ORBT Labs
Operational software · Mission Viejo

Simple ops software in Mission Viejo.

The internal software your Mission Viejo business actually runs on — bookings, invoicing, the dashboard you read on Monday. Single-tenant, built around your operation, no monthly platform fee.

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01 — Why this, here

Mission Viejo runs on family practices and service businesses doing real volume on a spreadsheet.

This is a master-planned town built around families — pediatric and family healthcare, the wellness studios near The Lake, tutoring and enrichment, the retail and service businesses that serve a stable suburban base. These are not startups. They're steady operations with steady volume, and that's exactly the kind of business a spreadsheet outgrows quietly.

The pattern is familiar. A scheduling sheet that started simple now has a tab per provider and a color code only the front desk understands. Intake on paper, billing in a second system, reminders sent by hand. It works until the day someone is out sick and nobody else can read the file. Volume doesn't break the spreadsheet all at once; it breaks it one missed appointment at a time.

The answer isn't a clinical platform priced for a hospital. It's a small single-tenant app that does the few things this practice does every day — book, remind, intake, invoice — and nothing it doesn't. Built once, owned by you, no recurring license eating the margin.

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 Mission Viejo.

A family wellness studio near The Lake. Classes, private sessions, and a membership base, all juggled between a booking app, a card reader, and a sign-in clipboard. We build an internal app: a class schedule with capacity and waitlists, member records with plan and visit history, Stripe-backed recurring membership billing, and an automatic class-reminder email. The owner sees attendance and revenue for the week on one screen instead of three.

A pediatric and family healthcare practice. Multiple providers, a paper intake stack, and reminders the front desk dials by hand between patients. We build a scheduling and intake app: provider calendars with conflict detection, a digital intake form patients complete before they arrive, automatic appointment reminders, and a daily front-desk view of who's coming and what's outstanding. The no-show rate drops because the reminders stop depending on a free minute.

A tutoring and enrichment center. Dozens of students, rotating instructors, and a billing spreadsheet reconciled every Sunday night. We build a roster app: student records with assigned instructor and session plan, a schedule that catches double-bookings, and monthly tuition invoicing through Stripe that drafts from logged sessions. The Sunday reconciliation disappears.

04 — Honest scope

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

We're a San Diego studio; Mission Viejo is reachable in person inside about 75 minutes, and most of the work runs remote either way. When it helps, we'll come sit at your front desk for an hour — watching the floor 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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