a tax on the whole firm.
Wabash County municipal office
A small-city clerk-treasurer office. Four staff. Meeting minutes, public records requests, budget questions, and resident calls all handled by hand, on top of the regular workload.
A public records request landed during a budget review. Two priorities, one person, no slack. That week, something had to give. The work did not get done.
We built a Desk around her actual job. Minutes drafting, records retrieval, compliance checks, and resident lookups all in one place. Built on her process, not a generic template.
She left the office at 4:30 on a Friday. First time in years. The work still got done. The office runs on a rhythm now instead of on adrenaline.
Anonymized Indiana professional services firm
A 22-person owner-operated professional services firm. Two senior people ran almost everything. The owner trusted them, the team trusted them, and the work flowed through them.
One of them took two weeks off. The firm nearly stopped. Decisions stacked up, clients waited, and the team realized how fragile the setup really was.
We built a Desk that captures what was only in their heads. Procedures, exceptions, edge cases, and the reasoning behind the calls. Their knowledge, made usable by the whole team.
Two senior people are no longer single points of failure. The team owns the work. The owner can step back without holding her breath. The business can grow without breaking.
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References from current clients available upon request.
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