TUTORIALS
Ten short lessons, in the order you will need them.
Nothing here assumes you have built software before. Each one takes a few minutes to read and is about a real step you will actually take — from the account you do not have yet to the day the system is on your own domain and your data has been exported once, just to prove it can be.
01 Getting started
From an empty account to a system your team is using. Follow these four in order and you will have done the whole loop once.
Signing up takes about a minute — by email or with Google — and ends with one decision: which monthly allowance you start on.
Start a new system asks four short questions — where to begin from, which country, which language and where it runs. Here is what each one changes.
The loop is five steps and four of them are the studio's. Learn it once on something small and every change after it is the same shape.
What a build credit is, what a typical month looks like, and exactly what stops — and what does not — if the monthly allowance runs out.
02 Making it fit your business
The difference between software that nearly works and software that fits is usually in how it was described — and in the parts people forget to ask for.
The quality of what comes back depends on the quality of what you put in. The bad sentence, the good one, and the four things worth saying every time.
Every system can send email and run work on a schedule, with nobody logged in. Reminders the evening before, a report every Monday, an invoice run at month end.
Files attached to the record they belong to, and a system that can read a document, sort an enquiry or draft a reply as part of how it works.
03 Running it for real
Your own address, your own copy of the data, and an honest account of where the machine should hand over to a person.
Every system is born with a working web address. Moving it onto your own domain is a conversation in the studio and a change at your registrar.
The system and the data in it are yours. What that means in practice — how to get a copy out, what happens if you stop paying, and what happens if you close the account.
Six honest limits, the ones that catch people in week three, and the point at which handing the job to a human is the cheaper answer.
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