Real Business Case Studies
Examples of how businesses improve operations, systems, and growth with the right structure in place.
Apps We Built and Shipped to the App Store
Two client apps, designed, built, and published by Pinstripe, both live on the Apple App Store.
Simplyweds
Wedding planning
Guests RSVP without an account. The couple plans everything else in one private workspace.
BES Digital Planners
Digital planners
The planner customers already bought, in an app built for it, with Apple Pencil and cloud sync.
Helping a Growing Business Handle Rapid Growth Without Breaking
Business Overview
ByEvetteSantos is a growing business that experienced rapid demand and expansion.
Visit ByEvetteSantosThe Problem
As the business grew quickly:
- Operations became harder to manage
- Workflows were not clearly defined
- Too much depended on the owner
- Growth created pressure instead of clarity
What We Did
- Identified operational bottlenecks
- Helped structure workflows
- Introduced repeatable systems
- Improved day-to-day organization
What Changed
- Clearer internal structure
- Smoother day-to-day operations
- Reduced overwhelm
- Better ability to support growth
Key Outcomes
- Clearer day-to-day structure
- Less reliance on the owner for every decision
- Improved ability to handle growth
- More consistent workflows
Founder Insight
Rapid growth exposes weaknesses in how a business is structured. Without systems, growth creates stress instead of progress.
Modernizing a 20+ Year Business with Automation and Lead Capture Systems
Business Overview
Eighth Street Designs is a long-standing business that had been operating for over 20 years before being acquired.
After acquisition, the goal was to modernize operations while maintaining the existing customer base.
The business retained over 90% of its existing clients during the transition.
Visit Eighth Street DesignsThe Problem
Before improvements:
- Quote requests were inconsistent and sometimes missed
- There was no structured system for capturing and tracking leads
- Manual processes made it difficult to stay organized
- Opportunities were being lost due to lack of visibility
What We Did
- Implemented structured lead capture through the website
- Connected incoming quote requests directly into Trello using Zapier
- Created a centralized workflow to track and manage leads
- Integrated AI Chat for Business to help capture and respond to inquiries
What Changed
- Lead capture became consistent and trackable
- Fewer missed opportunities from inbound inquiries
- Improved organization of incoming work
- Better visibility into the sales pipeline
Key Outcomes
- Consistent lead capture from website inquiries
- No more missed quote requests
- Centralized pipeline using Trello
- Improved visibility into incoming work
Founder Insight
Acquiring a business with history is one thing. Bringing it up to modern operational standards without losing what made it work is where systems and automation matter.
Cleaning Up and Stabilizing Financials for a Rapidly Growing Business
Business Overview
Constantly Create Shop is a growing business with multiple revenue streams, including custom apparel, promotional products, and client-based work.
As the business expanded, financial activity became more complex across different areas of the operation.
Visit Constantly Create ShopThe Problem
As growth increased:
- Revenue was coming from multiple sources without clear organization
- Payroll, taxes, rent, and liabilities became difficult to track properly
- Financial records became harder to manage over time
- Delays in cleanup made everything more complicated to fix
What We Did
- Cleaned up and organized existing financial records
- Implemented structured bookkeeping practices in QuickBooks Online
- Ensured accurate categorization across revenue and expenses
- Brought accounts up to date through reconciliation
What Changed
- Books are now clean and up to date
- No more need for tax return extensions
- Financial reporting is accurate and reliable
- Business decisions are now based on clear numbers
Key Outcomes
- No more tax return extensions
- Clean and up-to-date books
- Reliable financial reporting
- Monthly financial clarity
Ongoing Process
- Monthly reconciliations are performed in QuickBooks Online
- Monthly review meetings are held to discuss business performance
- Ongoing structure ensures the books stay clean and manageable
Founder Insight
The longer a business waits to clean up its books, the harder it becomes. Most financial problems aren't caused by lack of revenue. They come from lack of structure.
Pinstripe Fleet: Field Operations Platform We Built In-House
Business Overview
Pinstripe Fleet is a multi-tenant field operations platform we built to solve a problem we kept seeing across our bookkeeping and consulting clients.
It handles scheduling, dispatching employees to job sites, capturing proof of completion with photos and signatures, and letting customers approve the work, tip, and pay from one link.
Recent additions: estimates that open as a mobile page instead of a PDF, an honest 'price held through' date instead of pressure tactics, approval-speed reporting built from each business's own estimate history, and an opt-in on-the-way update so a waiting customer knows a technician is coming.
Visit Pinstripe FleetThe Problem
The pattern our clients kept running into:
- No clean way to prove a job was actually completed
- Payment follow-ups eating hours every week
- Disputes with no evidence to point back to
- Employees with no way to defend their work when a complaint came in
What We Did
- Built a mobile-first app employees can run from their phone in the field
- Added photo capture for proof of work without exposing personal customer info
- Wired in Stripe Connect so customers approve, tip, and pay from a secure link
- Kept every business's data isolated with row-level security across tenants
- Rebuilt estimates as a mobile-first approval page with instant confirmation
- Computed approval rate and median decision time from each owner's own sent estimates, grouped by how fast they responded
- Added a technician-triggered, opt-in distance and freshness update for the customer's job page (no map, no coordinates, no location history)
What Changed
- Owners stopped chasing customers for payment confirmation
- Employees have a defensible record of every job
- Customers get a clean, one-tap approval and payment flow
- The whole back-office paper trail happens automatically
Key Outcomes
- Live product at pinstripefleet.com
- Multi-tenant architecture safe for any number of businesses
- Proof-of-work capture built into the job flow
- Approval, tip, and payment in one customer link
- Mobile estimate approval with a stated price-hold date
- Approval-speed reporting from real estimate history, not benchmarks
Founder Insight
We kept telling clients they needed better proof-of-work and payment systems. Eventually we got tired of describing the perfect tool and just built it.
How an In-Home Cleaning Company Cut 5 Hours of Weekly Admin
Business Overview
A Long Island in-home cleaning company (existing bookkeeping client of ours) was losing time every week to payment follow-ups and the occasional customer dispute about whether a room had actually been cleaned.
We used them as our first real-world design partner for Pinstripe Fleet.
The Problem
Before we brought Fleet in:
- Owner spent about 5 hours a week chasing payments and answering 'did they clean this?' questions
- Employees had no way to prove they did the work when a customer pushed back
- Occasional disputes hurt morale and slowed down the next visit
- Turnaround between cleaning appointments dragged because admin work piled up between jobs
What We Did
- Onboarded the cleaning team into Pinstripe Fleet with their own workflow and checklists
- Trained employees to capture non-identifying proof photos of cleaned surfaces at the end of each visit
- Enabled one-link customer approval, tipping, and payment through Stripe Connect
- Wired Fleet activity back into their bookkeeping so payments reconcile automatically
What Changed
- Payment disputes dropped to near zero once photo evidence was in the loop
- Employees felt more secure knowing their work was documented
- The owner stopped playing detective between the customer and the crew
- Turnaround between appointments got noticeably faster
Key Outcomes
- About 5 hours per week saved on payment follow-ups and admin
- Appointment cadence roughly 33% faster between visits
- Employee morale up thanks to secure proof-of-work capture
- Cleaner bookkeeping trail feeding straight into monthly close
Ongoing Process
- Employees complete jobs in Fleet with photo proof and a customer signature
- Customers approve, tip, and pay from a secure link, with no phone tag
- Payments feed into our monthly bookkeeping review
Founder Insight
This client's problem wasn't cleaning. It was the paperwork around the cleaning. Once we took that off their plate, the whole operation moved faster.
How We Approach Every Business
Every engagement follows the same grounded process:
- Understand the current situation
- Identify bottlenecks
- Build structure
- Improve operations
Built From Real Business Experience
This work comes from real businesses, not theory or generic consulting playbooks. Every recommendation we make has been tested in actual operations, with real stakes and real outcomes.
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