Birmingham, MIWe build the shortcuts.
We connect the programs you already use, so your team types everything once. For offices, practices and crews of 5 to 30 people.
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Adding a new client
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How we'd build this shortcut
A sample. Yours depends on the programs you already use.
Chasing two late invoices
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How we'd build this shortcut
A sample. Yours depends on the programs you already use.
The Friday hours report
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How we'd build this shortcut
A sample. Yours depends on the programs you already use.
Checking on three techs
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How we'd build this shortcut
A sample. Yours depends on the programs you already use.
Most offices don't need new software. They need the software they already pay for to stop asking people to type the same thing twice.
You work with the founder. No account managers, no juniors, no slide decks — the person you talk to on day one is the person who builds it.
What we do
We watch how your week actually runs, find the spots where a job takes twelve clicks when it could take two, and build the shortcut. The work is mechanical, not magical.
Scheduling, billing, the CRM and the books usually don't talk to each other. We connect them through each program's official way in, so information is entered once and shows up everywhere it's needed. If one of yours has no way in, we'll tell you up front.
The Friday rollup, the Monday snapshot, the end-of-day numbers — pulled from each system, checked, and waiting for you when you need them.
Recurring emails drafted and waiting, renewals on the calendar before they're due, and a heads-up when a number looks off. AI helps with some of it, where it earns its keep.
What your customers see stays the same, unless you want it changed.
Nobody gets written out of a job. They just spend less time retyping.
Code, documentation and accounts are handed over at the end.
Samples — illustrative, not client work
Each one turns a pile of clicks into a few. Every name and number in a sample is invented.
SampleAny office · the front desk
62→2clicks
SampleLaw firms
31→2clicks
SampleHVAC and trades
26→2clicks
SampleAccounting
242→1click
Six in all, each played the long way and with the shortcut.
See all six, click by clickA quick sense of scale
Three rough numbers. It adds up hours — never dollars — just to give us something real to talk about.
Out of roughly 72 hours a week spent on repeat work today.
Based on 48 working weeks
Back in their week, on average
A sense of scale, not a promise. Nothing about this number is a verdict — every shop has slow parts, and plenty of them are there for good reasons. We'd want to sit with the actual work before saying what's worth shortening.
How it works
No hourly meter. You know what you're saying yes to before anything starts.
01
Free
You tell us what's grinding. We listen, ask questions, and say honestly whether we're the right help.
02
$350
Your team records the chore the long way on a phone, start to finish. We study it, ask questions, and send a one-page plan.
03One fixed quote
$900–$1,800 each
You pick which shortcuts are worth doing. Many start from ones we’ve already built, fitted to your programs. Each has one fixed price, and that number doesn’t move.
04Optional
$39–$79/mo each
We keep an eye on each shortcut and fix it when a program it talks to changes. Cancel any time.
Every shortcut is one fixed number, quoted in your plan and agreed before any work starts. Rather pay monthly? Most shortcuts can be spread over 12 months instead, with care included.
Who and where
An office, a practice or a crew. If your team does the same chore the long way every week, we’d like to hear about it. It’s quickest and cheapest when your programs let other software connect for free, like QuickBooks, Microsoft 365, Google, Clio and Jobber, and we’ll tell you in the first conversation if yours don’t.
Jesse Hollingsworth
Founder, Hollingsworks
About
I came up as an engineer at General Motors, finding the places where teams got stuck doing things the long way — and building the tools that gave them a shorter one.
I also build apps, with live apps on the App Store and Google Play. So when I say I'll build the shortcut, I build it.
Hollingsworks is small on purpose. If we work together, you work with me — not a project manager, not a junior, not a slide deck. You know your business better than I do. My job is to help with the parts that take the long way around.
Hollingsworks is in its first year. You won't find client logos or testimonials here, because there aren't any yet — and we won't fake them. Every mockup on this site is labeled Sample. When there's real work to show, it'll be here.
FAQ
Straight answers. If yours isn't here, bring it to the first conversation.
That’s the whole approach. We don’t swap out your practice software, CRM, scheduling, point of sale or accounting. We connect them and build around them. The fewer new logins your team has to learn, the better. The toolbox page lists what we’d connect them with.
No — the opposite. Your team keeps doing the work, with less of the manual middle. The people who spend two hours a day retyping things would much rather spend that time on what they were hired to do.
Not much, if we do our job. We aim to put the shortcut inside something they already use — email, a spreadsheet, the system they're in all day. When something new does make sense, we walk the team through it at handoff.
No. AI shows up where it earns its keep — drafting a document, summarizing a pile of notes. Roughly half of what we'd build uses it; the other half doesn't. It's a tool, like a database or a script. It's never the pitch.
The first 30-minute conversation is free. The shortcut check is $350, and it comes off whatever you build; if it can't find at least 3 hours a week worth shortening, it's free. Most shortcuts cost $900–$1,800 each, and bigger custom ones start at $3,500, always as one fixed price agreed before work starts. Care is optional, at $39–$79 a month per shortcut.
Most shortcuts take one to three weeks from yes to handoff. A bigger custom one might take four to six. You’ll know which before we start, and we’ll stick to it.
You do. Code, scripts, documentation and accounts are all handed over at the end. If something is hosted, it lives in your name and you can move it whenever you like.
Every build includes 30 days of fixes after handoff. After that, care is there if you want it, at $39–$79 a month per shortcut. Problems reported by 5 PM are looked at that evening and usually fixed by the next business day. Every shortcut is built to stop safely and tell you when something’s off, so your team can do it the usual way in the meantime.
Honest answer: Hollingsworks is in its first year, so there's no client work to show yet. Every mockup on this site is labeled Sample. What we can show is Jesse's background — engineering at General Motors and apps live on the App Store and Google Play.
Across Southeast Michigan, from our base in Birmingham. Most of the shortcut check works from short recordings your team makes of the chore, plus a quick call. When it helps to see the work in person, we come to you.
Then we’ll say so. If the check can’t find at least 3 hours a week worth shortening, you don’t pay for it. We’d rather be honest than upsell.
Always. Send yours and we'll sign it, or we'll send ours — short, mutual, two pages.
Email hello@hollingsworks.com with a line or two about your business and what's taking the long way around. We'll set up a free 30-minute conversation.
We build the shortcuts.
One short note starts a free 30-minute conversation. Send it here, or email directly. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so, early and plainly.
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