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| Deleted: <p>Zorderz is open source field service management software for WordPress. Most businesses already use good tools that don't talk to each other. Zorderz is the hub that connects what you already pay for and puts it in one app your team wants to open.</p> |
| Added: <p>Zorderz is open source field service management software for WordPress, built so a business can connect the systems it already runs, like invoicing and CRM, and give its team proper access to those tools.</p> |
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| Deleted: <p>If you already run a CRM and invoicing software, Zorderz should read them and build the matching structure inside your install, automatically-ish, so the same names carry across. Think of it as handing Zorderz the Cliff's Notes on your business. That's the future, not today. A field service management platform should work with what you have instead of replacing it.</p> |
| Added: <p>Zorderz installs on an ordinary WordPress site and gives you a web app with a dashboard. Each app there does one job, usually automating a process by connecting services you already use.</p> |
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| Added: <p>Eventually it should connect to the APIs of your choice and configure itself. Not yet; that's what a future version is for. Field service management software should work with what you have, not ask you to replace it.</p> |
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| Deleted: <p>No CRM or invoicing yet? Fine. We aren't building our own; WordPress is the wrong place for it. The apps we are building, like the pricing guide and knowledge base, stand alone and connect to your systems later.</p> |
| Added: <p>No CRM or invoicing software? Fine. Zorderz doesn't include them, but apps like the pricing guide and knowledge base stand alone and connect later. Start with nothing but Zorderz: it has a business chat, so the moment your site runs you can ask it what to do next.</p> |
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| Deleted: <p>Every business needs certain actions to happen under certain conditions, and Zorderz lets you set that up. Call it conditional logic. Designate someone a chief, then say who they're chief of: one service type, one product line, or that person in general. Each level carries its own rules. If you can describe it, you can build it: this employee does that task during these hours, unless an admin says so.</p> |
| Added: <p>Every business has actions that must occur under certain conditions. Employee X can sell product Y, only in zone Z. Those are variables the system knows how to apply. That's conditional logic, and it runs throughout Zorderz.</p> |
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| Added: <p>Users sit in a hierarchy: one person can be chief of another, wholly or just for a product line or service type. Each level carries its own rules, so you describe what you want and it becomes logic the system applies.</p> |
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| Deleted: <p>Ai inside Zorderz is bring your own intelligence. Today that means <a href="https://poe.com">Poe</a>, since one key reaches nearly every model worth using. Next comes OpenCode, then local LLMs through things like MCP. Anecdotally: $20 in Poe has covered roughly 10,000 calls, and we spend about $2 a day, mostly testing. Yours will differ.</p> |
| Added: <p>Ai in Zorderz currently relies on a connected <a href="https://poe.com">Poe</a> account. Eventually OpenCode, and eventually a local LLM on a machine in your own office, so much of it can run with no API at all.</p> |
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Deleted: <p>In March 2026, Zorderz started as one private company's internal app. It worked well enough that a version any company could use ought to exist, so I started lifting out the specifics.</p>
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Deleted: <p>I don't know who will use it yet, or why. Anyone comfortable with WordPress can install it and find out. And I'm learning that an Ai can install a WordPress site start to finish, so we'll ship a README written for an agent as much as a person. An Ai agent is a user we design for.</p>
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Deleted: <p>People describe this category a dozen ways. For the record, and so I stop checking a spreadsheet: field service management software, service business management software, job management software, work order software, small business management software, company management software, client portal software, back office software, a business operating system, open source ERP, a self hosted CRM, and a white label employee app.</p>
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| Added: <p>A variety of words describe this software, listed here as a record for my future reference: "field service management software," "service business management software," "job management software," "work order software," "small business management software," "company management software," "client portal software," "back office software," "business operating system," "open source ERP," "self hosted CRM," and "white label employee app."</p>
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| Deleted: <p>I dictate an article into a voice memo. It goes to Claude Fable 5, with max thinking and web access on, and comes back written. Then I read it and dictate again: what matters, what to cut, what to add, what I want verbatim. Every pass stays public at the bottom of this page. Writing used to mean typing and practiced phrasing. Now it can be free association, then keeping the best of what got said out loud.</p> |
| Added: <p>This website chronicles the effort to build Zorderz into a framework others can use. Articles get written by a human dictating his thoughts and an Ai interpreting them, back and forth, every pass kept public at the bottom of the page.</p> |
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| Deleted: <p>The name is about orders: making them so easy you could generate them in your sleep, because the platform handles the parts that used to need you awake.</p> |
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| Deleted: <p>I'm still working out whether this should be a public benefit corporation or an LLC, and what to sell, if anything. Training, maybe, though that fades the moment an Ai can configure it for you. Community first.</p> |
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