Mail is the work. Business runs the company.

A second workspace on the same facts: CRM, projects, suppliers, purchasing, finance, approvals, documents and reports, every record traceable to the email that created it.

OVIOO
Compose
Payablesfrom email, linked to their reference
New payable
Pending 6Due soon 2Awaiting approval 1Processing 3Paid 41
Supplier · document
Reference
Due
Amount
Vantage SupplyProforma VC-2026-0418742615Halden & Co22 Aug€4,320.00CO
Castellane SAInvoice 2026/1187742615Halden & Co29 Aug€11,940.00DM
Museu PicassoProforma 5521742580Riverside2 Sep€780.00CO
Open payables
€17,040
3 documents · 2 references
Receivables due
€28,600
Halden · balance 14 Sep
Needs approval
Castellane SA · €11,940
Over Daniel’s limit · routed to Clara

Not another system to feed.

Every business tool ever bought created a second place where somebody had to retype what already happened in email. OVIOO reads the mail first and builds the company records from it.

Two workspaces, one company

Mail is where the work is done: inbox, references, tasks, files. Business is where the company is run: customers, suppliers, money, people. One switch in the title bar; the same facts underneath, so nothing is ever typed twice.

Real entities, not a template

Companies, contacts, locations, financial documents, payments, tasks, files and emails are first-class objects with their own permissions. Reference schemes and custom objects sit on top for what is specific to your business.

Switched on per company

One catalogue of modules. Your plan says which you may enable; you decide which you do, under Settings → Modules. A module you do not use is not in the navigation, and switching one off later closes the door without deleting a record.

The screens, as they are.

Every tab named here exists under that name. Nothing on this page is a rendering of a plan.

Home

Waiting on you, Overdue, Decisions, Active work — then Needs attention, Your queue, Ovioo suggests, Work that needs chasing, Recently.

Organization → Setup

Business profile, Structure, Access, Members, Locations, Company. The access matrix is where levels meet departments.

People

Directory, Access, Roles, Team. One person, one row; capabilities resolved per module.

Sales

Quotes, orders, contracts and proformas — each a record of its own, linked to its reference and its company.

Finance

Summary, To pay, To collect; Decisions when an approval is pending; Payment runs when a batch is prepared.

Settings → Record types

Your own record types with typed fields: text, currency, dates, people, organizations, relations, files, statuses.

One catalogue of modules.

What differs between two companies is which of these are switched on, who reaches them and what they are called. Never the tools themselves.

Organization

Who the company is and who works in it.
always on

Organization

Company profile, departments, teams, locations, legal entities and cost centres.

always on

People

Employees, roles, access, absences and employment information.

from Scale

Team oversight

Progress, workload and bottlenecks from the work itself.

from Business

Client portal

A hosted web page where your clients follow their work, documents and payments.

Commercial

From first enquiry to signed order.
from Business

CRM

Customers, leads, opportunities, companies, contacts, pipelines and activities.

from Scale

Sales

Quotes, orders, contracts and pricing.

Operations

The work itself, and the suppliers who deliver it.
always on

Operations

The work itself: references, jobs, workflows and operational records.

from Business

Projects

Projects and their plans, owners and progress.

from Business

Suppliers

Supplier directory, categories, contacts, agreements and procurement history.

from Scale

Purchasing

Purchase requests, purchase orders and supplier quotes.

Finance

Money in, money out, nothing retyped.
from Business

Finance

Invoices, proformas, payments, receivables, payables and cash flow.

earlyfrom Scale

Accounting

Accounting periods, accounts, exports, reconciliation and tax information.

Resources

What the company sells, stores and owns.
from Scale

Products & Services

What the company sells, with categories, pricing and internal codes.

earlyfrom Scale

Inventory

Stock, warehouses, movements and valuation.

from Business

Documents

Retained files and generated paperwork, filed by reference.

earlyfrom Scale

Assets

Equipment, vehicles and property the company owns.

Intelligence

Reports over the records the company already has.
from Business

Reports

Grouped views over payments, references, departments and people.

earlyfrom Scale

Analytics

Trends over time, once there is enough history to trend.

System

Approvals, automations, access and the audit trail.
always on

Audit

Every change, by whom, with the previous value.

always on

Security & Access

Roles, capabilities, mailbox permissions and sessions.

always on

Settings

Company policy set once, centrally.

Business workspace

The second workspace: where the company is run rather than worked.

from Business

Approvals

Who may confirm what, with the request and the decision on record.

from Business

Automations

Rules that route, label, remind and hand over, without code.

from Scale

Integrations

Company file sources and connected services.

from Scale

Custom objects

Reference schemes and record types of your own, without a developer.

“Early” means navigable and real but still filling in. We would rather say so than pretend.

Capabilities are the truth. Levels are presets.

Every module declares what can be done in it. Six levels, View to Admin, are presets over those capabilities, so “Finance · Approve” means exactly what it says and nothing more. Owners assign a level per department or per person; the server enforces it on every request, and the AI never sees past it.

Departments are where money and work are routed, not an org chart for its own sake. A proforma above someone’s limit goes to whoever holds Approve, with the request and the decision on record.

Finance · access by departmentlevels are presets over capabilities
ViewCreateEditApproveManageAdminOperationsFinanceManagement
Per-person overrides on top; every change lands in the audit trail with who and when.

Which plan includes what.

Starter sells the mail intelligence. Business sells running the company on it. Scale sells owning it.

ModuleStarterBusinessScale
Team oversight
Client portal
CRM
Sales
Projects
Suppliers
Purchasing
Finance
Accountingearly
Products & Services
Inventoryearly
Documents
Assetsearly
Reports
Analyticsearly
Approvals
Automations
Integrations
Custom objects

Organization, People, Security, Audit and Settings are on in every plan. Email itself is never degraded by tier.

How the Business layer is bounded

A management layer is only safe if what it can see, and who may switch it on, are both explicit.

01

Every module is a choice the owner makes

The workspace — mail, references, tasks, documents — is the whole product for a company that never enables a module. Business modules are switched on one at a time, and a module nobody enables is not in anybody’s navigation. Switching one off later closes the door without deleting a record.

03

Owner is not the same as admin

AI spend and limits, team productivity, billing, mailbox connection and member creation are reserved to the owner. An admin gets one only through a per-person grant the owner writes, and transferring the organisation is never grantable. The rule lives in the database, not only in the interface.

05

Departments and teams route, they do not decorate

They are where work and money actually go — a request or a payable is routed to one. Because the structure carries the routing, keeping it accurate has a purpose beyond tidiness.

07

It measures work, never people

Jobs moved, mail handled, documents created, by person and period: business activity inside OVIOO. No screenshots, no keystrokes, no idle timers, no location, nothing from outside the product. A tool that surveils is a tool a team routes around, and then the record is worthless.

09

Money keeps its currency

Amounts stay in the currency they were issued in and totals are shown per currency rather than converted at a rate nobody chose. Three currencies means three totals, which is the honest answer.

11

The same records, one layer up

Business does not hold a copy of the operational data. It is a different view over the same companies, jobs, documents and money the team works on, which is why it cannot drift out of date.

Fair questions

It covers ground an ERP would claim — companies, documents, payables, receivables, departments, approvals — without the implementation project, because it reads the records the company already produces rather than asking you to populate a new system first. It is not a manufacturing or inventory system.

No. Most companies run on the workspace alone for a while. Modules are switched on when there is a reason, by the owner, one at a time.

Not by default. Those are owner-reserved. You can grant one to a named admin and take it back; ownership transfer cannot be granted at all.

No. Management never changes Mail: if a module is off, the product is exactly what it was. The team’s day does not become somebody else’s reporting exercise.

Run the company on the email it already has.

Start on Mail with your real mailboxes. Switch the Business workspace on when the company is ready for it.