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Enterprise / Platform · Practice growth

The platform 800+ dental practices run on

Replaced fragile spreadsheets with a role-based platform for a national coaching firm — coach revenue, practice assessments, and KPI monitoring under one roof.

Enterprise / Platform Practice growth Role-based access KPI dashboards
Client
National dental practice-coaching firm
Type
Enterprise / Platform
Focus
Practice growth
What we did
RBAC platform, tool consolidation, KPI monitoring

The client

A national dental practice-coaching organization that supports 800+ dental practices, helping owners grow production, tighten operations, and assess practices for acquisition. The work was run on Google Sheets and one shared Windows desktop application.

The challenge

The coaching model worked; the tooling didn't scale. Critical data lived in fragile spreadsheets and a single shared desktop app — no real access control, no reliable multi-user editing, no security posture. As the firm grew toward 800+ practices, the spreadsheets became the bottleneck. They needed to move to a secure, scalable, role-based platform without losing the workflows coaches and clients depended on every day.

  • Critical data lived in fragile spreadsheets and one shared desktop app, with no real access control.
  • No reliable multi-user editing and no security posture as the firm scaled.
  • The spreadsheets became the bottleneck on the way to 800+ practices.
  • Any new platform had to preserve the workflows coaches and clients relied on daily.

What we built

It started small — converting one shared desktop tool into a web application. The moment coaches saw it, demand snowballed, and we rebuilt three more of their spreadsheet-based tools into enterprise-grade web apps, all under one roof:

  • Coach revenue management — tracking and managing revenue across the coaching network.
  • Practice assessments for acquisition — structured evaluations to gauge a practice's value and fit.
  • Year-over-year practice-health assessments — measuring each practice's trajectory over time.
  • Practice monitoring — pulling PMS data into a live KPI dashboard so coaches see production, collections, and patient metrics for every practice they manage.

Everything sits behind role-based access control (RBAC), so each coach, admin, and client sees only their own data, with information shared cleanly across business units in one platform instead of scattered files.

800+practices served on one role-based platform
4 → 1separate spreadsheet/desktop tools consolidated
~62%reduction in monthly revenue-reporting time
2 wks → 2 dayspractice-assessment turnaround

The results

  • Consolidated 4 separate spreadsheet/desktop tools into one role-based platform serving 800+ practices.
  • ~62% reduction in monthly revenue-reporting time for the coaching team.
  • Practice-assessment turnaround cut from ~2 weeks to ~2 days, accelerating acquisition decisions.
  • Coaches reclaimed time previously lost to spreadsheet wrangling — redirected to the practice owners they coach.
  • The platform was recognized at the firm's annual coaches' conference as a step-change in how they operate.
The Webstrail engineering and support teams were always there for our end users — resolving issues and adding business value to every requirement along the way.
— Coaching firm leadership

Why it worked

We didn't replace the firm's methodology; we gave it software worthy of it. Each tool earned the next, RBAC made it secure and scalable, and the whole thing is run as an ongoing partnership rather than a one-off build.

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