Apps & AI · Real engineering

The operations layeryour business runs on.

Custom CRMs, member portals, subscription billing, workflow automation, AI chatbots. Real engineering scoped for small business, not enterprise theater. The kind of system that runs your business while you sleep.

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The Apps & AI practice

When the SaaS tool doesn't fit, build the one that does.

Most small businesses are running on 10 to 15 SaaS tools that don't talk to each other. The owner is the integration layer. Renewals, billing reconciliation, member status, and appointment logic all live in one person's head and a handful of spreadsheets.

Albertson Designs builds the system that replaces the head and the spreadsheets. Secure logins, Stripe billing that holds up under real customers, custom dashboards an owner can actually read, AI chatbots that handle the first wave of questions. We scope it small, ship it fast, and stay on the phone for years.

What you get

Four things buyers tell us actually matter.

Most agencies subcontract the engineering. Albertson Designs keeps it in-house. Four things every project we ship is built around, in plain English.

Logins that work

Secure logins with role-based access and audit trails. Real security from day one, not bolted on at month six.

Payments that reconcile

Stripe checkout, subscriptions, customer self-serve portal, automatic retries on failed payments. The money story stays consistent across every screen.

AI that helps your team and customers

AI chatbots for internal Q&A or customer support, plus content drafting and document workflows. Built to hold up under real users, not weekend demos.

Hosting we manage

Right-sized infrastructure, monitored, with the on-call when something needs attention. You focus on the business, we focus on the running.

Service bands

Four bands of work. One studio.

Managed Hosting & Content Management

We host your site and run the platform end-to-end. You get the Albertson CMS to update text, images, and pages yourself, plus hands-on support when you need it. SSL, daily backups, performance monitoring, and training included. Three tiers based on how much help you want.

Managed hosting
Content management system for your team
1-hour kickoff training included
SSL and daily backups
Performance monitoring
Email and priority support
Three tiers: Essentials ($59), Pro ($99), Premium ($299)

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Workflow Automation

Most small businesses have 10 to 15 tools that don't talk to each other. We map your workflows, find the friction, and build automations using Zapier, Make, n8n, or custom code so data flows where it should without anyone copy-pasting.

Workflow audit and mapping
Integrations across 200+ apps
Custom code when needed
Documentation
Team training
30-day support

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Custom Dashboards & Reporting

Real-time dashboards that pull from your existing systems (CRM, accounting, e-commerce, marketing) and surface the metrics that actually drive decisions. Built to load fast and read clearly, so a non-technical owner can make a call from a phone in five seconds.

Real-time data sync
Custom KPI selection
Mobile and desktop views
Scheduled email reports
Owner-friendly UX
Embed-anywhere widgets

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Custom Web & Mobile Apps

Lead intake systems, internal tools, scheduling apps, inventory trackers, CRM extensions, subscription billing, customer portals. Custom-built for how your business actually works, not how enterprise SaaS wants you to work. We scope, design, build, host, and stay on the other end of the phone.

Discovery and scoping workshop
Custom UI design
Mobile-responsive
Secure hosting
Stripe and API integrations
Maintenance plans available

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AI Integration & Training

AI work that pays back inside 90 days, not science projects. Two ways in: a hands-on workshop that teaches your team how to use AI in their daily work, or a full build where we ship a custom AI assistant for customer support, internal Q&A, document workflows, or content generation. Workshops start at $1,000 and scale with group size. Custom AI chatbots are the low-hanging fruit right now, internal or customer-facing.

Hands-on team workshop, group-size based pricing
Custom AI chatbot builds
Internal Q&A and document tools
Content generation pipelines
Team training session
30-day support

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E-commerce & Subscription Billing

Custom e-commerce builds with Stripe checkout, subscription tiers, customer self-serve portals, automatic retries on failed payments, and a clear admin view of every order. Built for service businesses moving to recurring revenue, product shops outgrowing Shopify, and operators tired of per-transaction SaaS fees eating margin.

Stripe checkout integration
Subscription tiers and customer portal
Automatic retry on failed payments
Refund and cancellation flows
Order and customer admin dashboard
Reporting and exports

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API Integrations & Data Sync

When Zapier glue isn't enough: custom integrations connecting Stripe, HubSpot, Salesforce, QuickBooks, Calendly, Mailchimp, on-prem databases, cloud storage, S3, SFTP, and the long tail of business systems. Reliable, monitored, and built to stay running. Different from our Workflow Automation service because this is real code with real reliability, not no-code that fails quietly at 2 AM.

Custom integrations across business systems
CRM, ERP, and database connections
Cloud and on-prem file storage (S3, SFTP)
Stripe, HubSpot, Salesforce, QuickBooks, Mailchimp
Error logging and alerts
30-day support

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AI chatbots for small business

The fastest-paying AI play right now.

Across the small businesses we've worked with this year, the same pattern keeps showing up: an AI chatbot, internal or customer-facing, pays back inside 60 to 90 days. Three flavors below. We ship them in days, not quarters.

Customer-facing chat.

Drops onto your website. Answers the same 15 questions your team answers every day (hours, services, pricing basics, “do you do X for Y”), then hands off to a human for the things that actually need one.

Internal team chat.

Sits behind your login. New hires ask “where do I find the contractor onboarding doc?” and get an answer instead of interrupting senior staff. Senior staff stop being a search engine.

Document and content workflows.

AI that reads your docs, drafts replies, generates first-draft content, and tags inbound. Saves 5 to 10 hours a week, every week.

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Flagship build

Curbside Cuts CRM. Read the long version.

Member portal, admin dashboard, smart 90-minute appointment blocks with travel buffers, two-way Google Calendar sync, automated email and SMS, secure logins. Production system handling 100+ recurring subscribers, with a dozen-plus improvements rolled in since launch. Shipped at roughly a third of competing developer quotes.

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6wk

Build timeline

100+

Active subscribers

12+

Post-launch enhancements

~1/3

Vs. competing quotes

Apps & AI FAQ

Real buyer questions.

How long does a custom app take to ship?

Most fit inside 4 to 6 weeks. Scope drives it. A focused internal tool can land in 3 to 4 weeks. A full member portal with subscription billing, admin dashboard, and integrations runs the upper end. Anything bigger gets phased so you see value early.

Will my data and code stay portable?

Yes. You own the database, the source code, and the platform login. We hand off everything on launch. If you ever want to move the project to another team, you can, no extraction project required.

Do you do AI work beyond chatbots?

Yes. Document analysis, content generation pipelines, internal Q&A, classification workflows, admin review queues. Chatbots are one shape among many. We pick the shape that pays back inside 90 days.

What about ongoing maintenance?

Two options. You can take handoff and maintain it yourself, or you can keep us on a monthly support plan for monitoring, updates, and feature work. Plans are scoped per project, not generic minimums.

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Founder · Senior Partner

Luis Robert Albertson

661-331-7035

Talk directly

Talk to the senior partner who'll do the work.

No account manager handoff. No offshore subcontractor. The same senior partner who picks up the phone designs your brand, builds your site, and runs the custom software. From the first call to launch, and every day after.

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