Automation2 min read
What your manual work is really costing you
A simple way to put a dollar figure on the copying, pasting and re-typing your team does every week, and how to decide what to automate first.
[Burbank, Los Angeles County]
Burbank is one of the entertainment industry’s working capitals, home to major studios and the post-production houses, equipment rental companies, and vendors that orbit them. Much of that ecosystem still runs on a surprising amount of manual scheduling and paperwork.
[What slows businesses down in Burbank]
Gear availability, check-out and damage reports are tracked across a calendar, a spreadsheet and a clipboard.
Every bid starts from last job’s spreadsheet, with rates and fringes updated by hand.
Revisions and approvals live in email threads nobody can search at the end of a project.
[Services in Burbank]
The screen your team lives in all day. Built around how the work already happens rather than an idealised version of it, with the underlying data one click away.
Learn more →0026–12 weeksSoftware built around your business, not the other way round. Customer portals, operations platforms and internal systems, tailored to how your team really works, from a small business to a multi-location operation, and built to stay fast as you grow.
Learn more →0043–6 weeksRemoving the step someone repeats every day (the copy, the paste, the export, the Friday report) and making the system do it, with failures that page a human instead of passing quietly.
Learn more →[What happens after you email]
You describe what is slow. I ask where the time actually goes. If I am not the right fit, I say so on the call.
I map how the business runs, the tools and the manual steps between them, and put a time and dollar cost on each. You get a written plan whether or not we continue.
Fixed scope, weekly updates, working software early. You see it running on your own data before it is finished.
Documentation, a recorded walkthrough, and access to everything. Retainer support if you want it; not required.
[Burbank]
Yes. Evenbuilt is based in Los Angeles, and Burbank is within easy reach for on-site visits, useful for mapping a process where it actually happens. Day-to-day, most of the build is done remotely with a weekly written update.
It usually starts with one of the problems above: rental inventory and bookings. After a free call and a short audit, you get a fixed-price plan to remove it, typically delivered in three to eight weeks.
No. Most people arrive knowing what hurts, not what the fix is. The first call and the audit exist to work that out, and sometimes the answer is a setting in a tool you already pay for.
It depends on how many systems are involved, so every build is quoted as a fixed price in writing after the audit. The minimum engagement is $5,000; if your problem is smaller than that, ask anyway.
Often you should, and I will tell you. Custom work earns its place when the volume is high, the logic has exceptions, failures are expensive, or the per-task pricing has started to cost more than the build.
[Worth reading]
Automation2 min read
A simple way to put a dollar figure on the copying, pasting and re-typing your team does every week, and how to decide what to automate first.
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Spreadsheets get blamed for a lot of operational mess. The real issue is duplicate sources of truth, and fixing that does not always mean replacing the sheet.
A 30-minute call, no charge. You will leave with a clearer picture of the problem whether or not we work together.
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