A fixed-price look at the paperwork sitting between your finished work and your paid invoice. Two weeks, one document, ranked fixes with numbers on them. Cypress is two hours from the studio, and we make the trip.
North Orange County runs on suppliers. Machine shops and light industrial operations along the Lincoln Avenue corridor, aerospace subcontractors, warehousing and freight companies moving other people's product, and the family retail and service businesses that grew up around all of it. The customers are large and the paperwork those customers require is larger.
A part can be finished on Tuesday and still not ship until Thursday, because a certificate, a packing document or a signature is being chased. Purchase orders arrive as PDFs and get typed into a system by hand. Job status lives on a traveler that walks the floor with the work, so answering a customer means going to find a piece of paper. None of that is a machining problem.
The audit follows one order from the customer's purchase order to the invoice getting paid, and marks every point where the part waited on a document. Then it prices the fixes: reading a PO once instead of typing it, a status your customer can see, quality records somebody can search. A few of those are worth building this year, a few are worth ignoring, and the document tells you which is which.
A precision shop with fifteen on the floor. Customer purchase orders arrive in a dozen formats, and one person enters every one of them into the job system. The audit counts the hours, prices an intake that reads them, and checks the current error rate before recommending anything at all.
A warehousing and freight operation. Rate quotes get rebuilt in a spreadsheet for every request, and the person who knows the pricing is also the person running the company. We follow a month of quotes and price a first draft the team could send without waiting on the owner. The pricing logic is usually simpler than the owner believes it is.
A family retailer near Cypress College. The same questions about stock, hours and special orders arrive by phone, text and Instagram, and get answered from memory by whoever picks up. The audit counts them and prices one answer source, which often costs less than a month of the time it gives back.
We take on established businesses with real operations, roughly five to fifty people, where the owner can still explain how work moves through the building. Cypress sits at the far edge of our range and we plan around it: a day on site, the rest handled remotely, travel included.
One and two person businesses do not need us yet, and we tell them so instead of taking the money. ChatGPT Plus, a scheduler and a good template covers that stage well. The audit earns its price on repetition, and repetition takes volume.
The price is $1,500, fixed before we start, covering about two weeks of work that ends in one document and a live walkthrough. You are not obligated to build anything in it. If you decide to, larger builds run $6,000 to $15,000, and we will say so when a fix is small enough that your current vendor should handle it.
This page was drafted from a structured outline and hand-reviewed before launch. The work itself is custom, owner-operated, never templated.
One paragraph about your business is enough. Or just email hola@xala.studio.