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WAITING
REWORK
WHO OWNS THIS?
Strategic Impact Matrix BUSINESS VALUE VS. EFFORT TO IMPLEMENT · ILLUSTRATIVE BUILD TOWARDSWEET SPOTDEFER OR DROPQUICK WIN HIGHLOWBUSINESS VALUEHARDER TO IMPLEMENTEASIER TO IMPLEMENT BIGGEST LEAK START HERE Sell & OrderPrepProcessShip & Close
Annualized savings$513K
Capacity reclaimed4,431
IN THE ROOM
the friction is trying to tell you something.
Operations · AI · Analytics · Execution

There’s money
trapped in
your process.

Friction leaves clues. Your employees feel it. Your customers experience it. Your numbers prove it. We connect the three, then show you what to change first.

Your process. Your numbers. One day to see where it’s trapped.
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Friction leaves clues

The cost isn’t just the cost.

A process can hit the budget, the people doing the work and the person waiting on the other side, all at the same time.

The system
The spreadsheet
Employee experience
Your people feel it

“Why am I entering this again?”

Manual work steals attention long before it shows up as a line item.

“Didn’t I already give you this?”

Customer experience
Your customers experience it

Waiting is part of the product.

Even when nobody intended it to be.

Decision needed
Numbers arrive
MonFri
Five days of waiting on the answer
Business performance
Your decisions wait on it

The gap is usually the clue.

The numbers land after the decision has already been made.

A useful unpopular opinion

You probably don’t need more AI.

You need to know where AI matters. Sometimes it’s AI. Sometimes it’s automation. Sometimes it’s better data. Sometimes it’s removing three steps nobody needed in the first place.

AI when it helpsAutomation where it worksBetter process either way
How it compounds

Build the brain one slice at a time.

Start with what matters, connect the knowledge beneath it, then put it to work.

So what is a company brain?

Your company already knows things: what counts as a finished job, which costs belong to it, why you stopped doing it the other way in 2023. Today that knowledge lives in people’s heads, in an old ticket, and in a document nobody can name.

A company brain is that knowledge written down once, in a form your people and your software can both use.

It isn’t a tool you buy. It gets built a slice at a time, and the blueprint decides which slice goes first.

Where the money usually goes

Most companies have a line in the budget for AI and automation this year, and it will get spent either way.

Where it goes is usually whatever is easiest to start. A team finishes six low effort items because they’re “quick wins,” and each one took a week away from something worth ten times as much that would also have been low effort.

That’s what the Impact Matrix is for. It scores business value against effort to implement, both axes, so the first slice is the one that pays for the rest.

01

Blueprint

A satellite view of how the company actually runs, and where the treasure is buried.

Nobody can build the whole brain at once. Try, and you stall. Chase the easy wins instead and you can spend a year on things that never moved the business.

  • Satellite view
  • Shadow processes
  • Which slice first
02

Build one slice

Take one priority all the way through the stack.

ActivationAI and automation on top, so the impact shows up earlyA brief before every meeting, and actions captured without anyone typing them up
Company BrainWhere the process and the data become one shared contextWhat was agreed last time, and what this client actually cares about
FoundationThe process documented in detail, the data normalisedCalendars, notes, the CRM record, and who owns the follow-up

One priority, cut through every layer. Each slice wires into what the last one knew. That is why the second costs less than the first. Illustrative, not client work.

03

Improve

Shadow processes come back and process drifts. We audit what people actually do against what the system says, and keep the brain true.

Leave it and the brain starts confidently teaching everyone the wrong way to do things.

  • People vs system
  • Catch the drift
  • Back to the blueprint
Each slice makes the Company Brain more useful.
Different symptoms. Same question.

Where are you spending more than you should?

Sometimes it shows up in the P&L. Sometimes it shows up in a team that’s exhausted. Usually, it’s both.

TIME
Waiting disguised as work.Approval chains, handoffs, searches and status checks that add an hour to the day.
CAPACITY
Your best people are full.Not because the work is all valuable. It is because too much of it is manual.
PATIENCE
Your employees feel the process.Workarounds, duplicate entry and “we’ve always done it this way.”
TRUST
Your customers feel it too.Waiting, repeating information and getting different answers from different people.
MONEY
Value you should be capturing.Rework, delay, missed revenue, unused technology and work nobody needs.
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Case studies

The before and afters
of process design.

the before is always messier than anyone remembers.
BeforeAfter
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Streamlined reporting · enterprise life sciences

From fragmented data to a revenue engine the team can trust.

The problem

Lead counts no one trusted. Marketing not getting credit for pipeline. Logic buried in dashboards. Four systems, zero shared map.

What we did

Mapped the full marketing-automation → CRM → warehouse → BI flow. Used the StreamlinePro Impact Matrix to sequence the fixes. Pushed logic back into the data layer.

What changed

One unified data model. Fiscal-aware KPI pacing. A reporting foundation analytics, marketing and sales can all stand behind.

Revenue scorecardInteractive system mapUnified data modelAttribution fixWarehouse SQL optimizationGovernance roadmap
Time saved36 days/yr
Systems unified4
Shared data models1

Time saved is roughly three days a month of one person’s time, annualized. Figures shown inside the diagram are illustrative. Client anonymized at their preference; engagement details are theirs, the approach is ours.

BeforeAfter
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Support that remembers · midsize real estate

Every answer already existed. Nobody could find it.

The problem

Almost every question the desk received had already been answered: in an old ticket, in a document nobody could name, or in the head of whoever happened to be in that day. So every reply started from scratch anyway, and the same problem got solved several times a year by different people.

What we did

Made what the company already knew findable before it was needed instead of after. Each request is read against everything the team has answered before, drafted from it in seconds, and routed to a person to approve. Then what was learned is written back, so whoever picks up the next one starts further ahead.

What changed

Shorter handle time, faster onboarding for new agents, and fewer interruptions to the people who can least afford them. And unlike a piece of automation, it improves every month. What the company knows is now an asset that compounds instead of a document that goes stale.

Answers grounded in your own historyA person approves every replyKnowledge captured as it is usedGets better every month
Time saved500 hrs/yr
Manual steps before5
Human decision points after1

Time saved is roughly 15 minutes per ticket across about 2,000 tickets a year. Client anonymized at their preference; engagement details are theirs, the approach is ours.

Operations Blueprint™ · StreamlinePro™

A day in the room, and
your ranked roadmap the week after.

It isn’t a list of recommendations. It decides what to fix, what to automate, what to leave alone, and what it’s worth.

from “we should fix that” to “here’s what goes first.”

One day in the room is the fastest way to find out if this is worth doing.

Open it up. Here is exactly what happens.StreamlinePro™
Workshop
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What you leave with
A process mapEvery handoff, delay and decision point, documented rather than assumed.
A gap analysisEvery leak written down with a number attached to it.
An Impact MatrixBusiness value scored against effort, so the first move is defensible.
A ranked roadmapWhat goes first, what it costs, and what it returns.

The scoring behind the matrix, the sequencing rules and the worked economics are the part we walk clients through directly, in the room.

A stack of printed pages covered in handwritten margin notes and underlines.
Small fixes

What happens when you build what matters.

96hrs / year

The pivot tables stopped being rebuilt.

Every time someone asked a question, a team member copied data out of the source system, pasted it into Excel, and built the same pivot tables again from scratch.

We merged the data sources, unified the structure underneath them, and built filterable charts and reports in Power BI. The next question gets answered in the report rather than rebuilt in a spreadsheet.
173hrs / year

The lease dates stopped going stale.

The ERP and the CRM had no connection between them, so a lease expiration in the CRM was only as current as the last person who had gone and looked it up.

We built the integration and automated the renewal processing, which gave the team back 173 hours a year they had been spending on copy and paste. The renewal date is now right without anyone going to check it.
75%more capacity

Packers stopped writing on the boxes.

Someone packing a shipment wrote the contents on each box by hand, then typed the same list in again to get a shipping label.

They now speak the inventory into the box as they pack it. The system cross-references it against the order number and produces the shipping label in the same step, which is roughly 809 hours a year back and a 75% increase in capacity.
In their words

What it is like to work with us.

“With industry expertise, technical knowledge, and strong communication skills, the BTCS Group team integrated into our company culture to drive our projects forward.” Matt Putman · H.G. Fenton Company
Who we are

Beyond the clock.

BTCS exists to bridge the gap between good ideas and good execution.

Founded2019
Combined experience20+ yrs
Meet the team →

BTCS stands for Beyond The Clock Solutions. It means using AI and automation beyond the clock, so a team gets more done with less.

And why? Because if we can help companies get their products to market and support their customers faster, that helps their communities and the change they can make.

Business creates a ripple effect. Think of that go-to product: the perfect water bottle, a medical diagnostic tool, an accounting firm that goes above and beyond.

When things go smoothly in business, it brings joy, opportunity and new ideas to communities.

So that’s what we do. Help companies get to their best, so that we rise together. It’s also why we give to Kiva.

Mission

Empower high-performing teams to deliver measurable business outcomes for their teams, their customers, and the communities they are a part of.

Built on a single conviction

There is always a better way.

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73 loans. 29 countries.Capacity created in one business, put to work in another.
Loans73
Countries29
Lent by BTCS$33,290
Loans helped fund$186,175
Size by
29 countries
Loans—
Lent—
Women—

Every loan real, from the BTCS Kiva account. “Lent by BTCS” is what we put in; “loans helped fund” is the total value of the loans those contributions went toward, alongside other lenders. Borders: Natural Earth (public domain).

Why it matters

When businesses thrive, communities rise.

We believe value created inside a business can create value far beyond it. Better work gives employees room to do more, customers a better experience, and companies more capacity to invest in what’s next.

United States
Kenya
Colombia
Nicaragua
Honduras
Mozambique
El Salvador
Fiji
Uganda
United States
Kenya
Colombia
Nicaragua
Honduras
Mozambique
El Salvador
Fiji
Uganda
KIVA
A portion of BTCS profits supports businesses around the world through Kiva.
Because helping one business move forward can create opportunity far beyond that business.
Questions

The things people ask before they call.

What is the StreamlinePro workshop?

A day in the room mapping how the work actually flows, at whatever scope makes sense: one department, or a whole revenue cycle. That map is the first piece of your company brain, and its job is to show where the biggest opportunities sit so you know what to build first. Left to guesswork, teams tend to start with whatever is easiest, which is rarely what moves the business.

Do we have to hire you to do the work afterwards?

No, and there is no hard sell either way. Plenty of what comes out of the workshop is work an internal team can do without us. We could take on most of it, but if you would rather run it with your own people or another resource you already trust, we would rather help you hand it over cleanly and stay available for the parts you want us on.

Do you decide which software we use?

No, but we help you work through the options. The tool is the last decision, not the first, because most of what gets sold as a technology problem is a people-and-process problem. Once the process is clear, the real question is whether an off-the-shelf product fits, whether something already in your stack can do it, or whether it is worth building. We simplify before we automate either way.

Do you advise, or do you build it?

Both, in that order. The blueprint says which slice of the work to fix first; the build does the process part, the data part, and the automation that joins them. The people who map the work are not always the people who build it, and the team is set up so they stay connected through it rather than handing you off.

What kind of problems do you actually fix?

Concrete ones. A team rebuilding the same pivot tables every time somebody asked a question. Lease expiry dates going stale because the ERP and the CRM had no connection between them. Packers writing box contents by hand and then typing the same list in again for a shipping label.

How do you keep it from drifting back?

Process drift and shadow processes are inevitable, so the third step is to audit what people actually do against what the system says they do, hear first-hand what needs to change, and feed new ideas back into the blueprint rather than letting them pile up.

StreamlinePro™

There’s money trapped in your process.
Let’s go find it.

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