Everything after the client says yes.
That is the part this was built for, and it is the part nobody warns you about when you start working for yourself.
Where it came from
Business OS started as one studio's internal tool. The studio was doing well, which turned out to be the problem: five agreed projects in a month meant five proposals to write, five contracts to check, five deposits to raise, and five clients waiting on a document before anyone could start.
None of that work is difficult. All of it is repetitive, it all lands at the exact moment you would rather be starting the actual job, and it all gets done at night because the day belongs to clients.
The first version was a set of Notion templates and a very long checklist. The second was a script. This is the third, and it is the first one worth handing to anybody else.
How it gets built
Alongside live client work, which is the only reason it knows which parts are actually annoying. Features arrive because a real project went through and something was slower than it should have been. That is a slower way to build a product and a much better way to find out what it is for.
Early access works the same way. A small number of businesses, taken on by hand, using it on real projects with real clients and telling us what broke. That is the whole of what we want in exchange while it is free.
What it is deliberately not
It is not a CRM, and it is not trying to become one. It does not want to hold your tasks, your files, your calendar or your inbox. Those all have good homes already, and the version of this product that tried to own them would be worse at the one thing it is for.
It also does not fit every business yet. If you bill hourly, run retainers or sell subscriptions, the shape of the documents is wrong for you, and we would rather say so than take your email address. Fixed fee, defined scope, a start and an end is where it works.
Those limits are choices, not gaps we haven't got to. A tool that drafts documents going out under your name has to be narrow enough to be right about them.
Who is building it
Business OS is made by Will Perez Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales, working from London. It is a small operation, which means you get answers from the person who wrote the thing you are asking about.
Get in touch
Questions about the product, or want to be one of the early access businesses: hello@mybusinessos.co.uk.