8515 Inc. · Houston, Texas
Quotes, bookings, follow-ups, the same answers every day. I take that part. Your week goes on the work itself.
One person, so you always know who is doing the work and who to ask.
What you get
A picture of the work, not a live feed. Nothing goes out until you say yes.
The window fills itself while the day goes on. Nothing here tracks you or asks for your email.
Three things, plainly. You own all of it, and there is no monthly fee.
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Quotes, bookings, invoices, the list copied by hand. It runs on your own accounts, records everything it does, and holds anything going out until you approve it.
Example: a booking request arrives, gets a draft reply, and waits for your yes.
your own accounts · a record of every action · it asks before it sends
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One page or twelve, with the words in a file you can edit yourself. Someone opens it on a phone in a car park and it is there. No cookie banner, nothing following them.
Example: one page, one offer, live on your account. A month later you change a line yourself, without calling anyone.
one file · hosted on your account · words you can edit
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The businesses in your patch worth ringing, checked against a map, with the reviews attached. You get the list and the reasons behind it.
Example: 147 local businesses in one pass, 112 checked and confirmed, delivered as one list.
open maps · duplicates removed · your list to keep
What decides whether any of it lands: your name, your words, your packaging, your prices, whether anyone finds you. All of it done for our first client first, who happens to be family. Piece by piece, or as The Opening Kit, where it is one job, one price and one person.
A name you keep for years, and a mark that reads on a thumbnail and on the side of a van, with a written rule for using both. I start from who you are for and what the product does.
Already done: twenty seven scent names and a full mark for the lounge's shelf, crest to label version, usage rules written down.
Every claim gets sorted: opinion, fact, comparison, hint, absolute. The ones you can stand behind stay, and the plain truth lands harder than the vaguest wording.
Already done: a website that refuses to print a rival's brand name, or a claim we cannot back up.
Labels, cards, sheets and stickers at a real size, with the cut, the ink and the paper named, so the printer has nothing to ask you.
Already done: a label drawn to size, and cards and sheets for a Houston auto shop.
The bottle is made on screen, then your label is placed from the specification, so the name on the glass is the name you signed off rather than something a generator typed.
Already done: our own bottles, every label placed from the specification instead of typed by a generator.
The one page naming who you serve, what they get and what you will not do, so your prices, pages and posts all say one thing. Then the offer ladder underneath: what is free, what repeats, what pairs with what.
Already done: an audience rule and a club card for our first client, priced and coded for the till.
Your listing on Google and on Maps, reviews asked for at the right moment, hours and area kept current, the other directories worth being on, and the details behind the scenes that tie them together.
Already done: a field by field guide for our first client, written before the listing existed.
The Fragrance Lounge is our first client. A scent shop in Daytona Beach, owned by my brother, where I am a partner in it on the creative and marketing side. That makes it the worst possible audience to bluff in front of, which is on purpose: it is where every rule on this page holds up in public.
Want the same for your brand? Same method, applied to yours. Nothing here is a template with your logo dropped in.
Two of those rules came out of a mistake we caught and fixed. The build checks both now, which is why they hold.
What you pay for is the list: names, numbers and reasons, ready to call today. The finding is my problem.
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Tell me your patch and who you want to reach. The names come from open maps, so the list is made for you, not resold to you.
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Each one gets a real phone and a real address, and a mark for how sure I am, so you know what you are walking into.
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The list lands in a spreadsheet, your system, or a message to your phone. The first message is written and waits for your yes.
Some matches are certain, some are likely, and a likely one can carry the number of the shop next door. Those are flagged in the list so you can see it before you dial.
If your week runs on you remembering things, this is for you.
Quotes, bookings, follow-ups and the review you keep meaning to ask for. Start with the one you would happily never do again.
You are the sales, the work and the paperwork. The first page and the first habit hand you the evening back.
Somewhere for your following to land, a way to take a booking, and half your inbox answered for you.
Every hour counts, so the repeating parts run themselves.
Reviews are the proof worth having, and they belong where people already look, not in a screenshot I picked out.
Not live yet
The listing is being set up, and it becomes a link here the moment it is live. Until then this space stays empty on purpose: a rating is earned, never invented.
Two different things. On the left, what you can buy from 8515. On the right, our own brands, with their own names and their own companies. TaglineCo is a separate LLC.
Picked with you, then measured before and after.
Built on your own account, in words you can edit.
Your patch, handed over with the reasons.
A scent shop in Daytona Beach, with its own site, built and looked after by us.
Jacket patches that open a page when a phone taps them. A separate LLC from 2019, brought back to life, founded with James Knights.
Prints and clothing by artists, with the artist credited.
Every number was measured while the work was done. Where nothing was measured, there is no number.
Three real builds sit behind those numbers: a scent shop, a print shop for artists, and brand and print work for a Houston auto shop. A fourth is under way.
There is no headshot here. A page about getting your evenings back does not need one, and I would rather finish the page than book the shoot.
Eleven years at Accenture Technology, 2013 to 2024, on change programmes for phone, energy and government clients including BrightSpeed, HPE, Shell Energy, LA County, T-Mobile and Charter. My title was Transformation Excellence Manager, and before that a lead, a scrum master, a product owner, a tester and an analyst. I learned what makes big work land, and it comes down to fewer layers.
So I do the work the other way round: one person, a short list of tools, and a short walk between the problem and the fix. You talk to the person doing the job, from the first call to the last file.
I studied computer science at North Carolina A&T State University, with a term at the University of Nicosia in Cyprus, and I am a certified scrum master, which matters less than you would think.
I still do the work: since November 2024 the AI and product lead at Craftstrom Solar, and a co-founder of R.I.M. Collective. What I build for you is what I use myself.
Bring the job you do most and like least. I will tell you whether it should be handed over, what it takes and what it costs. If a spreadsheet already solves it, I will say so.
Nothing is sent, posted or published in your name without your approval. That is a rule in the build, not a promise in a leaflet.