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Case Study

Can Am Sales

One Foot in Retirement Through Cloud Automation

Steve Ballard, owner and manager, built a manufacturer's rep agency that ran for years on an on-premise CRM and a maze of Excel. This is how it changed.

How Can Am Sales, a long-standing manufacturer's representative agency, moved from spreadsheets and an on-premise CRM to cloud automation, AI-powered onboarding, and a multi-company portal so the owner could step back without losing the business.

50%
Work Automated
3 Days
Owner Workweek

The challenge

The Excel trap

For years, Can Am Sales relied on Dynamax, an on-premise CRM that was outdated and not cloud-accessible. Admin staff had to manage commissions, marketing data, and operations through a massive manual web of spreadsheets.

  • Zero mobility: data lived on local machines, so the sales team could not work from the field with reliable access.
  • Administrative bottleneck: each new dealer profile meant well over an hour of manual entry and reworked errors.
  • Commission complexity: varied percentages and account exceptions across the team were calculated by hand.
  • Ownership strain: Steve was buried in daily operations, so stepping back or planning retirement felt out of reach.

The solution

A custom Siah Labs portal (not a one-off app)

Jordan and Deanna at Siah Labs built a living system that could evolve with the business instead of freezing the day it shipped.

Phase 1: Cloud bridge

We stood up a custom CRM and billing layer on Google Sheets to get data off local machines fast. That unlocked the first automated commission runs and real cloud access.

Phase 2: Document parser and full portal

As volume grew, spreadsheets became the constraint. We replaced them with a full custom portal.

  • AI-powered onboarding: upload a dealer profile; the system extracts the fields and creates the account instead of an hour of typing.
  • Unified reporting: one dashboard for team usage, outreach, and sales visibility.

Phase 3: Multi-company ecosystem

The work at Can Am Sales expanded to Winbrook and David Bradley.

  • Centralized CMS: marketing for all three brands from one place.
  • Dealer portals: over 1,000 dealers log in for their own orders, documents, and account data.

The Siah Labs difference

“It's not just software; it's a partnership. We take the logic that used to live only in someone's head and turn it into a digital asset. We improve the system as the business grows, ensuring that the technology always serves the owner's lifestyle, not the other way around.”

Jordan Blackwell, Co-founder of Siah Labs

Measurable outcomes

What changed for the owner and the team.

50%
Work Automated
3 Days
Owner Workweek
1,000+
Dealer Portal Users
3
Companies Unified

Results in practice

Steve Ballard stopped working Thursdays and Fridays: a 3-day workweek while the business kept growing.

Roughly half of the owner's role now runs through the Siah Labs portal automatically.

New dealer profiles went from over an hour of manual entry to a single upload with AI extraction.

Subsidiaries Winbrook and David Bradley were brought into the same digital ecosystem as Can Am Sales.

Over 1,000 dealers use secure portals for their own data, orders, and documents.

The admin team is out of spreadsheet hell; reps have cloud access instead of data trapped on local machines.

Are you a legacy business owner ready to reclaim your time?

Let Siah Labs help you move from manual chaos to total E.A.S.E.

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