A mobile app studio for local business
Your business, in their pocket. In a week.
Loyalty, ordering, booking, pickup — built to your operation, not stretched from a template. Live in the App Store in 3–7 days, flat fee.
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Bella's Trattoria
Italian · Brooklyn
Open · closes 10 PM
Order in. Pick up hot.
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Field & Bloom
Hair studio · Austin
Next slot · Tomorrow 11:00
Book with Marta
See openings →
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North Shore Goods
Home & garden · Portland
In stock · 14 items saved
Your list, ready in store
Reserve & collect →
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Loyalty: 240 pts
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Built for shops like
Bella's
Field & Bloom
North Shore
Kinfolk Coffee
Haven Yoga
Rowan Bakery
The problem
Three broken options. You in the middle.
Local businesses don't lose to bigger competitors. They lose to better-funded tech stacks, one convenience feature at a time.
Pain 01 / 03
“Agencies quote six months and $60K.”
By the time you launch, the promotion you wanted the app for is two quarters behind you.
— Avg. agency build: 22 weeks
Pain 02 / 03
“Freelancers ghost at week two.”
You're paying for hours, not outcomes. Nobody owns the finish line. You end up chasing emails instead of running your business.
— 38% of projects abandoned
Pain 03 / 03
“Template builders look right, until they don't.”
"Configurable" means you still need a developer. The one thing you needed for loyalty or pickup? Not in the template.
— 73% need custom logic
How it works
Four steps. One week.
No Gantt charts, no surprise change orders, no vanishing freelancers. You talk to the same person from discovery to launch.
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Discovery call
One 45-minute call. We map loyalty, ordering, booking, inventory — whatever your operation actually runs on. You leave with a fixed scope and a fixed price.
02
Build sprint
AI-assisted development against a library of battle-tested components. You get a staging link on day 3 and give feedback in plain English.
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Test & submit
We handle QA, App Store and Play Store submission, and all the paperwork. Your branding, your ownership, your data.
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Launch & support
Go live, train your staff, hand off. From day eight, $75/month covers hosting, updates, and a real human on support.
Sample apps
What we've actually built.
Every app is custom. But eighteen months of shipping means we start at 70% done for most local categories.
Ordering, loyalty, and a full dining room — without a tablet tower at the register.
Built for independent restaurants who want the convenience of the big chains without handing over 30% to a delivery marketplace.
In-app ordering with pickup and table-side, priced to beat DoorDash fees.
Stamp-card loyalty — "buy 10 get 1" that actually feels like your restaurant.
Reservations + waitlist that syncs to your host stand and your POS.
Push notifications for specials, new menus, and Sunday brunch reopening.
9:41
Bella's Trattoria
Italian · Brooklyn
Open · closes 10 PM
Order in. Pick up hot.
Start an order →
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4.8 ★ · 312 reviews
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What you get
Built like a studio. Priced like a product.
The things you'd expect from a $60K agency build — minus the invoice, the timeline, and the account manager between you and your developer.
Custom, not a template
Every build is scoped to your operation. We start from components, not a stretched theme — so the app fits how your staff actually works.
Fixed fee, fixed timeline
$1,500 to $4,500 flat. Three to seven days. No hourly creep, no change-order tax, no retainer you have to cancel later.
You own it
The code, the data, the App Store listings, the customer relationships. Everything is yours. Leave whenever. We'd rather keep you by being good.
Real App Store launch
We handle Apple's paperwork, Google's paperwork, icon sizes, screenshot sets, privacy disclosures — the tedious 20% that sinks most freelance projects.
Plain-English support
One human, email and Slack, four-hour response during business hours. The $75/month maintenance plan includes small changes, not just bug fixes.
Built to compound
Our component library gets deeper every project. Your app benefits from every shop we've shipped for — loyalty, pickup, inventory patterns, all battle-tested.
What owners say
Shops that stopped losing to apps.
Early customers across restaurants, studios, and retail. Real numbers, not case-study stagecraft.
“We got a quote for $42K and a six-month timeline. Storefront shipped in five days for $3,800. Our loyalty signups doubled in the first month.”
Loyalty signups, month one+112%
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Marta Oliveira
Owner · Field & Bloom Hair Studio
“My takeout margin went up because orders don't flow through a third-party anymore.”
Commission fees saved / mo$2,400
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Sal Romano
Owner · Bella's Trattoria
“Staff onboarded in an afternoon. The app feels like it was built for us — because it was.”
Time to staff adoption1 day
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Jae Park
Owner · North Shore Goods
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Pricing
Flat fee. No retainer. No surprises.
You'll know your price before the discovery call ends. Every tier includes App Store submission and 14 days of launch support.
Starter
$1,500/ flat
A focused, single-purpose app for a single-location business.
- One core flow (loyalty or booking or ordering)
- Your brand, your App Store listing
- Up to 3 rounds of feedback
- iOS + Android
- Ships in 3–5 days
Most chosen
Studio
$3,000/ flat
A full custom app with the components most local businesses actually need.
- Up to 3 core flows, wired together
- Loyalty + ordering + booking patterns
- Staff admin dashboard
- Push + email notifications
- Ships in 5–7 days
Signature
$4,500/ flat
Everything in Studio plus integrations with your existing stack.
- POS / Square / Shopify integration
- Custom reporting + analytics
- Priority 7-day build slot
- 2 hours of training for your team
- 30 days of post-launch support included
+ $75/MO
Maintenance plan — hosting, OS updates, security patches, and minor content changes. Less than an hour of agency time per month. Cancel anytime.
Learn moreFor consultants & agencies
White-label the studio. Keep the client.
If you already sell to local businesses, add custom apps to every engagement without hiring engineers or carrying the build risk.
Our build, under your brand.
Packages start at $10K. You quote the client, keep the relationship, and hand us a brief. We ship a fully-branded app in a week. Your margin, your retention, zero ops overhead.
- $10K–$25Kpackage pricing, 50%+ margin for you
- Your brandon every deliverable — invisible to the client
- One PMto each partner, weekly sync, shared Linear board
- 5-day SLAfrom signed brief to staging link
How the economics work
ClientPays you · $18,000
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YouConsulting + app
YouBrief → Storefront
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We build$8,000
Your margin$10,000 · 55%
FAQ
Questions you're already asking.
If it's not here, ask on the discovery call. We'd rather overexplain than underpromise.
AI-assisted development plus a library of components we've built across eighteen months of local-business apps. We're not cutting corners — we're not reinventing the same loyalty system every time either. The savings land on your side of the invoice.
We don't use templates. Every app is scoped to your operation in the discovery call. Our component library is a starting point — custom flows, custom fields, and custom integrations are the default, not an upcharge.
You do. The code lives in your GitHub, the App Store listing is in your Apple Developer account, your data is in your own database. If you leave us, you leave with everything. We'd rather keep you by staying useful.
The $75/month plan covers minor content and configuration changes — swapping menu items, updating hours, changing loyalty rules. Bigger feature work is quoted as a follow-up sprint, usually a few hundred dollars.
Yes — integrations with Square, Shopify, Stripe, Toast, and most major local-business stacks are included on the Signature tier and available as an add-on on Starter and Studio. We'll confirm on the discovery call.
You can. It will take you two months, look like a generic configured app, and still require a developer for anything custom. If that's the right tradeoff for your business, honestly, do it. Come back when you want something that feels like you.
If you don't love the staging build on day three, we refund your deposit and walk away — no hard feelings, no hostage code. We've only had to do it once.
Ready when you are
Your app can be in the App Store by next Friday.
Book a 20-minute discovery call. You'll leave with a fixed price, a fixed timeline, and a clear picture of what your app can do.
Money-back if you don't love day threeNo retainer, no lock-inTypical reply under 2 hours