A year ago, owning your firm's software would have been unthinkable.
Now we build the software your firm runs on, with AI in it from the start, for one fixed fee and live in two to three months.
Backyard Ventures sellers now answer an RFP in one pass.
When a brand's RFP arrives, an AI agent reads it, finds the right clients among more than 100, and drafts an email to each for the seller to send.
Ready in two to three months.
We start from Runpoint OS, the system we run our own firm on, so the parts every firm needs are built and tested.
Pay for it once.
One fixed fee for the build, with no charge per seat. We replaced our own paid CRM and project tracker the same way.
Own the software and the data.
The code and every client record are yours, so you can change how your firm works without waiting on a vendor.
Keep building after launch.
We look after it and keep building. A due diligence firm we work with ships a new feature in one month instead of three.
Read the Backyard Ventures story See how we run our own firm
Deals, projects, people and finances run on one system your firm owns.
The command center puts cash, margin, the pipeline and this week's to-dos on one screen, the same view we use to run Runpoint.
AI works from your firm's own records, inside the tools your people already use.
You decide which AI tools can see your data and what they're allowed to change.
An RFP agent in Slack.
Every Backyard seller starts a new brand request with an AI agent in Slack, and each uses it several times a day.
Search the roster in plain English.
Backyard's sellers ask what's available, like parenting podcasts with a slot in March, and get an answer.
Proposals drafted from the kickoff call.
Our proposal tool reads the call transcript and drafts the proposal, which cut two days of work to about an hour.
A CRM kept current by every meeting.
At Runpoint, an AI agent reads each meeting transcript and updates the CRM, which replaced the one we paid for.
During discovery your people send voice notes about what slows them down, and AI writes up and sorts every one. We use whichever AI model does the job best.
Every build goes through four steps, and the first one takes two weeks.
You can buy the two weeks of discovery, which we call Papercuts, on its own, and you keep the ranked list of what to fix and a first build plan.
- 01 · Papercuts
Find what to fix
About two weeks
We listen to your people and rank what slows them down.
- 02 · Decisions
Approve the plan
Answers within two days
Your leaders click through working screens and tell us what to change.
- 03 · Foundation
Build the system
Two to three months
We build your system on software we have already built and tested.
- 04 · After launch
Keep it running
Ongoing
We look after it, or we train someone on your team to do it.
“We'd been trying to find a solution for that for years. This is perfect.”
“Runpoint was able to take on multiple requests for changes each day and turn them around...usually the same day. It was very impressive.”
Across our team's careers, we've shipped for companies like these.
When does your firm's next software contract renew?
Start with two weeks of discovery, bought on its own, and we'll come back with what to fix first and a plan timed to your renewals.
Start with two weeks of discovery