Built by a founder — for founder-led businesses

    Win the work.
    Do the work.
    Get paid for it.

    Answer inquiries in minutes, not days. Catch deals before they go cold. Invoice the day the work ships. One system built to keep up as you grow.

    From $19 per seat
    Live in an afternoon
    Keeps your QuickBooks
    Founder team collaborating around the SHINES OS dashboard
    New lead — Northbridge
    Routed and replied · 40s ago
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    Invoice paid — $12,400
    Synced to QuickBooks
    Every revenue motionProject work, retainers, and event bookings — all proven on it
    Decades of operating experienceBuilt by a founder who has started and scaled companies
    In production every dayDeals quoted, projects delivered, invoices paid - SHINES runs on it today
    First contact to money in the bank

    SHINES OS
    closes the loop.

    A customer fills out your form. You talk, you quote, you do the work, you get paid — and then you market to them again. Most businesses hand that lead between five tools along the way, and something falls out at every handoff. Here there are no handoffs. It's the same record the entire way round.

    Nothing gets re-typed. No copying a name out of an email into a CRM, no rebuilding a quote in a separate invoicing tool, no exporting a list for the email platform, no spreadsheet for the bookkeeper. The record moves; you don't.
    What runs the loop

    Four modules
    carry the whole thing.

    Sales wins the work, Work delivers it, Money gets you paid, Marketing brings them back. Growth breaks when those four drift apart — so they run on one data model. A deal, its invoice, its project, and the campaign that started it are the same record, not four copies in four tools.

    Sales Work Money Marketing MR Marisol Reyes One contact record · all four modules SALES Deal · Venue rental Quoted $4,800 · deposit received Jul 7 WORK Project · Dec 5 event 4 tasks open · 2 documents Jul 9 MONEY Invoice · INV-2418 Paid · synced to QuickBooks PAID MARKETING Audience · Past clients Opted in · 3 campaigns sent IN BETA
    Four modules, one contact. Not four copies in four tools.
    The layer underneath all four

    Every conversation,
    on the deal it belongs to.

    Calls, texts, emails, and voicemails land on the contact automatically. Pick up a deal you haven't touched in three weeks and read the whole history in one scroll — no hunting through inboxes and phone logs to reconstruct what was said.

    ✓
    One timeline, four channelsFilter by SMS, email, calls, or voicemail — or read it all together.
    ✓
    Reply from one composerText or email from the same box. It logs itself.
    ✓
    A2P registration built inSubmit your brand and campaign from inside SHINES OS — no carrier paperwork to figure out. Approval takes a few weeks.
    ✓
    Voicemail to transcriptMissed calls come back as searchable text on the record.
    ✓
    And it works from your phoneField Companion puts jobs, contacts and calls in your pocket — calls placed from the app log to the record like any other. iOS and Android.
    Someone taking a client call
    FIELD COMPANION

    Run your whole business from your pocket.

    Founder-led businesses do not stop when you leave your desk. See what needs you, call and text customers, move deals, chase invoices, and keep the work moving from one place.

    The same customers, conversations, work, and money - with you in the field.

    Send the invoice - create it, review it, send it, record payment, or push it to QuickBooks without waiting to get back to your desk.

    Add the contact while it is fresh - capture the company, person, source, email, and phone before the lead disappears into your notes.

    Move the deal - see the pipeline value, open deals, stage, win rate, and what has sat too long, then act on it.

    Call, text, and email from the record - every conversation stays attached to the customer instead of living on your phone.

    Turn follow-up into work - create tasks from calls and keep the work moving from the field.

    Chase the money - see what is unpaid, send the next invoice, and follow the payment through.

    Field Companion is in active beta for iOS and Android.

    BOLT AI

    AI that does the work, not another chatbot.

    Bolt watches the moments where revenue usually stalls, then runs the next step inside SHINES OS. It can respond, create the record, route the follow-up, and keep the pipeline moving while you stay on the work.

    Not a chatbot - a campaign that does work for you.

    You set the campaign. Bolt carries out the actions.

    Bolt, the SHINES OS assistant
    LIVE TODAY ON SHINESOS.COM

    Lead to cash

    1. Qualify the inbound lead instantly from the submitted details.

    2. Email the lead from Ace with your booking link.

    3. Text the follow-up from the business line when the lead consented.

    4. Create the contact and deal in the Sales Pipeline at New.

    5. Alert you with the lead details and a direct link to the deal.

    THE CAMPAIGN DIRECTION
    1. Book the call and keep the next action moving.

    2. Move the deal and flag deals that stall.

    3. Send the invoice and chase late payments.

    4. Follow up until the deal is closed.

    The live lead-capture campaign is running now. The later lead-to-cash actions are the product direction, not claims that every step is automated today

    No tab to watch. No prompt to type. One campaign turns a new inquiry into a live deal with the next conversation already moving.

    Turn on what you need

    Everything else, when you're ready.

    Start with the CRM. Add modules the month you need them and turn them off the month you don't — your invoice follows automatically.

    Every revenue motion, on one system.

    Project work, retainers and event bookings all run on the same records underneath.

    The loop, in their words

    Different businesses.
    Same loop.

    Three businesses that look nothing alike, all running the same loop — from the first message to the money landing.

    Case study

    One clubhouse. Ninety days. Every invoice paid.

    The situation

    A century-old clubhouse that rents its venue — a business that lives on rental inquiries, quotes and invoices.

    What they did

    Ran their rentals through SHINES OS from day one. Every inquiry tracked, every deal moved, every invoice sent and chased from one system.

    The outcome

    A century-old clubhouse that rents its venue runs SHINES OS. In its first 90 days of sending invoices (June 11 - Sep 8, 2026): 102 rental inquiries, 14 invoices across 13 clients, $21,802 invoiced - and $21,802 collected. Every invoice paid.

    102 rental inquiries through the pipeline
    14 invoices raised
    13 clients billed
    $21,802 invoiced = $21,802 collected

    Every invoice paid.

    Prefer to talk first?

    Tell us what's
    breaking.

    Where you are now, what you're using, and what keeps slipping. We'll tell you honestly whether SHINES OS fits — and if it doesn't, we'll say so.

    Don't need to talk? Start the 14-day trial and set it up yourself. No call required, cancel any time before day 14.
    info@shinesos.comStraight to the founder
    1 business dayTypical response time

    We'll never share your details or add you to a marketing list without asking.

    Pricing

    Start with one module. Add the rest as you grow.

    Pay per seat, per module. No setup fee, no contract, and no charge until day fifteen.

    $19
    per seat / month to start
    See full pricing →
    Why this exists

    I built this to run
    my own business.

    SHINES OS wasn't designed for a market. It was built by Nathan Chandra — after decades of starting, scaling and operating companies — because nothing on the market fit how a founder-led business actually runs.

    Today it runs three of them — SHINES Studio, the agency; COLOURS Uniforms; and HENRY, a special-events catering platform. Every module exists because one of those businesses needed it that week, not because it looked good on a roadmap. When something breaks, it breaks for us first.

    Different businesses, different revenue motions, one system underneath. Other founders started asking for access — so we opened it up.

    NC
    Nathan ChandraFounder, SHINES Creative LLC
    Decades in startupsBuilt on years of operating companies — not a first attempt at software.
    Built from the insideShaped by real problems in three real businesses, week by week.
    Still in daily useWe run our own agency on it. Every day, same as you would.
    Trust · Clarity · MomentumAccurate to the dollar. Simple on the screen. Fast enough to keep up with you.

    Grow without adding overhead.

    Fourteen days free. Live in an afternoon. Keep the accountant you already have.