HeadHoncho

How HeadHoncho is put together

This is the HeadHoncho documentation: one page per panel, each saying what it answers, what its numbers are computed from, and what it deliberately does not do.

Everything in HeadHoncho sits on one line of cause and effect: money goes out to an ad platform, a call or a form comes back, somebody does the work, somebody gets paid, and what is left is the profit. Each panel owns one stretch of that line. Nothing is explained twice here — the panel that owns a subject is the page that documents it.

The spine, in plain words

Ad spend arrives on Sources. What it produced — a tracked call, a form fill, a lead — lands on Marketing. The work itself lives on Jobs, one row per job, from the day it is booked to the day it closes. Money resolves on Finance: what came in, what went out, and what the subcontractor is owed. And Marketing is where the three meet, because it is the only board that can put spend, the booked job and the profit after the crew in the same sentence.

The HeadHoncho spine: ad spend to profit, and the panel that owns each step Five stations left to right — ad spend on Sources, the lead on Marketing, the job on Jobs, the money on Finance, and the profit back on Marketing and Statistics. Arrows run left to right along the line, and one arrow returns from the booked job to the ad platform as an offline conversion. Ad spend Sources The call or lead Marketing The job Jobs · Team Money in and out Finance What is left Statistics one line of cause and effect the booked job goes back to the ad platform as an offline conversion
The Home board — jobs today, closing average, follow-ups due — the board this HeadHoncho documentation opens on.
Home, on a workspace with a year of work behind it. Every panel named below has a page here.

The nine panels

The rail down the left of the app carries nine destinations and Home. Each answers one question, and the question is what decides where a thing lives.

PanelThe question it answersDocumented at
HomeWhat is on my board right now?Covered by Jobs — it is the same rows, in a lane
CompaniesWhose numbers am I looking at?Multiple companies
JobsShow me everything, narrowed. What is stuck?The HeadHoncho Jobs panel
TeamWho did the work, and what are their terms?Field service team management
FinanceWhat came in, what went out, who is owed?Subcontractor payout tracking
StatisticsWhat did the business make?The job profit dashboard
MarketingDid the ads work, and how do I prove it?The Insights board
CommunicationsWhat was said, to whom, about which job?Business text messaging
SettingsWhere do I change the words and the rules?HeadHoncho settings
NotificationsWhat happened while I was away?Business notification settings
The rule the rail follows

A screen has one subject. When a panel needs to show something that belongs to another subject, it opens a door to that subject's own place rather than growing a second board inside itself. That is why the Jobs table can assign a worker but the worker's terms are edited on Team, and why a number on the Insights board opens the rows underneath it rather than printing them alongside.

Where a given task lives

Most support questions are really this question. Find the symptom on the left; the page on the right is where the answer is written.

What you want to doWhere it happens
Add a job, or fix a job's addressJobs — the Jobs panel
Rename a stage, or change what a stage looks likeSettings → Job statuses — the job status workflow
Find every job nobody has been assigned toThe quick-filter row on Jobs — what needs you
Bring last year's jobs in from another systemImport jobs from spreadsheet exports
Add a subcontractor and set their cutTeam — the roster
See what a job actually made after the subFinance and payouts
Connect Google Ads, Meta or a call trackerConnect Google Ads to CRM data
Send a client a report they can readThe reports catalogue
Check where a number on a chart came fromThe marketing raw data board
Build a board of your ownBuild a custom marketing dashboard
Stop being texted about somethingNotifications
Add a second business under one loginMultiple companies
Stop the system texting a crew about somethingHome service automation
Use it from a phone in the fieldThe field service mobile app
See what this month has usedHeadHoncho plans and usage

Where the numbers come from

Two decisions run underneath every figure in the product, and knowing them explains most of what you will see.

Nothing is stored as a total. Profit, a technician's balance, a closing rate: each is derived from the rows underneath it every time it is asked for. A stored total drifts the first time a payment is corrected, and then it argues with the screen next to it. Deriving costs a little speed and buys the property that two boards can never disagree.

Every change is an event, in order, with a name on it. A job's History tab is not a feature bolted on top of the job; it is the list of things that were recorded about it, which is what the rest of the product is built from. That is also why a number can always be opened: the rows are the source, and the chart is the summary.

The consequence for a reader: when a figure surprises you, the documented move is to open it rather than to recompute it by hand. Every panel has a path down to its rows — see the Raw data board for the marketing side and Finance for the money.

How to read these pages

This HeadHoncho documentation describes what the product does today. Each page opens with the answer, then the detail, and ends with what that area deliberately does not do — a limit stated on the page is cheaper than the same limit discovered on a Tuesday afternoon.

Two neighbours are worth knowing about. The FAQ answers the questions people ask before they buy — shorter, and about the offer rather than the product. And support is where a person answers; anything here that is wrong, or missing, is worth telling them about.

Two pages are worth reading in order before the rest: Getting started, which walks the sign-up to the first board with real numbers on it, and Job statuses, because the words you choose there decide what every later number counts. If you are evaluating rather than using, how HeadHoncho works is the shorter version of the same story.