Operations module
Finance Module — a QuickBooks replacement
PythonPostgreSQLReportingSelf-hosted
Strategic/Creative Operations Leader · Austin, TX
Systems that make your business run smarter, train better, and grow faster.
I'm Cristopher Stanford — a Strategic/Creative Operations Leader with 15 years teaching and 20 years in operations leadership, who now builds the software too. I don't just build tools. I build the systems around them so your team adopts them, your numbers improve, and you stop duct-taping your business together.
20
years in operations leadership
15
years teaching & curriculum development
10+
production modules built & running
20+
websites shipped
5
complete AI integrations
About
Why a teacher and operator ends up writing software
Most software fails for the same reason most training fails: it was built by someone who never had to make a room full of busy people actually use it. I've spent my career on the other side of that problem.
15 years teaching
State-board curricula, adult learners with wildly different starting points, and outcomes measured by whether students passed and got hired. I learned how to break a complex skill into a sequence people can actually follow — and how to tell within a week whether a program is going to work.
20 years in operations leadership
Multi-unit scheduling, staffing, inventory, compliance, and P&L across locations. I've lived the gap between what the software reports and what's actually happening on the floor — and I design around that gap.
Strategic & creative — and I build it myself
Today I build the tools myself: customer-facing apps, internal operations modules, AI agents, and the automation that connects them. The teaching and operations background isn't a side note — it's why what I build gets used.
If your business needs a tool, I'll build it. If it needs a system — the tool, the training, and the process around it — that's where I'm hard to replace.
Talk through your situationWhat I build
Software, training, and the operations backbone — from one person who's done all three.
AI Software Engineering
Custom AI agents, automations, and intelligent features embedded in your existing workflow — not a chatbot bolted onto your homepage. I favor open-source models and self-hosted tooling where it keeps your costs predictable.
Typical: AI agents that handle email, WhatsApp, and scheduling · document processing · n8n automation pipelines · AI features inside existing apps.
App & Web Development
Customer-facing apps and websites built to convert and built to maintain. Clean, fast, and handed over with documentation your next developer can actually read.
Typical: lead-gen websites · customer portals · internal dashboards · MVPs for founders.
Business Operations Modules
Replace the pile of subscriptions with purpose-built modules: a Finance module that replaces QuickBooks, a Secretary module that handles scheduling and correspondence, CRM and intake systems — all talking to each other.
Typical: QuickBooks replacement · scheduling & correspondence automation · CRM + intake · custom reporting.
Custom Training Program Development
Full-scale, thoughtful training curricula for any topic or industry — onboarding, compliance, sales, technical skills, franchise operations — delivered on a platform built for it. Fifteen years of making adult learners succeed, applied to your business.
Typical: employee onboarding · franchise/multi-location operations training · certification-style courses · train-the-trainer.
Graphic Design
Brand identity, marketing collateral, and UI design that stays consistent across your website, your app, and your training materials — because they're all coming from the same person.
Typical: logo & identity · pitch decks · course visuals · UI kits.
Not sure which fits?
Most clients come in with a symptom, not a spec. Tell me what's broken, slow, or missing and I'll tell you honestly what it needs.
Tell me what's broken →How we can work together
Fix One Thing
A single tool, site, module, or course. Clear scope, two to six weeks. You choose what to build and the investment level.
Best for: "We know exactly what we need."
Build a System
Two or more connected pieces — an operations module plus the training to roll it out, or an app plus the CRM behind it. Scoped in phases.
Best for: "We know the problem, not the solution."
Run It With Me
Ongoing engineering, training, and operations support on a monthly retainer. For businesses that want a technical partner, not a vendor.
Best for: "We're growing and need someone who owns this."
Work
Work that's running right now
Every project below is in production. For each one: the problem, what I personally did, how it was built, and what changed.
Platform
Training Program Platform
Curriculum designAssessmentsVideo & audio
Complete system
info2fuel — vertical CRM + public lead-gen site
Custom CRMTwilio / WhatsAppEmail automationn8n
More
United Court of Austin
As IT administrator, I engineered the website and the backend behind it: elections, bookkeeping that replaces QuickBooks, minutes for the secretary, and hybrid meetings hosted in-house — no Zoom or any other outside app.
ElectionsBookkeepingHybrid meetings
Secretary Module
Scheduling, correspondence, and reminders handled automatically; the admin hire you don't have to make.
AutomationCalendarEmail
Leo — autonomous AI agent
Self-hosted agent on open-source models handling email, WhatsApp, social posting, and Notion — orchestrated through 100+ n8n workflows on a 2-core server.
Open-source LLMsn8nNotion API
Training
Training people actually finish
I spent fifteen years teaching a licensed trade to adults who had jobs, kids, and no patience for filler. Every program I built had to survive a state board, a skeptical student, and a Monday morning.
That's the standard I bring to your onboarding, your compliance training, your sales playbook, or your franchise operations manual. The platform handles delivery — modules, assessments, progress tracking, instructor views. The curriculum design is where the fifteen years show up: sequencing that respects how adults learn, assessments that measure the thing that matters, and materials your team will actually open twice.
Built for any topic or industry — trades and licensing, hospitality, retail operations, healthcare admin, franchise systems, software onboarding, sales.
1
Define the outcome
What must someone be able to do on day one after training? We write that down first and design backward from it.
2
Sequence the skill
Break the skill into a path where each step is achievable and builds on the last. Adults quit when step three assumes step two.
3
Prove it landed
Assessments that measure performance, not recall. Tracking that shows you — not just them — what stuck.
Integrations & stack
The stack behind the work — and it's live
Everything below is running in production today, not sitting on a slide. The contact form on this page runs through the same CRM, messaging, and email automation I'd build for you.
Custom CRM — myofarm.realengage.app
Intake, pipeline, and follow-up automation for a trust-sensitive vertical. Login-gated; demo on request.
Public lead-gen site — info2fuel.realengage.app
Scam Check tool, live pricing, document templates, inbound lead capture.
WhatsApp / Twilio
Two-way messaging, automated follow-up, and notifications wired into the CRM.
Email automation
Transactional and sequence email integrated with intake and pipeline stages.
Automation layer — n8n
100+ workflows orchestrating agents, messaging, data sync, and notifications.
AI agents — self-hosted, open-source models
Cost-predictable AI that runs on infrastructure you control.
PythonFastAPIJavaScript / TypeScriptPostgreSQLSQLiten8nTwilioOpen-source LLMsNotion APIDocker / Ubuntu
Field notes
Short, useful, from the floor
Why most small-business training dies in week two (and the one fix that works)
It isn't motivation. It's sequencing — and a single question you ask before you write a word of content.
What a QuickBooks replacement actually has to do
Seven jobs, in order of how often an owner actually needs them. Most tools nail the wrong four.
A WhatsApp number, a CRM, and an email sequence: the smallest sales system that works
You don't need a stack. You need three pieces that talk to each other and one rule about response time.
What people say
After working with me
"He could take something I'd been struggling with for weeks and break it into steps where I couldn't fail. I passed the board on the first try."Former studentCosmetology program graduate · now salon owner
"Cristopher ran our locations like a system — not a fire drill. Numbers, people, and process, all in the same conversation."Former regional leaderMulti-unit operations
"He didn't just build the tool. He built the training for the tool and the process around it. That's why we actually use it."ClientSmall-business owner
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Start a project
Let's build something
Tell me what's broken, slow, or missing. I'll reply within one business day with honest questions and, if it's a fit, a plain-English plan.