The Complete Standard

Know how the whole business is doing, on one board.

All four kits, both books, the seven AI prompts, and Helmed, the board that reads every kit at once and tells you what the week needs. $495.

Written by JD Davenport, who still sells for a living.

Look at the board running What Helmed is An example, on invented figures. It reads nothing and opens no file.
123Files
875Pages of PDF
5Browser tools
2Books

Buy all four kits separately and you own four boxes. Each one answers its own question well and none of them can see the others. This is the version where they are one thing: a single board all four report into, one interview that sets up all four at once, and one question answered every month that no individual kit can answer on its own.

The question a single kit cannot answer

Every workbook in every kit ends at a tab called Handoff. It is a small block, the same shape everywhere, that says what that file found: how many, how much, how old the oldest one is. It exists because a number that has to be copied by hand is a number that goes stale.

Helmed reads those tabs. That is all it does, and it is the part no single kit can do, because the question whoever runs the place actually has on the first of the month is not how is job costing or how is production. It is:

The question

Of everything that went wrong this month, which part of the business cost me the most, and is it the same part as last month?

You cannot get that from four separate files, because the answer is a comparison across them. A job that lost money shows up in job cost. The reason it lost money is usually in production or in the estimate. Whether the person who sold it got paid on a number that was never true is in commission. Four files, one answer, and a comparison somebody holds in their head is the definition of a thing that stops happening in a busy March.

What is in it

PartWhat it is
The Job Cost Standard
17 files
Which jobs made money, per job, this week. Twelve tests, a register, a rate card, an estimating gap list, and Surfaced.
The Appointment Standard
22 files
The hour that decides the job. Nine steps, the words, six weeks of training, a lead log, and Landed.
The Production Standard
17 files
Two gates around the work and the loop between them, a board for who is doing what, and Charted.
The Commission Standard
16 files
A plan, the agreement language, a calculator, a floor that holds, and Banked.
Helmed
The board
One page that reads the Handoff tab in every workbook you keep and puts the whole business side by side, oldest and most expensive first. Runs in your browser. Nothing uploads. What it does.
The AI suite
7 prompts
One interview that sets up all four kits at once. One that connects the board. One that audits your own setup for drift. Three for the recurring work.
Both books
PDF and reader
The Audit and The Field Guide, in a format your phone or e-reader opens as well as a PDF.
The install order
One page
Which kit first, what has to be running before the next one goes in, and what breaks if you do all four at once.

The four kits are exactly what is sold separately. Nothing has been trimmed to make room for the extras and nothing has been held back from a single-kit buyer.

The part that is worth the most and costs the least to say

Each kit has its own setup prompt. Run four of them and you will answer the same eleven questions four times. There is a decent chance you will answer one of them differently the third time than the first, and that is how a business ends up with two margin floors: one the commission plan pays on and one the job cost workbook enforces.

The Complete Standard replaces those four with one interview, about forty minutes, that asks the shared questions once and hands back four setup sheets, every settings tab filled in, and a table of the shared values with every place each one has to be typed.

Then there is a second prompt whose only job is to find where your own four kits have stopped agreeing with each other. It asks you to read values off your own screen, tells you where two of them differ, and does not decide which is right, because it does not know your business. Most of what it finds is small. One thing it looks for is not: whether the profit figure your job cost workbook produces is the same figure your commission calculator pays on. When those two drift, somebody is paid the wrong amount, and nobody finds out from a spreadsheet.

And one page you read before any of it

The suite opens with a single page on what never to paste into an AI. It is there because whatever you type goes to whichever AI company you chose, on their terms, not ours. Every prompt in the folder is built out of shapes and totals for that reason. You can run all seven without a customer, a crew or an employee ever being named.

The arithmetic

Bought separatelyPrice
The Job Cost Standard$149
The Appointment Standard$149
The Production Standard$149
The Commission Standard$149
Both booksalready in two of the kits
Separately$596
The Complete Standard$495

Helmed and the AI suite are not sold on their own at any price. They are the reason this exists rather than being a discount code, and pricing them separately would mean selling somebody a board with nothing to put on it.

The order it goes in

Do not install four kits in the same week. It is the most common way this fails and it fails quietly: everything gets half filled in, none of it produces a number you trust, and in six weeks the box is a folder nobody opens.

WeekInstallWhy here
1The Job Cost StandardIt measures what every other kit changes. Put it in first or you will have no before.
2The Appointment StandardThe cheapest change in the box. It moves a rate rather than a cost, and the log starts collecting the week you turn it on.
3The Production StandardThe gates are justified by what jobs cost when the gates were not there, and that figure comes from week 1.
4The Commission StandardLast, always. A plan pays on a profit figure, and until job cost is running you do not have one you would sign your name to.
5HelmedConnect it once the workbooks have something in them. Connecting it to four empty files tells you nothing and makes the board look broken.

Buy one kit instead if

Everybody who owns a kit pays only the difference. Nobody who bought one is worse off for having bought early, and nothing already bought gets repriced.

What it does not do

It does not log in anywhere. No monthly fee, no seat count, nothing that expires and nothing that phones home. The five browser tools run in your own browser and upload nothing.

It does not replace your accounting system. It sits beside whatever you use.

It contains no industry benchmarks and no numbers out of anybody else's business. Every figure it produces comes out of your own records, which is the only reason any of them are worth anything.

Stated as fact. No interpretation offered.

123 files. 879 pages of PDF. Five browser tools, one of them the board. One business, yours, forever. You may edit every document, put your own name on it and hand it to the people who work for you. You may not resell it or give it to another company.

Buy it, $495 Buy a single kit instead

Instant download. Yours to keep. No monthly fee. It arrives as five files that unzip into one folder, because together they are larger than one download is allowed to be. Nothing is mailed and there is no account to make.