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Cultivation Architecture · The Client Operating System

Every small business needs the same three things.
We build all three.

Website. App. CRM. The back-office trio that separates a business that runs on paper from a business that runs on software. Same base architecture across every industry — we just tune it to how your business actually operates.

01

Website

Your public face. What Google shows the world. Where customers land, learn, and click to reach you.

02

App

Your customers and staff on their phones. Book jobs, clock in, check status, pay invoices — without ever calling.

03

CRM

Your back office. Every customer, every job, every dollar, every filing — on one board only you can see.

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All three, tied together. This page is about the third one.

Same CRM. Seven industry playbooks.

Each card below opens a full walkthrough tuned to that industry — the pages you’d use, the mockups showing them at work, the plugins that pair with them, and the wired-in calendar for your specific compliance world. Same base architecture on every one. Different data model, different vocabulary, different deadlines. Click in.

100% Customizable

You are not locked into these seven. The industries below are proven templates. If your business doesn’t match one, we build you a CRM tuned to how you actually operate — same architecture, your data model, your vocabulary, your compliance world. Every card here started as one client’s custom build.

Live example
Daycare CRM

Kids, parents, staff, state inspectors.

Enrollment, daily attendance, hourly Roll Call, 10-minute intake screening, invoicing, payroll from clock-ins, ODJFS-style compliance board. Live at Centro de Cuido Alondra.

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Nonprofit CRM

Donors, grants, 990 tracker, board.

Donor roster with pledge tracking, grants pipeline, program-vs-overhead ratio, board portal, 990-EZ + state charitable registration on the wired-in calendar. Volunteer hours convert to in-kind labor value automatically.

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Service Business CRM

Jobs, customers, trucks, invoices.

Cleaning, lawn care, HVAC, plumbing, handyman, trades. GPS-gated crew clock-ins, Square invoices that fire the second a job wraps, insurance + fleet + license renewals on the calendar.

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Publishing CRM

Titles, authors, royalties, rights.

Manuscript pipeline, editor assignments, KDP + IngramSpark royalty ingestion, ISBN + copyright registration tracker, contract vault. Author royalty statements fire quarterly. Bookish gold palette.

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Live example
Music / Label CRM

Artists, releases, splits, PROs.

Artist roster, release schedule, split sheets, BMI + ASCAP + MLC + SoundExchange registration tracker, DSP performance ingestion, royalty allocation. Contracts fire, statements post. Amber-on-jet palette.

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Horticulture / Farm CRM

Plots, crops, orders, seasons.

Plant / crop inventory, plot map, planting + harvest calendar, wholesale + retail customer split, farmers-market schedule, USDA + state-ag compliance renewals on the wired-in calendar. Moss-green palette.

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Coaching / Consulting CRM

Clients, sessions, notes, outcomes.

Client roster, session calendar with intake + follow-up templates, session notes with private / share flags, invoicing per package, outcome tracking, program milestones. Perfect for solo practitioners. Warm-rose palette.

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The plugin doctrine

One architecture. Every industry. Every plugin talks to every module.

The base CRM ships whole — dashboard, records, ledger, compliance board. Everything else is an opt-in plugin that unlocks when you’re ready: Staff App, Parent / Client Portal, Integrated Calendar + Reminders, Payment Processing, Compliance Auto-Report, Email + SMS Blast, and more we add as clients ask. Plug it in, and the rest of the CRM wakes up to it — new data flows into every relevant page automatically. No add-on lives in a silo.

Same plugin catalog on every industry sub-page. Same base architecture. Same pricing tiers. The only thing that changes is the industry vocabulary and the data model.

See the full plugin catalog and pricing on any industry page — they’re identical across all seven.
Live proof

This architecture is running today at Centro de Cuido Alondra — a Type A Family Home childcare center in Mahoning County, Ohio. First client signed 2026-08-20. Owner uses the CRM daily; staff clock in on the app. Every mockup on this site mirrors what she runs. The only difference is the data — hers is real, ours is simulated with generic template names so no client information is ever exposed.

Ready to see yours built?

10-question intake. We come back with a scoped proposal that names your industry template, your base CRM modules, the plugins that fit, and the site + app pairing. Weeks to base build. Plugins layer in as you grow.

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