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Fifty recurring accounts should not require fifty manual check-ins.

Aperture OS maps your recurring visit scheduling, service completion confirmation, and invoice workflows through guided conversation and produces a verified implementation blueprint that automates coordination across all your accounts. The work is predictable. The coordination does not have to require a person.

Map your recurring workflows

What does manual coordination across 50 accounts actually cost?

A building services company with 50 recurring accounts spends 12 to 15 hours per week on scheduling coordination alone. Different clients have different visit frequencies, different access requirements, and different crew preferences. Each account requires its own tracking, its own reminders, and its own invoice cycle.

The payment problem compounds it. Building service companies carry an average of $12,000 in outstanding invoices at any given time. Most of it is not in dispute. It is just waiting on a follow-up that nobody has time to make. A 30-day payment reminder sequence costs nothing to run automatically and recovers thousands every month.

These workflows are highly repeatable. They run manually because they were never mapped and never built.

How does Aperture OS automate building service workflows?

The conversation starts with your actual account management process. Steve maps every recurring workflow across your client types. Atlas verifies every integration in your stack. The output is built from your specific process and your tools.

Phase 1: Map

Your recurring account workflows get extracted by client type

Steve walks through your visit scheduling logic: How does each account get its frequency set? Who gets assigned? What access instructions are involved? What triggers a service confirmation to the client? Each account type gets its own workflow documented: weekly janitorial differs from quarterly HVAC, monthly pest control differs from bi-weekly landscaping. Decision branches for rescheduling, crew substitution, and missed visits get captured.

Phase 2: Blueprint

Atlas verifies every integration and builds the implementation plan

Once your workflows are mapped, Atlas researches every integration available for your stack via live web search: Jobber scheduling, ServiceM8 dispatch, QuickBooks invoice generation, Stripe auto-charge, Twilio client notifications. The implementation plan phases the build: recurring schedule automation first, invoice generation second, payment follow-up sequences third.

Phase 3: Build

Visits schedule, completions confirm, invoices generate automatically

With the blueprint in hand, you build the automation on tools you already have. Each client's visit schedule runs automatically against your crew calendar. Service completion triggers a client confirmation and invoice generation. Auto-pay clients are charged on completion. Net-30 clients enter a payment follow-up sequence. Your team handles new accounts and escalations.

What does the implementation blueprint include?

  • Recurring visit schedule by client type: frequency, crew logic, access requirements
  • Service completion confirmation workflow: trigger, client message, and confirmation loop
  • Invoice generation trigger: completion-based for auto-pay, start of billing period for net-30
  • Payment follow-up sequence: 7-day, 14-day, 30-day reminders with escalation logic
  • Exception handling: rescheduling workflow, crew substitution, and missed visit notifications
  • Every integration path verified for your specific stack

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Common questions about automating building service workflows

We have clients on weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly schedules — can this handle all of them?

Yes. The mapping conversation captures each recurring schedule as a separate trigger with its own frequency, crew assignment logic, and client communication sequence. A weekly janitorial client runs a different schedule than a monthly pest control client. Each gets documented with its own workflow. The automation runs the right sequence for each client without requiring anyone to manually track whose turn it is.

What happens when a crew member calls out sick or a visit needs to be rescheduled?

Exception handling gets documented as a branch in the workflow during the mapping session. When a crew member is unavailable, the automation can trigger a reassignment notification to the next available crew and a rescheduling message to the client. The exact logic — who gets notified, what the client message says, how the rescheduled visit gets logged — gets built from your current process for handling these situations.

How does invoice automation work for net-30 clients versus auto-pay clients?

Each billing type gets documented as a separate invoice workflow during the mapping conversation. Auto-pay clients trigger a charge and receipt on service completion. Net-30 clients trigger invoice generation on service completion and enter a payment follow-up sequence with reminders at 7 days, 14 days, and 30 days. Each sequence is built from your current billing process, including the messaging you use for late payments and the tools you use to process them.

What software does this connect with?

Atlas verifies available integrations for your specific stack via live web research during the mapping session. Common building service platforms include Jobber, ServiceM8, Housecall Pro, FieldEdge, and mHelpDesk. Payment processing through Stripe or QuickBooks, and communication through Twilio or email automation are common integration paths. The implementation plan is built around what you already use — not tools you need to buy.

Stop coordinating 50 accounts manually

One conversation maps your recurring workflows. One blueprint shows you how to build the automation.

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