Monday, 7:45 pm. Still in the meeting.Four departments. Four versions of the truth.And nobody could say where we were.
We were a group of people from different departments. Sales, finance, HR, operations. Good people, working hard.
But every department had its own spreadsheets, its own systems and its own version of the truth. So every week we sat in a room for hours, just to find out what was happening in our own company. By the time we walked out, it was already out of date.
Our calendar, every week
Mon
Weekly statusSales syncWhere are we?Hiring updateNumbers again
Ops check-inProject statusBudget recapWhere are we?Client update
Thu
Dept syncReport reviewWhere are we?Training planFix the report
Fri
Board prepWeekly wrap-upFix the sheetTargets missedPlan next week
Hours in meetings. Nothing moving.
Chapter 2 · The wall
Then the growth stopped.
RECSCENE 02 · THE WALL00:00:00:00
Every quarter, a little weaker.Same team. Same customers.Then the growth stopped.
Not because of the market. Not because of our customers. Because we were spending our days tracking work instead of doing it.
The goals we set kept slipping away. Our founders worked late every night and still could not see the whole picture.
We had the people. We had the customers. What we did not have was one version of the truth.
Our growth
Same team. Same customers. No progress.
Chapter 3 · One night, one question
Late one night, someone asked a simple question.
RECSCENE 03 · 02:14 AM00:00:00:00
Everyone else was asleep.One question would not go away.
“What if the company could just tell us where we are? No meetings. No chasing. No spreadsheets passed from desk to desk.”
It sounded impossible. It was also the only idea that made sense.
One night, one question
What if the company could just tell us where we are?
No meetings. No chasing.
Chapter 4 · Days and nights
We went looking for the answer everywhere.
RECSCENE 04 · FIELD RESEARCH00:00:00:00
We left our desks.The United States. Pakistan. The UAE. The UK. Ireland.Türkiye. The Middle East. Africa.Day and night. For months.
We left our desks and went to other companies. 123 small and large companies in the United States. 35 in Pakistan. 13 in the UAE. 12 in the United Kingdom. 5 in Ireland.
We worked with government and semi-government organisations across the Middle East and Africa, and with research partners in Türkiye who helped us go deeper. We ran surveys and sat with HR officers, accountants, warehouse managers and CEOs. Day and night. For months.
Months of research
188companies, small and large, studied first-hand
United States123
Pakistan35
United Arab Emirates13
United Kingdom12
Ireland5
Plus government and semi-government organisations across the Middle East and AfricaAnd research partners in Türkiye who helped us go deeper
Chapter 5 · The same story
And every one of them told us the same story.
RECSCENE 05 · INTERVIEWS00:00:00:00
Different countries. Different industries.Every one of them asked the same question.
Different countries. Different industries. Small family businesses and large government organisations.
The same meetings. The same spreadsheets. The same tired founders. 188 companies, and one problem.
We were not alone. We were the rule.
What companies told us
HR officer“I copy attendance into payroll every single month.”
Finance manager“I wait a week for numbers I need today.”
Warehouse manager“I phone three warehouses to find one item.”
CEO“I just want to know where we are.”
Same story, everywhere
Chapter 6 · The second wall
And then we hit a second wall: people.
RECSCENE 06 · THE SECOND WALL00:00:00:00
Hiring the right people was almost impossible.And training took weeks.The software was the problem.
Hiring the right people was almost impossible. And when we finally found them, we had to spend weeks training them on complicated systems before they could do the job they were hired for.
That is when it became clear. The software itself was the problem.
If people need weeks of training to use software, the software is not helping them.
The second wall
Open roles still unfilled
New hire: system training week 1 of many
Real work started not yet
Weeks of training. Before any real work.
Chapter 7 · Building it
So we built what we wished we had.
RECSCENE 07 · THE BUILD00:00:00:00
Day after day. Night after night.Every department, connected.Every country, one system.
Day after day, night after night, we built one ERP that connects every department and every country into one living system.
It reads the data you already have. It runs by plain words. And it learns how your team works. One organisation. Global operations. All of it connected.
What we built
SalesFinanceHR and PayrollOperationsSupply ChainEvery countryProjects
synclo
Chapter 8 · The first quiet Monday
Then came the first Monday without a status meeting.
RECSCENE 08 · MONDAY 17:3000:00:00:00
Monday. No status meeting.One question. One answer. Seconds.That evening, the founders went home on time.
Our CEO typed one question: “Where are we?” The answer came back in seconds. Sales, cash, people, stock, every country.
That evening, for the first time in a long time, our founders went home on time.
The first quiet Monday
CEOWhere are we?
ALCISales are up 12%. Cash is healthy. Payroll is ready. Two deals need you today. Everything else is handled.
No meetingneeded
Secondsto the answer
Every countryin one view
On timehome tonight
☾That evening, the founders went home on time.
Our calendar, every week
Mon
Weekly statusSales syncWhere are we?Hiring updateNumbers again
Ops check-inProject statusBudget recapWhere are we?Client update
Thu
Dept syncReport reviewWhere are we?Training planFix the report
Fri
Board prepWeekly wrap-upFix the sheetTargets missedPlan next week
Hours in meetings. Nothing moving.
Our growth
Same team. Same customers. No progress.
One night, one question
What if the company could just tell us where we are?
No meetings. No chasing.
Months of research
188companies, small and large, studied first-hand
United States123
Pakistan35
United Arab Emirates13
United Kingdom12
Ireland5
Plus government and semi-government organisations across the Middle East and AfricaAnd research partners in Türkiye who helped us go deeper
What companies told us
HR officer“I copy attendance into payroll every single month.”
Finance manager“I wait a week for numbers I need today.”
Warehouse manager“I phone three warehouses to find one item.”
CEO“I just want to know where we are.”
Same story, everywhere
The second wall
Open roles still unfilled
New hire: system training week 1 of many
Real work started not yet
Weeks of training. Before any real work.
What we built
SalesFinanceHR and PayrollOperationsSupply ChainEvery countryProjects
synclo
The first quiet Monday
CEOWhere are we?
ALCISales are up 12%. Cash is healthy. Payroll is ready. Two deals need you today. Everything else is handled.
No meetingneeded
Secondsto the answer
Every countryin one view
On timehome tonight
☾That evening, the founders went home on time.
Epilogue
This is what is in front of you.
We built Synclo for ourselves first. Now we have built it for you, so founders and CEOs can finally relax, and every team can get back to the work they were hired to do.
Our mission
To let every founder and CEO run their company by just asking, so their people can get back to the work they were hired to do.
Our vision
One connected organisation, wherever in the world it operates.
One version of the truth
Every department and every country in one live system. Nobody should need a meeting to find out what is happening.
Simple beats complicated
If people need weeks of training to use software, the software has failed, not the people.
Meet companies where they are
Excel, SAP, Oracle or nothing at all. Nobody should have to rip everything out to move forward.
AI that does the work
Alci does not just answer. It acts, it learns, and it gives people their time back.
Local everywhere
Every country has its own rules. Synclo follows them, so global teams can grow with confidence.
Founders go home on time
We measure success in meetings cancelled and evenings returned, not in features shipped.
The road so far
From one spreadsheet problem to a global ERP.
2013
Spreadsheets hit their limit
Our own teams ran on spreadsheets, and felt what disconnected, manual work costs a growing business.
2015
Our first internal tool
We built a CRM for ourselves to replace the spreadsheets.
2018
One tool became a platform
HR, projects and more joined, all sharing the same data.
2021
AI joined the roadmap
The focus moved from storing records to helping teams act on them.
2023
Alci was born
An assistant that does the work, not just answers questions.
2026
Synclo goes global
The AI‑native ERP anyone can use, launched for companies everywhere.