Sanidhay Kumar
When Everyone Has the Password, No One Is Responsible
You have an info@ email. Or sales@. Or support@. Five people use it. They all know the password. Someone replied to a client yesterday. You do not know who. The client is upset. No one remembers sending that email. Sound familiar? The real problem When five people share one password,
Your Email Provider Can Read Your Mail
When you send a letter, you seal it in an envelope. You hand it to the postman. He carries it. He delivers it. He does not open it. He does not read it. Email does not work like this. The postcard problem Most email is like a postcard. Not a
Your Biggest Security Risk Is Not Hackers
Most business owners think about security the wrong way. They imagine hackers in dark rooms, running sophisticated attacks. They assume their business is too small to be a target. Or they believe security requires expensive software and dedicated IT teams. The data tells a different story. Where breaches actually come
When Forms and Sheets Are Not Enough
You have built your first system. Google Forms collects data. Google Sheets stores it. Formulas summarize it. Your team can see the numbers in real time. This is already more than most businesses have. But soon you will hit a wall. Someone fills your feedback form. You want to send
Working on the Same Sheet at the Same Time
This is where Google Sheets becomes fundamentally different from Excel. In Excel, a file lives on someone's computer. If you want to work on it, you need a copy. If two people need to update it, one person works on it first, saves it, emails it to the
Five Formulas That Run Your Reports
You do not need to learn a hundred formulas. You need five. These five formulas will cover 90% of what you want to track. Total sales. Number of orders. Average deal size. Complaints by category. Performance by salesperson. All of it comes down to counting and adding, with or without
Your Reports Can Update Themselves
If you have been using Excel for years, this will feel strange at first. In Excel, you pull data from somewhere. You process it. You create a report. You email it to someone. Next week, you do the same thing again. And again. Every report is manual work. This is
How to Design Google Forms That Collect Clean Data
You know what data to collect. You know how to make collection stick. Now it's time to build the form. This post is not a step-by-step tutorial on creating Google Forms. There are hundreds of YouTube videos for that. Search "Google Forms tutorial for beginners" and
Part 2: How to Build Data Collection Habits That Stick
You've identified the problem. You've designed a simple form. You've explained why the data matters. People use it for a week. Then they forget. Then they stop. This is the real challenge. Why systems fail Data collection requires effort. Small effort, but effort nonetheless.
Part 1: How to Decide What Data is Worth Collecting
You understand why clean data matters. You know forms are better than spreadsheets. You're ready to start collecting data. But what data should you collect? The trap Businesses want to collect everything. Customer details, transaction history, employee activities, supplier performance, market trends. The list never ends. So they
Part 2: Why Spreadsheets Fail at Data Collection and What to Do About It
In Part 1, we talked about why data needs to be readable by programs, not just people. Now let's look at why the way most teams collect data is broken and how to fix it. Why spreadsheets fail at data collection Spreadsheets are flexible. That's their
Part 1: Why Data Collection is the Foundation for Building Successful Systems
You've organised your files. You've set up permissions. You can find anything in seconds. But none of that matters if the data inside those files is a mess. Most teams collect data. Few collect it in a way that's actually useful. This post is
