THE GRAYMATTA Roadmap
Diagnosis before prescription
Before you replace software, customize anything or sit through three ERP demos,
find out what the business actually needs.
You leave with the Roadmap whether you implement with GrayMatta or not.
FIXED FEE
CAD $2,000 plus HST
TYPICAL DURATION
1 - 2 weeks
COMMITMENT
No obligation to implement
Processes
Where work slows down, gets repeated or depends on workarounds.
Systems
What works, what doesn't and what you've outgrown.
Requirements
What the business genuinely needs now and next.
Information
Where data lives and why the numbers don't agree.
People
Who does what, where knowledge lives and where bottlenecks sit.
Plan
What stays, what changes and what should happen in what order.
WHAT YOU GET
A deliverable you can actually use.
WHAT ARE YOU BUYING
A practical answer to: “What should we do next?”
We look at the business before anybody reaches for software.
Sometimes the answer is Odoo. Sometimes it isn't.
The Roadmap comes before that decision.
Current-state assessment.
Where you are today
Problems & Causes
Not just the symptoms
Future-state processes
How the business should work
System requirements.
What the technology must actually do.
Recommended direction
Odoo, another approach or improve what you already have.
Implementation outline
Priorities, phases, dependencies and likely next steps.
The deliverable belongs to you.
Implement with GrayMatta, someone else, internally — or not at all.
PRICE & TERMS
No mystery
pricing.
CAD $2,000 plus HST
Normally completed in 1–2 weeks.
✓ Standalone engagement
✓ No obligation to proceed with implementation
✓ You receive the Roadmap whether we implement or not
✓ Any applicable implementation credit is stated before you start.
YOUR SIDE OF THE DESK
Successful projects need two teams.
GrayMatta can design and implement the system. We can't run your business for you while we do it.
Executive Sponsor
Owns the project, removes roadblocks and keeps it a business priority.
Internal Project Manager
Coordinates your team, actions, deadlines and decisions.
Process Owners
The people who actually know how sales, purchasing, inventory and accounting work.
Time & Availability
Protected time for workshops, decisions, testing and training.
Data Ownership
Your team owns the accuracy, cleanup and approval of migrated data.
Change Champion
Helps users understand the change and keeps adoption moving.
And we need decisions.
Questions left unanswered for three weeks become three-week project delays.
BEFORE IMPLEMENTATION BEGINS
We agree on the rules of engagement.
This is not bureaucracy. It keeps the project moving and protects both sides.
✓ Named executive sponsor
✓ Named internal project manager
✓ Department and process owners identified
✓ Agreed weekly project time from key people
✓ Decision authority established
✓ Data owner identified
✓ Testing team identified
✓ Training / change champion identified
✓ Scope and change-control process agreed
✓ Response-time expectations agreed
ERP is something we implement with you — not to you.
IMPLEMENTATION REALITY
What usually makes projects late?
Delayed decisions
Waiting becomes schedule.
Unavailable key users
The project cannot guess how the business works.
Scope creep
Every “while we're here...” has a cost.
Poor data
New software cannot make bad data good by magic.
Insufficient testing
Go-live is a poor place to discover surprises.
Recreating every workaround
A new ERP should not become an expensive copy of the old problems.
IMPLEMENTATION REALITY
Straight answers before you start.
It is the normal starting point for new prospects because it protects both sides from making assumptions too early. Where GrayMatta already knows the people, the business and the problem well enough to scope responsibly, we may move directly into scoped work.
CAD $2,000. It is a standalone engagement and is normally completed in 1–2 weeks.
No. The Roadmap determines what you need. Odoo has to earn its place.
GrayMatta will say so. The value of the Roadmap is a sound decision, not a predetermined software sale.
No. The Roadmap is yours. Use GrayMatta, another provider, your internal team — or do nothing yet.
Because it is consulting work, not a software sales exercise. We analyse the business and give you a usable deliverable.
- Access to the owner or decision-maker and the people who understand the key processes, systems and problems. We keep the disruption sensible.
- Enough to make it succeed. Key people need scheduled time for workshops, decisions, testing, data preparation and training.
- Yes for an implementation. In a small company, that may be the owner or a senior manager, but somebody on your side must own coordination and decisions.
- GrayMatta provides structure, tools and guidance. Your business owns the quality, cleanup and approval of its data.
- Someone senior enough to make decisions, resolve conflicts and keep the project a business priority. Passive approval is not enough.
- We assess the change and tell you the effect on timing and cost before proceeding. Bigger projects take more time. No magic.
- We can assist, but business ownership of data cannot be outsourced. Your people know what is correct, current and worth keeping.
- Both teams. GrayMatta tests the solution; your users validate real business scenarios before go-live.
- Yes — when there is a genuine business requirement. Configuration comes first. “That's how we've always done it” is not automatically a requirement.
- Stabilization, support and refinement. Go-live means the system starts doing real work; it does not mean everybody goes home.
- GrayMatta provides training. Your managers and internal champions reinforce the new processes afterward.
- We'll tell you. That's one of the main reasons the Roadmap exists.
Start with the problem
Know what you need before you buy it.
CAD $2,000 · 1–2 weeks · No obligation to implement
Business first. Software second. Sleep eventually.