Jeff McQueen

Yeah, no, great question.

So Accelo is a platform for running the operations of a service business or team.

So, imagine you're an architect, accountant, designer, engineer, consultant, somebody who runs that kind of a service business for other customers, and you've got the fundamental problem that you keep having to do more, technology speeds up the way the business

Technology that's really out of date, like spreadsheets and a litany of things that don't talk to each other.

And so what Accelo does is we use the cloud and smart automation to actually make it a lot easier to run that operation, to know fundamentally what happened today.

So you've got a hope of knowing what's happening in the future.

And we started it together about six years ago.

We got it out into beta and I moved here to the Bay Area while we're still in beta.

Who's we?

Myself and three co-founders.

We all worked together in my last business.

We were colleagues running a professional service business.

We knew how much it sucked.

Yeah, just like that, man.

Just agency business.

Customers from smaller businesses up to Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet back down under.

And yeah, frankly, we're just realizing how it was hard to run a business without the right tools.

And you could get individual tools that did part of the job.

could tell you without going on a law and order investigation what the hell happened today give me a specific give me a specific example though so like at an agency they have an issue with this because if they're billing per like human hour it's hard to necessarily do the tracking are those the kinds of problems you're solving yeah it's actually probably a meta level above that so what's in the pipeline then what projects does that convert into and how do you make sure the promises that got made up front in your sales process actually reflect what the heck you're promising you're going to do in a in a team perspective how busy are people

You know, you look into an agency and look over in the corner and go, oh, there's Tom.