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Four things I built this year, and what each one changed.

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Criminal defense practice · Salt Lake City
20 min

back on every new matter, by the attorney's count

01Twenty minutes back on every new matter

A criminal defense practice in Salt Lake City was retyping the same client details into three documents for every new matter. I built one intake that produces all three. It runs on the attorney's own computer, so nothing about a client leaves the office.

It was in use on live matters the day after delivery, and he puts the saving at 20 minutes a matter.

Owner-run field-service company
30 min

for a payroll that used to take over half a day

02Payroll in 30 minutes, not half a day

At an owner-run field-service company, payroll meant building every technician's pay by hand. I built one file that takes the two reports the office already had and does the arithmetic, leaving a short list for her judgment.

The person who runs payroll says it went from over half a day to about 30 minutes. The process is now so fast for her that it feels like cheating on a test.

The same company
$0.48

what a part billed at $10.00 costs everywhere else

03A stack of receipts became a parts report

The same company had no view of what each technician spent on parts. I turned a pile of scanned supplier receipts into a monthly report by technician.

The first run found a part billed at $10.00 that costs $0.48 everywhere else.

Service business
Live

in technicians' hands, in the field, today

04A paper inspection form, gone

A service business needed its paper inspection process gone. I designed, built, and deployed the replacement: a web app their technicians use in the field today.

How these get done

Each one started as a task someone did by hand.

On a schedule, and describable in a sentence. That is what makes a good first project.

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