Introducing Halvern

Halvern started as a question we heard too often from owners of one, two, and three-person businesses: "I sent the invoice three weeks ago. Should I chase it again, or am I being annoying?" The honest answer is usually to chase it — politely, and with a specific date — and then to chase it again. Almost no one at this scale has time to do that consistently, and almost everyone is losing real cash to the slip.

So we built Halvern to do the chasing the way a conscientious owner would: friendly at first, firm when the friendly nudge has been tested, final before the file goes outside. It reads the reply, proposes a plan, and only loops you in when the answer is yours to make. The first post in this index is below — and the collection-script playbook that grew out of those early drafts is what the rest of the writing here is about.