Chaiwan Consulting – Beside Your Business

Services

§ 02 / SERVICES

§ What we build for clients

Six services. One discipline: writing your business down.

Every engagement starts with the same question — what does this business need to do, every day, to deliver what it promises? Everything below is a way of answering that, at a different depth.

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SOP Manual Design

A complete, role-by-role operations manual built from on-site observation, interviews, and walkthroughs. Delivered in Lao and English, with diagrams and checklists.

From 6 weeks →

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Accounting System Design

Chart of accounts, daily bookkeeping workflows, monthly close, management reports, and tax-ready reporting. Software-agnostic.

From 4 weeks →

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Enterprise Set-up Advisory

For founders building from zero. Entity structure, banking, licensing, hiring framework, and a 90-day operating plan.

From 3 weeks →

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Process Audit & Remediation

A diagnostic on a working business — we map what’s actually happening, find the gaps and risks, and write the corrective procedures.

From 2 weeks →

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HR & Hiring Frameworks

Job descriptions, onboarding plans, performance frameworks, and the staff handbook. Built to support your existing culture, not replace it.

From 3 weeks →

SOP-600

Quarterly Retainer

For clients who’ve completed a project with us — ongoing reviews, refinements, and a phone call when something complicated comes up.

Ongoing →

§ 03
How an engagement works

Every project follows the same four-stage process.

It’s predictable on purpose. You always know which stage we’re in and what’s being decided next.

01

Discovery

We sit with you and your team, observe the day-to-day, and read the documents you already have. No deliverable yet — just understanding.

Week 1

02

Design

We draft the system on paper — the org chart, the workflows, the chart of accounts, the SOP outline. We review it with you before any of it is finalized.

Weeks 2–3

03

Documentation

The actual writing — procedures, checklists, forms, templates. In Lao and English where needed. Reviewed in batches, never as a single 100-page surprise.

Weeks 4–5

04

Handover

We train your team on the new procedures, run the first cycle with them, and document any adjustments. The system is yours, in your hands, working.

Week 6+

§ 04
Frequently asked questions

Questions we hear before most engagements.

Most SOP manual projects run six to ten weeks, depending on the size of the team and how many functions are in scope. Process audits can be as short as two weeks. We’ll give you a definite range during the discovery call, not after.

Both, and often the same document is delivered in both languages. Operating manuals for staff are almost always written in Lao. Board-level and investor-facing documents are usually English. We’ll match the language to the audience.

Often it’s the opposite — designing the system before you’ve built bad habits is much cheaper than re-engineering one. Our Enterprise Set-up service is built for founders in their first twelve months.

We’re software-agnostic. We’ve designed accounting systems on Xero, QuickBooks, locally hosted solutions, and well-structured spreadsheets for very small operations. We pick what fits your business, not the other way around.

Project fees are scoped to the engagement and quoted as a fixed fee once we’ve completed discovery. We’ll give you a clear written proposal before any work begins, and we don’t bill by the hour.

§ SOP-999 / GET STARTED

Ready to write your business down?

Tell us a little about what you’re building and we’ll suggest where to start.

Engagement length2–10 weeks typical

Fee structureFixed fee, not hourly

First stepFree 30-minute call
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