About us

You should not have to choose between doing the work and having a life.

That is the whole reason this company exists. Everything below is us explaining ourselves: who we are, why we are doing this, and exactly what you can hold us to.

Why we built this
The inside lens
“In talking to entrepreneurs, one theme kept coming up: they didn't have enough time to grow their business and enjoy the rewards they'd hoped for. StayBookt is our answer to ‘not enough time.’ We get to build something great while helping others realize their dreams and Enjoy Life more.”
Richard RoosCo-founder
The outside lens
“Every owner I worked with tried to buy their way out of it. Another tool, another login, another thing that promised to fix it. None of them ever did the work. They just handed you one more job.”
Jacob CharendoffCo-founder
Who we are

Two people. No layers.

That is the whole company, and it is the entire qualification. We are not a fund, a franchise, or an agency with a hundred logos on the wall. One of us saw this from the outside, the other from the inside.

Richard Roos, co-founder of StayBookt
Richard Roos
Operations, growth, and finance

Two decades running operations inside fast-growing service businesses, including leading the growth of Venterra from $15M to $500M+ in revenue. A CPA who spent his career building the machine that answers every call and misses nothing. He has run the front office most owner-operators will never be able to hire.

Jacob Charendoff, co-founder of StayBookt
Jacob Charendoff
Brand, product, and growth

A decade spent standing next to service business owners across health, hospitality, software, retail, and the trades. Different industries, the same conversation, every single time. He works on the outside of the business: getting it found and making it easy to hire, then turning that into something the owner can finally hand off.

Our promises

What you can hold us to.

Anybody can publish values. The only thing that makes a promise worth anything is what it costs to keep it, so each one opens to show you exactly what it costs us.

We do not hand you a dashboard and wish you luck. We answer the phone, chase the quote and ask for the review ourselves. If you ever feel like you are operating software, we have built the wrong thing.

What it costs us

It costs us the thing every software company is chasing. We cannot take a thousand clients this year, because a thousand clients means a thousand businesses we would actually have to run. We will grow slowly, on purpose, and we will turn work away before we take work we cannot do properly.

We take the busywork and leave the business to you. You set the prices and the standards, it is your name on the van, and we talk to your customers in your voice. Think of us as staff, not a partner who quietly takes the wheel.

What it costs us

It costs us the easy wins. We will not raise your prices because the model says we can, or take jobs you would have turned down, or talk to your customers in a way you would not. Some of those things would make us more money. We do not get to do them.

We will tell you what we actually think on the call, even when what we think is that you do not need us. No pressure, no drip sequence afterwards, and no second call from somebody more persuasive.

What it costs us

It costs us the deals a sharper pitch would have closed. We will say “you are fine, do not hire us” to somebody who came to us ready to buy, and then we will not chase them. That is the deal.

No term. No contract to be trapped in. No exit fee. Cancel any time on thirty days notice. And for the first ninety days you can change your mind for any reason at all, and we refund every month you paid. You never have to prove we failed.

What it costs us

It costs us the safety net every subscription company is built on. We build your website before you have paid us a dollar, and then we have to earn the next month, and the one after that, forever. The day we stop being worth $199 you are gone inside thirty days, and you leave with the website, the domain, the customer list and the reviews. We wrote that deal on purpose.

We do not invent testimonials, borrow logos, or post screenshots of results we did not produce. The one customer build on this site is a real screenshot of a real live site, and the link is right there for you to go and check.

What it costs us

It costs us the easy win. Every competitor you have looked at has a wall of five-star quotes, and we could have one by Friday. Showing you nothing beats showing you something we made up.

Do the work you love. We’ll run the rest.

We get you found and run the day to day. You get your time back.

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