Microsoft 365 · Automation · Systems

Systems your team actually uses.

Patternbuilt Systems builds Microsoft 365 workspaces, automations, simple databases and apps for small businesses. You get one place for the work, fewer dropped balls, and tools your people will keep using after the consultant leaves.

Sound familiar?

The work is getting done. It's just held together with email and memory.

Spreadsheets everywhereFive versions of the same tracker, emailed back and forth, and nobody is sure which one is right.
Approvals stuck in inboxesRequests wait on one person, follow-ups get missed, and nothing tells you what is late.
Paying for tools nobody usesYou already own Microsoft 365. Most of it sits unused while the team works around it.
Knowledge in one headWhen a key person is out, the process stops. Onboarding means "watch what I do."
Services

Find the gap. Build the system. Keep it running.

Practical builds on the tools you already pay for, sized for a small team and documented so you are never stuck with a black box.

Signature offer

Gap Control Review

A short, fixed-fee diagnostic. I map how work actually moves through your business, find where it falls through the cracks, and hand you a plan to close each gap, ranked by payoff.

Ask about a review
  • Walkthrough of your current process and tools
  • Gap scorecard: what is costing you time, money or customers
  • Recommended fixes with effort and cost for each
  • Written report you keep, whether or not we work together after

Microsoft 365 builds

SharePoint sites, Lists, Teams and Planner set up around how your team really works.

  • Document libraries with sane structure
  • Trackers that replace spreadsheets
  • Dashboards and home pages

Automation

Power Automate flows that move the busywork off your plate.

  • Approvals and reminders
  • Forms that feed lists and alerts
  • Receipts, renewals and weekly digests

Databases, apps and websites

Simple apps and databases for the jobs a spreadsheet can't handle, plus clean, fast websites.

  • Customer, job and inventory tracking
  • Intake forms and portals
  • Small business websites

Efficiency consulting

Process cleanup before any software: who does what, when, and how you know it got done.

  • Process maps and checklists
  • Roles and handoffs
  • Simple KPIs you will actually look at

Ongoing support

A monthly plan for changes, fixes and new small builds, so the system grows with you.

  • A set number of hours each month
  • Priority response
  • Quarterly check-in on what's next
How it works

Small steps, clear prices, no surprises.

Discovery call

Free, 30 minutes. You tell me what's slowing you down; I tell you honestly whether I can help.

Gap Control Review

Fixed fee, quoted up front. You get a written plan with the fixes ranked by payoff.

Build

Scoped and quoted before work starts. Built in your Microsoft 365 tenant, documented, and handed over with training.

Support

Optional monthly plan for changes and new builds as the business grows.

Pricing

You know the price before the work starts.

Small, defined work is fixed-fee. Larger projects are quoted after the discovery call and review, once we both know the scope.

Discovery call

Free

30 minutes by phone or Teams.

Gap Control Review

Fixed fee

Quoted up front based on team size and number of processes.

Builds

Quoted per project

Fixed-price or phased, agreed in writing before work begins.

Ongoing support

Monthly

A set block of hours each month. Cancel anytime.

Proof of work

I run my own business on the same systems I build for you.

Patternbuilt is part of Always Climb Co., and the whole company runs on a Microsoft 365 setup I built and maintain:

  • A hub site with a live dashboard: money in and out, renewals, pipeline and open tasks
  • Receipts emailed in are filed, logged and forwarded to the bank automatically
  • Renewal reminders and a Monday digest that arrive without anyone remembering to send them
  • One tracker for every goal, project and task, with a weekly review built in

Happy to walk you through it on a call.

Sean Gismegian

Founder, Patternbuilt Systems
  • Operations leadership
  • Microsoft 365, SharePoint and Power Automate
  • Process design and KPIs
  • Databases, apps and websites
  • St. Louis area, working with clients remotely
About

Operations first. Software second.

I'm Sean. I've spent my career in operations, the part of a business where good intentions meet real workloads. The pattern I see over and over is the same: smart people, decent tools, and work that still slips through the cracks because nobody built the system around how the team actually works.

Patternbuilt Systems exists to fix that for small businesses. I start with the process, then build on the Microsoft 365 tools you already pay for, and I leave you with something your team understands, uses and can keep running.

Straight answers, fixed prices where possible, and no lock-in.

Contact

Tell me what's slowing you down.

Fill out the short form and I'll reply within one business day to set up a free discovery call.