Steel Rule Studio

The numbers your business runs on, finally in one place.

Steel Rule is an independent studio. We build the operational systems small businesses actually run on: dashboards, automations, and recurring intelligence reports, each one shaped around how you already work. Measured once, measured right.

Monthly cadenceReports land the 1st, every month
Built on your systemsNo rip and replace, ever
One flat subscriptionNo hourly meters, no surprises
You approve everythingNothing ships without your eyes

Selected work

Every engagement is built custom for one business. These four show the range.

People operations

Recruiting pipelines end to end: every applicant's stage in one view, advance or reject in a click, automatic outreach and follow up on the job boards and systems the business already runs.

Hiring, onboarding, retention
Reconciliation and audit

Three, four, or more independent data sources cross referenced until the story agrees: insurance and payroll reconciliation, timekeeping verification, dispute flags with the dollars attached.

Find the money leaks
Inventory and production

Demand planned production sheets, live counts, reorder points, and dead stock flags built from the business's own history, so cash stops sitting on shelves or landing in the trash.

Make the right amount
Publisher intelligence

For email publishers: which named VIP readers open, who has gone quiet, where deliverability is silently failing, and which stories actually earn the click. Delivered on the first of the month.

Monthly subscription

In production today

Our systems run payroll, routing, and safety for a 40 van delivery fleet, daily perishables counting across a multi store bakery group, and VIP readership intelligence for political media publishers.

How an engagement starts Tell us the job you dread every week. If it can be automated, we show you exactly what that looks like, on your real workflow, before you pay anything.

Bring us the job you dread every week.

One conversation is usually enough to know whether there is a build worth doing. If there is not, we will say so.

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