Business first · Technology second
Got a
business
headache?
Your business has grown. Somewhere along the way, the processes and systems that got you here stopped keeping up.
We find what's causing the pain — and what you
should do about it.
Specialist
When it fits
40+ years
Operating businesses
Built, Bought & Sold
Real companies
Independent Advice
No Software sale first
RECOGNISE ANY OF THESE
The symptoms are usually pretty obvious.
The business outgrew the system.
What worked when you were smaller isn't keeping up.
Excel is running the company.
The workaround appears to have become mission-critical infrastructure.
Too much depends on you.
Questions, approvals and exceptions keep coming back to the owner.
The numbers don't agree.
Sales, accounting and operations have different versions of reality.
Nobody trusts the inventory.
The system says one thing. The warehouse says another.
Your systems don't talk.
The applications work. Just not together.
Your business grew. Your systems didn’t.
Entry-level accounting, spreadsheets and disconnected apps start to strain as complexity grows.
That’s usually where we come in.
START HERE
Don't buy an ERP. Get the diagnosis first.
The GrayMatta Roadmap looks at the business before anybody reaches for software.
1 Processes
Where work slows down or gets duplicated.
2 Systems
What works, what doesn't, what stays.
4 Requirements
What the business really needs now.
3 Information
Where data lives and why it disagrees.
5 Options
Including whether Odoo makes sense.
6 Plan
A practical path from here to there.
Fixed fee · Independent advice · No obligation to implement
You finish with a plan — not a software pitch.
FROM PLAN TO REALITY
Then we fix the right things.
Keep what works. Fix what doesn't. Replace only what needs replacing.
When Odoo is the right answer, we implement it. When it isn't, we'll say so.
04 · MAKE IT STICK
Training & Adoption
Make the new way the normal way
03 · BUILD IT
Implementation
Configure, migrate
and intgrate
02 · DESIGN IT
Systems Design
Fit people, data and
systems together.
01 · IMPROVE IT
Process Improvement
Simplify the work before automating it.
WHY GRAYMATTA
We've sat on your side of the desk.
Decades operating businesses — not just advising them.
40+
years operating
ERP
From Quickbooks to Odoo
Built & Sold
Real Businesses
Operator
Mindset first
HOW WE THINK
No technology for technology's sake.
Simple beats clever.
If nobody uses it, it isn't much of a solution.
WHERE WE'RE MOST USEFUL
Businesses with moving parts.
Wholesale & Distribution.
Inventory, purchasing, warehousing and fulfilment.
Small Manufacturing
Production, costing, inventory and operations.
E-commerce & Marketplaces
Orders, fulfilment, marketplaces and accounting.
THE GRADUATION QUESTION
Has your business outgrown its accounting system?
QuickBooks, Sage or another starter system may not be broken. Your business may simply have grown beyond it.
Inventory lives
elsewhere
Multiple warehouses or channels
Add-ons keep multiplying
One person knows evverything
Reporting needs spreadsheets
Data gets entered more than once
People don't trust the data
Admin grows faster than sales
When Odoo fits:
One system, much less duct tape.
Accounting, inventory, CRM, purchasing, manufacturing,
e-commerce, reporting and much more can finally work together.
We design Odoo around the business — not the other way around.
PURCHASING
ACOUNTING
MRP
INVENTORY
E-COMMERCE
REPORTING
SALES
CRM
Business first.
Understand the operation before touching the software.
Configure before customizing
Use what's already there before reinventing it.
Those are some of the symptoms. Our job is to find the cause
Start with the problem
What's keeping you up at night?
Let's work out what's causing it before somebody sells you the cure.
Get Your Business Systems Roadmap
Business first. Software second. Sleep eventually.