What makes GSI so powerful and so effective can be easily realized by taking a cursory look at its integrated services. Currently GSI focuses on the construction sector even though its solutions clearly can be applied to any other sector. After years of being an entrepreneur, its founder summarized what he had gleaned from his business experiences - there are many entrepreneurs that have great ideas or are excellent at their chosen trade. Why did great ideas struggle to survive and why did some mediocre ideas flourish? What thwarted their success could generally be categorized into two main areas - poor business acumen and inadequate financing.

Analyzing and solving a business problem

There are many consultancy companies, but their mission is generally to ascertain what the problems are and to create a solution for the newly diagnosed problems. This step in finding any business solution is essential but what often happens is that the client company, newly diagnosed, cannot afford the help or it may not possess the business background or acumen to adequately follow the advice given. Often these client companies generally do not have the financing to pay for the help that is requisite for success. To add insult to injury, most of these client companies also are unable to garner the information technology acumen that would dictate productivity solutions to decrease the company's need for skilled personnel. Small companies found themselves trying to do it all - work at providing their services during the day while administering at night. How long can anyone burn a candle at both ends?

Developing "critical mass"- that special combination of personnel, circumstance, and financial prowess that creates a self-sustaining chain reaction- was elusive. Even if providing service was possible and doing some administration after work was possible, how could an entrepreneur take his/her business to the next level? How could they focus on their chosen product or services and focus on administration and focus on financing? How could they play with the "big boys?" Even with special programs, such as those developed to help small and disadvantage business, how could these companies compete with little or no access to capital? GSI was born!

Larger client companies might seem to have what it takes to be successful but often those that do make it are those companies who were flexible and proactive during their growth spurts. Others are not so fortunate. Some companies do a great job when smaller but the larger they become, business procedures that once worked seem to break down, causing fiscal hemorrhaging. Money gets tighter and tighter and the company plateaus! This is a similar but distinctly different problem than that which plagues the small startup. GSI was re-tooled!

Applying the solution

GSI solves all of these business problems by providing a custom-tailored series of related products and services to the entrepreneur.

• Problem solving through expert business consultancy. First GSI provides expert consultancy services at a fraction of the cost and time by performing its proprietary Functional Analysis (FA). GSI can do this because its income stream does not originate from this sole source. GSI's experts understand business problems and use consultants with a plethora of business experiences. They use proprietary methods to diagnose business problems in a fraction of the time, saving their clients thousands of dollars while making the same services affordable for smaller companies. GSI does not have to drag out solutions in order to justify a large fee since its income is multi-dimensional. Once a solution is realized, GSI tailors its services to the need of the company.
• Expert administrative outsourcing that is reasonable and affordable. GSI employs the latest information technologies to decrease the cost while increasing productivity for its clients. GSI provides the best trained accountants, bookkeepers, administrative assistants, and business professionals through high speed data lines and scheduled access.
• Executive management supplementation that is unique to any industry. For those needed executive management assistance, GSI uses high speed data lines and other computer assisted solutions to provide hierarchal executive management services. GSI experts actually take on "out-sourced" executive management functions to assist its clients in focusing on Line of Business (LoB) tasks.
• Its own contract financing to make any solution possible without pristine credit. GSI knows that no matter how accomplished an entrepreneur is and no matter how innovative or skilled an entrepreneur is, great ideas without adequate financing means death of a vision. GSI has its own source of funds that it uses to finance client contracts. Banks are often excluded from participating with small clients who do not possess the adequate credit, capital, or collateral. Although worthy of help, banks are often precluded from helping such businesses. The business sector of construction is typical of this problem. Although the source of payments and income might be AAA, this money cannot move until work is performed. The bank is not in the construction business so the contract cannot be used as collateral. GSI does not have this problem. It has married money with need while providing the structure that protects the money. GSI finances its clients without the demand of good credit or adequate collateral. GSI can fund in a matter of hours rather than weeks!

Intellectual property and trade secrets

The services that GSI provides are special but they are not unique. What makes the GSI approach so successful is a special combination and method developed by one of its founders who has a strong background in information technology. GSI has not chosen to go the route of patents so it has chosen to trade secret its proprietary methods. These methods have been developed over the last thirty years and are the brain-child of its principal founder, Eric L. Douglass, Sr.