ORBT Labs
Operational software · Murrieta

Simple ops software in Murrieta.

Single-tenant operational software for Murrieta owner-led businesses — scheduling, jobs, invoicing, a dashboard that shows where the week stands. Built around your operation, yours to keep.

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01 — Why this, here

Murrieta runs on family healthcare and trades businesses scaling on a spreadsheet.

Murrieta is a growing family town — healthcare and family-service practices, the trades and home-service businesses that serve a fast-expanding base around California Oaks and Greer Ranch, and the retail and real estate that follow rooftops. These are businesses riding real growth, and growth is exactly what exposes a spreadsheet. The volume that felt manageable last year is now a daily scramble, and the tools haven't kept up.

The pattern is consistent. Appointments or jobs booked by phone and text, tracked on a calendar app, billed from a spreadsheet, reminded by hand. It runs on the owner's attention. As the book grows, the misses grow with it — the appointment that didn't make it onto the calendar, the job that wasn't invoiced, the customer who never got a reminder and didn't show. Growth without a system just multiplies the cracks.

The fix isn't a SaaS contract priced for a regional operator. It's a small single-tenant app that captures the few things this business does all day — book, schedule, invoice, remind — and scales with you. Built once, owned outright, no monthly 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 Murrieta.

A family healthcare practice near California Oaks. Growing patient base, paper intake, 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 as the practice grows.

A home-service and trades business serving Greer Ranch. Estimates on paper, schedule in a phone calendar, payments collected at the job. 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 owner stops rebuilding the same estimate every time and starts pulling it from the last one.

A family-service business in Historic Downtown. Recurring appointments, repeat clients, and records spread across a calendar and a billing sheet. We build a client app: a record with the full job and payment history, a schedule that catches double-bookings, and Stripe-backed invoicing that drafts from completed work. The Sunday reconciliation disappears.

04 — Honest scope

This is right if you run a real Murrieta business, you know the three to five workflows eating your week, and you want software you own instead of a SaaS contract that bills forever. It is not right if you want a multi-tenant product to resell — that is a much bigger build, and we refer it out.

We're a San Diego studio; Murrieta is reachable in person inside about 80 minutes, and the build runs remote regardless. When it matters, we'll come sit in your shop or front office for an hour — that beats a six-page spec 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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