Selected work · 2025 · Field ops

BIGTOP.

The booking and quoting software MLC runs its day on. It ended the from-scratch spreadsheet: a quote that used to take an hour now takes a few minutes.

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The brief.

MLC rents carnival games and rides across Southern California. Every event started as a fresh spreadsheet: same fields, same math, typed again. The booking team lost hours a week to it, and each franchisee reselling locally had their own quote format. So we built BIGTOP.

What we built.

Reusable estimate templates. Common bundles (school fair, birthday, corporate event) become one-click starting points; the operator adjusts from there.
Quotes for the franchisees too. Each one sends a quote with their own name on it, priced off the same rules, so nothing inconsistent goes out the door.
One screen for the office. The calendar, what equipment is sitting where, and how each franchisee is doing.
Built with the people using it. The booking team gave notes every week. Nothing shipped that they couldn't pick up cold on a Tuesday.

Quick facts.

VerticalField ops · Franchise

Year2025

StackNext.js · Postgres

Used byMLC + franchisee team

StatusLive

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Now.

BIGTOP runs the booking floor now. What used to take an hour a quote takes a few minutes. Next: when someone asks for a quote from one of the city pages, it lands in BIGTOP already filled in.

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