It doesn't need to be difficult...

Economists recognize that intuitive management knowledge should give smaller, nimbler businesses an advantage over large enterprises. Managers have daily direct contact with customers and suppliers and can react immediately to market changes without complex multi-million dollar corporate analysis over things like "should we introduce a new breakfast sandwich?"

For large enterprises that breakfast sandwich can can involve hundreds of executive meetings, new supply chains, new equipment, new procedures, new advertising, new menus, new software updates over thousands of outlets...wrong decisions can bring disaster.

For SMEs that sandwich can start tomorrow morning. SMEs have an advantage unless systematically and unfairly held back from equal access to resources including reasonably priced management software.

Big business's current success in natural small business markets may have more to do with their monopolization of resources than their actual business advantage.

The mission

We believe management software costs can be reduced by 90%. We believe small and mid-size businesses form a natural community that can share resources and experience to strengthen opportunities.

Sumer intends to bring these goals to life with purpose to return management power back into the hands of the managers who created it.

A mouse in a horse race

If the Big Tech world of billion dollar buyouts and sensational IPOs were a horse race, Sumer would be a mouse. No tech investor in their right mind would back the mouse because Sumer's whole intent is making software cheaper. The best investor opportunity would be to sell out to Big Tech as a killer-acquition.

But let's imagine for the moment that Sumer survives and grows, gathering support through crowd-sourcing and cooperation. Sumer could bring significant changes, and that is worth trying for.

We do not doubt that Sumer, or something like it, will take off, if for no other reason than that Sumer's proof of concept freeing SME management software from Big Tech hegemony demonstrates a new path forward for business software development.

Sumer as a start-up

Investors could reasonably ask "if we hope to reduce IT costs by 90%, why not just reduce them by 10% and enjoy the rest as profit?"

That is what Big Tech is doing right now. Lots of multi-billionaires—but we are hoping for a fairer world.

Helping small and medium businesses survive and grow by loosening the big tech strangle-hold on basic business software has its own satisfaction.

So although Sumer does not yet have all the features the big players have, it will. And with Sumer's open-source templates, most of it will come through crowd-sourcing.

Here is what you can do:

• Watch the video. It has a lot of information, and it is not boring.
  Really.
• Follow 'Take a Tour' on this website.
• Download Sumer and try the samples. It's free. No sales people.

Sumer as an engine is complete and proven. It is available here with sample data, or you can enter you own data and customize your own templates.

It is even a tool freely available...anyone who needs a Cash Flow worksheet, for instance, can join as a guest.

Before looking for investors, we need to install Sumer on a trial basis in a variety of small businesses or organizations to demonstrate that Sumer works. If you are interested in participating in a trial—free—let us know.

This video presents everything you need to know.

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