Three kinds of firm, one Bisbe
Bisbe is one product. What it calls things, which pages it puts in front of you, and which machinery it leaves out are decided by which kind of firm you are. Pick one and the whole book changes — the fields, the pages, the tabs and the words.
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A wholesale brand
Atlantica
Atlantica makes beachwear and sells it into hotels, gift shops and concept stores, by the case.
Opens on Today · 13 rooms
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A personal page
Ask Petra
Petra writes down what she knows. People join to read it and to ask; she keeps a short list of the people she reads herself.
Opens on People · 7 rooms · 6 stood down
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A software company
Saltmere
Saltmere sells one piece of software to about fifteen firms, and the people who use it ask it questions all day.
Opens on Accounts · 7 rooms · 6 stood down
Side by side
The same ten questions, answered by each template. Every answer is read out of the register the running app resolves against, so this table cannot drift from the product — if a word changes there, it changes here.
| Atlantica | Ask Petra | Saltmere | |
| What the section is called | Accounts | Lists | Accounts |
| What one record is | Property | List | Firm |
| The people section | Contacts | People | People |
| The screen it opens on | Today | People | Accounts |
| The last-thing-happened column | Last order | Activity | Last activity |
| The person who speaks for a record | Buyer of record | Main person | Main contact |
| The control on a drifted row | Check in here | Log a catch-up | Open the account |
| The things-outstanding block | Open issues | Things to sort out | Open asks |
| Rooms in the Customers book | 13 of 13 | 7 of 13 | 7 of 13 |
| Sells anything | ◉ yes | ◇ no catalogue, orders or deals | ◇ no catalogue, orders or deals |
What is not here yet
A fourth template — a trade that goes out to the customer, a plumber or an electrician — is named in the product and has no words of its own written yet, so it is not shown. It appears here the day somebody who does that work has said what the things on the screen should be called. That is the rule rather than the schedule: a template with borrowed vocabulary would demo somebody else's business under a new name.
Every firm on these pages is made up and nobody on them is a real person. Nothing here writes and there is nothing to sign into.