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Ask for the software your business needs.
Off-the-shelf software almost fits. Describe the rest in your own words: Popcomputer builds it on your data, checks with you before it acts, and keeps it running.
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Chase every subcontractor whose insurance runs out next month.
Chase insurance renewals · Running
- Starts
- A month before each policy ends, at 9:00
- For
- Subcontractors with no renewed certificate on file
- Then
- Emails each one for the new certificate, after you approve
Next: Ridley Roofing, Pell Haulage and Moss Groundworks on Monday
Just ask
If you can explain it, you can have it.
Say what the job is, the way you’d say it to a colleague. Each ask becomes something that keeps working, and when it needs to change, you ask again.
Every Monday, email me this week’s bookings, and who still owes a deposit.
Became: A weekly email
A Monday email listing this week’s three bookings, two of them still owing a deposit.
Then you might ask: “Remind the two who still owe one.”
Add a column saying which documents each client is still missing.
Became: A column the agent fills in
A table of clients with a new column, filled in by the agent, listing what each is still missing.
Then you might ask: “Only count this tax year’s documents.”
When a CV arrives by email, add the candidate to our table and file their CV.
Became: A filing workflow
Priya Shah’s emailed CV for the site manager role, filed under Candidates and read as a CV.
Then you might ask: “Score each one against the role.”
Which of our Pipedrive leads filed their accounts late?
Became: Your CRM, joined with Companies House
Three Pipedrive leads with their last accounts at Companies House: two filed late, one on time.
Then you might ask: “Note it on the deal in Pipedrive.”
Almost fits
Stop working around your software.
Your CRM works. But next to it there’s a spreadsheet, a calendar of reminders and emails sent by hand. That’s the part that’s really yours, and it’s where the hours go.
- Your CRM It works, mostly.
- A spreadsheet For the columns it doesn’t have.
- Calendar reminders For the steps it doesn’t take.
- Emails by hand Every Friday, by whoever remembers.
One workspace for all four Built around how you already work, because you asked for it.
Custom software, without the custom build.
Until now there were two ways to get software: made for everyone, or made for you at a developer’s pace and price. Popcomputer works like the first and fits like the second.
| Off-the-shelf | Built for you | Popcomputer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fits how you work | Mostly. You work around the rest. | Exactly. | Exactly, because you described it. |
| Ready to use | Straight away. | When the build is done. | As soon as you’ve asked. |
| A change takes | A feature request, and a wait. | A developer. | Asking for it. |
| Kept running by | The vendor. | Whoever built it. | Popcomputer. |
| One for each client | Rarely. | Too costly to repeat. | Yes, a workspace each. |
One for each client
Every client gets their own system.
Not a folder in your system, but a workspace of its own: its own inbox, files, checklist and chasing. The same way of working in each one, shaped to each client and sealed from the rest.
Quayside Lettings · 5 landlord workspaces
- Bridgewater Estates bridgewater@popcomputer.app · 5 of 5 in · Ready to let. Next: publish the listing
- Okafor Properties okafor@popcomputer.app · 4 of 5 in · Chasing. Next: chase for the gas safety certificate, Friday at 9:00
- Mill Lane Holdings mill-lane@popcomputer.app · 2 of 4 in · Chasing. Next: chase for the EICR and the EPC, Monday at 9:00
- Fenwick & Daughters fenwick@popcomputer.app · 4 of 4 in · Ready to let. Next: publish the listing
- Priory Court Ltd priory-court@popcomputer.app · 5 of 6 in · Waiting. Next: wait for the signed management agreement, asked for on Tuesday
Inside each one:
- Its own inbox
- Files read as they arrive
- Its own checklist
- Chasing on a schedule
- An agent that sees only this client
Inside one
A week in Okafor Properties’ workspace.
Five things happened. You were asked about one of them.
Mon 8:12 An email arrives at okafor@popcomputer.app
Three attachments from Grace: the EPC, the electrical report and the inventory.
Mon 8:13 The checklist updates itself
Four of five documents are in. The gas safety certificate is still missing.
Fri 9:00 The chase asks you first
“Send Grace the reminder about the gas safety certificate?” You approve it from your phone.
Fri 14:40 Grace replies with the certificate
Read as a gas safety certificate, valid to October 2027. The chase stops on its own.
Fri 14:41 Ready to let
All five are in. You get one notification, and the listing is ready to publish.
Where the week ended: Documents for the tenancy, 5 of 5 in
- Gas safety certificate
- Electrical report (EICR)
- EPC
- Inventory
- Signed management agreement
Keep what works
Keep your CRM. Add the part that’s yours.
You don’t have to switch. Popcomputer syncs your Pipedrive deals into a table, then adds what Pipedrive doesn’t do: the columns you need, the checks you make, the steps that follow.
| Deal | Stage | Value | At Companies House | Next step |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oakfield Builders Ltd | Proposal | £4,200 | Accounts 34 days late | Ask about the late filing |
| Hale & Sons | Qualified | £1,800 | Up to date | Send the engagement letter |
| Cotter Electrical Ltd | Contact made | £2,600 | Accounts 12 days late | Ask about the late filing |
| Fenwick Florists | Proposal | £950 | Up to date | Book a call |
Added in Popcomputer. The first three columns stay exactly as Pipedrive has them.
Why it holds up
Made to be trusted with real work.
Asking for software only works if what you get is safe to run.
Each client, sealed.
Every workspace is its own database, on its own machine. The agent in one can’t see another.
It asks before it acts.
The agent shows you what it will change and waits for a yes. Steps that send email can ask you every time.
Open-source foundations.
It runs on packages anyone can read: web framework, document graph, structured chat, email and files.
Built on popweb.
The same framework anyone can build their own app with, at web.popcomputer.com
Early access
What would you ask for first?
Tell us the job that takes too long. It goes with your request for early access, and your workspace starts from there.