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Your numbers.
The full story.
Your next move.

Connect your business information. Get a morning briefing, alerts when things change, and recommendations grounded in your numbers.

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Runmode reads and recommends. You decide what changes.

Tuesday, September 22

7:00

Runmodenow

Your Daily Brief is ready.

Sales up 6%. Pastry waste needs a look.

Runmode6:42

Card fees are up $118.

Above last month's pace.

How Runmode works

A clearer way to keep up.

Daily briefings. Timely perspective.Your information. Your recommendations. Your call.

Every morning

Sales up. Catering leads down.

Yesterday: $4.1k in sales. Catering leads down 18%. See the whole picture.

Open today's brief

When something changes

Your ad spend jumped 31%.

Leads stayed flat. See what changed and ask what to do about it.

Ask about this

When you ask why

“Why are leads dropping?”

Referral traffic fell first. Consider how customers reach your inquiry form.

Explore the recommendation

01 / You connect

Sales, accounts, and advertising from tools like Square, QuickBooks, Meta Ads, and Google Ads. Add invoices, reports, and other business documents.

02 / We make sense of it

Runmode brings related information together, compares the latest figures with what came before, and looks for changes worth a closer look.

03 / Your Daily Brief

A morning briefing: what changed, what matters, and what to consider.

04 / Your Alerts

An important change prompts a phone notification. Open it for the context.

The daily picture. The changes that can't wait.

Daily Brief

Know where your day stands.

Sales, costs, and the calls worth making, brought together in one morning email.

Inbox7:00 AM

Your Daily Brief is ready | Maple Street Coffee

From: Runmode <brief@runmode.app>

To: John

RunmodeDAILY BRIEF

Tuesday, September 22 · Maple Street Coffee

Good morning, John.

Yesterday was stronger than it first looked, but two changes are worth acting on before the weekend.

Sales finished 6% above a typical Tuesday. Cold brew drove most of the gain, while morning transactions stayed steady. This looks more like a product shift than a busier day overall.

Pastry waste rose 14% for the third weekday in a row. Most of it came after 2 PM. Reducing the afternoon bake by one tray would have covered yesterday's shortfall without affecting the morning rush.

Cash needs watching before Friday. Payroll and the coffee delivery land within 24 hours of each other. Current sales should cover both, but the cushion falls below the level in your Core until weekend deposits clear.

One call to make: Keep the cold brew promotion running, and test a smaller afternoon pastry batch today. Review the result in tomorrow's brief before changing the full-week order.

See your full Daily Brief

Real-time Alerts

Know when something needs a closer look.

An invoice goes unpaid. Ad spend climbs. Stock runs low. Get a heads-up with the context behind it, including good news.

Runmode7:15 AM

Two invoices are past due.

$1,840 is outstanding, with one now 22 days late. Ask about this →

RunmodeYesterday

Oat milk drinks up 22% this week.

Your best week since launch. Stock is fine through Saturday.

RunmodeMon

Whole bean stock running low.

At this pace you'll run out Thursday. Your supplier needs two days.

RunmodeSun

Your catering email is working.

It brought in 18 new inquiries, with six from returning customers.

RunmodeSat

Weekend staffing looks tight.

Two peak-hour shifts are uncovered while a neighborhood event is expected to lift foot traffic.

Alerts reflect new information as it arrives from your connected tools.

Ask from any brief or alert

Ask a question. Follow the evidence.

Follow the alert. Ask why. Get a recommended next step. Use a Quick Call for a fast answer, or a Deep Dive when the decision is bigger.

  1. 1 / Understand

    Work out which numbers and time period your question is about.

  2. 2 / Find

    Look through the relevant connected information and documents.

  3. 3 / Compare

    Check sales alongside costs. Look for changes and missing information.

  4. 4 / Explain

    Give an answer, the information behind it, and a recommended next step.

Runmode reads and recommends. You decide what changes.

Quick Call

Why are sales up, but profit down?

Sales rose 6% last month, but card fees rose $118 and milk costs rose 9% after your supplier's price change. Together they took more than the extra sales brought in.

Based on

Square · salesQuickBooks · feesSupplier invoice · Aug

Recommended next step: compare card processors, and ask your supplier about a volume price. It fits your priority of protecting cash.

Keep asking: “Which costs changed most?” The conversation can go deeper.

What powers every brief, alert, and answer

Your business. Your Core.

Bring together how your business works, the decisions you've made, and the information that matters, all in a model built around you. It's why your briefs and recommendations fit your business. Select any part to see what it adds.

Core

Maple Street Coffee Core

Select any part to see what it adds.

Your Core starts empty and takes shape as you build your Blueprint and add sources.

Connections

Connected to the tools you already use.

Connections bring your books, sales, and advertising into one business view. Add documents for everything else.

Money

Sales & customers

Marketing

Files & data

Runmode only reads the information you choose to connect. Logos are trademarks of their owners.

Archetypes

Tuned starters for your kind of business.

Runmode comes with out-of-the-box solution starters built around how your business actually runs. Pick yours and your Core, your connections, and your Daily Brief are tuned from day one, with specialists on call who know that world.

  • Live today

    Coffee & Café

    Single or multi-location specialty coffee, quick service and food.

    Tuned from day one

    • Daypart, ticket size and attach-rate models
    • Labor vs. throughput at peak hours
    • Dairy, bean and pastry cost pass-through
  • Launching soon!

    Restaurant & Hospitality

    Full service dining, bars and multi-unit hospitality groups.

    Tuned from day one

    • Cover counts, menu engineering and prime cost
    • Reservation demand and table turn models
    • Food cost volatility by supplier

    Launching soon!

  • Launching soon!

    Construction & Contracting

    General contractors, sub-trades and project-based builders.

    Tuned from day one

    • Job costing, change orders and margin fade
    • Crew utilization and schedule risk
    • Retainage and cash-flow timing

    Launching soon!

  • Launching soon!

    Plumbing & HVAC

    Dispatch-driven home and commercial service businesses.

    Tuned from day one

    • Call volume, close rate and average ticket
    • Technician utilization and drive time
    • Membership and recurring service value

    Launching soon!

  • Launching soon!

    Retail & Commerce

    Storefront and omnichannel retail with inventory to manage.

    Tuned from day one

    • Sell-through, markdown and inventory turns
    • Basket composition and channel mix
    • Vendor terms and reorder points

    Launching soon!

  • Launching soon!

    Transportation & Logistics

    Fleets, freight, last-mile delivery and dispatch operations.

    Tuned from day one

    • Cost per mile, deadhead and fuel exposure
    • Driver retention and utilization
    • Lane profitability and load mix

    Launching soon!

  • Launching soon!

    Professional Services

    Agencies, consultancies and billable-hour practices.

    Tuned from day one

    • Utilization, realization and effective rate
    • Pipeline coverage and win rate
    • Client concentration risk

    Launching soon!

  • Launching soon!

    Fitness & Wellness

    Studios, gyms and membership-based wellness businesses.

    Tuned from day one

    • Membership churn and lifetime value
    • Class utilization and instructor cost
    • Trial-to-member conversion

    Launching soon!

Each archetype carries its own Core blueprint, connector set, and specialist bench. New ones are on the way.

Specialists on call

Real people behind the recommendations.

When a decision is bigger than the data, book a 30-minute video call with a specialist in money, customers, operations, or legal. Every plan includes them.

  • Marcus Reyes headshot
    Accountant
    Marcus Reyes
    18 years

    Cash, margin and what a price change really does

    Fractional CFO across 40+ small businesses. Works through pricing, payroll and whether you can afford the next move.

    • Cash
    • Pricing
    • Margin
  • Priya Raman headshot
    Marketer
    Priya Raman
    12 years

    Where the next customer comes from, and what they cost

    Built marketing programs for local and multi-location businesses. Ruthless about what actually pays back.

    • Marketing
    • Sales
    • Repeat customers
  • Tom Bergstrom headshot
    Operations Manager
    Tom Bergstrom
    20 years

    Staffing, suppliers, inventory and the systems behind them

    Twenty years running operations. Fixes the constraint, not the symptom, and tells you when software isn't the answer.

    • Operations
    • Suppliers
    • Systems
  • Grant Okafor headshot
    Attorney
    Grant Okafor
    17 years

    Contracts, hiring and the big, hard-to-undo calls

    General counsel background. Flags the clause, lease or obligation that quietly changes the math.

    • Contracts
    • Hiring
    • Risk

Specialists see only the decision you share, never your full business.

Spencer Oliver, founder of Runmode

Our story

Small business is personal.

“I grew up in small business, traveling the country with my dad as he kept the books, supplies, employees, and marketing moving. I'm building Runmode to give owners a clearer view of their business.”

Spencer Oliver · Founder, Runmode

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