BCBizOps — Business Operations Workflow App

The Problem

Beam Creative had excellent operational documentation — strategic guides, session templates, workflow playbooks — all written as markdown files. The problem: documentation that lives in files gets ignored. There's nothing stopping you from skipping steps, and no way to track whether you actually followed the process.

The Approach

Turn the recipe book into a kitchen. The markdown documents describe what to do; the web application enforces that you actually do it. Think of it as an operational co-pilot that presents each step, tracks completion, and won't let you mark a session as done until every checklist item is addressed.

The Tech

The application started as the markdown documentation repository and evolved into a full-stack Next.js app that lives alongside the original guides. The repo has two halves:

• guides/ and templates/ — the original strategy documents and session templates
• web-app/ — the Next.js application that renders those workflows as interactive checklists

Each production session presents a step-by-step checklist: pre-production checks (review order queue, verify materials, confirm artwork), execution steps, and quality control (inspect first pieces, photograph completed orders, update order status in BCOrderHaus).

The CI/CD pipeline deploys via Gitea Actions using the same Docker pattern as the other Beam Creative applications.

The Outcome

Production sessions now follow a consistent process every time. The checklist UI makes it obvious what's been done, what's next, and what's blocking. The progress bars provide visual feedback — 60% complete means you know exactly where you are in the workflow. And because it connects to BCOrderHaus, order status updates happen as part of the natural workflow instead of as a separate task you might forget.