We ran our own company on 8 tools before we built Simplify. Here's the real bill.

We build Simplify, and before that we were the customer with the problem.

Our own consultancy, OneBonsai, ran on eight separate tools: HubSpot for CRM, invoicing in another tool, Notion for docs, BambooHR, a recruiting tool, an expense tool, a scheduling tool, and a Google Sheet for cash flow that one very tired person maintained by hand.

Every Friday, someone spent three and a half hours retyping the same numbers between four of those tools. Not because it was hard. Because the tools didn't share anything, so a person had to be the connection between them.

We moved our own 25-person team onto Simplify and wrote up what actually happened, including the parts that didn't improve. Migration took longer than our own homepage promises. We kept two of the old tools on purpose. Statutory accounting still sits with our accountant, that part doesn't change.

The numbers: eight tools at EUR 1,116 a month became three tools at about EUR 242 a month, a 78% cut, and the Friday loop went from three and a half hours to about twenty minutes.

Full writeup with every number: https://simplifysuite.io/blog/we-were-the-customer-first?utm_source=producthunt&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=w1-customer-proof&utm_content=ph-thread-0728

Curious what your worst "one person had to become the integration layer" story is. Ours was the Friday finance loop.