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Service 04 · Internal Tools

The internal network
your team needs
to scale.

An internal operating system for companies that have outgrown email and group chats. Intranet, task manager, help desk, shared document hub, digital onboarding — all under one roof, with role-based permissions and centralized data.

15+.
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3-8wk.
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Good morning, team.
Today · 47 people online · 9:42 AM CT
// TEAM METRICS
23
tasks today
6
open tickets
2
onboarding
98%
sla met
// MY TASKS · TODAY
Q2 review with Director URGENT
Approve requisition #2031 TODAY
Onboarding · M. Rivera WEDNESDAY
The problem

Your company grew. Your operations didn't.

If you went from 5 to 25 people over the past few years, you probably recognize these symptoms. They're signs of operational pain that cost productivity and turnover. If you recognize three or more, you need Internal Tools.

  • Your team hunts for the current org chart and nobody knows where it lives.
  • Processes live only in the heads of 2-3 key people.
  • When someone new joins, it takes 3 months to learn where everything is.
  • Internal requests get lost between chat threads and email.
  • There are 4 different chat groups "by topic," and nobody knows which one to post in.
  • You have no visibility into what each person is working on this week.
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We went from 12 to 38 employees in two years. Operations fell apart everywhere. Internal Tools gave us control back — processes live in a system, not in people's heads.
— Director of operations · Case D · Logistics sector
Who it's for

It's not for every company.

Internal Tools is our most selective service because it only makes sense at certain company stages. If you fall in the right column, call us. If you fall in the left, we'd recommend waiting or asking for one of our other services.

// NOT FOR YOU IF...
  • You have a team of 1-5 people and everyone talks in a single group
  • You're just starting out and don't have defined processes yet
  • Your priority is winning outside clients, not organizing the team
  • You'll only hire more people sometime in the next 12 months
  • You lack budget for something that doesn't generate direct revenue
  • Notion, Slack or Asana cover your current needs
// FOR YOU IF...
  • You have 15+ employees and operations are starting to break
  • Critical processes live in people's heads or scattered spreadsheets
  • You want independence from third-party SaaS with data on your own server
  • You have specific compliance needs (financial, healthcare, government)
  • Notion/Slack stopped working for you on cost or customization
  • You need deep integration with your ERP (SAP, Odoo, custom)
What we build

Six modules that organize your team.

Every Internal Tools build is configured to your company, but these are the six base modules. You can start with 2-3 and add the rest in later phases as you grow.

01 · INTRANET
Operations hub

Your internal portal with a role-based custom dashboard, company announcements, an employee directory with photo and contact, a shared calendar for events and time off, and global search. Your team's home page.

DashboardDirectoryCalendar
02 · TASK MANAGER
Projects and delivery

A collaborative task and project manager: Kanban, list, Gantt and calendar views. Clear assignment, deadlines, comments, file attachments, dependencies between tasks. Everyone knows what to do, by when and why.

KanbanGanttNotifications
03 · INTERNAL TICKETS
Help desk

An internal ticketing system so employees can request things from other departments (IT, HR, Procurement, Legal). Categorization, SLA by type, automatic assignment, escalation, response-time metrics. No more lost requests.

SLA trackingEscalationReports
04 · DOCUMENTS
Shared repository

A document store with granular permissions by department, version control, search by content (not just file name), an internal wiki for documented processes, and operational templates. Institutional knowledge, centralized.

VersioningOCR searchWiki
05 · ONBOARDING
Digital onboarding

An automated flow for new hires: a role-based custom checklist, welcome videos, documents to sign digitally, system access, gamified training. From first day to productive in 2 weeks, not 3 months.

Auto checklistE-signatureTracking
06 · ACCESS & SSO
Granular control

Single Sign-On with Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 or your Active Directory. Permissions by role and department, activity logging, optional MFA, instant offboarding for departing employees (disables all access in one click). Real security.

SSORBACAudit log
Return on investment

The cost of not having Internal Tools.

Here's the realistic math for a 25-person company. The left is what operational chaos costs you every month. The right is what Internal Tools costs once amortized. The difference is net gain for your company.

// CURRENT SITUATION · MONTHLY CHAOS
2 hrs/person/week searching for info $6,500
3-month onboarding vs 2 weeks $3,600
Lost / duplicated requests $2,400
SaaS subscriptions (Notion + Slack + Asana) $2,900
Turnover from lack of clarity $5,000
HIDDEN MONTHLY COST
$20,400 USD/mo
≈ $245K USD a year in operational losses
// WITH INTERNAL TOOLS · INVESTMENT AMORTIZED
Internal Tools initial build (24 months) $2,900
Hosting + monthly maintenance $700
Support and ongoing evolution $1,600
You drop Notion / Slack / Asana -$2,900
Team time saved (50%) -$3,250
REAL MONTHLY COST
$5,200 USD/mo
Net savings: $15.2K USD/mo · ROI <6 months
Process · 5 phases

From operational chaos to control in 3–8 weeks.

Internal Tools has a variable timeline because it depends on the size of your company and the number of modules. This is the typical sequence for a 5-6 week project.

WEEK 1 · DISCOVERY
Operations audit

Interviews with leaders from each department (operations, HR, IT, finance). We map how information moves today, where the bottlenecks are, and which critical processes live only in people's heads or spreadsheets.

Phase 01 deliverables
  • Current operations map
  • List of identified critical processes
  • Inventory of current SaaS and costs
  • Technical scope and module prioritization
WEEK 2 · DESIGN
Role architecture

We design the permissions model (RBAC): who sees what, who approves what, who gets which notifications. Navigable wireframes by role. Flow sign-off before we write any code.

Phase 02 deliverables
  • Permissions matrix by role and module
  • Navigable wireframes by role
  • Documented approval flows
  • Migration plan for existing data
WEEKS 2-4 · BUILD CORE
Essential modules

We build the critical modules first: auth with SSO, base intranet, task manager. With just that, your team can start operating while we build the rest. You don't wait for everything to be perfect.

Phase 03 deliverables
  • Working SSO with Google/Microsoft
  • Intranet with role-based dashboard
  • Task manager in production
  • Initial training for the leadership team
WEEKS 4-6 · ADVANCED BUILD
Specialized modules

Internal tickets, documents, digital onboarding, integrations with your ERP or existing systems. Each week we ship one or two to production to migrate the team gradually.

Phase 04 deliverables
  • Ticketing system by department
  • Document manager with search
  • Automated onboarding
  • Integrations with external systems
FINAL WEEK · ADOPTION
Migration and real adoption

Migration of critical data, training for the whole organization (groups of 10-15 people, 2 hours each), gradual shutdown of previous SaaS, intensive support during the first 4 weeks of real use.

Phase 05 deliverables
  • Data migrated from previous systems
  • The whole organization trained
  • Operations manuals by department
  • Intensive support for 30 days post-launch
Typical use cases

Four companies, four problems.

These are typical profiles of companies that need Internal Tools. Each one has a different configuration because their operational pain is different — it's not a generic template.

// INDUSTRY · LOGISTICS
Trucking company with 32 drivers

"Every driver logs their trip report in a notebook or over chat. Reconciling expenses takes 2 weeks a month and receipts are always missing."

We built intranet + internal tickets + onboarding. Each driver logs the trip and expenses from their phone, with photos of receipts. Automatic reconciliation for accounting.

→ RECONCILIATION FROM 2 WEEKS TO 2 DAYS
// INDUSTRY · HEALTHCARE
Multi-location clinic with 45 physicians

"Medical protocols live in folders scattered across locations. Training new physicians takes 4 months. Audits are a nightmare."

We built documents + onboarding + tickets. A centralized, searchable wiki of protocols, gamified onboarding by specialty, a clinical-incident system with SLAs.

→ ONBOARDING FROM 4 MONTHS TO 6 WEEKS
// INDUSTRY · CONSULTING
Consultancy with 22 partners and parallel projects

"We have no visibility into what projects each partner is running. Billables are calculated manually at month-end. Financial information lives in 3 different systems."

We built a task manager with time tracking + intranet + documents. Each partner logs hours in real time by project, automatic billables reports, integration with their accounting system.

→ 30% MORE BILLABLE HOURS FROM VISIBILITY
// INDUSTRY · MANUFACTURING
Factory with 80 people on the floor + admin

"Floor operators have no access to systems. Maintenance is requested in notebooks. Supply purchases arrive late because requisitions get lost."

We built tickets + intranet + SSO access. Tablets on the floor to report failures with a photo, purchase requests with an automatic approval flow, SAP integration for inventory.

→ 60% REDUCTION IN MAINTENANCE TIMES
Investment · 3 tiers

Three sizes. Three realities.

Internal Tools is quoted by number of employees, required modules and integration complexity. These are the typical ranges for companies of different sizes.

Team
15-30 people
from $20,000
3-5 weeks · 3 core modules
  • SSO with Google Workspace
  • Intranet + task manager
  • Basic ticketing system
  • 1 integration with an existing system
  • Group training included
  • 3 months of post-launch support
Most common
Company
30-80 people
from $60,000
5-7 weeks · 5 modules
  • SSO + Active Directory / Workspace
  • 5 full integrated modules
  • Automated digital onboarding
  • 2-3 integrations (ERP, accounting)
  • Training by department + manuals
  • 6 months of support + retainer discount
Enterprise
80+ people
from $120,000
7-12 weeks · 6+ modules
  • SSO + MFA + Active Directory
  • 6 modules + custom by industry
  • SAP / Oracle / custom ERP integrations
  • SOC 2 / HIPAA-ready compliance
  • Multi-location / multi-tenancy
  • Dedicated SLA + 24/7 support
Frequently asked questions

What everyone wants to know.

Notion, Slack and Asana are excellent up to a certain size. Internal Tools makes sense when: (1) you already spend $800+/month on combined SaaS, (2) you need deep integration with your ERP that generic tools don't handle well, (3) you require data on your own servers for compliance, (4) your team has grown enough that customization justifies the cost, or (5) you want independence from vendors that can raise prices or sunset features. If none of those apply, we'll tell you to stick with SaaS.
We design the interfaces to feel like the tools your team already uses: if they come from Notion, the wiki section feels similar; if they come from Asana, tasks work the same way. The real learning curve is 1-2 weeks for most people. We include group training by department (2 hours per group) and video manuals specific to your organization. Typical adoption is 80% in the first month.
In most cases, yes. We work with REST/SOAP APIs, OData (for SAP S4HANA), proprietary connectors (Oracle) and middleware when there's no API. Our founder worked as a backend developer specialized in SAP — enterprise integrations are our home turf. During the diagnostic we assess the feasibility and cost of each integration before putting it in scope.
You decide. By default we host it on managed infrastructure (Supabase + Netlify) — faster to deploy, less maintenance, lower cost. If your industry requires data on your own servers (financial, healthcare or government compliance), we move to self-hosted on your infrastructure (private AWS, Azure, on-premise). The cost changes but the solution is technically the same.
Adoption is a real problem — more than 50% of enterprise software projects fail on adoption, not on technology. That's why we include: (1) we involve champions from each department starting in discovery, (2) we design interfaces that improve the day-to-day, not just "what IT wants", (3) we roll out gradually (no big bang), (4) we give intensive support during the first 30 days, resolving resistance case by case. Your leadership has to back the change — that part we can't do for you.
We need real commitment, not just money. Typically: (1) 1-2 three-hour discovery sessions with leaders, (2) one hour of review per week during the build with a designated sponsor, (3) fast decisions (24-48h) when we ask something, (4) your team in training for 2-3 hours per person at the end. In total, 25-40 hours spread across 5-7 weeks for one person designated as project sponsor.
Yes, and it's the recommended path for many companies. We start with your most painful module (usually intranet + tasks or tickets), you validate adoption for 2-3 months, and we add the next modules in phases. Each new module is quoted separately, but it typically costs 40-60% less than building it from scratch because we already have the foundation running.
By default no, because the code is yours and the project model is financially better for you: you pay once and own the system, with no rising costs per new user. If your company prefers an OpEx (operating expense) model instead of CapEx (investment), we offer a "rent-to-own" plan where you pay monthly for 24 months and at the end the code and infrastructure are yours. We quote this plan case by case.

Your team deserves to operate better.

Book a 30-minute diagnostic. We audit your current operations, identify which modules you need and how much the chaos is costing you today. A proposal with scope, timeline and projected ROI in 48 hours.

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