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.
[Glendale, Los Angeles County]
Glendale is a major commercial centre in its own right, with corporate headquarters, animation and entertainment companies, healthcare systems, and a big retail and restaurant scene around Brand Boulevard. It is also home to many family-owned businesses that have grown past the tools they started with.
[What slows businesses down in Glendale]
Each location has its own POS or scheduling data, and the owner combines them by hand every week.
Schedules are built from gut feel because sales and labour data never meet.
Forms are filled in on paper or PDF and entered into a practice or CRM system later.
[Services in Glendale]
Removing 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 →0034–8 weeksThe 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 →0011–2 weeksWhere every project starts. I look at how the work actually gets done, what you pay for, and where time and money leak out, then hand you a costed plan ranked by what saves the most, fastest.
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.
[Glendale]
Yes. Evenbuilt is based in Los Angeles, and Glendale 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: multi-location reporting. 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]
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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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