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This is awesome. I actually built a very similar tool about 9 years ago and it's incredible how effective it is for selling/managing business consulting services. It's amazing how many barriers can be overcome by simply getting everyone involved to visualize the discussion in terms of simple, changeable work flows.

The one I built had the following features:

- people could make suggestions for how to improve the flow - email notifications when a flow was changed - document uploads tied to each step - tracking whether each user had viewed new flow changes, etc.

I have gone into a sales meeting and sold thousands of dollars of consulting services just by drawing out how this tool works on a napkin or scrap of paper. The idea is so simple and powerful that it is extremely valuable for businesses that care about process improvement.

I strongly recommend against listening to the 1% of people who get mad that it doesn't do all sorts of complex branching, etc.

I no longer work with the company I built it for (I was a minor partner) but I believe they still use it extensively, though it's focused only on supporting business/management consulting services and not on UI design, etc. We would routinely get $15-20 per user/month for it.




I'd love to talk to you more about this. Would you mind shooting me an email at hajrice@gmail.com ?




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