Christian Javan
Small business & startups

Your business doesn't need a huge system. It needs its own.

I work with businesses in Tijuana and Baja California that outgrew their tools. No per-user licenses, no modules you'll never open: we start with the two or three things costing you money right now and the system grows from there, not the other way around.

Tell me what's slowing you down

A 20-minute conversation. No commitment, no jargon.

Small business software usually fails
for being too expensive or too generic

Either they sell you a system that costs more than your payroll and you use 10% of it, or you get an off-the-shelf tool that forces you to change how you work. Both end the same way: the team drops out of the system and goes back to the spreadsheet and the group chat. A system nobody uses is money thrown away, and I've seen enough of that.

Signs you've outgrown what you have

Everything lives in your head

If you're out for a week, the business stalls. Nobody else knows who owes what or where each order stands.

Group chat is your system

Orders arrive by chat, get confirmed by chat, and get lost by chat. Try finding something from three months ago.

You type the same thing three times

Once on paper, once in the spreadsheet, once more to invoice it. Every step is a chance to get it wrong.

You don't know what actually pays

You sell, you collect, you pay out, but closing the month takes two days and the number never quite adds up.

Inventory is an educated guess

What the sheet says and what's on the shelf are two different things. You find out after promising something you don't have.

Quoting eats half an afternoon

Every quote is built from scratch by copying the last one. The one who answers fastest wins the job.

Who I work with

Businesses running on spreadsheets that are starting to break
New ventures that want to start organized
Family-run businesses in Tijuana and Baja California
Anyone who bought off-the-shelf software and never used it
Workshops, distributors, practices, and service businesses
Operations running on both sides of the border

If your business isn't listed but the list above sounded familiar, write to me anyway.

The most common case

Does your whole business live in a spreadsheet?

By far the most common starting point, and it has its own page: how to move from Excel to a real system without stopping operations or losing your history.

See Goodbye Excel

What I usually build

None of this comes in a box. It's built around what your business actually does.

Inventory and stock

Real ins, outs, and counts. With alerts before something runs out, not after.

Quotes and orders

Quote in minutes with your prices and your terms, and it turns into an order the moment the client accepts.

Client records

Every client's history: what they bought, what they owe, and when to follow up again.

Job tracking

Where each job stands, who has it, and since when. No more walking desk to desk asking.

Reports you'll actually read

Three numbers on screen, updating themselves. Not a forty-page report nobody opens.

A portal for your clients

Let them check their order or their balance without calling you. Fewer interruptions for you, better service for them.

Why it costs less over time

A system built for your business becomes part of the business

Rented software charges per user, per month, forever, and the day you stop paying you lose access to your own data. A system you own is paid for once, grows as you grow, and the data stays yours. Over time the team gets used to working that way and nobody wants to go back to the spreadsheet: that's the sign the investment worked.

Owned, not rented
Grows in stages
Your data, exportable
No per-seat charges

How we work

01

A conversation, not a meeting

You tell me how you work today. No diagrams, no jargon: what you do, with what, and what drives you crazy.

02

We pick where to start

Of everything we could build, we choose what gives back time or money first. The rest waits.

03

You see it working early

I don't disappear for six months. You see progress within the first weeks and tell me if we're on track.

04

We grow it when you need it

The system expands in stages, at the pace of the business and the budget. No contracts tying you down.

Let's talk budget

There's no price list because no two businesses are the same

A three-person workshop and a distributor with two locations don't need the same thing and can't pay the same thing. What I can tell you: I work with the budget you have and we shape the scope around it, not the other way around.

We start where it hurts most

Even if it's a single thing. Solving one problem properly beats leaving five half-done.

Paid in stages

Every stage delivers something you can already use. If you need to pause, you pause with something working.

You know the cost before we start

Scope and number in writing before the first line of code. No surprises halfway through.

No lock-in

No fixed-term contract, no mandatory monthly fee. If you ever want to take it elsewhere, it's yours.

What people always ask

What does a custom system cost?

It depends on how big the problem is. That's why I don't publish a price list: I'd rather hear your case and propose a scope that fits your budget. The first conversation is free.

My business is small. Is this worth it?

Usually it's the opposite: the smaller the business, the faster you feel the difference. A three-person shop that stops entering everything twice gets hours back every week from month one.

How long does it take?

A first useful version normally ships in weeks, not months. It's delivered in pieces precisely so you start using it before everything is finished.

I already have spreadsheets that work. Do I lose them?

No. History gets migrated, and in many cases the sheets keep doing what they already do well. The goal is to remove manual work, not force you to start over.

What if something breaks later?

Support and adjustments are agreed on from the start. A living system needs maintenance, and that gets discussed up front, not when it breaks.

Do you only work with businesses in Tijuana?

That's where I am and where I can show up in person if needed, but I work remotely with businesses across Mexico and on the US side.

Tell me what's eating your day

Twenty minutes is usually enough to know whether this makes sense for your business. If it doesn't, I'll tell you.

Tijuana, Baja California · Working remotely with businesses in Mexico and the United States.