Picture Stone

The company brain

Your company already knows. It just can’t remember.

You built a good company, and it still runs through your head. We gather the inbox, the spreadsheets, the sticky notes and everything only you know into one brain your team and AI can work inside, with a person approving every decision that matters.

Book a 30-minute call For owner-led service companies of 10–100 people · Every call is with Daniel Force

The shift

For thirty years, a company’s knowledge has lived in its people, its inboxes and its spreadsheets.

In the intelligence era, the companies that thrive keep their knowledge, decisions and work in one system that AI can safely act inside.

That system is a company brain, and every owner-led business can have one.

What a company brain is

One place where your company thinks.

Your customers, your work, your money and your know-how, in one system of record. An assistant works inside it beside your team, and every step it takes is one you can see, approve and trace.

It proposes. You press.

The assistant prepares real work and brings it to you with its reason and a preview of exactly what will change. Nothing happens until you press.

The assistant · proposed just nowSample

Send Morgan a note about the service proposal

Why: sent last Tuesday and opened on Monday. A short note now keeps it moving.

Preview“Hi Morgan, thanks for having a look at the proposal. If anything in it raises a question, reply here and Sam will help…”

It remembers.

A living wiki of how your company works, written by the people who know it, with every earlier version kept.

How we welcome a new customer

Sample
  • Kick-off call within two working days
  • Welcome pack goes out by postWelcome pack goes out the same day, by email
  • A named person for every customer, from day one
  • First review at thirty days, owner on the call

Updated by Sam on Tuesday · earlier versions kept

It keeps the books honest.

Every morning the books check themselves against your payments, flag anything your accounting system turned away, and tell you only what needs a person.

This morning’s check

Sample
  • Every payout matched to its charges
  • Every payment recorded against its invoice
  • Every expense approved
  • Every posting accepted by your accounting system
$0.00Checking…

Every action leaves a trail.

People and assistants act through the same named actions, with the same permissions, and every one is recorded: who acted, for whom, and when.

In the record

Sample
  1. Proposed a follow-upassistant · proposeAction
  2. Approved and sentSam · sendCustomerEmail
  3. Checked the morning booksautomation · runBooksCheck
  4. Accepted the proposalcustomer · acceptQuote

It learns a new job every month.

Each month the brain takes on one more job for your team, proven on real work before it becomes routine.

Jobs learned

Sample

This month
Drafts follow-ups for you to send

Three ways in

Three doors. Each one kept small.

Every door has a fixed number of places, so the work stays personal. Each count changes when a place fills.

01 · Done for you

The Company Brain

We build your company brain on your real work, then run it, keep it current and teach it a new job every month.

  1. 2 weeksDiagnosisInterviews, your real workflows, a written blueprint.
  2. 6–10 weeksBuildOn your real work, with your team trained on it.
  3. Every monthRun and growKept current, a new job each month, a session with you.
  • One system of record
  • An assistant you approve
  • Automations you can read
  • Books checked every morning
  • A living company wiki
  • A monthly session with Daniel

from $25,000 to set up

then from $4,000 a month

12-month minimum
Stop after the two-week diagnosis for $7,500, and the blueprint is yours.

Build slots2 of 2 open
Monthly slots8 of 8 open

02 · A small group

The Owners’ Circle

One 90-minute call a month with Daniel and a small group of owners, and questions answered between calls. How to run a company in the intelligence era, from someone doing it.

$1,000 a month

Month to month

Seats12 of 12 open

03 · One to one

1:1 AI Mentorship

For an owner or leader who wants Daniel one to one: two sessions a month, messages between them, and your own AI routines set up in month one.

$3,000 a month

Month to month

Seats3 of 3 open

Principles

What stays true, always.

01

People decide. Software prepares.

Every proposal carries its reason and a preview of exactly what will change, and nothing happens until a person approves it.

02

What’s yours stays yours

Your data, your accounts and your workflows are yours. If we part ways, we export your data for you and walk your team through the handover.

03

Nothing hidden. Every change has a name and an author.

Each action, by a person or an assistant, is recorded with who took it, for whom, and when.

04

Built on your real work

We start from how your company actually runs, and prove each step on real jobs before the next.

A note from the founder

I build company brains for real businesses, with AI as my team, and I run what I build every day.

I started Picture Stone because the owners I admire spend their best hours remembering things a system should remember for them, and the tools to fix that finally exist.

I would love to help your company remember everything it knows.

Daniel Force, founder · LinkedIn

The next step

Book a 30-minute call.

Tell us how your company runs today. In thirty minutes we will tell you plainly which door fits, and where to begin.