The Good Studio, in plain text

Recouped (the product)

• Recouped ties your payment platform, your bank and your books, deterministically, and prepares a close your accountant signs and a buyer’s accountant can’t fault.
• Site: recouped.io, story: /ventures/recouped
• Segment pages: recouped.io/saas (for software founders), recouped.io/makers (for makers)
• Free 3-month review. You keep 100% of recoveries. Bank-grade traceability.

I spent the first eight years of my career running recs at banks and fintechs. It’s an unglamorous but necessary part of business.

With everyone rushing to add AI wherever they can, I purposely built this to use AI at key points instead of adding it just to add it. For example, the entire reconciliation process is deterministic end to end. There’s no reason to have AI do math problems when formulas do them better anyway.

Digital Sprint (the build studio)

• Digital Sprint builds the systems a small product company runs on: getting paid, getting the product to the customer, and keeping the books clean. Fixed scope, fixed price, done in weeks.
• Site: digitalsprintstudio.com, story: /ventures/digital-sprint
• Segment pages: digitalsprintstudio.com/saas (for software founders), digitalsprintstudio.com/makers (for makers)
• From $2,500, fixed. Three builds, done in weeks. Written scope, defined end.

The build studio of The Good Studio. It builds the systems a small product company runs on: getting paid, getting the product to the customer, keeping the books clean, and the workflows in between. Whole problem or nothing: a written scope, a fixed price, and a defined end. No hourly work.

Three builds for software businesses, three for makers, same prices. Software: the ops build, site to product, and the money stack. Makers: the fulfilment build, the preorder and store build, and the money stack. Each starts from $2,500, fixed, and is done in weeks. Estimate. Fixed once the scope is written.

You started the company to make the product, not to babysit the tools around it. Each build takes one job off you for good. It runs on its own, it is watched so it keeps running, and the monthly close carries on through Recouped. Software or something in a box; the money side behaves the same.

The early idea was that a product would fall straight out of this: build enough automations and one of them generalizes into something sellable. That part was wrong. A build is shaped around one business and does not lift cleanly to the next.

What does carry over is the problems. The same handful keep turning up in companies with nothing else in common. This is where I hear them first, and hearing them first is how Recouped happened. Digital Sprint builds; Recouped keeps it reconciled.