Simple ops software in La Jolla.
A small, focused internal app for the practice, the studio, the office that runs the Village. Built once, owned by you, no per-seat fee climbing every quarter.
A small, focused internal app for the practice, the studio, the office that runs the Village. Built once, owned by you, no per-seat fee climbing every quarter.
Forty-seven thousand residents, a half-dozen of the highest-value zip codes in California, and a buyer base that expects discretion. The shops here are a medical aesthetics practice off Prospect Street, a boutique law firm above the Village, a private wealth office on Mt Soledad, a high-end retailer in Bird Rock. Small headcount, big invoices, long client relationships.
The off-the-shelf software for these verticals is designed for the average of ten thousand customers. You are not the average. You have eleven staff, three hundred active clients, and a workflow that includes Saturday house calls in Torrey Pines. Every quarter you pay a per-seat SaaS bill for features you'll never touch.
A single-tenant app shaped around the actual workflow. That is the move. Smaller surface area. No bloat. The client portal looks like your brand, not a stock template.
Five injectors, six treatment rooms, an aesthetician on the side. Bookings come through Instagram, the front desk, and three different referring dermatologists. The current setup is a hosted scheduling tool plus a separate CRM plus a paper consent form. We build one internal app: smart booking with provider-and-room conflict resolution, digital consent forms tied to each treatment, a follow-up reminder schedule, and a Stripe-backed payment plan module for package buyers. Front desk works one screen.
Eight attorneys, focused on estate planning and trust administration for clients with significant private wealth. Matter intake is a Word template emailed back and forth. Billing is in spreadsheets, exported to QuickBooks once a month. We build a matter intake portal, a time-entry app the attorneys actually use on mobile, and a monthly invoice draft that pulls from logged time. Trust account compliance stays where it lives; we don't touch it.
A four-person RIA with eighty households under management. The deliverable is a quarterly client review with portfolio commentary, planning updates, and household-specific reminders. The current process is a slide deck rebuilt by hand each quarter. We build an internal review composer that pulls account-level holdings, surfaces drift versus IPS, and renders the quarterly to a branded PDF. The advisor edits, signs, sends.
This fits if you run a small, high-touch business and you already know the three workflows that are costing you the most time. It is not a fit if you need HIPAA-regulated EHR, custodial RIA reporting, or anything that requires a specialty compliance certification. Those are bigger builds with bigger teams, and we'll say so.
10-minute drive from studio HQ. We can be at your office for a working session this week. Most clients prefer the first scoping meeting in person. It surfaces things a call won't.
One paragraph about your business is enough. Or just email hola@xala.studio.
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