Business Systems Strategist for Faith-Driven Businesses
Built by wisdom. Established to stand.
Where things feel disorganized or ad hoc, I don't just advise. I build and install the systems your business runs on.
I build and install the back-office and workflow systems small businesses run on, then hand them off.
Book a discovery callServing faith-driven small businesses. NYC based, available remotely.
Where it starts
Your business outgrew the way it is run.
Nothing was done wrong. Email and a self-built spreadsheet are what is available when a business is new or growing fast.
Everything runs on email and whatever spreadsheet I could put together myself.
When a business is new, there is no time to design a system. Tracking happens wherever it is fastest. Systems thinking is different work than what most owners are built for, so what gets built is functional enough to survive, not built to last.
I build the structure with the kind of thinking this work requires, so you don't have to develop a skill set you were never going to have.
It works, until I try to scale.
Nothing has to be broken for this to be true. Email and a makeshift spreadsheet can carry year one. When volume rises, with more applicants, more vendors, and more moving parts, the same setup costs real time and real risk to run by hand.
I build what the next stage of growth requires, before growth forces the issue.
I don't know where things actually stand.
The information exists, but it is hard to navigate, and small errors go unnoticed until they compound.
I install the structure that turns “I think” into “I know.”
I'm the only one who understands how any of this works.
One person built the makeshift system and is the only one who can navigate it. If that person is out or stretched, nothing is behind them.
I build systems that outlast any one person holding the business together.
What I build
Back-Office & Workflow Systems
The operational infrastructure that lets a business run without depending on any one person to hold it together.
Every system is custom-built to your actual gaps. No fixed packages, no tiers, no template products.
You are not hiring someone to run your operations indefinitely. You are getting a system you own.
- Applicant, vendor, and client pipelines
- Intake and evaluation
- Scheduling
- Tracking and reporting structures
- Written procedures (SOPs)
- Rosters and attendance
- Status dashboards
How it works
Three steps. Project-based, fixed price.
You know the full cost and the deliverable before any build begins.
Discovery
Short and fixed price. I assess the current state of your systems, identify the specific gaps, and scope what needs to be built.
Scoped Proposal
I deliver a fixed-price proposal for the system build. If more than one system is needed, each is priced separately and can be approved together or phased.
Build & Handoff
I build and install the system, document how to run it, and hand it over. You own it, with no license, subscription, or dependency on me. My involvement ends at handoff unless a new project is separately scoped.
“Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established.”Proverbs 24:3
Work
Systems I have built
Two past projects, in two different industries.
A Christian fashion organization
Event Personnel Management System
A five-part applicant and vendor pipeline covering Models, Designers, Volunteers, Vendors, and Press/Media. Each pipeline has its own role-specific intake, evaluation, and tracking, governed by a dedicated SOP covering vetting, onboarding, and, where relevant, contracting.
- Applicants apply through role-specific forms. Responses populate structured tracking automatically.
- A two-zone design keeps form-populated data separate from internal review, consistently across all five pipelines.
- Approved applicants move into onboarding, with renewal tracking for future events.
- A unified attendance roster is merged live from multiple approval tabs: team assignment, call time, onboarding status, confirmed events, attendance, and performance.
- Built in Google Forms, Google Sheets, and Apps Script.
A child psychology clinic
Clinical Operations Tracking System
Built as a Clinical Administrative Assistant supporting various clinical teams across different psychology disciplines. The clinic's medical record system tracked individual patient notes but gave the team no bird's-eye view. I built that missing operational layer.
- Monthly view of active cases per clinician.
- Wait-time tracking for evaluation reports, for internal team visibility.
- Other key flow indicators for managing capacity.
- A streamlined calendar scheduling system.
- Standardized communication templates for every point of contact across the full patient referral lifecycle.
- Auto-populate notes built out inside the medical record system, so recurring updates were not rewritten each time.
- Built in Excel, with formulas and pivot tables.
Two industries, same capability: an organization's existing tools have a gap, and I build the structured system that closes it.
About
I'm Tanya. I build, then I hand off.
I am a Business Systems Strategist and the owner of The Standing House, based in NYC and working with clients remotely. I work with faith-driven small business owners.
I have been building organizational systems since I was 16, working part time in a family business. The work has taken many forms since then.
In college, I was a student leader from freshman year in a student-led mentorship program that had no structure. When the older students graduated, I built the structure and systems that improved the experience on both the back end and the front end.
Later, at a child psychology clinic, I asked my peers how our workflows ran, improved my own, and pitched the ones that worked to management to support the rest of the administrative team. It came naturally to me.
As a believer, I understand this as a gift of administration. Every believer called to build a kingdom business has a specific gift and talent to bring into the world. I have watched this part of a business suffer because it sits outside the creative scope of many faith-driven entrepreneurs. That is not a flaw. Systems thinking is a different kind of thinking, and it is the reason this practice exists.
My goal is to fill that gap, so you stand on a firm foundation and scale. I design the system, build it, install it, document it, and hand it to you. From that point it is yours to run.
Start with discovery.
Book a discovery call. We will look at where your systems stand and what needs to be built.
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