We built the operator, not another app to babysit.
Clippers Base runs a mobile groomer’s day. The bookings, the texts, the invoices, the GST, the chasing. All the stuff that happens between the dogs.
The invisible one who handles the admin, so you can focus on the animal in front of you.
- Made in Sydney
- Founder-led
- Offline-first
Six things we won’t be talked out of.
Not values on a poster. These are the calls we’ve already made, and the ones we’ll keep making when it’s inconvenient.
Your money never touches us.
You connect your own Stripe. Cards tap on your phone, cash lands in your pocket, and the dollars go straight to your account. We take nothing and add nothing. That's structural, not a promise.
Texts come from your number.
Confirmations, reminders and running-late messages go from your own verified mobile. When a client replies it lands on your phone, not in our inbox.
The AI is kept on a short leash.
It writes the morning brief and little else. Every dollar, count and date is computed the boring way first, then handed over as fact. And nothing you put in — voice notes, transcripts, client history — is ever used to train a model. We pay our providers for that guarantee.
It has to work in a dead zone.
Between driveways the signal drops. Reads come from the phone, writes queue and sync when a tower shows up. An invoice you write in a valley is still an invoice.
GST and BAS from day one.
Prices are tax-inclusive because that's how groomers think. The 1/11th is extracted for you, the invoice is titled correctly, and the quarter is ready without a spreadsheet.
You can leave with everything.
Your clients, your bookings, your invoices — export the lot any time, in a format a spreadsheet can open. Leaving should be as easy as arriving, or the rest of this list means nothing.
And one we keep saying no to
Multi-van fleet management. Yet.
One van, one pair of hands, first. Small teams are in. Fleet management would pull the product away from the person actually holding the dog.
Most groomers spend more time on the admin than on the dogs.
Picture it. One van, one pair of hands, five to seven driveways between now and dark. The route was planned in your head at breakfast and it’s already wrong.
6:45 am
The route
Five to seven stops, planned at breakfast. Already wrong.
7:02 am
The text
One client cancels. One forgot to mention the dog hates clippers.
9:10 am
The invoice
Was that $110 inc GST or plus? Did they pay last time, or say they would?
12:30 pm
The chase
Last fortnight's owed money, still in a notes app somewhere.
4:40 pm
The quiet ones
Which regulars quietly stopped booking? Nobody's counting.
“The enemy is admin overhead, not competitors. Every feature gets one question: does it reduce the admin burden for the groomer? If yes, build it. If not, question it.”
I didn’t want to build software for groomers. I wanted to get rid of the bit they hate.
Clippers Base started in Sydney with a small team and one friend who runs a grooming trailer. She was good at the dogs and drowning in everything else. Confirmations at 10pm, a notes app for who owed what, a BAS quarter that ate a weekend.
So we didn’t start with a feature list. We started with her Tuesday, and built the thing that would have made it quieter. Every release since has passed the same test: less admin, or it doesn’t ship.
If you’re a solo groomer in Australia, this was built with you at the table. If it’s ever not doing that, tell me directly.
Ayush
Founder · Sydney
Photo · founder with a kelpie
The first 100 groomers lock in the best price we’ll ever offer.
We’re launching through a waitlist. Join it, and if you’re in the first hundred to sign up, your price is locked for your first two years. No catch, and no card until you’re in.
100
Spots · price locked 2 years
Solo & Assistant tiers
No spam. One email when we launch, one when your spot is ready.