We make running your business easier.
Tell us what’s taking too long, falling through the cracks, or just driving you nuts. We’ll look at how you do it today, work with what you’ve got, and figure out a better way.
No 47-slide transformation roadmap required.
Work with what you’ve got. Fix what isn’t working. Build what’s missing.
Together, we make work flow.
Start Here
Start with the problem. We’ll worry about the technology.
You don’t need to ask for an integration, a custom app, or whatever the latest acronym is. Just tell us what keeps slowing the business down.
“We write every estimate by hand.”
“Nobody follows up with our quotes.”
“I enter the same information in three different places.”
“I have no idea which jobs actually make money.”
“Everything is in Steve’s head.”
That’s plenty. We’ll take it from there.
How We Help
We work with what you’ve got.
First, we look at how the work actually gets done. Then we improve what you have, recommend something that fits, connect the pieces, automate the repetitive parts, or build what’s missing.
Keep It
Already works? Great. Let’s not fix things that aren’t broken.
Improve It
Good system, bad process? Let’s clean it up.
Connect It
Your software doesn’t talk to your other software? We’ll introduce them.
Build It
Nothing does what you need? Fine. We’ll make it.
What We Fix
Things we can make less painful.
These are business problems first. The fix might involve a process, a tool, a connection, some automation, or a mix of all four.
Estimates take forever.
You shouldn’t need three price sheets and 20 years of tribal knowledge to quote a job.
Possible fix: Estimating, pricing, proposals, and approvals.
Leads disappear.
Someone asked for a quote three weeks ago. Everyone thought someone else called them.
Possible fix: Lead tracking and automatic follow-up.
You’re entering the same thing. Again.
If you typed the same customer information into three systems today, we should probably talk.
Possible fix: Better processes, automation, and system connections.
Your spreadsheet has become sentient.
It started as a simple tracker. Now nobody is allowed to touch Column G.
Possible fix: Reporting and better internal systems.
Your software doesn’t quite fit.
You’ve built the business around the workaround for the workaround.
Possible fix: A better-fit product or a custom tool.
You don’t know what’s making money.
Revenue is great. Knowing where it came from is usually helpful too.
Possible fix: Job costing, useful KPIs, and reporting.
Our Approach
Sometimes the answer isn’t more software.
We’re not a software company trying to sell you software. Sometimes the answer is a better process or using something you already pay for correctly.
Sometimes a simple off-the-shelf tool solves it. Sometimes it’s automation. Sometimes the right answer needs to be built around your business.
Our job is to figure out which one actually makes sense.
Worth remembering
Buying another subscription is not a business strategy.
Who We Help
Built for businesses that are too busy running the business.
You probably don’t have an IT department, a process team, an automation engineer, and a software developer sitting around waiting for something to do. That’s okay. You have us.
Contractors
Construction
Landscaping
Tree Service
Home Services
Security
Field Services
Manufacturing
Professional Services
If you’ve got customers, employees, paperwork, spreadsheets, and at least one process everyone complains about, we can probably help.
Real World
What does this actually look like?
Fair question. “Business improvement” can mean just about anything. Here’s what we mean.
01
Your estimates take forever.
We look at how you quote work today, keep the parts that work, and simplify the rest. Maybe that means better pricing tools, automated proposals and follow-up, or something custom built around the way you actually quote jobs.
02
Nobody really knows where things stand.
The information exists. It's just in six different places. We connect what you already have and give you a clearer way to see the jobs, customers, projects, inventory, or numbers that actually matter.
03
Your process works... technically.
It just requires four spreadsheets, six emails, a group text, and one employee who can never take a vacation. We look at the process, remove unnecessary steps, and automate or connect the pieces that make sense.
04
Nothing on the market quite fits.
We don't force it. If an existing product gets you where you need to go, we'll use it. If your existing tools can do the job, we'll improve them. And if the right solution doesn't exist, we'll build it.
Same business. Less friction.
We don’t show up with a predetermined solution. We learn how the work gets done, find what’s making it harder than it needs to be, and fix it from there.
About Synovate
People who understand the mess behind the process.
We work inside the reality of your business — the people, handoffs, paperwork, systems, and workarounds that keep it moving.
We learn how the work happens now, fix what gets in the way, and help put the better way into practice. Technology is one tool. It is not the starting point.
The short version
You know the business. We help it stop tripping over itself.
Together, we make work flow.
Contact
What’s driving you nuts?
Seriously. Start there. Tell us about the spreadsheet everyone hates, the paperwork that takes forever, or the thing that makes you say ‘there has to be a better way’ twice a week.
We’ll take a look and tell you what we’d do. No technical explanation required.