DashForge

Dashboards for small and medium business

Forged for the way you already work

Most businesses already know what they need to see. It is spread across a spreadsheet, an inbox, and someone's notebook. We build the one screen that puts it together — and we build it to last, not to demo.

  • roofworks.ca/dashboard

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    3 today

    Awaiting quote

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    2 over 5 days

    Proposals out

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    $104,300 pending

    Accepted this month

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    up from 4

    Requests by status

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    Scheduled
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    AddressJobStatus
    114 Kathleen StFull replacementNew
    87 Regent StLeak repairScheduled
    2201 Long Lake RdInspectionQuoted
    45 Elm St WShingle repairAccepted

    RoofWorks

    From website enquiry to signed proposal, without the paperwork.

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  • Torque — Work Orders
    No internet connection required. Everything on this screen is read fromshop.dbon this machine.

    In the shop

    5

    Waiting on parts

    2

    1 arriving today

    Ready for pickup

    3

    Open work orders

    VehicleCustomerIn forBayStatus
    2016 F-150D. RancourtBrakes, front1In progress
    2019 CR-VS. OkonkwoTiming belt2Parts
    2012 CivicJ. BélangerSafetyReady
    2021 SilveradoM. LachanceOil, tire swapBooked

    Torque

    The shop computer runs it. Nothing else has to.

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  • 6:04Crew 2

    Today

    2 of 5 done

    1. 7:30

      Ramsey Lake Rd — 14 units

      Photo attached · 8:12

    2. 9:15

      Bancroft Dr — hedges

      Photo attached · 8:12

    3. 10:45

      Silver Hills — full cut

      Finish with photo
    4. 13:00

      Lasalle Blvd plaza

    5. 15:00

      Moonlight Ave — cleanup

    Verdant

    Built for a phone, in a truck, with gloves on.

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  • proof.dashforge.ca/margins

    Items tracked

    34

    Gross margin

    58%

    up 3 pts

    Data entry added

    None

    reads POS export

    Share of units sold vs share of profit

    last 12 weeks
    • Share of units
    • Share of profit
    Croissant
    28%
    11%
    Sourdough
    19%
    24%
    Cinnamon bun
    14%
    9%
    Focaccia
    8%
    17%
    Baguette
    12%
    6%

    Both measures are shares of the same total, so they sit on one axis. The croissant is the bestseller and the third-best earner — that gap is the reason this dashboard exists.

    Proof

    You already have the data. This is the part that reads it.

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What we build

Three ways to get there

Whichever one fits, you get the same standard of build. The difference is how much of it starts from scratch.

Fastest to live

Premade

One of our existing dashboards, set up for your business.

We configure it with your name, your users and your data, and hand you the keys. The fastest way to stop running the business out of a spreadsheet.

  • Built and proven already
  • Your branding, your users, your data
  • The shortest turnaround we offer
Most projects

Adapted

A premade dashboard reshaped around how you actually work.

Start from something that already works, then change the parts that do not fit — your stages, your fields, your paperwork, your rules. Most projects land here.

  • Your terminology and your workflow
  • Fields, stages and documents changed to match
  • New screens where you need them
Built for one

Custom

Built from nothing, for a business nobody has a template for.

We spend the time to understand the work first, then design the system around it. This is the right answer when the way you operate is the advantage.

  • Designed around your process, not a template
  • Integrations with the tools you already pay for
  • Scoped and quoted per project

Every project is scoped and quoted on its own — a two-screen tool and a system that runs a whole company are not the same job. Turnaround starts at two weeks and goes up from there.

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Where it runs

Two ways to run it

This is a real decision, not an upsell. One of these is right for your business and the other one is a nuisance — we will tell you which.

Cloud

Your team signs in from anywhere — phones in the field, the laptop at home, the computer at the counter.

  • Several people working at once, each seeing what they should
  • Sign in with an email link or a Google account
  • Permissions enforced in the database, not just hidden in the interface
  • Automatic backups, updates handled for you
  • Works on a phone because it was designed on one

Right when: more than one person needs it, or anyone needs it away from the building.

Local

One machine, one user, one file. No accounts, no internet, no monthly fee.

  • Installed on the computer you already have
  • Everything stored in a single database file you own outright
  • Keeps working during an outage — it never needed the network
  • Backed up by copying one file wherever you like
  • Set up in person around the Greater Sudbury area, or over a screen share anywhere else

Right when: one person runs it, the connection is unreliable, or you are done paying monthly for software.

Selected work

Built, not mocked up

Each of these exists to prove something different — permissions enforced in the database, an app that works with the radio off, arithmetic about money that is checked rather than trusted. All of them are running, with real data behind them.

Your data

We meet your data where it lives

Nobody is going to retype three years of records into a new system, and we would not ask.

It reads what you already keep

Spreadsheets, CSV exports, your point-of-sale, your accounting software. If it produces a file or has an export button, it can feed the dashboard on a schedule.

Or it becomes the place the work lives

For most operational work, the dashboard should be where the job is entered, updated and closed — one record, one truth, no rekeying between three tools.

We bring your history with you

Starting from an empty system is a good way to have people go back to the spreadsheet. We import what you have so it is useful the day you open it.

Your data stays yours

You can export everything, at any time, in a format other software can read. We will hand over the whole database if you ask. There is no hostage-taking here.

How it works

No surprises, in either direction

A dashboard is only worth building if it survives contact with a busy week. The process is built around that.

  1. A conversation

    You tell us how the work moves through your business today — who touches it, where it stalls, what gets written down twice. We ask a lot of questions and take notes.

    Week zero
  2. A written scope and a price

    Screen by screen, what it does and what it does not do, with a fixed price and a date. If we think the job is bigger than it is worth, we say so here rather than after you have paid.

    A few days later
  3. The build

    You see it working while it is being built, not at the end. Small things get corrected as we go; big changes get re-scoped honestly instead of quietly absorbed.

    From two weeks
  4. Setup with your real data

    We load your history, set up your people, and walk through it with whoever will actually use it — in person if you are near us, over a screen share if you are not.

    Launch week
  5. 30 days of fixes included

    Real use finds things a demo never will. For 30 days, fixes and small adjustments are part of the job. After that, ongoing support and hosting are available if you want them — and entirely optional if you do not.

    After launch

Turnaround is two weeks at the very least. That is the floor for the simplest job, and plenty of projects take considerably longer. Anyone promising you a working system by Friday is selling you a demo.

Questions

The things people ask before they email us

What does it cost?

Every project is quoted on its own, because a two-screen tool and a system that runs a whole company are not remotely the same job. What moves the number: how many screens there are, how many people use it and whether they need different permissions, whether we are importing years of existing records, and how much of it has to be built from nothing versus adapted from something that already works. You get a fixed price in writing before any work starts.

How long does it take?

Two weeks is the floor, and that is for the simplest premade setup. Adapted projects usually run several weeks; custom builds run longer, and we will give you a real date in the scope rather than an optimistic one. We would rather quote you six weeks and deliver in six than quote two and spend the next month apologising.

Who hosts it — you or us?

Whichever suits you. We can host and maintain it so you never think about it; we can set the whole thing up inside your own accounts so the infrastructure is billed to you and owned by you; or, for a local build, it simply lives on your machine and there is no hosting at all. If you have an IT person with opinions, we will happily work to them.

Who owns the data?

You do, without qualification. You can export everything at any time in a format other software can read, and if you ask for the whole database you will get the whole database. Nothing here is designed to make leaving difficult.

What happens after it launches?

Real use finds things a demo never will, so 30 days of fixes and small adjustments are included in every project. After that, ongoing support, hosting and future changes are available if you want them, and genuinely optional if you do not — a finished project is allowed to just be finished.

Do you have to come to us?

Almost never. Everything can be done remotely, and most of it is. In-person setup is offered around the Greater Sudbury area — it is genuinely useful for a local install where we are putting software on your own machine and sitting with you through the first real day of using it. Everywhere else, a screen share does the same job.

How big is your team?

Small, and we are straight with you about what that means. We take on small and medium projects and do them properly. If what you actually need is a product team with a support desk and a five-year roadmap, we will tell you that in the first conversation instead of taking the work and finding out together.

We already have software. Can this work with it?

Usually, yes — and often that is the better answer. If your accounting or point-of-sale is doing its job, the dashboard should read from it rather than replace it. We connect to what you have, import from exports on a schedule, and only take over the parts that are currently living in a spreadsheet.

Tell us what you're keeping track of

Describe how the work moves through your business right now — spreadsheets, notebooks, whatever it is. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right people to build it, and what it would take.

Every project is quoted on its own. Turnaround starts at two weeks.