SaaS development for Los Angeles founders.
Platform engineering from MVP to scale — architecture, multi-tenancy, billing, integrations and the infrastructure underneath it. Working with Los Angeles, United States businesses from our London studio.
What we do for Los Angeles clients.
Architecture designed before code
Architecture designed before code, so scaling is not a rewrite
Multi-tenancy
Multi-tenancy, roles and permissions done properly the first time
Billing
Billing, metering and subscription logic
Ongoing engineering as the product finds its market
Ongoing engineering as the product finds its market
Who we work with in Los Angeles.
Our Los Angeles work grew out of the same networks that built the Toronto business — independent operators, family firms and community organisations who came to us by referral rather than through a pitch. It is a smaller book than Toronto and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
- DAS Law LA — Legal
- MidEast Tacos — Hospitality
- That's So Cheesy — Food & events
- Boova — Technology
- Grigor Gevorgyan Foundation — Non-profit
- AlderCA — Professional services
Legal, hospitality, food and events, technology and non-profit. What these have in common is that each one lives or dies on a specific conversion — a consultation booked, an order placed, a donation completed — and none of them had the budget to waste on a site that merely looked expensive. That is the work we are set up for.
What we have learned building here.
Los Angeles is the most saturated agency market of the three cities we work in, and the pricing reflects it. There is a large tier of studios selling brand-led design at rates that assume a venture-funded client, which is fine if you are one. Most of the businesses we work with in LA are not — they are established operators who want a site that performs and a straight answer on cost.
Los Angeles search is unusually fragmented by neighbourhood. "Web designer Glendale" and "web designer Santa Monica" behave like separate markets with separate competitors, and ranking for the citywide term is considerably harder and less useful than most agencies imply. We would generally rather win the neighbourhoods you actually serve.
How we ended up working in Los Angeles.
Our Los Angeles clients arrived the way most of our best work does — one business recommending us to another. Our roots are Armenian, which has always given us close ties to Armenian business networks in Toronto, London and Los Angeles, and several of these relationships began there. DAS Law LA, MidEast Tacos, That's So Cheesy, Boova, AlderCA and the Grigor Gevorgyan Foundation are not a vertical or a campaign; they are a network. That shapes how we work here. We are not trying to become the biggest agency in Los Angeles, and we would be bad at it. We are trying to be the studio that a specific set of businesses keeps recommending, which is a much smaller and much more defensible ambition.
What we have actually learned in Los Angeles.
Three sectors we have built in repeatedly here, and what each one taught us about what works.
Legal and professional services
DAS Law LA and AlderCA operate in a market where the client is choosing between several firms who all look competent. The site's job is narrow: establish credibility fast, make the consultation trivially easy to book, and never lose someone on a phone. That means fast pages, plain-language practice descriptions rather than legalese, and a booking flow that works at the moment of intent rather than a contact form answered on Tuesday.
Food and events
MidEast Tacos and That's So Cheesy sell something visual, which sounds like it makes the site easier and actually makes it harder. Large imagery is the enemy of mobile performance, and both businesses get most of their traffic on a phone, often on a poor connection. The work is compression discipline, responsive image handling and a booking or ordering path that survives a two-bar signal — not a bigger hero video.
Non-profit and community
The Grigor Gevorgyan Foundation, like most non-profits, has a smaller budget and a harder job than commercial clients: it has to convert strangers into donors on trust alone. That puts the emphasis on transparent storytelling, a donation flow with as little friction as legally possible, and a site cheap enough to maintain that the money keeps going where it should. We price this work accordingly.
Why hire a London studio for Los Angeles work?
Why hire a London studio for a Los Angeles business? The honest case is cost and access to seniority. Our cost base is London rather than LA, and we run without the account-management layer most agencies of comparable capability carry, so you talk to the people writing the code. The honest counter-case is the eight-hour gap: if your project needs someone reachable at 4pm Pacific every day, or on site, we are the wrong choice and a local studio is the right one. Most of our LA clients found the trade worthwhile because their projects were defined enough to run asynchronously. Yours might not be, and that is worth establishing before either of us invests in a proposal.
What it costs, and how the distance works.
Quoted and invoiced in USD. Project work is a fixed price agreed before we start, so exchange-rate movement is our risk rather than a surprise on your invoice.
Day rate — US$1,200
Our standard senior day rate, Our senior day rate for team augmentation and time-and-materials work. This is a market rate for Los Angeles, not a currency conversion of our London figure — set 25 July 2026 and fixed at quote.
Fixed-scope projects
Most work runs this way. We scope after a discovery call and give you a number before anything starts — no running meter, no change-order games for things that were obviously in scope.
Time zone — PT (UTC−8)
London is eight hours ahead of Los Angeles. Our day finishes as yours begins, so you get a full night of progress and we hold a live overlap in your morning.
The detail behind this page.
This page covers how we deliver saas development for Los Angeles clients specifically — the pricing, the time zones, the local context. The service itself, our process and the technical detail are the same wherever you are, and they are documented in full on our main saas development page.
Looking for something else? See all our services, our published pricing, or the other work we do for Los Angeles businesses.