# CED Systems

> CED Systems is the systems-and-dashboards brand of CED Solutions, LLC, a business automation company in Easley, South Carolina, run by Chris Davis. Positioning: "We take your want/need to DONE." Motto: "Automate everything that is repeated." Tagline: "Dashboards that answer the money question." This site (cedsystems.com) showcases the systems themselves — screenshots, video walkthroughs, the research and databases underneath them, and the philosophy behind them. Service offers, pricing and checkout live at https://cedservice.com/. There are no prices on this site. Contact: dashboards@cedservice.com.

## The systems (all live)
- Field Desk — operations system for field-service businesses: request → quote → customer portal approval → dispatch → job → invoice, plus callbacks, job costing, recurring work, and a who-owes-money view.
- Owner dashboards — 41 dashboards across 7 trades (HVAC, med spa, dental, roofing, law, real estate, local government), each built around the one money question that trade's owner asks. Sample data is always labelled sample.
- TopLevel — the same dashboards delivered inside HighLevel, white-labelled.
- Answer Desk — a support agent trained only on a company's own documents; passes a 30-question acceptance test before going live; reports unanswered questions. Pricing lives on the services side, not here.
- Dealer master database — 8,895 hand-verified dealership records (canonical count). One editor; changes enter through a single audited, serialized promotion path; the public sees only dashboards and reports, never the database. New Jersey (425) and Illinois (398) sets are staged candidates, not yet counted.

## The Work
- The full portfolio lives at https://cedsystems.com/work/ — all 41 dashboards in 7 trade collections, each with its printed guide, plus the platforms. The homepage (https://cedsystems.com) is the overview; The Work is the deep catalogue.

## Interfaces
- Owner cockpit first (KPIs on top, detail underneath), cross-filtering and drill-downs (every number traces to the records under it), and the same data as board, list, map, or calendar. Crews get a mobile My Day view; customers get an approval portal; the same boards deliver white-labelled inside HighLevel. Every element that looks like a button works.

## Research
- 8,895 dealership records researched and verified by hand — and growing fast. The learning runs both ways: patterns spotted nationwide get applied locally, and what proves out locally gets carried back out.
- 28,984 local businesses listed and AI-readiness-scored across directory networks: besthvacsc.com (1,428 SC HVAC listings), scmedspas.com (625), ncmedspas.com (1,117), and the Pickens County Thrive directory. A business that cannot be measured gets "no score," never a zero.
- Verified proof points (own house only): cedservice.com AI-readiness 41 → 98; med-spa demo 56 → 96; neonarcade.rocks 4 → 62.
- A dealer visibility board was built for Toyota of Easley from a live website capture: 284 of 284 vehicles AI-readable; #1 in Maps for "toyota dealer easley sc" at all 9 grid points (Oct 23, 2026 pull).

## Philosophy
- Start with what the business already uses; close the gaps around it. No rip-and-replace.
- The business's way of operating wins; the software is shaped to it — standard where standard fits, custom where it doesn't.
- Every dashboard answers the money question: profit per truck, chair, job, or lot.
- Human in the loop: automate the repeated work, keep judgment with people. Honest hedge, in Chris's words: AI recommendation is "DONEish. Can't make promises."

## Keeping up — and often ahead
- Early on the AI shift: CED was testing whether AI assistants can read a business's website (per vehicle, per page) and building AI-readiness scoring + dealer visibility boards before "AI visibility" became a standard agency offer.
- Keeping up is a system: a watchlist of 74 AI builders/educators reviewed weekly; talks and playbooks ingested into an internal knowledge base (69 filed research records and counting); CED's own operation runs on a multi-model AI crew that cross-checks its work daily.
- Ahead means tested, not hyped: new tools are proven on real work and must pass the same QA loops before they reach a client.

## The method
- Loops, not launches: build → test → fix → retest until it passes; scheduled checks keep looping after delivery.
- QA with teeth: counted acceptance tests (e.g., a support agent must pass a 30-question test from its own documents before going live); the rendered output itself is inspected, never just the code.
- Models checking models: more than one AI works at CED and they verify each other at the destination; a person owns the final call.
- Wikis: every system ships with written, structured knowledge for people and for AI assistants — this file is this site's example.
- Closing gaps, counted: Field Desk was built gap-by-gap against the incumbent in its class — 19 of 34 gaps closed and verified so far, the rest named on a shelf.

## How work starts
Consult first: CED looks at how the operation actually runs and says honestly whether a system would pay — including when it wouldn't. Then: Audit → Build → DONE.

## What this site is not
Not the services storefront (that is cedservice.com), not a pricing page, and it makes no mention of any client's employer or affiliations.