So, you're probably a small business or organization that's looking to add a second or third person, or maybe you've managed to add 10 and are starting to feel the heat. You might be sending emails back and forth, or chatting on a company Slack which doesn't seem that different than the emails, or maybe you're managing hundreds of tasks in Trello, Asana, Clickup or Monday board and while you might feel like you can track things better, it still feels like nothing has changed. So how could yet another piece of software possibly be different? One word:
Processes.
While most tools on the market let you slice and dice tasks in different ways, only big expensive overcomplicated CRMs or custom ERP software even begin the address the core aspects of your business, the processes. You already have processes in your business, whether they're undocumented or inconsistent and ad hoc. The more undocumented, ad hoc, and inconsistent they are, the more your business will be eaten up by confusion.
Unfortunately, looking to adopt any of these overcomplicated solutions often comes with big warning signs from other business owners about the upfront cost, training requirements, administration requirements, implementation difficulties, amount of buy-in required, and how they can trap your business in a SaaS ecosystem. As a small business, you know you can't afford this overhead and so it may seem that effective business software is only for businesses with millions of dollars in yearly profit that can spend boatloads on custom software development or spendy enterprise software implementation, but this is false. Building powerful, streamlined and effective business processes is essential for businesses of any size to grow effectively, and effective companies know this, building their own solutions as soon as they are able.
Custom software deals like this can be lucrative for software contractors lucky enough to snag one, and these contractors are generally restricted by contract or unwilling to host a public platform, even if they are hosting multiple copies of nearly identical CRMs for their clients. On the flip side, software startups that take venture capital are heavily pressured in order to produce returns as fast as possible, so their software is incentivised to be as surface level, easy to adopt, and hard to quit as possible. These shiny platforms let you entangle your business with their platform without needing to change your processes to better achieve their goals. Because of that, they will not help you grow unless they are paired with process implementations. These platforms will sometimes tout their automations, but otherwise erode your processes by providing minimal process support. Using force of will, you can add lots of subtasks, but since these are transient to every task and not enforced in any order, they evaporate over time. Generally you can add states and build a simple process, but each process requires a separate board and complex automations for simple functionality, which can be overwhelming for the amount of processes even a small company will have.
In contrast, Slipstream is fully bootstrapped, meaning we don't have these same pressures to capture your company in order to fuel a mandatory exponential sign up graph. In addition, we've built Slipstream to not just provide support to make sure your processes happen the same way, every time, but also that your processes can be changed by anyone, no expensive implementation consultant required. As a small business, we want to see other small businesses succeed, and we had the resources to build a tool we knew would actually help.
When you succeed, we succeed, and we know that Slipstream can help make that a reality for you.
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