A screen where your staff press a button and the thing actually happens — not a dashboard that reports a number and leaves the work where it was.
Most small operations end up with three systems that do not talk to each other and a spreadsheet doing the actual work between them. The job somebody does by hand every Tuesday afternoon is usually the one worth building.
One screen for the people who run the business. The record, and the buttons that change it, in the same place — refund the customer, resend the invoice, approve the artwork, mark it shipped. Not a report that tells somebody to go and do it somewhere else.
The things support gets asked for twenty times a week, made into buttons a non-technical person can press safely: reissue a receipt, extend a trial, correct an address, look up what was really sent and when. The alternative is a developer doing it by hand in a database, which is slow on a good day and a disaster on a bad one.
The same system seen from the other side, with its own login and nothing else visible. They approve the proof, ask for the change, see where the order is, download the receipt — instead of calling to ask, which is a job for somebody either way.
Payments, invoicing, email that sends reliably, files stored where they can be found, a log of who did what and when. The unglamorous half, and the half that decides whether the rest can be trusted.
Three systems, running now, with real users. The first one is how this company quoted, invoiced and proofed the job you would be hiring it for.
Quotes, signed agreements, Stripe invoices, orders, proofs the client approves from a link, supplier costs, margin per job and uptime monitoring on every client site. Every invoice this business has sent went through it.
Traffic, scheduling, as-run reconciliation and billing, running in radio stations on their own machines. Sold as a product, which is a harder test than building one for a single client.
An AI video editor that takes payments, at riano.studio. Built, shipped and earning inside a year.
Every other price on this site is published, and this one is not — because a single number that covers both "add an approval step" and "replace what the office runs on" is not a price, it is a guess. What can be published is exactly what happens instead:
Custom software does not need anybody in the room, and most of this is built over email and a phone call. But the businesses that end up commissioning it are usually the ones we can go and watch work for an hour — Fairfield, Suisun City, Vacaville and the rest of Solano County — because the useful part of the first conversation is almost never what somebody says they need. It is the thing they do by hand, at a counter, without mentioning it, because it has always been done that way.
Radio stations are the exception and always have been: those run anywhere, and Cartwright is installed in stations nowhere near California.
Email hello@martiancreative.com or call (707) 505-8885 and describe the job somebody is currently doing by hand. That is enough to begin, and the first conversation is free whether or not anything comes of it.
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