ORBT Labs
Operational software · Rancho Santa Margarita

Simple ops software in Rancho Santa Margarita.

Single-tenant operational software for Rancho Santa Margarita owner-led businesses — scheduling, client tracking, invoicing, a dashboard you read at a glance. Built for your operation, yours to keep.

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01 — Why this, here

Rancho Santa Margarita runs on family-service and professional shops outgrowing the spreadsheet.

Rancho Santa Margarita is a planned community of steady, family-facing businesses — wellness studios, family-service firms, light professional practices, and small tech operators around The Lake and Trabuco Highlands. The buyer base is loyal and local, the work is recurring, and the volume is the kind that builds quietly until the tools that started the business can't carry it anymore.

The story repeats across these shops: a scheduling sheet that grew a tab per service, intake on paper, billing in a second system, reminders sent by hand. None of it is dramatic and none of it is broken on any given day — but every week a little time leaks into retyping, reconciling, and remembering. The owner becomes the integration layer between four tools that don't talk.

The fix isn't a platform priced for a regional chain. It's a small single-tenant app that does the few things this business does daily — schedule, track, remind, invoice — and gets out of the way. Built once, owned by you, with no monthly license skimming 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 Rancho Santa Margarita.

A wellness studio near The Lake. Classes, private sessions, and a membership base split between a booking app and a card reader. We build an internal app: a 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.

A family-service business in Trabuco Highlands. Recurring appointments, repeat clients, and records spread across a calendar app and a billing sheet. We build a client app: a record with the full job and payment history, a schedule with conflict detection, and Stripe-backed invoicing that drafts from completed work. The owner stops keeping the operation in their head.

A light professional practice in the Robinson Ranch area. Client work, deliverable deadlines, and invoicing tracked across an inbox and a spreadsheet. We build an app: a client record with engagement and renewal dates, a simple project board, and monthly invoicing through Stripe that drafts from logged work. Deadlines stop slipping because the calendar finally has an owner.

04 — Honest scope

This is right if you run a real Rancho Santa Margarita 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 resell — that is a much bigger build, and we refer it out.

We're a San Diego studio; Rancho Santa Margarita is reachable in person inside about 75 minutes, and the build runs remote regardless. When it helps, we'll come sit in your shop 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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