ORBT Labs
Operational software · Fountain Valley

Simple ops software in Fountain Valley.

The internal software your Fountain Valley business runs on — scheduling, intake, invoicing, a dashboard you can read at a glance. Single-tenant, built for your operation, no monthly platform fee.

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01 — Why this, here

Fountain Valley runs on healthcare and family businesses tracking patients across three systems.

Fountain Valley is anchored by healthcare around the Mile Square corridor and by a deep bench of family businesses — many of them Vietnamese-American operations passed down and run hands-on. The wellness practices, the family-service firms, the retail that serves a tight-knit community. These are businesses with loyal, repeat customers and a lot of small recurring transactions, which is exactly the volume that overwhelms a spreadsheet without ever looking dramatic.

The familiar story: a practice or shop running scheduling in one tool, intake on paper, billing in QuickBooks, and reminders by hand. Each system is fine alone. The cost is in the gaps between them — the appointment that didn't make it into the billing system, the renewal nobody flagged, the front-desk hour spent retyping the same patient detail into a third screen.

The right answer is a small single-tenant app that closes those gaps for this specific business — schedule, intake, remind, invoice — and adds nothing else. Built once, owned outright, with no recurring license eating into thin margins.

02 — What we build

The minimum software that runs the business.

  • Single-tenant Next.js + Postgres build — no SaaS subscription forever.
  • The three to five features that actually move the needle, nothing more.
  • Stripe for payments, Resend for email, Clerk for auth — boring infrastructure that works.
  • Full source handoff. You own the repo. No vendor lock-in.
  • Handoff documentation a non-technical operator can read on a Saturday.
  • Hosted on Vercel + Neon — you control the accounts, we set them up.

From $14,000 · 4 to 10 weeks · Owner-operated.

03 — What this looks like

Three real shapes this takes in Fountain Valley.

A multi-provider healthcare practice near Mile Square. Several providers, a paper intake stack, and reminders the front desk dials between patients. We build a scheduling and intake app: provider calendars with conflict detection, a digital intake form patients complete ahead of time, automatic appointment reminders, and a daily front-desk view of who's coming and what's outstanding. The no-show rate falls because reminders no longer wait for a free minute.

A family-run service business serving the Little Saigon community. Bilingual customers, repeat work, and records spread across a notebook, a phone, and a billing sheet. We build a customer app: a record that holds the full job and payment history, a job schedule with conflict detection, and Stripe-backed invoicing that drafts from completed work. The owner stops keeping the whole operation in their head.

A wellness studio in the Westmont area. Classes, private sessions, and a membership base split between a booking app and a card reader. We build an internal app: class schedule with capacity and waitlists, member records with plan and visit history, recurring membership billing through Stripe, and automatic class reminders. The week's attendance and revenue sit on one screen.

04 — Honest scope

This is right if you run a real Fountain Valley business, you know the three to five workflows eating your week, and you want software you own instead of a stack of subscriptions. It is not right if you want a multi-tenant product to sell to other practices — that is a much bigger build, and we refer it out.

We're a San Diego studio; Fountain Valley is reachable in person inside about two hours, and the build runs remote regardless. When it helps, we'll come sit at your front desk for an hour — watching the real flow beats a requirements doc every time.

This page was drafted from a structured brief and hand-reviewed before launch. The work itself is custom, owner-operated, never templated.

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