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Project, approval and billing software for Worli’s offices, studios and restaurants.

Worli has corporate offices on Dr Annie Besant Road, agencies and studios near the mill compounds, and restaurants along the sea face. Many run on spreadsheets and email approvals. GullySystem provides project tracking, approvals, billing and reporting software for them, with each office met by video from Bengaluru.

At a glance

Worli is primarily an office address. Finance, consumer goods and media companies sit along Dr Annie Besant Road and around Worli Naka, with agencies and studios extending across from Lower Parel and Prabhadevi.

Many smaller businesses serve those offices, such as agencies, events firms and restaurants adding a second outlet, and their work runs on retainers, purchase orders and reimbursements. These move by email and are invoiced after the work is done. Billing trails the work.

Around Worli

Where the businesses are in Worli, and what they run on.

Dr Annie Besant Road

Corporate offices, finance firms and media companies. The software they ask for is internal, and the usual starting points are approvals, expense claims and the weekly report assembled in Excel. Reports are compiled by hand.

Worli Naka and the Mahalaxmi side

Smaller offices, printers, and uniform and gifting suppliers working for the towers around them. Their trade runs on purchase orders. Payment against those orders is tracked separately from the orders themselves, in a different sheet or book.

Worli Sea Face and Worli village

Restaurants, cafes and central kitchens, alongside the older koliwada community. Table bookings, delivery platforms and stock counts are handled on three separate screens, although a single kitchen feeds all three of them. Numbers are combined by hand.

Prabhadevi and the Dadar edge

Studios, edit rooms and photographers working for brands and agencies. Each job involves shoot dates, freelancers and a payment that is settled only after delivery. Records sit in messages.

The mill compounds towards Lower Parel

Advertising, digital and design firms in converted mills. Time spent on each client is often written on paper, or not recorded at all, so the profitability of each retainer is hard to see.

How software gets chosen

How Worli businesses pick and use software.

Decisions in Worli often sit with a founder or a department head who has used business software before, and they compare new work with the tools they already pay for. Integrations are a common first question.

Campaigns, menus and client lists change each quarter, so rigid systems are hard to keep in use. GullySystem keeps a first version small and builds further once the team has used it, so feedback shapes each addition and unused features are not built. Small steps suit the pace.

GullySystem works from Bengaluru. Builds run on video calls, shared screens and WhatsApp, and visits to Worli can be arranged for a changeover or a training session.

Where it breaks

Where Worli businesses lose time and money.

Retainer work exceeds the hours billed

Extra rounds and small favours are not counted against the retainer, so renewal talks start without the figures. Nobody has the numbers. Logging hours against each retainer, even roughly, shows which clients to renegotiate at renewal and which to keep as they are.

Approvals wait in one inbox

A purchase order or an expense claim moves by email, and it stops the moment the approver is travelling or away. Requests queue up unseen. An approval queue with reminders and a stand-in approver keeps each request moving, and it shows managers what is waiting.

Restaurant sales sit in three places

Counter sales are in the billing system, delivery orders in platform dashboards and purchases in a book kept by the manager. Combining them takes a manual pass. Consolidating all three each night gives the owner one figure by morning, without waiting for anyone to add them up.

Freelancer payments are disputed each month

Shoot days, edits and extra hours are agreed on set or on WhatsApp, and each side remembers them differently later. Bills take a call to settle. A job sheet that the freelancer confirms when the shoot ends settles the bill without a call, and it becomes the payment record.

How it works

How the work runs from Bengaluru for Worli.

  1. 1

    The audit, by call

    A screen-share and a look at the sheets, accounting reports and WhatsApp groups your team uses. No travel needed.

  2. 2

    A written proposal

    Scope, what we build first and the cost, agreed in writing before anything starts.

  3. 3

    Build in short rounds

    Working screens shared every few weeks. Your team tests them from your own office.

  4. 4

    Go-live, in person when it helps

    For data migration and training we can come to Worli. Travel is agreed in advance.

  5. 5

    Support online

    Fixes, changes and hosting handled remotely by the same team that built it.

Common questions

Questions Worli owners ask before they call.

Will this add another login to the tools we already pay for?

It depends on the tools you use today. GullySystem connects to them where it can, so leads, files and invoices stay where your team looks for them. We list the tools you pay for and what each is used for, and a new screen is built only where existing tools fall short.

Can delivery platform sales and counter sales appear in one report?

Yes, as far as the platforms allow. Some provide a daily file, some offer an API, and for the rest a person uploads a report once a day. The owner then opens one screen instead of four.

What happens after I share my requirements?

An engineer reads what you send and replies within one business day. We then look at the software, spreadsheets and WhatsApp groups your business runs on today and write down what works, what slows your team down and what is missing. A demo login, a screen-share or a few screenshots are enough. You get a short written summary ordered by priority, with no obligation to hire us afterwards.

How much will the software cost?

We don’t publish a price, because it depends on what the system has to do. That first review settles the scope, and the cost goes into a written proposal before any work starts.

Talk to us

Tell us what your Worli business runs on today.

Send a short note on the spreadsheets, software or WhatsApp groups your team depends on. We reply the same working day.

What happens after you share your requirements

  1. A senior engineer reads your answers. Nobody phones first.
  2. Within one business day you get a written note: what we understood, what we would start with, and the questions we still have.
  3. If it fits, a proposal follows with the order of work, what we need from you and what you receive at each step.
  4. No call is booked and nothing is paid until you have read the note. Your details stay with us.

Start with your requirements

Seven short steps that tell us what you need. A senior engineer reads them before anyone gets in touch.

Share your requirements