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Clawson Built Systems

The work.

Real businesses. Real bottlenecks. Real numbers.

Every one of these started the same way: a real operational mess in one of my own companies, a system built to fit how the business already worked, and a number that proves it worked. This is what "the system fits the business" looks like in practice.

Sheet 01 — ProposalsTwo businesses · one system

45 minutes to 5. Across two different businesses.

The mess

Two companies — Christmas light installation (750 homes a season, October through December) and pressure washing — both sold on proposals. And building each proposal took 45 painstaking minutes. Different businesses, different sales, same bottleneck.

The system

Off-the-shelf tools wanted to force both into one template — which would've broken how each one actually sells. So I built one engine, shaped to fit each business: form fields in, a beautiful proposal out, sent to the customer to view and accept online.

The number

45 minutes became 5–10. Across a 750-home season, that's the difference between drowning and scaling. And customers now accept proposals themselves — no back-and-forth, no chasing signatures.

45 min5–10 min
Sheet 02 — CollectionsA logistics fix, not software

January went from chasing 400+ customers to chasing 15.

The mess

That same Christmas light business installed 750 homes every October–December — then spent the entire month of January chasing payment from over 400 of them. A full month, every year, lost to collections.

The system

The problem wasn't collection speed. It was collection timing. I built a system that pre-collects payment, restructuring when money changes hands without changing the service itself.

The number

67% of customers now pay before the work is done. January collections dropped from 400+ accounts to 10–15. A month of the team's time, returned every year.

400+10–15
Sheet 03 — Selling onlineCustom-fit beats off-the-shelf

We sold pest control online before Terminix did.

The mess

We wanted to sell pest control online — but it's a genuinely hard thing to communicate and sell through a cart, and no off-the-shelf store fit how the service actually works.

The system

So I built a custom webstore designed around our exact business — the way we sell, priced and packaged the way we serve. Not a generic e-commerce template bent to fit. A store built for the service.

The number

We were selling pest control online before Terminix — a national brand with resources we don't have — ever made the move. A one-person operation, first to the thing the giant hadn't figured out yet.

Before Terminix
Sheet 04 — RetentionCompounding value

Turning one-time installs into 86% year-over-year renewals.

The mess

The Christmas light business had a renewals problem: customers loved the work, but getting them re-signed for the following season was chaotic and manual, and too many quietly churned.

The system

I built a renewal system that made coming back the easy, natural path — fitted to how seasonal customers actually think and buy, instead of hoping they'd remember to call.

The number

86% of customers now renew year over year. In a seasonal home service business, that kind of retention is the difference between rebuilding your customer base every year and compounding it.

86%

renew year over year

Your business has a story like this too.

Somewhere in your operation there's a 45-minute task that should take 5, or a month lost to something a system could fix. Let's find it. Tell me the pain you're feeling. In 30 minutes I'll help you see the path forward — no strings, and if I'm not the right fit, I'll point you to who is.

Book a 30-minute callNo pitch. Tell me the pain, and I'll help you cut through the noise.