Historical solution hypothesis · Pulse is not the current roadmap or a promised client deliverable.
The Source-of-Truth Database · Built into every engagement

The system your team operates from.

Every Peregrine engagement delivers a custom database — built for your business, tuned to your stack, sharper than anything off the shelf. Compliance scoring, profitability scoring, sales workflow, service workflow, role-based access, integrations with the systems you already run.

Note on the mockups below. These are conceptual renderings of the database we design and build during the engagement — not screenshots of a deployed product. Your version would be configured to your stack, your data, your team's actual workflow. The point of the mockups is to show what kind of intelligence the system surfaces, in a form your team would actually use.
The thesis

From snapshot to system.

A diagnostic produces a still photograph of your business at a point in time. Pulse turns it into a moving picture — refreshed daily, scored automatically, and presented to each role in the form they need to act on.

Most small businesses run on a stack of generic tools — a CRM that wasn't built for them, a spreadsheet that ages out, an HRIS that holds data nobody can query. The result: insights live in three places, decisions get delayed, and money gets left on the table because nobody saw it in time.

The database is the layer that pulls it all together — built on top of the systems you already run, surfaced through dashboards designed for who's actually using them. It scores every client on profitability and compliance. Tracks every relationship from prospect to renewal. Drives the alerts your team needs and the reports leadership reviews. Talks to your existing systems via API; could replace pieces if and when that makes sense.

This isn't a Phase 2 conversation or a follow-on engagement. The database is part of the diagnostic engagement itself — built into the work, not bolted onto the end.

For the sales side

"Where should I spend my time this week?"

Every Monday morning, sales reps and managers see exactly where the leverage is — ranked, dollarized, and ready to act on.

Sales · Opportunity QueueQ2 2026 · 12 active deals
Live
Active deals
12
across pipeline stages
Renegotiation candidates
5
flagged this quarter
Avg time in stage
14d
vs target 21d
Renewals next 90 days
7
2 flagged at risk
Client / Opportunity Type Annual Lift Status Days in stage
Acme Manufacturing Existing — Renegotiation +$8,400 Move now 12
Sunbelt Construction Existing — Expansion +$14,200 Discovery 5
Riverside Logistics New prospect $22,000 Proposed 3
Metro Services Group Existing — Renegotiation +$5,100 Move now 19
Oak Valley Healthcare Existing — Renewal $0 Healthy
Coastal Retail Group Existing — Renewal at risk ($31K at risk) Renewal risk 28
For the operations side

"Where is risk and friction concentrated this week?"

Compliance posture, margin watch, onboarding tracking, filing calendars — all in one daily view. Any change of state generates an alert before it becomes a fire drill.

Operations · Risk & Margin MonitorUpdated 4 hours ago
Live
Compliance posture · 20 categories
Worker classificationOK
WC class codesDrift
Payroll tax timingOK
401(k) depositsTier 1
ACA reportingFiled
I-9 documentationOK
SUI / state taxReview
FLSA exemptionOK
Margin watch · clients trending down
Client Margin % Δ vs LQ Root cause Action
Metro Services Group 12% −18 pts Hours up, revenue flat Renegotiate
Acme Manufacturing 28% −6 pts Headcount expansion Watch
Active onboardings · 4 in flight
Client Stage Day SLA Owner
Riverside LogisticsCensus8 / 45On trackM. Chen
Highland Tech GroupPayroll setup23 / 45On trackM. Chen
Westside PropertiesBenefits38 / 45At riskL. Reyes
For the owner

"How is the business actually performing?"

Board-style executive view. Quarterly trends, top opportunities, compliance executive summary, and the wins your team has booked.

Owner · Book Health SummaryQ2 2026
Live
Active client count
62
net +3 this quarter
Margin distribution
Healthy: 41 · Watch: 16 · Loss: 5
5 renegotiation candidates
Compliance posture
17 green · 2 amber · 1 red
1 Tier 1 needs ownership review
Onboardings in flight
4
3 on track · 1 at risk
Top opportunity (this quarter) $ Lift Status Owner
Sunbelt Construction expansion+$14.2KDiscoveryA. Diaz
Acme Manufacturing renegotiation+$8.4KMove nowA. Diaz
Riverside Logistics close+$22K (new)ProposedM. Chen
For the prospect — the headline feature

The Visual Proposal Generator

A force multiplier for sales reps. Enter the prospect's setup, and the platform generates a side-by-side cost comparison branded for your firm and the prospect — in minutes, not hours.

Cost Comparison · Prepared for Riverside Logistics
Auto-generated
Riverside Logistics · 38 employees · TX + NM · Currently doing payroll in-house with a part-time HR contractor
In-House (current)
DIY · with hidden costs
Part-time HR contractor$48,000
Bookkeeper time on payroll$18,000
Benefits broker fees$14,400
Avg compliance/error penalty exposure$8,000
Owner time spent on HR/payroll$22,000
Workers comp admin overhead$6,200
All-in annual cost
$116,600
Full PEO · Outsourced
Single all-in fee
Per-employee monthly fee$45,600
Benefits broker (included)
Workers comp (included)
Compliance support (included)
HRIS / payroll tech (included)
Owner time recovered+$22,000 value
All-in annual cost
$45,600
Annual cost comparison (visualized)
$116,600
In-house
$45,600
Full PEO
Year-one savings
Plus the time recovered for leadership to grow the business — not run payroll.
$71,000

Why this matters: Some prospects respond to numbers. Some respond to visuals. Pulse handles both — and lets the sales rep produce a custom, branded comparison in minutes. Reduces proposal-prep time from a half-day to ten minutes.

The seam between sales and operations — eliminated

Close to onboarding, automated.

When a deal closes in Pulse, the platform pushes the new client into every downstream system that needs them — automatically, without re-keying data, without "did sales tell ops?"

1
Deal moves to "Won" in PulseTriggered automatically when contract is countersigned
Pulse
2
Client record created in HRISPre-populated employee roster from sales census data
PrismHR / iSolved
3
Benefits enrollment workflow initiatedEligible employees notified; election windows scheduled
Benefits Admin
4
Workers comp policy request sent to carrierClass codes pre-mapped from industry data
Carrier portal
5
State tax registrations initiatedMulti-state work tracked in the operations view
State authorities
6
Onboarding lead notified with a complete pre-filled checklistOperations view updates with the new active onboarding
Operations

The pain this solves: The "did sales tell ops?" gap is one of the most common sources of onboarding friction. Pulse closes it structurally — not procedurally.

Why now matters

The firms that win the next decade will operate on a live data layer.

This is a relevance argument, not an AI pitch.

From my read after twenty-five years in financial services: the businesses being squeezed are the ones still running on spreadsheets, email, and tribal knowledge. The ones investing in real operational tooling — sharper sales motion, smoother onboarding, automated client intelligence — will outprice and outserve them on the basics. The database is how you stay the obvious choice as the tools the industry runs on keep changing.

The database is the engagement.

Not a follow-on. Not a Phase 2. Built into the work from kickoff, deployed to production by stage 4, and running in your operation when we hand off. Every Peregrine engagement, every time.

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