Building blocks
that work for you
We sit down and whiteboard your business — every step, every tool, every place the work stalls. You leave with a prioritized backlog of what to fix. Then we build down the list with you.
Starts at $500/month, month to month. Cancel any month — the backlog is yours to keep either way.
Your backlog · drafted from the whiteboard session
The whiteboard
How work actually moves — not how it's supposed to.
What came out of it
- Now
Quotes that follow themselves up
- Next
One place to see this week's jobs
- Next
Invoices chase themselves
- Later
Review requests after every job
What we build
Systems built around how you already work.
Each of these is a single item on a backlog — built, running, and off your plate before we pick up the next one. All of it fits around the tools you already pay for.
Workflow automation
The steps you repeat every week — the reminder, the follow-up, the handoff — running on their own, and telling you when they can't.
System integration
The number you re-type out of one tool and into another stops being somebody's job. We build the piece in between.
Internal tools
A small app shaped like the way you already work, instead of bending your process around software that only nearly fits.
Collections automation
Quotes and invoices chased on a schedule that escalates by itself. You only hear about the ones that actually stall.
Reporting & briefs
What changed this week and what it means, as a short brief in your inbox — not another dashboard you never open.
AI assistants
Ask your own business a plain question — “who owes us money?” — and get a real answer off your real data.
Product & app development
When the thing you need doesn't exist yet: web and mobile products, designed, built, shipped, and owned by you.
Don't see your problem?
Your list won't be this list — these are just the ones that come up most. Whatever the whiteboard turns up goes on the board, and we start with whatever costs you the most.
Who we are
Grady Harwood
Founder, Tangram Tools
I've spent my career diagnosing, designing and building solutions to problems big and small in business, across industries and sectors.
Having designed and built systems for solo-founder products and deployed at Fortune 100 companies, we have seen it all — and we're excited to explore opportunities to optimize, expand and reinvent your business processes to unlock additional value.
Grady Harwood
- 10 Years
- Development Experience
- 7+ products
- Designed, built, shipped
- In house
- Design and engineering
How it works
One price. One problem at a time.
Starts at $500 a month, month to month. It begins with the whiteboard and the backlog, then we build down the list until it's done — or until you decide it isn't worth it anymore.
Whiteboard
Two hours together. We map how work actually moves through your business — every step, every tool, every handoff, every place it stalls. Most of the value shows up in this room.
Backlog
One document. Everything worth fixing, ordered by what it costs you against what it takes to build. No fluff, nothing you didn't see us write down. Yours to keep, whatever you do next.
One at a time
We work down the list in order — each one built, running, and off your plate before we pick up the next. We keep going until the list is done or you stop paying.
Starts at
$500/month
No setup fee, no contract, no minimum. Cancel any month and the backlog is still yours.
Put the pieces to work.
You already know which parts of the week you dread. Spend two hours at a whiteboard and you'll have them written down, in order, with someone already building the first one.
Starts at $500/month. Cancel any month, and the backlog is yours to keep.
Want a second opinion first? Tell us how your week actually runs and we'll say straight whether a session is worth booking.