I stopped renting software and started building it
Three things I rebuilt instead of paying for: the layout tool my events team fought for years, a contract drawer that opens the signed page to prove a number, and a phone system that finally feeds the rest of my stack. Same loop every time — audit what I already pay for, fix how the data gets out, turn the output into something the business can use.
I'm done buying event layout software. I built ours.
My events team fought @cvent Prismm and Allseated for years. So I stopped renting layout software and built the one that fits how we actually run events — on the same system that drives our proposals and staffing.
I made my contract drawer answer questions
Every operator has a drawer of leases, vendor agreements, and insurance PDFs nobody reads until it's a problem. I made the whole pile answer questions — and open the signed page to prove the number before it tells me anything.
My phone system was a $14k filing cabinet, so I rebuilt it
RingCentral was costing me about $14k a year and every call just evaporated. I didn't rip it out. I audited the setup, fixed the workflow, and wired the call data into the rest of my stack so it actually becomes something.