Nerve for multi-business operators
Run multiple businesses without paying the context-switching tax.
Two LLCs, a side project, and an advisory role. Three inboxes, three calendars, three sets of people waiting on you. Nerve reads all of them and gives you one briefing.
The problem
Why this is broken today
Operators who run more than one business at once hit a specific failure mode: the energy required to context-switch between entities is greater than the energy required to operate any one of them. Your law practice's billing cycle bleeds into your real estate LLC's tenant communications which bleeds into the advisory engagement you took on as a favor. The first business gets your A-game; the second gets your B-game; the third gets whatever's left.
The standard solution is to put each business into its own siloed system: a separate CRM, a separate inbox, a separate accountant. Which solves the data-separation problem and worsens the context-switching problem. Now you have three operating systems to keep current.
The actual answer is to consolidate the operating surface: one place where every business's follow-through shows up, ranked against the others.
What Nerve does
What changes when an agent team is in the loop
Every business's inbox in one briefing
Connect a Google or Outlook account for each business and a Slack workspace for each team. Nerve reads them together, so the deal in one company and the tenant issue in another land on the same morning list.
Ranked across every business
A short read on what's on the line today: the deal worth pushing, the tenant issue that needs a call, the advisory client's follow-up that's overdue. One list instead of three.
Drafts for each audience
Ask for the investor update, the tenant note, or the client summary, and Nerve drafts it from the relevant threads. You approve every one before it goes out.
Built by an operator running several things at once
Patrick built Nerve while holding down a full-time role and a young family. Nerve is what survived contact with that load. If it can't handle a real multi-entity operator's week, it doesn't ship.
How it works
Three steps to the agent team running
Connect each business's accounts
Add the Gmail or Outlook account and calendar for each business, plus its Slack. Connecting more than one account needs a paid plan. The first briefing starts right after your first Google account connects.
Get one owner-level briefing
Ranked across every account you connected: what needs a reply, what's due, which meetings need prep.
Approve drafts from one queue
The reply for the real estate LLC and the follow-up for the consulting client sit in the same approval queue. Nothing sends until you approve it.
FAQ
Common questions
Is this overkill for someone with two small entities?
No. Two entities is exactly where the context-switching tax starts compounding, and it grows with each one you add.
Can my partner in one business see only that business?
No. A Nerve account belongs to one person today, and it doesn't separate one business's data from another's inside your account.
Does Nerve keep each business's data separate?
Not inside your account. Everything you connect is read together so the briefing can rank across businesses. Your account's data stays yours, isn't pooled with other customers, and is never used to train AI.
How does billing work across multiple businesses?
One subscription per person, on flat monthly plans with a free Lite tier. There's no billing by business today.
What if one business grows into needing its own team?
New hires use their own Nerve accounts. Shared team setups aren't self-serve today, so talk to Patrick when you get there.
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