We build one system that runs your whole operation, hand you the source, and price it before we begin. For firms of 10 to 50 people. Based in Los Angeles. Serving anywhere.
A twenty-person firm now runs on eight or ten subscriptions that don’t agree with each other. The CRM says one number, the books say another, and somebody spends Friday finding out which is right. Every one of those products has you adapting your process to its features, paying by the seat, and getting your own data back through an export screen. Stop making sacrifices for software that sees you as a customer.
We build the fitted system at a size and price for firms of 10 to 50 people: one platform for the whole operation, configured to how you already work, live in weeks — and yours when we leave. The source code, a perpetual license, nothing that switches off. Nobody wants to be dependent on independents.
For all implementations, we aim to provide 5–10x ROI within 12 months. Below are specifics on the types of organizations we serve, and how those engagements are priced.
An accounting app, a starter CRM, a scheduling tool, and a spreadsheet per department. Productized software runs each task well enough; nothing runs the business. One person knows how it all fits together.
Tear it down. At this size there is rarely anything worth keeping but the data, so the whole operation moves into one system, built in four to six weeks.
A free scoping call is the choice point: you either pick the package or the retainer. The package runs four to six weeks from first interview to a running system — design, build, deployment, training, and thirty days on call after.
The small business service package: everything moves into one system you own. It qualifies at ten or fewer object pipelines and minimal migration effort required. Best for businesses looking to modernize their whole operation at once, rather than improve an existing one.
$10,000 fixed, in three payments — $1,000 at specification, $3,000 at prototype, $6,000 at deployment.
A CRM, an industry platform at the core, payroll, books. Each fine on its own, none agreeing with the others, and the reports rebuilt by hand every week.
It depends on the stack. Systems worth keeping get kept and connected; the rest gets replaced. Many clients start with one painful problem — usually reporting — so you can judge the work before committing to more.
A free scoping call and a pipeline count first. The call is the choice point: the package, or the retainer if there’s a lot you’ll be keeping.
You might fit the small business package as it stands — one system, built at once, owned outright. The specification says exactly how far the package stretches.
The package starts at $10,000; more extensive migration, additional pipelines, or other complexities such as training and revisions can carry the price as high as $30,000, quoted in writing before we begin. Or the retainer: $3,000 a month, billed hourly.
An ERP or industry platform at the center, satellite tools around it, integrations nobody fully trusts, and a backlog your vendor will never build. All of it productized; none of it yours.
Usually, keep the core. We engineer within the stack you have — untangling configuration, connecting silos, automating between them — and replace pieces only when the numbers say to, in increments, so the first pipeline is earning while the last is built.
Scope first, quote second, a written specification you approve before any money moves. Work deploys in increments, so the first pipeline is earning while the last is still being built.
Usually the retainer — for when there’s a lot you’ll be keeping: your existing core kept and untangled, improved piece by piece.
Outside of the package, we’re on retainer and billing hourly. The retainer starts at $3,000 a month.
These are patterns, not rules. A fifteen-person firm can have an enterprise-grade mess, and a forty-person firm can fit the package. The scoping call is where we count what you actually have, at no charge.
The package covers everything from discovery and development to implementation and training; for those four to six weeks, you are the COO and we are your hands in the weeds. It qualifies at ten or fewer object pipelines and minimal migration effort — a pipeline is one record type moving through its lifecycle, like a quote from request to sent or an invoice from drafted to paid. Best for businesses looking to modernize their whole operation at once, rather than improve an existing one; if there’s a lot you’ll be keeping, the scoping call will point you to the retainer.
Every core pipeline moved from spreadsheets and legacy tools into one custom system. Counted and quoted on the scoping call, live in four to six weeks.
Outside of the package, we’re on retainer and billing hourly. The retainer starts at $3,000 a month: two consultants and two engineers. We scope first, quote second, and you approve a written specification before any money moves.
Dogma is how a team of four moves at this speed. It maps processes and models unique businesses quickly, so our hours go into your solution instead of the scaffolding under it: rapid, iterative deployment and revision, on a platform built for exactly that.
An extensible framework built for flexibility and ease of configuration in the hands of experienced consultants. Every engagement is built on it and configured to the business, never the other way around.
Rapid drafting, deployment, and revision of business processes. It lets us meet you where you are while exposing the best opportunities for automation.
Tools for in-flight management of processes that have gone awry. Dogma's restrictions can be lifted in an instant to meet reality at the point of collision, and remediations are drafted without leaving the ERP. Each problem and its solution stay in one system, where the mining is done.
A build in progress. We draft each of your processes, wire in its automations, and connect one to the next until the business runs as a single system. In our hands that takes hours, which is how a team of four delivers a full transformation in weeks.
01Draft: steps drop onto the canvas, and the process takes shape between them.
02Wire: each step declares what it requires and what it automates.
03Connect: one process hands off to the next: a finished job creates its own invoice.
04Publish: the impact check clears, and the process goes live mid-operation.
The same tool after launch. When a live process meets a case the map never covered, we branch it, wire the new path, and publish against running work without stopping the business. We fix it where we found it.
01Branch: cancelled early or cancelled late, every outcome ends in a defined state, never a loop.
02Wire: every branch carries its own requirements and automations.
03Extend: Collections picks up whatever falls through, opened by the failure itself.
04Publish: checked against live work first, then every path runs itself.
We count your object pipelines. An object pipeline is one record type moving through its full lifecycle: a quote from request to sent, a work order from scheduled to closed, an invoice from drafted to paid. We count one as significant when it has a defined start and end state, it runs on a repeat rather than as a one-off, and more than one person or system touches it on the way through. Reports, one-time projects, and anything the business wouldn’t feel stop don’t count. Ten or fewer, with minimal migration, and you are inside the flat fee: $10,000 total, in three payments. We map and count them on the scoping call, at no charge, so you know which side of the line you are on before there is an invoice.
Then the package stretches, or the road changes. More extensive migration, additional pipelines, or other complexities such as training and revisions can carry the price as high as $30,000 — written into the specification, which you approve before the first payment. Nothing is discovered later. And if there’s a lot you’ll be keeping, the better fit is usually the retainer.
Four to six weeks from specification approval to deployment: a week to scope, a week to design and prototype, a week to build, a week to deploy, then a two-week handover window while the system takes over. The schedule assumes your team is available for reviews. The one thing that reliably moves the date is a prototype sitting unread.
You get the source and a perpetual, non-commercial license to it. Perpetual means it does not lapse, does not renew, and does not depend on us still being here. You can run it, change it, and hire anyone you like to work on it. You are not locked to us for maintenance. Two restrictions: you cannot resell or redistribute the system, including a version you have modified yourself, and you cannot reverse-engineer the automation engine underneath it. Everything above that engine is yours. The terms are the same at every size; only the pricing differs.
That is a design constraint, not an afterthought. Your automations and backend are emitted as plain TypeScript: no proprietary language, no logic that exists only inside a visual editor, nothing that needs our tooling to open. We organize and name it the way we would want to find it if we were inheriting it cold, and we hold the code to the same standard as the interface. The naming is honest enough that a non-engineer can follow what a file does, and any developer you hire can maintain it without a handover from us. Most clients never need to. The point is that the option is real.
Outside of the package, we’re on retainer and billing hourly. The retainer starts at $3,000 a month. We scope first, quote second, and you approve a written specification before any money moves.
It depends on what we are untangling. A focused automation inside a stack you already run can land in a few weeks. A full ERP architecture with a legacy migration behind it spans months. We deploy in increments, so the first pipeline is earning while the last is still being built, and we do not start without a timeline you have seen.
Not under a standard engagement. That license covers internal operational use. If the goal is to white-label, resell, or ship the deliverable as a product to your own customers, say so during scoping and we will structure a commercial license for it, with a redistribution fee set as a percentage. It is a separate agreement rather than an exception to this one, and it is considerably cheaper to arrange up front than to retrofit.
Often yes, with discipline. We'll always advocate for slowing down and doing it right over chasing the trend, and we won't bolt a large language model onto mission-critical infrastructure where deterministic logic is the safer fit. But the underlying technology has matured into a genuinely powerful tool, with many useful applications: research, classification, drafting, summarization, and any task where recall and speed outweigh strict determinism. Our rule is the same as it is for any tool we deploy: a clear, measurable path to ROI before implementation. Never adoption for adoption's sake.
We treat migrations as critical operations. We begin with a parallel testing phase, mapping your existing data structures onto the new architecture and running both side by side. We never "flip the switch" until the new system has been validated against the old one, so the cutover happens without downtime and without losing a record.
We stay on call for 30 days past deployment to fix what breaks. After that the system is yours to run. The license is perpetual, so nothing switches off and nothing needs renewing. We build on our own general-purpose codebase to get you there efficiently and we keep ownership of those foundations, but your license to run and modify what we delivered does not depend on that, or on us. If you would rather keep us, the engagement continues on retainer from $3,000 a month. The retainer is an option, not a dependency.
We are a Los Angeles firm. Our developers are in the United States and Canada, and we build for the operational realities of asset-heavy and service-driven work.