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Choose what it writes

You decide what Beacon writes back into your tools.

The engine reads everything you connect. What it is allowed to write back is a separate decision, tool by tool and system by system — and your accounting and billing are never in it.

Level 1

Inform

Beacon reads your tools and writes to none of them. It reports what it finds.

You do the work
Level 2

Prepare

Beacon prepares the change — the cleaned record, the corrected field — and holds it for a person.

A person submits
Level 3

Autopilot

Beacon writes the change into the tool, inside your guardrails, and tells you it did.

Beacon acts, then tells you
The three levels

The difference is how far the work has already got.

You are in charge at all three. What changes is whether Beacon is describing the change, holding it ready, or writing it.

ONE JOB — MOVE $380K TO MID-MARKET LEVEL 01Inform BEACON TELLS YOU you build it · you cost it · you decide · you do it “Mid-market is 12% behind its number, and here is why.” LEVEL 02Prepare BEACON BUILDS THE WHOLE MOVE you submit it “A finished $380k budget move and a written campaign. Submit?” LEVEL 03Autopilot BEACON BUILDS IT AND RUNS IT only theexceptions “Moved $380k to mid-market and launched at 04:12. Inside all limits.” LEVEL 01 · INFORM BEACON you do the rest you build it, cost it and do it “Mid-market is 12% behind its number, and here is why.” LEVEL 02 · PREPARE BEACON you submit it built and finished — a person submits “A finished $380k budget move and a written campaign. Submit?” LEVEL 03 · AUTOPILOT BEACON exceptions run for you — you hear what it did “Moved $380k to mid-market and launched at 04:12. Inside all limits.”

One job, drawn three times. The lane is the same length at every level — what moves is the point where it reaches you.

What the engine holds →
What autopilot actually touches

Six places it may write. One it never will.

An engine that only reads leaves the mess where it found it. These are the tools Beacon can put right, each one a separate switch, and the one boundary that is not a setting.

WHERE IT MAY WRITE — EACH ONE A SEPARATE SWITCH BEACONwrites back YOUR CRM AD & CAMPAIGN TOOLS THE DATA ROOM SLACK, CALENDAR & EMAIL REPORTING SURFACES WHERE IT ONLY EVER READS ACCOUNTING & BILLING read, and reconciled from, every day never written to — not a setting, a boundary WHERE IT MAY WRITE BEACON WRITES BACK YOUR CRM AD & CAMPAIGN TOOLS THE DATA ROOM SLACK, CALENDAR & EMAIL REPORTING SURFACES WHERE IT ONLY EVER READS ACCOUNTING & BILLING read, and reconciled from, every day never written to — a boundary, not a setting

Each one is a separate switch, revoked in one click in the tool it came from. CRM writing is its own decision — plenty of companies turn record cleaning on long before they turn campaigns on.

Why writing back matters

A number is only as good as the record underneath it.

Most of what makes revenue reporting wrong is not the maths. It is two records for the same customer, a stage nobody moved, an invoice that never met the account it belongs to. Beacon can see all three from the engine. Letting it fix them is what turns a clean number into a clean company.

WHAT THE ENGINE ALREADY SEESWHAT IT PUTS RIGHT Acme IncBILLINGACME IncorporatedCRM Acme IncONE ACCOUNT, ONE HISTORY Proposal — 94 daysNOBODY MOVED IT Closed wonCORRECTED 12 MAR $34.0MBILLING$33.6MCRM$34.0MLEDGER $34.0MRECONCILED, EVERY DAY AND NOTHING TOUCHED IN YOUR BOOKSthe ledger and the invoices are read, reconciled from, and never written to — that one is not a switch Acme IncBILLINGACME IncorporatedCRM Acme IncONE ACCOUNT, ONE HISTORY Proposal — 94 daysNOBODY MOVED IT Closed wonCORRECTED 12 MAR $34.0MBILLING$33.6MCRM$34.0MLEDGER $34.0MRECONCILED, EVERY DAY NOTHING TOUCHED IN YOUR BOOKSread and reconciled from, never written to

Illustrative. The engine already knows these are the same company, the same deal and the same month — writing back is what closes the gap between knowing and fixing.

How much to trust each figure →
The rest of the ladder

And how much it decides, system by system.

Move any system to any level and watch what changes. Open a system to see every function it covers, and where each one is capped.

Presets
What this setting means

hours of human work a week, across the whole company

moves a week Beacon completes without anyone

exceptions a week that stop and ask for a person

Illustrative, at a company the size of the one used across this site. Your own numbers appear here once billing is connected.

The ceilings

Some things never reach level three. That is deliberate.

Turning a system all the way up does not turn everything in it all the way up. A handful of functions are capped in the product, not in your settings, and no amount of trust unlocks them.

INFORMPREPAREAUTOPILOT Writing to accounting or billingread only, at every level NEVER, AT ANY LEVEL Closing your booksyour accountant, your auditor NEVER, AT ANY LEVEL Changing the company targetit costs you three ways to respond STOPS AT INFORM A price or commitment to a customerBeacon prices it, a person sends it STOPS AT PREPARE Signing anything on your behalfprepared, never signed STOPS AT PREPARE And no guardrail is ever crossed — at any level, including Autopilot. Writing to accounting or billing never, at any level — read only, at every level Closing your books never, at any level — your accountant, your auditor Changing the company target stops at Inform — it costs you three ways to respond A price or commitment to a customer stops at Prepare — Beacon prices it, a person sends it Signing anything on your behalf stops at Prepare — prepared, never signed AND NO GUARDRAIL IS EVER CROSSEDat any level, including Autopilot

The pale track is where each one would go if a setting could take it there. Nothing does — these are capped in the product, and they read the same on your first day and your thousandth.

How it usually goes

Nobody starts at the top. Almost nobody stays at the bottom.

The pattern is the same at every company: turn up the systems where the work is obvious and reversible, and leave the ones with a customer or a signature at the end of them.

MONTH ONEMONTH THREEMONTH SIX Command system Growth system Finance system Capital system Capacity system AI & agents INFORMINFORMPREPAREINFORMINFORMPREPARE PREPAREPREPAREAUTOPILOTINFORMAUTOPILOTAUTOPILOT AUTOPILOTAUTOPILOTAUTOPILOTAUTOPILOTAUTOPILOTAUTOPILOT WHAT STILL REACHES YOU AT MONTH SIXabout two decisions a day MONTH ONE COMMANDINFORMGROWTHINFORMFINANCEPREPARECAPITALINFORMCAPACITYINFORMAI & AGENTSPREPARE MONTH THREE COMMANDPREPAREGROWTHPREPAREFINANCEAUTOPILOTCAPITALINFORMCAPACITYAUTOPILOTAI & AGENTSAUTOPILOT MONTH SIX COMMANDAUTOPILOTGROWTHAUTOPILOTFINANCEAUTOPILOTCAPITALAUTOPILOTCAPACITYAUTOPILOTAI & AGENTSAUTOPILOT STILL REACHING YOU AT MONTH SIXabout two decisions a day

The three presets in the panel above, drawn. Month one proves the numbers; month three turns up the reversible work you have watched for eight weeks; month six leaves you the calls that were always yours.

Changing your mind

Every level is reversible, and the record survives the change.

Drop a system back a level and it takes effect on the next move, not retroactively. Everything Beacon did while it was one level higher stays sealed exactly as it stood, with the setting it was running under attached.

THE RECORD, RUNNING AT AUTOPILOT MOVE 01AutopilotMOVE 02AutopilotMOVE 03AutopilotMOVE 04AutopilotMOVE 05AutopilotMOVE 06AutopilotMOVE 07AutopilotMOVE 08AutopilotMOVE 09Autopilot every move sealed with the level it ran under THE RECORD AFTER YOU DROP A LEVEL MOVE 01AutopilotMOVE 02AutopilotMOVE 03AutopilotMOVE 04AutopilotMOVE 05AutopilotMOVE 06PrepareMOVE 07PrepareMOVE 08PrepareMOVE 09Prepare the earlier moves are untouched — the change takes effect on the next move, not retroactively you drop Finance back to Prepare RUNNING AT AUTOPILOT MOVE 1A3MOVE 2A3MOVE 3A3MOVE 4A3MOVE 5A3MOVE 6A3 AFTER YOU DROP A LEVEL MOVE 1A3MOVE 2A3MOVE 3A3MOVE 4A2MOVE 5A2MOVE 6A2 the earlier moves are untouched — the changetakes effect on the next move, not retroactively

You can always answer the question “who decided this, and under what rule?” — including for the moves that ran at a level you have since turned down.

Start at Inform. Nobody stays there.

Every customer sets this differently, and every one of them changes it. Start free and set it wherever you’re comfortable.