Custom tools

    Picture your business running without the spreadsheet juggling, the phone tag, or the one person everyone waits on.

    We build tools around how your business actually works, so jobs move faster, mistakes drop, and you stop being the bottleneck. If you can describe the headache, we can probably build the fix.

    What we could build for you

    • Estimate and quote builder

      Answer a few questions, get a priced estimate in minutes instead of an evening at the kitchen table.

    • Job and schedule board

      Everyone sees what's next without calling the office.

    • Customer status page

      Customers check where their job or order stands themselves, so the "any update?" calls stop.

    • Inventory and order tracker

      Know what's on hand before you promise it.

    • Approvals in one place

      Purchase requests, change orders and time off, with a record of who said yes.

    • Field checklists and photo reports

      Crews finish the paperwork on their phone before they leave the job.

    • Owner dashboard

      The numbers you check every morning, on one screen.

    • System connections

      Your apps share information, so nobody types the same thing twice.

    Don't see yours? Tell us what's slowing you down.

    How we build

    1. Watch the work first.

      We learn how the job really gets done, not how the org chart says it does.

    2. Sketch it before we build it.

      You see the screens and steps first, so changes are cheap.

    3. Build the smallest version that helps.

      Then improve it with your team instead of delivering one big thing all at once.

    4. You own it.

      The tool and its data stay yours.

    Recent work

    • A national distributor's operating system.

      A custom operations system, shaped and run for ten years at a national distributor, handling orders, deliveries and billing across more than a hundred supplier farms.

    • Estimates and invoices on demand.

      An electrical contractor now gets a finished estimate or invoice from a short conversation with an AI assistant, the same way every time.

    • A checkout that won a platform.

      A checkout problem at the biggest payment company became a payment gateway, built from the ground up. The platform later went to private equity and was acquired by one of the world's largest payment processors.

    • A guided business review.

      An AI-run interview that turns an owner's answers into a one-page report on where the business loses time and money.

      MCCLONE TECHNOLOGY CONSULTINGFriction FinderPrepared for [Your business]THE THREE THINGS COSTING YOU THE MOST01Jobs re-keyed fromestimate to invoice$18–24K/yr02Invoices sent daysafter the job closes$9–12K/yr03Quoting dependson one person$15–30K/yrTHE THREE THINGS COSTING YOU THE MOST · YOUR NEXT STEP
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    • A data move toolkit.

      Reusable tools that run the same checks on every data migration, so nothing slips through.

    What it costs

    Fixed price per project, quoted in writing after we understand the job.