Notes from X

X post 1

Off-the-rack software makes you change how you stand to make it fit. Bespoke software is cut to how your business actually runs. The goal is the same as a good suit: you stop noticing it.

X post 2

The margin in most lending and real estate shops isn't inside the big systems. It's in the gaps between them: the retyped application, the monthly reconciliation, the lead nobody owned. Start there.

X post 3

Build vs buy, my rule: buy what's common, build what's yours. For a manufactured housing operator I built TurnKey on top of MeridianLink, ShareFile and Rent Manager instead of replacing them.

By David Allen Wind, founder of Millwright Logic and DAW Partners.