Studio / Business System
This process runs on
spreadsheets and sheer effort.
Re-keying data, duplicate entry, a macro only one person understands. ALBY Studio turns spreadsheet-and-elbow-grease processes into real systems, starting by untangling the workflow. Rather than bending your work to fit a SaaS product, we build to fit the work — on a monthly retainer, and we stay until it sticks.
Problem
There's a structural reason
behind that frustration.
Re-keying, duplicate entry, the month-end reconciliation. The work gets done, but it's held up by one person's spreadsheet and their willingness to grind through it. You've tried SaaS products, and none of them quite fit. What you need is something built around the work itself.
- 01We key the same data in over and over
- 02Only the person who wrote that macro can touch it
- 03We bought a SaaS product, and it didn't fit how we work
With ALBY Studio, you get a system built around the work.
With ALBY Studio
With ALBY Studio,
your process itself
becomes the system.
Instead of bending the work to fit a package, we understand the workflow first and design from there. A monthly-retainer team keeps improving it until it's genuinely part of how people work.
01
We start by untangling the process
We break the workflow apart with the people who run it, and separate what stays as-is, what gets dropped, and what becomes software. Not a screen-shaped copy of your spreadsheet — the process itself, put in order.
02
Screens nobody has to puzzle over
We design for people who aren't comfortable with software. And we don't flip everything at once: running alongside the spreadsheets during a staged migration keeps the team out of chaos.
03
Launch isn't the end
On a monthly retainer, we keep watching how it's used after launch and keep improving. As the work changes, features follow — the system grows with it.
Flexible team
We stay until it becomes
part of how you work.
From untangling the process to running it day to day, a product manager and a full-stack engineer form the core team.
Specialists join only while development is at its most intense, and improvement continues after adoption.
Starting from the process itself, the team stays on after go-live to see it properly adopted.
Process review
Break the workflow apart and decide what becomes software
Product manager
Full-stack engineer
Build
Screens people can actually use, and a data flow that matches the work
- Product manager
- Full-stack engineer
UI/UX designer
Backend engineer
QA engineer
Go live
Rollout
Migrate in stages, running alongside the spreadsheets
- Product manager
- Full-stack engineer
- QA engineer
Operate & improve
Watch how it's used and grow it as the work changes
- Product manager
- Full-stack engineer
Note: this is one example. Photos are illustrative. We adjust the team to the project, your budget, and your priorities.
Comparison
How is this different
from an off-the-shelf SaaS?
Aspect
Off-the-shelf SaaS
ALBY Studio
- Fit to the work
- SaaSYou bend the work to fit the tool
- ALBYThe system is built to fit the work
- Adoption
- SaaSSome people use it, some don't
- ALBYDesigned around the whole workflow, so everyone does
- Integration
- SaaSData ends up siloed per tool
- ALBYConnects to your existing systems and spreadsheets
- Cost
- SaaSPer-seat pricing that keeps climbing
- ALBYOne monthly fee covering build and improvement
Growing a system that fits the work beats bending the work to fit a tool — and it gets adopted faster.
Contact
Get past the limits
of the spreadsheet.
Tell us about the work you're running on spreadsheets and manual steps today. Starting from the process itself, we'll find a realistic path to systematising it.