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Built on GoHighLevel and backed by 12+ years of helping service-based businesses scale.
If your business were a building, right now it'd have leaks in five places, three different contractors arguing about who's responsible, and a leak you keep meaning to fix in the bathroom. From the outside it looks fine. Behind the scenes you're exhausted.
You've probably got:
A funnel builder that doesn't sync with your CRM
An email tool that lives in its own world
A booking system that emails you but not the client
Spreadsheets, Notion docs, and post-it notes filling the gaps
Leads slipping through cracks you didn't even know were there
And every workaround you build adds another thing to remember.
Your business shouldn't be harder to run than the work you actually do for clients.

Umbrella Systems brings your funnels, emails, automations, CRM, bookings, and payments under one roof. But the platform is only half of it. The other half is the strategy and build work that makes it actually fit your business.
Inside Umbrella Systems you can:

Capture leads from your website, social, or anywhere else and follow them up automatically.

Run email and SMS campaigns that nurture without you having to think about it

Manage every client conversation, booking, and payment in one place

Build landing pages, sales funnels, and full client journeys without stitching tools together

Deliver courses, memberships, and post-sale onboarding that actually keep clients engaged

See exactly where every lead and client sits in your pipeline at a glance
No patching things together. No juggling subscriptions. No "I'll figure it out later."
Plenty of people will sell you access to GoHighLevel and a folder full of templates. The problem? Templates don't know your offer, your audience, or how your clients actually move from interest to purchase to long-term retention.
Umbrella Systems is different in three specific ways:

Before we automate anything, we map your customer journey end-to-end from how leads find you through to how clients are looked after after they've paid.
Automation without strategy just creates faster noise.

Whether you want the platform set up properly once, a full funnel and automation build, or a complete launch ecosystem, there's a tier that matches where you are.
You're not left in a dashboard wondering where to start.

Most platforms stop at "book a call." We build for what comes after:
onboarding,
course delivery, retention,
referrals.
We do this because that's where your business actually scales.
Whether you've got the time and confidence to set it up yourself or you want us to do the strategic and technical heavy lifting, there's a fit. Every option includes the platform; the only difference is how much we build alongside you.
$149/m + gst
For business owners who are confident enough to set things up themselves but want one connected system instead of ten disconnected ones.
What's included:
Full access to the Umbrella Systems platform
Funnels, websites, emails, automations, CRM, bookings, payments
Pre-built templates to get started
Self-serve onboarding guidance and tutorials
Ongoing platform updates and improvements
No contracts - cancel anytime
$1500 one off plus $149/m + gst
For business owners who want the platform configured properly from day one.
What's included:
Strategy session to map your offer, audience, and customer journey
Full platform setup configured to your business
Branding applied
Core CRM structure, pipelines, and tags built for how you actually sell
One core automation built
90-minute walkthrough so you can run it confidently
30 days of post-setup support
No contracts - cancel anytime
$4,500 + GST one-off, plus $149/month + gst
For business owners who know what they want to build but need an experienced hand on the tech and strategy.
What's included
Everything in Launch Pad
Full customer journey mapping
One full funnel build
Email nurture sequence created
Up to 3 core automations
Payment integration and invoice automation
Working sessions across 4–6 weeks so you learn the system as we build
60 days of post-build support
No contracts - cancel anytime
I'm the person businesses call when their tech feels like a hot mess. Too many tools, things not talking to each other, leads falling through cracks, and a quiet voice in the back of your head saying "this should be easier."
I started JVB Connect in 2014 after watching too many brilliant business owners stay stuck — not because they weren't good at what they do, but because the tech behind the scenes was working against them.
Since then I've built courses, mapped client journeys, set up automations that run while my clients sleep, and helped service-based businesses go from duct-tape and overwhelm to systems that actually support how they want to grow.
Umbrella Systems is the next evolution of that work — a smarter, simpler way to run your business, with a real human behind it instead of a help desk in another time zone.

Quick answers
Umbrella Systems runs on GoHighLevel which is the same platform used by 100,000+ businesses globally. The difference is what we wrap around it: strategy, a proper build, and someone who actually knows your business when you call. The platform is the tool. We're the people who make the tool useful.
No. The whole point is that you don't have to be. If you're on the $149/month plan you'll get onboarding guidance and templates. If you want it built for you, that's exactly what the higher tiers do.
Yes. Plenty of clients start with a build package, then move to the $149/month subscription once everything's running. Others start with the platform and bring us in when they're ready to scale.
Setup packages take 2–3 weeks. Done-with-you builds are usually 4–6 weeks. Full launches run 8–12 weeks depending on scope. You'll get a clear timeline before we start anything.
We have a Migration Package precisely for you. We'll move you across without losing data, downtime, or your sanity.
Book a free 30-minute discovery call and we'll talk through what's working, what's not, and what the right fit looks like for where you're at right now.

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