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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.
[West Hollywood & Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County]
Custom software for West Hollywood & Beverly Hills
West Hollywood and Beverly Hills are dense with hospitality, beauty and fashion brands, talent and creative agencies, and professional firms. These are businesses where client experience is the product and back-office friction shows up directly in front of customers.
Beauty and fashion brandsRestaurants, bars and hotelsTalent and creative agenciesReal estateMedical and aesthetic practices
[What slows businesses down in West Hollywood & Beverly Hills]
The usual bottlenecks
- 01
Client intake repeated in every tool
The same client details are typed into a booking system, a CRM, an invoicing tool and an email list.
- 02
Commission and split calculations in spreadsheets
Agencies and brokerages calculate splits by hand each month, and every correction ripples through.
- 03
Loyalty and client history scattered
Front-of-house cannot see a client’s history because it lives in three systems.
[Services in West Hollywood & Beverly Hills]
Where to start
0053–8 weeks
System integrations
Connecting the systems that should already talk: one canonical record, typed adapters for each platform, and syncs you can replay when something breaks.
Learn more →0034–8 weeksInternal tools & dashboards
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 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.
[West Hollywood & Beverly Hills]
Questions
Do you work on-site in West Hollywood & Beverly Hills?
Yes. Evenbuilt is based in Los Angeles, and West Hollywood & Beverly Hills 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 West Hollywood & Beverly Hills?
It usually starts with one of the problems above: client intake repeated in every tool. 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.
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