The Owned Office: your whole back office, on one box in your building.
You meet it in three moments. Move brings your history off rented software, and an independent checker proves nothing was lost. Run puts the rest of your office on the box, with every credential in your hands from day one. Watch is offered after that: backups off site, updates, business-hours support, and a short report each morning.
DArnTech runs on this exact stack, in production, today. No one has bought an Owned Office yet, so there is no track record here to quote. What there is, you can read: the migration proof below is public, reproducible, and archived down to the raw export.
Most of this work reaches a business through someone already inside it — an accountant, a broker, a consultant who knows the books. If that is you, say so when you write; the partner route is the one we build around.
What holds true in all three moments
- You own it. Open-source software on a box in your building — your data, your hardware, full export anytime, no lock-in. Nothing is locked behind me: every credential and every config is yours from day one.
- You set the dial. Some customers want to learn the whole stack; most want it handled. Both are the job. The hard part — the migration, the proof, the infrastructure — is mine either way. How much of the rest you hold is up to you, and you can change your mind later.
- Already proven. Most of what I deploy already runs in my own production stack, day in and day out. You're hiring delivery of a working pattern, not first-time discovery.
- Reachable after the build. The engagement is the hands-on part; then the system fades into the background. When you do want something — a change, a question, a new idea — you call the engineer who built it. Not a support queue, not a project manager.
The first moment. Your books and records come off the software you rent and onto the box, and an independent checker proves the move worked. Owners come here because a vendor set a shutdown date or because the bill keeps climbing — either way, they need somewhere to land.
darnbooks · QuickBooks Desktop → ERPNext
Books moved to the penny.
We moved a complete company out of QuickBooks Desktop into ERPNext, open-source business software on your own server, and an independent checker proved the books match to the cent. The company is synthetic, built with the hazards that break real migrations; no client data was used.
The same proof covers Sage 50’s export format. FileCabinet CS, which Thomson Reuters retires in December 2027, is being evaluated, not claimed.
The second moment. Once your history is on the box, the rest of the office follows it there: books and invoicing, customer records, quotes and booking, signatures, files, passwords, documents, your mailing list, site analytics, and project tracking. One sign-in covers all of it, and it is yours. One back-office chore gets automated first — we pick which one with you on the dry-run day, because the chore that hurts is different in every shop. The evidence is public: a whole demo estate of this work was captured on 18 September 2026 and you can browse it at acme.darn-tech.com.
The third moment, and an option rather than a requirement. If you want it, DArnTech watches the box: backups taken off site and restored on purpose at least once so you know they work, updates applied, business-hours support, and a short report each morning of what happened overnight. Private search over your own documents rides inside it — ask a question in plain English, get an answer out of your own contracts and job history, with nothing sent anywhere. Whether Watch belongs with every install is still an open question; we will settle it with the first customer rather than on this page.
The front-office layer of the box — online booking, the day’s job board, quote approval, and a customer status link — is published as a captured demo with demo data at acme.darn-tech.com, retargeted for eight trades on one shared engine. It is evidence, not a separate product: every Owned Office front office is assembled from these same parts. Real working software, demo data, no signup — click in and use it.
One day, on site, and the one door with a price on it. Bring last month’s software charges; we add them up on the whiteboard in your numbers, not ours. Then your real company file goes through the same checker that produced the proof above, and you leave with a parity preview and a fixed price for the install. The day credits in full against an install commissioned within 60 days.
Not sure the box fits your shop?
That is what the call is for. Thirty minutes, I learn your stack, and I tell you straight whether I am the right fit — and if I am not, who is.
Talk it through — 30 minutes