We are not in Santa Monica or Culver City. We are a ten-person web and software team in northern Italy, working in English for US companies — nine hours ahead of you, which turns out to be useful. Here is what we build for Los Angeles businesses, what it costs, and when a local agency is the better call.
Six kinds of project cover almost everything that reaches us from the US. The first job on any call is working out which one you actually need — fairly often it is smaller than the one you came in asking for.
A handful of pages done properly: who you are, what you do, who for, how to reach you. Fast on a phone, accessible, and written around the words your customers actually type into Google. From €350 one-off, or €24.80 a month with hosting and changes included.
Product pages, checkout, shipping rules, sales tax settings, order handling. Shopify when it fits, custom when it does not, and connected to your inventory or accounting so nothing gets keyed in twice.
iOS and Android apps, or an installable web app when the App Store adds nothing. Booking, loyalty, field service, ordering, internal tools for crews who are never at a desk.
Inventory, jobs, scheduling, quoting, service reports. Built around how your company works instead of how a SaaS vendor decided everyone should work. Custom systems start from €1,500.
Leads, deals, orders and documents in one place, plus a portal where clients check status themselves instead of emailing you. Usually saves more hours than the public website.
Two systems that do not talk, and a person retyping data between them: QuickBooks, Shopify, HubSpot, Salesforce, spreadsheets. Automating that handover has the fastest payback of anything on this list.
Every city has its own mix of businesses, and its own software problems. These are the ones we see most from Los Angeles.
Shopify or custom stores built for conversion, not for an awards site: fast product pages, subscriptions, bundles, and inventory synced with your 3PL or warehouse in the Inland Empire.
Lookbook sites that load fast despite the photography, wholesale ordering portals for buyers, and production tracking tools for brands working with Downtown's Fashion District.
Portfolio sites, casting and booking tools, project and asset trackers for production companies that currently run on shared drives and group texts.
Booking apps, membership and loyalty programs, patient intake forms, and sites that make treatments easy to understand before anyone calls.
Listing sites, owner portals, maintenance apps for portfolios spread from the Valley to Long Beach.
With the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach next door: shipment tracking portals, customs document workflows, warehouse and inventory systems built around your actual process.
Los Angeles agency pricing reflects Los Angeles: Westside rent, creative salaries and long account chains. You pay for the brand on the credentials slide as much as for the work, and for a company website or an internal tool that is rarely where the value is.
We are a small team with low fixed costs, so for the same scope the quote is a fraction of a typical LA agency's. You speak to the person who builds your project. And the time difference works in your favor more than you would expect: we build while you sleep, so a request sent at 6pm often has a working version waiting at 9am.
California also has two legal layers worth knowing. The CCPA/CPRA governs how you collect and use personal data from California residents, and accessibility claims can be brought under both the ADA and California's Unruh Act. Every site we build follows WCAG 2.1 AA and ships with a proper cookie and privacy setup — your lawyer decides the policy wording, we make sure the site actually does what the policy says.
Italy is nine hours ahead of Los Angeles. That is the widest gap in the country, and we will not pretend otherwise: the shared window is your early morning, about 7 to 9am Pacific, our late afternoon. It works well for weekly reviews and decisions, and the upside is real — we build while you sleep, so you wake up to progress. It does not work if you need someone on a call with you at 3pm.
The paperwork is simple: contracts in English, a fixed price in writing, invoices without Italian VAT, and intellectual property assigned to your company. Domain, hosting, Google accounts and source code are registered in your name from launch.
When we are the wrong choice. If you need someone in your office every week, a supplier on chat through your whole afternoon, or a team of fifteen running in parallel on a seven-figure program, a Los Angeles firm is the right answer — and we will tell you that on the first call rather than three months in.
Nobody in Los Angeles searches for Los Angeles. People search for Pasadena, Burbank, Santa Monica, Silver Lake, Torrance, Long Beach, the Valley. The metro is really dozens of cities, and Google treats it that way.
That is good news if you have an address: a well-run Google Business Profile plus pages written for the specific areas you serve compete in a far smaller field than "web design Los Angeles", which belongs to directories and agencies with years of backlinks.
For e-commerce brands the game is different — it is national, not local — and the narrow door is the product itself: long, specific searches with buying intent, product pages with real content and structured data, and category pages that answer the question instead of just listing items.
Calls go in your early morning, roughly 7 to 9am Pacific, which is our late afternoon. Then we work while you are offline. Most LA clients end up liking it: feedback sent in the evening becomes a new version by the next morning. What it does not support is a supplier on a call with you at 3pm — if you need that, choose someone local.
We build the technical side: a consent banner that actually blocks trackers until consent, a working "Do Not Sell or Share" link where needed, forms that collect only what you need, and a site that does what your privacy policy says. The policy wording and your obligations are for your counsel to confirm.
Yes. Shopify is the right answer for many DTC brands, and we build themes, apps and integrations on it. When a store outgrows it — complex B2B pricing, custom configurators, unusual fulfillment — we build custom and connect it to the same back office.
A company website costs €350 one-off, plus €150 if you want the initial optimization for Google and Bing, or €24.80 a month with hosting, domain, maintenance and content changes included on a 24-month minimum term. Web apps start at €50 a month or €750 one-off; custom business software starts at €1,500. Larger projects get a fixed quote after a free analysis.
Italy is 9 hours ahead of Pacific time. We schedule calls in your morning, which is our afternoon, and do most of the build while you are offline. In practice you get answers overnight rather than waiting for them during your day.
Yes. On the one-off option the domain, hosting, content and source code are registered in your company's name from go-live, and the code lives in your repository. There is no license tied to us and no lock-in.
Thirty minutes on a video call, free and with no sales deck: we tell you what you actually need, what it costs and how long it takes to go live. If we are not the right fit, we tell you that too.
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