Service · Multi-Entity · Unified Operations

Two brands, ten brands —
one back office.

Most multi-entity businesses end up the same way: a separate login per brand, separate scripts per location, the same fix needed N times every time something breaks. We build one platform that sits over all of them, so adding the next brand or site is a thirty-minute job.

Entities unified · Raw Blend
6
Time to add next entity
~30m
Per-entity SaaS fees
$0
Codebases to maintain
1
The bottleneck

Every entity is its own silo.

Multi-brand retailers, multi-location service businesses, franchise networks, acquired brands sharing infrastructure — they all hit the same wall. Each entity has its own logins, its own scripts, its own credentials, its own person who remembers how to restart things.

When something breaks — a token expires, a supplier changes their feed, a script falls over overnight — the fix needs to be applied to every entity. So it gets applied to none. Things quietly stay broken.

Nobody has a single view of what's working across entities. When a customer complains about a missing order on one brand, you can't quickly tell whether the other five are quietly having the same issue.

The solution

One platform over every entity.

We build a single platform that handles every entity from one codebase. One credentials file. One dashboard with a tab per entity. Every automation — inventory, supplier feeds, accounting sync, purchase orders — runs against each relevant entity from the same place.

Adding a new entity is a thirty-minute job. Add the credentials, add a config block; the dashboard and automations pick it up automatically.

Runs on the office PC you already have, or a cheap server. Zero per-entity SaaS fees, regardless of how many entities you add.

Screenshot · Dashboard · entity tabs across the top, automation cards per entity
The outcome

One platform. Many entities.

For Raw Blend we unified six Shopify storefronts under one platform in about two weeks. Every automation across every store runs from one dashboard. Failed runs surface immediately in red, before customers find out.

The bookkeeper has one URL to check in the morning. The warehouse has one place to drop weekly supplier files. The owner sees at a glance whether anything failed overnight.

When the seventh entity gets acquired or launched, it slots in without a new project.

Metric Before After
Logins for staff One per entity One — unified dashboard
Adding a new entity Days of bespoke work ~30 minutes
Failed-automation visibility Found out from customers Red card on the dashboard
Per-entity SaaS fees Multiplied N times $0
Code maintenance burden N copies of every script One codebase
Where this pattern fits

Same shape, different industries.

Live · Retail · 6 storefronts

Raw Blend multi-store

Six Shopify storefronts feeding one warehouse, one QuickBooks Online file, one ShipStation account. One platform automates inventory, tracking sync and supplier feeds across all six. The seventh store would slot in inside an hour.

Same pattern

Multi-location service businesses

Two, three or ten franchise sites or service depots sharing one head office. The same architecture — one credential surface, one dashboard — works for ServiceM8, AroFlo, or a custom field-service stack.

Same pattern

Acquired brands sharing infrastructure

When you bought a brand that runs on different software but feeds the same back office, you don't have to migrate it. The platform handles different connectors per entity transparently.

How we price

Priced on your saving, not our effort.

Every build is quoted at one-fifth of what it saves your team in man-hours per year. The other four-fifths stay with your business, every year, after the build.

Most builds in this tier land between $2,500 and $25,000, depending on the size of the saving — a small single-task processor sits at the lower end, a multi-system platform at the upper.

Local

Lives on your computer

Desktop app or local automation that runs on a PC you already own. One-off payment.

Hosted

Lives on our infrastructure

We host, run and maintain the build. Monthly subscription, sized so cost lands as the saving lands.

Discovery is free. We spend 30 minutes mapping the saving on a call and quote a specific number inside 48 hours.

Frequently asked

Questions worth getting out of the way.

Who owns the build after we ship it?

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You do. Source code, deployment guide, and a runbook — all yours. There's no per-seat licence to keep paying and no vendor lock-in. If you decide to maintain it in-house later, you can. We're happy to stay on as a retainer; we don't make you.

How do you work out the saving?

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On the discovery call we ask what your team does today — name the task, the frequency, the hours, the wage rate. The estimate is conservative. If the maths doesn't land somewhere we both think is worth it, we'll tell you on the call rather than sell you a build.

How long does it take from scope to live?

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Most builds run one to three weeks from confirmed scope to production. We work in working prototypes — you'll see something running by the end of week one, refine through week two, hand over and go to production around week three.

What if our stack is unusual?

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Most are. The framework we ship against is the same; the connectors differ. We've shipped against Shopify, ServiceM8, QuickBooks Online, MYOB, Xero, ShipStation, custom supplier portals, Google Sheets and Excel-by-email. If your system has an API or a file export, it's in scope.

What if we want to extend it later?

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Easy and cheap. The platform pattern means a second or third automation slots in for hours of work, not weeks. After the first build the marginal cost drops sharply — most clients return for a second within a few months.

Does this work for multi-location service businesses, not just retail?

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Yes — the pattern is identical for multi-site ServiceM8, multi-clinic allied health, multi-depot trades, multi-franchise food. The brand-tabs on the dashboard become site-tabs; otherwise the architecture is the same.

What about acquired brands running on different software?

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That's actually the most common version of the pattern. Different connectors per entity, same dashboard and automations on top. You don't have to migrate the acquired stack to use it.

How many entities is the sweet spot?

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Two is usually too few to justify a build — a couple of well-written scripts can carry it. Three to ten is the sweet spot, where the duplicated work has started to hurt. Past ten, the platform is essential operationally, not just helpful.

Want the technical detail — APIs, code, the gotchas we hit, the actual log output? It's all in the Raw Blend case study.

Related Builds

Other angles on the
same platform.

Every page on this list is drawn from the same Raw Blend build — different problems, same operating model.

Multiple entities feeling
like multiple problems?

Tell us about your brands, sites or stores and which parts of running them all hurt the most. We'll spend 30 minutes mapping it on a free call and quote a specific platform build inside 48 hours.

Discovery is free · Quote in 48 hours · No retainer required