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.
[Pasadena, Los Angeles County]
Pasadena combines research and engineering talent around Caltech and JPL with established financial, legal and architecture firms, a growing biotech presence, and the independent retail of Old Pasadena. The businesses tend to be precise, process-minded and poorly served by generic software.
[What slows businesses down in Pasadena]
Time is logged in one tool, projects managed in another, and invoices built by reconciling the two.
Onboarding means chasing forms and files, then filing them by hand.
Early-stage science teams track samples and results in sheets that do not scale with headcount.
[Services in Pasadena]
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 →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 →0053–8 weeksConnecting the systems that should already talk: one canonical record, typed adapters for each platform, and syncs you can replay when something breaks.
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.
[Pasadena]
Yes. Evenbuilt is based in Los Angeles, and Pasadena 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: project hours and billing out of step. 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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