A workaround became the process.
Paper, spreadsheets, repeated checking, duplicated entry, or a handoff that depends on one person remembering.
Las Vegas / Founding-client offer
Investigate the problem before building the solution.
For owner-operated businesses with an awkward recurring problem that falls between technology, operations, and customer experience - and does not fit neatly into an off-the-shelf product.
Something is noticed too late.
A customer disappears, a condition changes, an inquiry stalls, or useful information never reaches the person who can act.
An idea may not deserve a build.
You can imagine an app, device, automation, or customer experience - but do not yet know whether it would be used.
Business Friction Scan
A decision, not a software pitch.
We examine one concrete, recurring problem and determine the smallest sensible response. The recommendation may be a process change, an existing product, a small prototype, or no build at all.
- One 60-minute working conversation
- A one-page map of what happens now
- The likely constraint and the people or systems involved
- Three practical response options
- One recommended next test with cost, time, risk, and success measure
- An explicit “do not build this” recommendation when appropriate
$250
Founding rate for the first three Las Vegas businesses. Paid after a free 15-minute fit call and before the working session.
Request the fit callWhat this is for
A specific problem that has happened recently, affects customers or staff, and carries a meaningful cost in time, money, frustration, risk, or missed opportunity. It can involve a physical environment, a paper process, disconnected tools, customer communication, or an unusual idea that needs testing.
What this is not
It is not emergency technical support, consumer computer repair, managed IT, a security or safety certification, a free custom design, or a finished application. Implementation is quoted separately only after the problem, users, approver, and success measure are clear.
Why the scan comes first
A technically successful system can still go unused when the real users, decision-makers, or adoption barriers were never identified. The scan exists to expose those issues before money and time disappear into a build.
Who is behind it
Jeff Przybylski brings more than 30 years of technical support, coding, systems thinking, and rapid problem-solving to unfamiliar business situations. Usefully Strange combines practical investigation with the ability to prototype across software, messaging, physical environments, and customer experiences when the evidence supports it.
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Start with the incident
What happened the last time?
Describe one real example. This is a fit request, not a commitment to purchase. If the problem is not appropriate for the paid scan, I will say so.