Work With Us

Software and automation for local businesses.

We're a small team that likes working with other small teams. Cafés, salons, contractors, studios, clinics, family shops — the kind of business where the owner still knows every customer's name. We build software that fits how your business actually runs, and we wire up the boring parts so you can stop copying things between tools at 9pm.

If you're a Fortune 500, we're probably not your best fit. If you're a mom-and-pop shop, we'd love to talk.

Business process automation

Most small businesses we meet have a handful of jobs that eat hours every week — copying orders into QuickBooks, chasing Google reviews by hand, texting appointment reminders one at a time, re-posting the same update to five different feeds. None of it is hard. All of it adds up.

We take a look at where the time is leaking and quietly plumb those jobs together so they run on their own. A few of the things we can set up:

  • Never miss a lead. New form submissions, voicemails, or inbox inquiries land on your phone in seconds, with the full context attached.
  • More 5-star reviews, on autopilot. After every appointment or sale, customers get a friendly text or email asking for a Google review at the moment they're most likely to say yes.
  • Fewer no-shows. Reminders and easy reschedule links go out the day before, without anyone having to remember to send them.
  • Books that reconcile themselves. Sales from your POS, Square, or Stripe flow straight into QuickBooks — no end-of-month data entry marathons.
  • Inventory that reorders itself. Low-stock alerts and supplier order drafts the moment you dip below a threshold you set.
  • Post once, post everywhere. Your next menu change, sale, or announcement goes out to Google, Instagram, Facebook, and your email list from a single place.
  • Paperwork that files itself. Receipts, contracts, and signed forms get named, tagged, and dropped in the right folder — searchable the next time you need them.
  • Customer handoffs without the back-and-forth. Intake forms, welcome sequences, and follow-up check-ins run on rails so you can focus on the work itself.

How it works: a free twenty-minute conversation, a look at where time is leaking, and a proposal for the two or three changes with the biggest payback. No long contracts, no big-bang rollouts. We start small, and we build outward from what's working.

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Custom app development

Websites, internal tools, customer-facing apps, little SaaS experiments, the one odd thing you've been wishing existed for years. We've built across most of the stack and most of the industries, and we're happiest when we're solving a specific problem for a specific person rather than building platforms for imaginary users.

We start with a conversation about what you actually need. Sometimes that's a new app. Sometimes it's a weekend of work on something you already have. We'll tell you honestly which one it is.

A few things we've built: our products page, asyncplanningpoker.com, and shuffl.fm.

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Who this is for

We work best with owner-operators, local service businesses, and small teams of under about fifty people. If you're a two-person bakery, a four-chair salon, or a family contracting outfit where everyone still wears a lot of hats — that's our happy place.

We don't do enterprise process automation. No SOC 2 rollouts, no SAP migrations, no procurement portals. Plenty of good firms do that work; we're not one of them.

Tell us about it

A few lines is enough to get started. We usually reply within a day or two.

Prefer email? owen@sometimesomeplace.com