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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.
[Los Angeles, Los Angeles County]
Custom software for Los Angeles
Los Angeles runs on small and mid-sized businesses: brands, wholesalers, studios, restaurants, clinics and agencies, most of them stitched together with more software than anyone planned. Evenbuilt is based here, which means on-site visits when a process lives on a shop floor, and a working day that lines up with yours.
DTC and apparel brandsWholesale and distributionMedia and productionHospitalityProfessional services
[What slows businesses down in Los Angeles]
The usual bottlenecks
- 01
Too many tools, no single record
Growth added a new subscription for every new problem. Now customer, order and inventory data live in four places that disagree.
- 02
The spreadsheet that became the system
A shared sheet started as a stopgap and now the business depends on it, along with the one person who understands it.
- 03
Reporting by hand
Weekly numbers are assembled from exports, arrive late, and get argued about instead of acted on.
[Services in Los Angeles]
Where to start
0011–2 weeks
Business audit
Where 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 →0026–12 weeksCustom web applications
Software 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 weeksProcess automation
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 →[Works with the tools you already pay for]
All integrations →- Shopify
- BigCommerce
- Square
- Etsy
- Squarespace
- Webflow
- QuickBooks
- Xero
- Stripe
- Gusto
- Expensify
- Google Sheets
- Airtable
- Notion
- UPS
- USPS
- FedEx
- DHL
- HubSpot
- Mailchimp
- Zendesk
- Intercom
- Meta
- TikTok
- Google Analytics
- Calendly
- Gmail
- Google Drive
- Dropbox
- Asana
- ClickUp
- Linear
- Zoho
- Zapier
- Make
- n8n
- Retool
- PostgreSQL
- Supabase
- Vercel
- Cloudflare
- Resend
- Sentry
- GitHub
[What happens after you email]
How it works
- 0130 min, free
Call
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.
- 021–2 weeks
Audit
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.
- 033–12 weeks
Build
Fixed scope, weekly updates, working software early. You see it running on your own data before it is finished.
- 04Ongoing, optional
Hand over
Documentation, a recorded walkthrough, and access to everything. Retainer support if you want it; not required.
[Los Angeles]
Questions
Do you work on-site in Los Angeles?
Yes. Evenbuilt is based in Los Angeles, and Los Angeles 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.
What does a typical project look like for a business in Los Angeles?
It usually starts with one of the problems above: too many tools, no single record. After a free call and a short audit, you get a fixed-price plan to remove it, typically delivered in three to eight weeks.
Do I need to know what I want built?
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.
How much does a project cost?
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.
Why not just use Zapier or Make?
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.
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