A fixed-price look at what your business would gain from AI or software, with the hours attached. Two weeks, one document, three to five ranked fixes and a plan for the next ninety days. We travel up for it.
Garden Grove holds several economies at once. Hotels and restaurants serving visitors on their way somewhere else, the Korean American business corridor, family retail in the historic downtown, and a quiet base of small manufacturers on the west side. What they share is who makes the decisions: one person, usually the owner, often the founder.
The studio is in San Diego and Garden Grove is about a two hour drive, which we make rather than run this over video. Plenty of owners here have been pitched by people who never saw the floor, and an audit written from a conference room misses the parts that cost you money. Travel is included in the price.
The bottleneck looks the same in all four of those businesses. Every price, every exception, every unhappy customer and every unusual order lands on the owner, because nobody ever wrote down what the answer is supposed to be. The audit follows a week of those decisions, separates the ones that need judgment from the ones that only ever needed a written rule, and prices the difference.
A hotel in the visitor corridor. Rate and group questions arrive by phone, email and booking sites, and the front desk answers each one from memory. The audit counts the questions across a real week, prices one answer source the whole desk can use, and flags what still has to reach a manager.
A family restaurant with a second location. The owner approves every schedule change, every supply order and every refund from their phone, seven days a week. We follow a week of those approvals and sort the ones that need the owner from the ones that need a rule written down once.
A small manufacturer on the west side. Job status lives on a clipboard, so customers call to ask where their order is and somebody walks the floor to find out. The audit prices what it would take to answer that question from a desk, and says whether the order volume justifies it.
The audit fits companies of roughly five to fifty people with staff and real operations. The owner has to be willing to let us talk to the people doing the work, because that is where the hours hide.
If you are one or two people, you do not need us yet. The honest recommendation at that size is ChatGPT Plus, a scheduler and a template worth keeping, and we would rather say it now than after you have paid.
The audit is $1,500, fixed, and takes about two weeks. It ends with a walkthrough in plain language: what you run today, three to five fixes ranked with hours and build costs, what to leave alone, and the order to do them in. Nothing obligates you to build any of it with us.
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.