Tells you, in plain English, how your business is doing, what's coming, and exactly what to do next. Like a trusted advisor who's known you for 30 years.
You didn't start a business to become an analyst. LightSignal does the analysis, so you get the answer.
"You can cover payroll and the new fridge," not a liquidity ratio. Every insight is a sentence you can act on, not a chart you have to interpret.
Not "small businesses like yours." Yours. LightSignal learns your seasons, your customers, your quirks, and gets sharper every week.
Seeing a problem isn't the same as solving it. Every read comes with the next move: specific, prioritized, and sized to your situation.
Three of the tabs you'll live in, and what each one hands you.
Every figure comes with the reason it moved and the move to make.
Every part of the business scored against places genuinely like yours, each drag traced to its cause with a dollar figure attached, and the slow slides flagged before they turn into problems.
Busy days, slow days, and what could shift them, with enough notice to do something.
No setup projects. No consultants. Connect what you already use and LightSignal takes it from there.
Link your accounting and point-of-sale in a few clicks: QuickBooks, Square, and more. Read-only and secure. Your data stays yours.
LightSignal studies how your business actually works: what drives your good weeks, where money leaks, what's normal for you.
Open LightSignal and know where you stand today, this week, and around the corner. Ask anything. Get an answer that fits your business.
Connected securely, the same way you already link QuickBooks or your bank.
Read-only, so nothing can be moved or changed. Your books are read by software to build your insights, not by our team. Never sold, never shared. Disconnect in one click.
LightSignal isn't a template with your logo on it. It adapts to your model, your market, and your moment.
The tools you already use: accounting platforms (QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, FreshBooks) and point-of-sale systems (Square, Toast). Setup takes a few clicks.
Yes. Connections are read-only, so LightSignal can never move money or change records. Data is encrypted at bank level, never sold, and you can disconnect in one click.
Any small business: restaurants, retail, salons, trades, e-commerce, professional practices, and more. It adapts to each business individually instead of forcing everyone into the same dashboard.
Early access members start with a 14-day free trial. Founding members lock in founding-member pricing when paid plans open. Final pricing will be announced to the waitlist first.
Early access opens in small waves so every founding business gets real attention. Join the waitlist and we'll email you when your spot opens.
I got my start in financial advisory, making 2,500 cold calls a week working for myself. I know what it feels like to hire and have it not work out, and to spend nights until 5 a.m. lighting money on fire on ads.
So I spent a year asking real owners what actually keeps them up at night. What I heard, over and over: people need answers, not spreadsheets and not charts. They need the dirty work handled so they can do what they do best and get home.
Jaret, founder of LightSignal
Beta starts this week. Founding members lock in the lowest price LightSignal will ever offer, keep it for three years, and help shape what gets built next.