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Next Biz Thing #411 wayfront.com
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- Aug 27, 2026
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Wayfront https://wayfront.com Wayfront is a client portal built for agencies that sell productized services, bringing billing, CRM, projects, intake forms with e-signatures, helpdesk and reporting onto a single synced client record. Founded in 2014 by Chris Willow as Service Provider Pro and rebranded in 2026, the Riga based company is bootstrapped, profitable and has never taken outside investment. Thousands of agencies now run on the platform, processing more than five hundred million dollars in client services. This episode looks at why consolidation beats software sprawl, and what independence buys an agency in a software partner. How many browser tabs does it take to serve a single client? If you run an agency, you probably just did the mental arithmetic and came up with a number you are not especially proud of. There is the CRM. There is the invoicing tool. There is the project board. There is the intake form builder, the e-signature service, the support inbox, the reporting dashboard, and somewhere in the middle of all of it, a spreadsheet nobody admits to maintaining. Each one holds a slightly different version of the truth about the same customer, and the job of reconciling those versions falls to a human being who was hired to do creative work. Welcome back to The Next Biz Thing. I am Markus J. Diplama, and this is the show where we go looking for the companies quietly solving problems that everyone else has simply learned to live with. Not the loud ones, not the ones raising enormous rounds and putting their name on a stadium, but the ones that noticed a specific, grinding, everyday frustration and decided to build the thing that removes it. Today's business is exactly that kind of company, and the frustration it removes is one I suspect a lot of you are liv…