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Ciolkosz Intelligence

Software for businesses where the work is physical.

Founded and built by Noah Ciolkosz, from the South Side of Chicago. One product, one builder, and a short list of principles the product is held to in public.

Noah Ciolkosz, founder of Ciolk OS, standing outside under a flowering tree in a light gray blazer, dark shirt and sunglasses.
Noah CiolkoszFounder · South Side of Chicago
My story

I grew up on the South Side of Chicago in a working-class household. My father is a carpenter. My mother is a dental hygienist. Both kinds of work were in the house: a trade out in the field, and a practice with patients in the chair.

Then I went to work myself: carpentry, insurance sales, 7 Brew, Bettenhausen. Different lines of work, and I saw the problems in all of them. Ciolk OS is built to solve the ones business owners struggle with most: getting a price out fast, keeping the schedule together, getting paid, and keeping the records straight.

This is my first app. I came to it with no background in app development, and I have put my blood, sweat and tears into it. I didn't release it the moment it worked. A business can't afford software that gets its money, its schedule or its customers wrong, so I kept going until it was right.

I hope you find real uses for it, and that it takes your business to the next level.

I owe everything to Gia, my girlfriend, who has been with me through every hardship I faced while building this.

— Noah Ciolkosz
Why this exists

I built Ciolk OS because the software sold to physical businesses — dentists, body shops, tradespeople, salons, kitchens, clinics — is either a scheduler with a payments bolt-on, or an enterprise suite priced for a chain. Neither starts where the work starts — with someone standing in front of the job, phone in hand, needing a number.

So the product starts there. A photo becomes classed findings marked on the photo — flagged for review where the read is unsure — the findings become a priced quote, the quote becomes a link the client accepts and pays a deposit on, the deposit becomes a job, the job becomes an invoice that already knows what was paid. Every step produces the thing the next one needs. Every result is sealed so it can be checked later by someone who does not trust me.

That last part is the point. Money software should be built like it handles your money, and it should be honest about what it does not know.

There is one builder

The person who answers your email wrote the code. There is no ticket queue between you and the fix. A bug you report today can be deployed today — the changelog shows the cadence.

The honest other side: there is one of me. Support is answered within one business day, not within minutes, and the roadmap moves one thing at a time.

What “direct line to the founder” means

Sovereign customers get a direct channel — email or phone — that reaches me, with these norms:

  • Anything that blocks money moving (a client cannot pay, an invoice will not send): same business day.
  • Everything else: within one business day, with a real answer, not an acknowledgement.
  • Guided onboarding is a scheduled working session on your real data, not a video.
What I will not build

The principles the product runs on are stated once, in full, on the security page. This is the other side of them — the things that will not be built, however good they look on a growth chart.

  • A cancellation you have to ask for. Cancel is a button on your billing page, and access runs to the end of what you paid for. No retention call, no form, no email to send.
  • A market for your data. Your records are not sold, shared with other customers, or used to train models. Corrections calibrate your own estimates and nobody else’s.
  • An invented number. No testimonials that were not said, no customer counts, no “typical results”. When the data is missing the screen names what would fill it, and this site says “illustrative” when it is.
  • A record that can be quietly edited. Every result is sealed and every seal is chained to the day before. That includes edits by me.
  • A compliance badge the company does not hold. HIPAA and BAA status is stated in plain text, and it currently says no.

Bring one real job.

A demo runs your photo through the loop. You leave with a real quote either way.

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