The August–October 2026 Edition
The Too Good
To Be True List
Nine things real Louisiana businesses do every day. All of them sound like lies.
Trevor RubyFound It Software, Alexandria LADon’t feel like reading?
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A text I got last week
“If something sounds too good to be true, it generally is.”
— Barry, ACA Residential
He’s right. Keep that rule. It’s kept a lot of good men from getting robbed. Now point it at this list.
This isn’t a someday list. Every line below is running right now, inside a real Louisiana business.
Don’t take my word for it
Six of the nine, running. One day in a shop like yours. Nobody at the desk. Watch:
A photo from the truck
Dauzat — for Tues
40 loropetalum 3g
25 crape myrtle 7g
12 ligustrum 15g
6 live oak 30 gal
Your books
Pull sheet · Dauzat · Tues
3 on the sheet · 1 held for you
Typed in · printedOwed to you
$11,925.00In the bank today
$0.008:02 AM · Your paperwork reads itself.
A photo of a scribbled order. Typed in before you’re back in the truck. The odd one held — never guessed.
Your phone, answered at 9pm.
Calls and texts after close get answered and booked. The job's on your screen by morning.
Your paperwork reads itself.
Snap a photo of an invoice or a handwritten ticket. It's typed in before you're back in the truck.
Your books post themselves.
Ring up a sale and the books write themselves. At one dealership, all 37 accounts matched QuickBooks to the penny.
Your prices protect themselves.
Load your suppliers' price lists and nothing sells below cost again. One parts counter caught about 1,200 stale prices its first week. The owner okayed the fixes with his thumb.
Your lost money gets found.
Forgotten jobs and unpaid invoices get pulled onto one screen. It found a tree service $268,000. It found Cory Edwards of Edwards Roofing $195,882.75 he'd already earned. It also caught a $19,000 bookkeeping error his old software never saw.
Your invoices collect themselves.
The bill goes out by text, the customer taps Pay on their phone, and the money lands in your account. Slow payers get a polite nudge.
You can ask your business anything.
Ask "Who owes me the most?" and get a straight answer from your own records, not the internet.
Your follow-ups happen without you.
The thank-you after the job. The reminder before the next appointment. The quote the customer never answered. All of it handled.
Your Monday writes itself.
What sold, what's late, who owes you. In plain sentences, waiting before you unlock the door.
Things we won’t do
- Payroll. We don’t touch it. It stays where it is.
- Taxes. We track them to the penny. Your CPA still files.
- Promises. Nothing here is a guess. Every line is running today.
The HVAC guy was right.
It does sound like a lie. That’s why I said watch, don’t believe. Now the catch: we build it for one business — yours. You own it, the code and the data. Month to month. If you ever leave, it all goes with you.
Hunt for the trap all you want. The only catch is it’s yours.
Nobody rents you your own business back.
Which one?
Nine things up there. Pick the one you wish you’d had last week. If I sent you this, reply with just that number and I’ll take it from there.
Or tap below and tell her the number. She’s number one on the list, running right now. Ask her anything about it.
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The October edition will be longer. This stuff doesn’t slow down.