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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.
[Venice & Marina del Rey, Los Angeles County]
Custom software for Venice & Marina del Rey
Venice and Marina del Rey mix founder-led consumer brands, creative studios and small hospitality businesses, many of them run by teams small enough that the founder is also the ops department. The goal there is usually simple: give the founder their evenings back.
Founder-led consumer brandsCreative studiosRestaurants and cafésBoutique retailMarine and charter services
[What slows businesses down in Venice & Marina del Rey]
The usual bottlenecks
- 01
The founder is the integration
Orders, customer emails and inventory updates all route through one person who copies between tools late at night.
- 02
Launch-day chaos
Drops and limited runs oversell, then refunds and apology emails are handled by hand.
- 03
No view of what is actually profitable
Revenue is in Shopify, costs are in QuickBooks and ad spend is elsewhere, so margin per product is a guess.
[Services in Venice & Marina del Rey]
Where to start
0063–8 weeks
E-commerce operations
The back office behind the storefront. Order routing, inventory across channels, wholesale, returns and getting it all into the books without a person in the middle.
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 →0011–2 weeksBusiness 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 →[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.
[Venice & Marina del Rey]
Questions
Do you work on-site in Venice & Marina del Rey?
Yes. Evenbuilt is based in Los Angeles, and Venice & Marina del Rey 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 Venice & Marina del Rey?
It usually starts with one of the problems above: the founder is the integration. 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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Based nearby. Let’s talk.
A 30-minute call, no charge. You will leave with a clearer picture of the problem whether or not we work together.
● Booking projects for Q4 2026