Single-tenant operational software for Cypress owner-led businesses — job tracking, scheduling, invoicing, a dashboard that shows where the week stands. Built around your operation, yours to keep.
Cypress sits in the aerospace and light-industrial belt of north Orange County — the precision suppliers, the logistics and distribution operations, the family retail and trades businesses that grew up around them along Lincoln and Walker. These are operations where a job has a clear lifecycle and real money rides on hitting a date. That's the profile of a business that has outgrown its spreadsheet but tells itself it's fine because the spreadsheet still opens.
The shape of the problem is consistent. Purchase orders come in by email. A whiteboard tracks what's on the floor. QuickBooks gets the invoice after the fact, and someone reconciles the gap by hand. When a job is late, you find out from the customer, not the system. The information exists — it's just scattered across people and surfaces that don't talk.
The fix isn't an ERP priced for a defense prime. It's a small single-tenant app that models exactly how a job moves through this shop — PO in, stages, ship, invoice — and stops there. Built once, on a stack you own, with no annual license compounding in the background.
An aerospace machine shop off Walker. POs arrive by email, jobs live on a whiteboard, and invoicing happens from a spreadsheet after delivery. Nobody can say what's at risk until it's late. We build a job-tracking app: a PO intake that opens the job, a board that moves it through quote, machining, inspection, and ship with due dates, and Stripe-backed invoicing that drafts from the completed job. The owner sees the whole floor on one screen.
A logistics and light-distribution operation near Lincoln Avenue. Inbound and outbound tracked across a clipboard, a phone, and a billing sheet. We build an internal app: a shipment record with status and customer, a daily dock view, and invoicing that drafts from logged movements through Stripe. The handoff between the dock and the office stops dropping line items.
A family trades business serving the Cypress College area. Estimates on paper, schedule in a phone calendar, payments collected on site. We build a job app: an estimate-to-invoice flow, a crew schedule with conflict detection, and a customer record holding the full history. The crew stops rebuilding the same estimate from scratch every time.
This is right if you run a real Cypress shop, you can name the three to five workflows costing you hours every week, and you want software you own instead of an annual SaaS contract. It is not right if you want a multi-tenant platform to resell — that is a bigger build, and we refer it out.
We're a San Diego studio; Cypress is reachable in person inside about two hours, and the build runs remote regardless. When it matters, we'll come walk the floor for an hour — that beats a six-page spec every time.
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