Operations that run themselves.

Right now your business lives in your head. We turn it into a system that runs without you: requests, handoffs and approvals move on their own, and the numbers you need sit on one dashboard. We've built them for teams from a $15B fintech to luxury villas in Ibiza.

$15B
Valuation of our largest client
3 → 60
Employees at an agency that grew on our systems
80+
Workspaces built
300+
Automations running
Systems running at
Trade Republic Sellers Side Maven Collection Next Level Property Management Agency Three Two Shuffleshots Speedwell Coffee Liquid Theory Diverting Hate
Sound familiar?

Every team we work with started here.

These are word-for-word quotes from discovery calls with owners and operators. Different industries, same problem: the work lives in chats, spreadsheets and one person's memory.

"It's just, like, a cluster of chaos."
Operations lead · US events agency
"The CEO is having to check in every day and be like, where's this? Where's that?"
Same agency, before the build
"Every day has its own Word document for all our orders."
Owner · specialty coffee wholesaler
"Most of them were agreed upon three months ago in a group chat that now has another thousand messages after it."
Founder · event gear company
"I have to put the price here, I have to put the price here, I have to put the price here."
Founder · e-commerce reseller
"I'm losing business because this automation is not efficient."
Founder · housing placement network
What we build

Not “a Notion setup.” Work that's always in somebody's hands.

Anyone can make databases. Almost nobody architects the system. Every build runs on the same five rules, which we call the Handoff Engine™.

01

One front door

Every request comes in through one form or one channel, never a DM or a sticky note.

02

Every step has an owner

Each stage is assigned to a person automatically, with a due date that respects weekends and cut-off times.

03

"Done" hands it on

Marking a step done creates the next one and puts it on the next person's list, along with the brief and files.

04

Nothing stalls silently

Anything untouched for too long pings the person responsible before a client notices.

05

Everyone sees only their list

One "My Tasks" page per person. Clients, freelancers and staff see exactly what they should, and no more.

Selected work

Built for teams that can't afford chaos.

Fintech, Amazon advertising, luxury travel, video production, wholesale. Here's what changed for each.

Trade Republic

$15B fintech.
One partnerships desk.

Trade Republic · Berlin · valued at €12.5B (≈ $15B)

Europe's fast-growing neobroker was managing its partnerships out of spreadsheets and inboxes. Today the whole department works from one shared partnerships desk. Every partner, deal and conversation is in one place, so anyone can pick up a relationship exactly where a colleague left it.

  • One source of truth for every partner and deal
  • No relationship lives in one person's inbox anymore
  • The whole department on board, without extra seat costs
  • Commissioned on the first call
UK · Amazon PPC

A data platform for 50+ Amazon brands

Sellers Side runs Amazon advertising for e-commerce brands. We built their multi-tenant analytics platform: nightly pipelines from the Amazon Ads and Selling Partner APIs into BigQuery, live dashboards, shareable reports and a self-serve seller onboarding flow. It covers ~340 advertiser profiles across the US, UK and EU.

Amazon Ads APIBigQueryCloud RunMulti-tenant
Ibiza · Luxury villas

80 villas, up to €40k a week, one hub

Maven Collection has run its booking system (iPro) for a decade. We synced it into a Notion operations hub for villas, owners, bookings and clients. A locked-down financials layer keeps commission private from staff, each villa has its own 40-question owner onboarding form, and branded guest emails cover every step from booking to arrival. Emma chose it over her booking software's own CRM.

iPro APINotionMakeGuest emails

Turnovers that dispatch themselves

A South Carolina rental manager with 11 homes on Guesty. New bookings create the clean and post it to that home's Slack channel. AI reads the cleaner's "accepted" reply, and the system sends day-before reminders, nags when nobody accepts and handles cancellations. We also rebuilt their website, staysc.com.

GuestySlackAI
Haarlem, NL

A video agency's production line

About 17 live projects across three editors and a bench of freelancers, all in one pipeline: clients, campaigns, videos and stage tasks. "Done" creates and assigns the next task. Client portals show progress, and freelancer pages show what each editor is owed, privately.

NotionMakeGoogle Calendar
US · Brand activations

160 tasks, zero "where is this?"

A 10-person agency where 95% of projects follow the same five phases, yet the CEO checked in on everything daily. Now a 75-step workflow of about 160 template tasks runs on "Done & Next" buttons, yes/no branches, QA kick-backs and automatic producer assignment.

NotionWorkflow engine

Sell a package, get a project

A business consultancy that moved from Airtable to Notion. Closing a deal in the CRM now spins up the full delivery project automatically: up to 33 tasks, each assigned and given a business-day due date.

NotionAutomations
US nonprofit

A system the team extends itself

A funding-pipeline CRM and donor call system. After a few Loom walkthroughs, the director built a new recurring donor-call plan on her own, which she'd never managed to do in Airtable.

NotionAirtable
Brand OS

A brand's whole operating system

Eight areas, from brand and audience to go-to-market and revenue, with tasks, projects, meetings and decisions, and KPIs. It was handed over as a template the team now runs and extends themselves.

NotionTeam OS
Massachusetts · Wholesale

From a Word doc per day to one-click invoices

Wholesale orders used to live in a Word document per day and then get retyped into QuickBooks. Now orders live in Airtable, customers and products sync from QuickBooks every night, a year of invoice history is imported, and each order becomes a QuickBooks invoice with one button.

AirtableQuickBooks OnlineMake
Clients under NDA
  • Family office, Canada: AI turns 25–30 daily emails into tasks, files every attachment and syncs three calendars
  • Healthcare acquirer: an onboarding portal for each acquired company, with progress bars and Slack alerts
  • Housing placement network: four intake forms flow into Airtable with instant branded confirmations
  • Events & hospitality group: a six-department workspace with goals, projects and action items
  • Dutch real-estate group: moved off Monday.com, with automated campaigns and client portals
Clients

What clients say.

"Night and day. Halfway through the build I could already see my team living in it, a feeling we never once had with our old system."
Christina Bryan · Founder, The Roadmap Coach
"Of everyone we spoke to, BrainBuild were the only ones who understood how our business actually runs, not just the software."
Naomi Raggi · Director of Business Operations, The Roadmap Coach
"Exactly the specialists we needed. They understood our operation from the very first conversation."
Emma Thomson · Maven Collection
"The admin runs itself now, so my time goes to clients and partners instead of paperwork."
Founder · Housing placement network
"Tasks, documents and meetings all land in the right place on their own. I was happy from the first week."
Executive assistant · Family office
"A complete transformation in how we run the business."
Shane · Events & hospitality group
How it works

From whiteboard to working in four steps.

01 · Map

Trace the work

A 90-minute session tracing how one job really moves today: who starts it, who touches it, where it gets stuck.

02 · Skeleton

Sign off the design

We design the structure and you approve it before any building starts. The skeleton is the hard part to change later, so we get it right first.

03 · Build

Fast, fixed scope

Most systems are live in days to two weeks, not months. Halfway through, you get a recorded walkthrough and a chance to steer.

04 · Launch

Your team adopts it

A team launch call, a Loom for every role, then adjustments until your team works from it daily.

About BrainBuild

The operations layer behind growing companies.

BrainBuild designs and builds the internal systems companies run on. We work with agencies, property managers, wholesalers, fintechs and nonprofits across the US and Europe, from our base in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Operations workspaces

Notion and Airtable systems where every request, task and handoff has an owner and a deadline.

Automations and integrations

Make and direct API work that connects your CRM, booking system, accounting and chat tools.

Custom software tools

Internal apps, client portals and calculators, built for the moment off-the-shelf tools stop fitting.

Company dashboards

Live views of revenue, pipeline, delivery and team capacity, pulled from the tools you already use.

AI agents

Assistants that read replies, file documents and draft reports inside your own systems.

Everything is built in your own accounts and documented role by role, so it keeps running long after handover.

FAQ

Good questions.

Will my team actually use it?

That's what the design is for. Each person opens one page, My Tasks, and sees only their own work. Then there's a Loom for every role, a launch call, and adjustments until it's part of the daily routine.

What if you disappear?

Nothing is locked to us. It all runs in your own Notion, Airtable and Make accounts, every automation is named and documented, and there's a recorded walkthrough for every part. If you stopped working with us tomorrow, it would keep running.

How does pricing work?

Every project gets one fixed price, agreed in writing before kickoff and based on the scope we map on the call. No hourly billing and no surprise invoices.

Can't I just buy a template or have AI build it?

Many of our clients tried that first. Templates are built to look good for everybody, and AI builds a demo. Neither decides who gets the next task, what happens on the third revision, or who's overloaded. That architecture is the part we build.

We already use ClickUp, Monday or spreadsheets. Is that a problem?

No. Migrating your existing projects and records is part of the build.

Book a call

An hour, not fifteen minutes.

Most intro calls are 15 minutes. Ours is an hour, because that's how long it takes to trace how work really moves through your business. You leave with a map, even if we never work together.

  • A map of where your work stalls today
  • A rough cost of that chaos
  • A fixed scope and timeline, if it's a fit