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Pilot Light is a boutique software firm built for fast-food franchisees. You already know the tool your operation needs. We're the team that builds it. With 30+ years of experience running fast-food restaurants, we speak operator first, software second.
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What we do
Multi-store dashboards, compliance tools, and internal portals built around how franchise groups actually operate, with role-based access, per-store views, and regional rollups included.
Bots that handle the daily grind: pulling reports before dawn, filing delivery disputes, syncing menus, chasing shipments. We even automate the portals that don't have APIs.
Fractional tech leadership for franchise groups. We've sat on both sides of the counter, so we can tell you what's worth building, what's worth buying, and what's worth skipping.
Our work
Everything below runs in production today. No mockups, no vaporware. These earn their keep every morning before the first shift clocks in.
A secure multi-store dashboard for a large franchise group operating across multiple states. Role-based access from store managers up to regional leadership, with performance metrics and trend comparisons per store and region.
Upload a timecard export and get back every potential labor-law violation: meal and rest breaks, overtime, seventh-day premiums, auto-punches, and more. A rules engine covering all 50 states and DC, running entirely in the browser so payroll data never leaves your machine.
Third-party delivery errors quietly eat margin. This bot files refund disputes on DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub automatically, with a ledger that prevents duplicate filings and a dry-run mode so you can watch it work before you trust it.
When a store 86's an item, a simple form submission triggers the bot to mark it sold out across ordering platforms. No more customers ordering food that isn't there, and no more managers clicking through three different portals.
A three-phase workflow that takes uniform orders from form submission to finish: weekly order summaries, per-store manager confirmations with payroll-deduction routing, and automatic shipment-tracking relays when the vendor ships.
Every night while the stores sleep, our pipelines log into back-office systems, pull the daily business and payroll reports, refresh the workbooks, and flag payroll compliance issues, so leadership starts the day with answers instead of homework.
…plus daily sales digests, store-lighting schedule monitors, promotional-item trackers, and whatever your operation needs next.
About the name
In every kitchen there's a small flame that never goes out. Quiet, dependable, always ready to fire the line. That's how we think software should work for an operator: running in the background, keeping things warm, never demanding attention until you need it.
The "Cattle Co" part? We're an American firm serving burger country. It felt honest.
Get in touch
Whether it's one stubborn workflow or a whole operations stack, we'd love to hear what's slowing your stores down.
Prefer email? contact@pilotlightco.com