Services Websites Apps AI Automation Data & Dashboards Consulting Ventures About Contact Book a call
Apps for your business

An app that runs your business — not just one that looks like one.

For the small and mid-sized teams who still answer their own phones. Book more jobs, stop chasing no-shows, put a tool in your team's pocket they'll actually use — built once, runs on iPhone, Android, and the web. Fixed price, no hourly surprises. One client at a time. We treat your project like it's our own business on the line.

Free, no pitch deck. Just a conversation about what's slowing you down — straight from the person who'll build it.

Is an app the right move for your business?

Real talk, up front.

An app probably makes sense if…

  • You've got regulars, members, or customers who book you again and again.
  • Your team works off their phones in the field, not from a desk.
  • You're losing hours to phone tag, no-shows, or paperwork.
  • You want booking, payments, or dispatch in your customer's pocket.
Built for businesses like
Auto repair Home services & trades Clinics & med-spas Gyms & studios Restaurants & hospitality Multi-location retail Field crews & dispatch Member & loyalty programs

Probably hold off if…

  • Customers only come around once a year. A solid website with online booking is cheaper and does the job.
  • You haven't checked whether people actually want the thing yet.
  • You've got a wishlist of 30 features. Pick the 1 or 2 that hurt most and start there.
  • Your real problem is getting leads. That's a website and marketing fix, not an app.
See websites with online booking →

Not sure which side you land on? That's what the free call's for.

We take on a handful of clients at a time. Yours gets treated like it's ours.

When you hire Attuned Ventures, you get the studio — not an account manager, not a junior, not a ticket queue. The same team on the discovery call, in the build, on launch day, and the day something breaks at 7pm on a Tuesday.

One point of contact, start to finish

No agency switchboard, no "let us loop in our PM." You text or email the studio directly. Most replies inside the same business day, often inside the hour.

Weekly check-ins on your terms

A short Loom, a 15-minute call, a written update — whichever you actually want to read. You see real progress every week, not at "milestone reviews."

Hands on the build, not just slides

Within two weeks you're tapping a real version on your own phone. We change things together, in real time. Your team's feedback shapes the build — not a 60-page spec written in February.

Built end-to-end by one operator

Design, native iOS and Android, backend, payments, AI integration — one head holds the full picture. Decisions made in minutes, not meetings. Nothing lost in translation between roles. The same person who scopes the build is the one shipping it and supporting it after launch.

Skin in the game on the price

Fixed quote, one page. Revisions baked in. If scope shifts, we tell you the cost up front before any work starts — not on the next invoice.

We don't disappear after launch

Most clients keep us on a small monthly retainer because we already know the codebase. Plenty don't — both are fine. Either way, when iOS pushes an update or your payment provider changes something, you have our number.

What every app we build gets by default.

Not upsells. Just the floor.

Stop renting your customer relationship.

Push, SMS, email, WhatsApp — wired in from day one. Replaces the Mailchimp blast + group-text-from-a-personal-cell + "we'll call them back" scramble most SMBs run today. You own the list, the templates, and the channel.

Industry benchmarks · calibrated to your operation in week one
Push
50–80%
Open rate · free per send · arrives in seconds
SMS
95%+
Open rate · ~$0.04 / msg · for the urgent ones
Email
20–30%
Open rate · ~$0.001 / msg · receipts, drips, depth
In-app
100%
Every active user sees it · zero per-message cost

Push: free, instant, lock-screen.

The killer mobile feature. One tap, every customer's home screen. No postage, no per-text fees, no inbox roulette. Schedule, segment, or fire from what people actually do in the app.

APNs FCM OneSignal

"Bay's open at 9 — first three to tap reschedule get in." Sent 8:47am. Fourteen bookings by 9:15.

Email, plug into what you pay for.

Brevo, SendGrid, Mailchimp, Postmark, Resend — pick the platform you already pay for, or we'll set one up. Receipts, drip sequences, win-backs, password resets all run through it.

Brevo SendGrid Mailchimp Postmark Resend

Receipt and the "we miss you" campaign both fire off the same customer record. No CSV exports, no list drift.

SMS, two-way and threaded.

Twilio or Telnyx for confirmations and reminders. When customers text back, the reply lands pinned to their job in your dashboard — not in some shared inbox or a tech's personal cell.

Twilio Telnyx MessageBird

Customer texts "running late." Your tech sees it pinned to the active appointment before they roll up.

Twelve languages, one template.

Every send goes out in any of the 12 languages this site already runs in — write once, it lands in your customer's language. WhatsApp Business API for the markets where it's THE channel (LATAM, MENA, India, parts of Europe). Messenger and RCS slot in beside it.

WhatsApp Messenger RCS

English app. Spanish push. WhatsApp confirmations. You write the message once; customers hear it the way they hear everything else.

Triggered by what they do.

"No-shows in the last 30 days." "Members up for renewal." "Cart abandoned over $80." Sends fire off real signals from inside the app — not a CSV from last quarter.

Behavior Segments Lifecycle

Renewal nudge fires fourteen days before the plan expires. Customer renews from the message. No chase call.

All channels, one screen.

Compose once. The send picks the route — push for active users, SMS for the rest, email for the audit trail. Open rates, taps, replies, opt-outs — all roll up to one view.

Inbox Reporting A/B

Friday morning: "sent 412, 287 opens, 41 bookings, 3 unsubs." One number, four channels, no stitching.

Napkin math

What it actually costs to message 1,000 active customers / month.

Push
~$0
In-app
~$0
Email · 10K sends
~$10
SMS · 1K sends
~$40
All-in, monthly
~$50

Compare to $99–$299 / mo most all-in-one marketing tools charge before you even hit send. Push and in-app are owned channels — no per-message tax once the app is live.

What this looks like 90 days in.

Ranges from real builds for SMB clients. Your numbers depend on your operation — we calibrate together.

5–10 hrs / wk

Back in your week

Self-service booking, status updates, and payment links cut out the phone tag and front-desk tetris.

20–40%

Fewer no-shows

Auto-confirmations, reminders, and one-tap reschedules. Customers keep the slot or free it up — either way you stop losing the day.

1 screen

Instead of five tabs

Jobs, customers, payments, and staff in one dashboard your managers actually use. No more flipping between Jobber, QuickBooks, email, and a spreadsheet.

Same day

Quote-to-deposit

Quotes, approvals, and deposits move through the app. Cash flows in faster, and the paperwork stops piling up by Friday.

Honest range from comparable SMB builds; not a guarantee. We agree on the metrics that matter to you up front and check them together post-launch.

How we actually build these.

Built the way your business runs. Not the way an agency wants to sell it.

Android iOS

Built once, works everywhere

iPhone, Android, and browser — one codebase builds all three. Your customers open it however they want. You only have one thing to keep updated.

Google Cloud Firebase BigQuery Google Analytics Google Play Google Pay Gmail Google Calendar Google Drive Google Maps

Runs on Google's backbone

Your app sits on Google Cloud, with Firebase handling auth, database, file storage, and serverless functions. No servers for you to babysit. Scales from 10 users to 10 million without a rebuild. Monthly bill's usually pennies to a few bucks.

You own it. Fully.

Code, data, App Store listing, domain — all filed in your company's name. Standard tools, clean code, written documentation. If we ever part ways, you walk away with full ownership and the keys to everything. No lock-in, no scrambling for passwords, no "only the studio knows how this works."

Stripe QuickBooks Shopify Mailchimp HubSpot Slack Zoom Calendly Twilio PayPal Square Notion Airtable Zapier Xero Salesforce WooCommerce SendGrid Intercom Zendesk Asana

Talks to the software you already use

Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, QuickBooks, Square, Stripe, Toast, ShopMonkey, HubSpot, Mailchimp — if it connects, we can wire it in. AI gets layered on when it'll actually earn its keep.

Your customers' language. Every single one.

Apps we build ship with real translation support — not Google Translate bolted on at the last minute. Dates, numbers, and currency formatted the way locals actually read them. Right-to-left for Arabic and Hebrew. This site itself runs in 12 languages — yours can too.

Three ways to start. Pick what fits.

Every package is custom-built and yours to own. Ranges are typical. You get a fixed, one-page quote after a free call.

Starter

Typical range $3K–$5K
Timeline
2–4 weeks
Scope
Solves one problem
Languages
English
  • One job done right — booking, a field checklist, a customer portal, whatever hurts most
  • Phones or browser. Pick what matters most.
  • Logins for customers or staff, whoever needs in
  • Designed around your brand, not a generic template
Start small

Platform

Typical range $25K–$50K+
Timeline
10–20 weeks
Scope
Your whole operation, connected
Languages
2–12 languages
  • Everything in Pro
  • Dashboard for you and your managers — jobs, customers, revenue at a glance
  • AI that saves real hours — auto-quotes, draft replies, smart summaries
  • Plugs into the tools you already pay for — Jobber, QuickBooks, Square, ShopMonkey, you name it
Build the whole thing

Extras, when you need them.

Slot these onto any package. Or add them later as you grow into them.

Another language

$500–$1K each

Reach Spanish, Mandarin, or whoever else walks in the door. Full translation plus dates, numbers, and currency formatted the way locals actually read them.

Text + push alerts

$800–$2K

The full reach layer covered in section 03 — push, SMS, email, WhatsApp, with one dashboard. <strong>Already wired into Pro and Platform packages.</strong> This price is for adding it to a Starter package after launch.

Take payments

$1.5K–$4K

Cards, deposits, tips, subscriptions, in-app purchases — whatever fits. Money goes straight to your bank, not mine.

AI that helps your team

$2K–$8K

Auto-draft quotes. Summarize a customer's history before a call. Pull info off a photo of an invoice. Pick one job it'll do well — no demo theater.

Back-office dashboard

$3K–$8K

The web page your managers live in. Jobs, customers, payments, staff — all in one screen instead of five tabs. Works on any browser.

Monthly maintenance

$300–$1K / mo

Apple pushes a new iOS. Your payment provider changes something. You want a small tweak. We handle it before you notice. Apps need more upkeep than websites — plan for it.

How an app project actually goes.

No slides. No 40-page contracts. A call, then good work, then a launch where we don't disappear after submission.

01

20-minute call, no slides

Tell us who's using this, what it has to do on day one, and what's eating your time today. If an app isn't the right fix — sometimes it's a website with a form — we'll say so.

02

Plain-English quote in 48 hours

One page. Scope, price, timeline, what's in, what's not. Fixed price — no hourly surprises, no "discovery sprints" billing you before anything ships.

03

We build, you watch it come together

Within the first two weeks you're tapping on real screens on your own phone — not sitting through "milestone reviews." Change your mind? Revisions are part of the price, not an upsell.

04

Launch together, then we stick around

We handle the App Store and Google Play paperwork, walk your team through anything new, and hand over everything in your company's name. Most folks keep us on a small monthly retainer; plenty don't. Both are fine.

Things people usually ask.

Honestly, plenty of small businesses don't — and that's a totally fine answer. If your customers only really need to interact with your business once a year, a fast website with online booking probably handles everything you need. Apps really earn their keep when the same customers come back often (gyms, salons, recurring services), when your team is out in the field working off their phones, or when phone tag and no-shows are eating up your week. The first call is where we figure out which one actually fits. No charge, and no upsell.

Honestly, sometimes they won't — and the surprising thing is, a lot of the time they don't have to. Most of what we build can also work as a regular web link your customers tap from a text message or your website. They click the link, they're in — no App Store search, no "go install this thing," no friction. If your business genuinely benefits from being in the App Store and Google Play (gyms, repeat-booking trades, loyalty programs), then we build for that. If not, we keep things simpler. We figure out which one fits on the first call.

Almost always, yes. The software you're already using probably has a way for other systems to plug into it — and we've connected to most of the popular ones before: Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, QuickBooks, Square, Stripe, Shopify, ShopMonkey, Mitchell1, HubSpot, Mailchimp, Toast, and plenty more. If your particular software can't connect easily, we'll tell you on the first call — not buried inside a future invoice.

For the technical folks: if your tool has a public API with OAuth or API-key auth and reasonable rate limits, integration is usually straightforward. For older tools without an API, we can sometimes use scheduled CSV exports, email parsing, or RPA as a fallback.

You do, completely. From day one, every important piece is in your business's name. If we ever part ways for any reason, you walk away with full ownership and full control — you can hand the project to any other developer and they can pick it up cleanly.

Under the hood: the code sits in a private Git repository under your company's account, the backend (database, server, hosting) lives in your Google Cloud project, and your App Store and Google Play developer accounts are registered under your business. Nothing important is held in our account.

For most small-business apps, somewhere between $30 and $80 a month covers it. That breaks down to Google's backend bill (usually free up to a healthy amount of usage), Apple's $99-per-year developer fee spread across the months, and Stripe's normal cut on any payments that flow through the app. If you've added AI features that are doing heavy lifting, budget a few extra dollars per active user per month. We lay all of this out in the quote up front so nothing sneaks up on you later.

If you blast them daily, yes — every channel has that floor. The trick is sending push only when it's worth a phone vibrate: an appointment confirmation, a "your tech is 15 min out," a same-day opening. We tune the floor with you in week one and watch unsubscribe and mute rates monthly. If a campaign type's pulling complaints, we kill it before it hurts deliverability.

Yes — most builds start with a one-time import from your current tool (Mailchimp, Klaviyo, HubSpot, ActiveCampaign, a CSV from QuickBooks, whatever you've got). Subscription status and unsubscribe history come over so you stay TCPA/CAN-SPAM compliant. We can also keep a passive sync running for a few months if you want to dual-list while you decide whether to fully cut over.

We connect to it. Klaviyo, HubSpot, Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign, Constant Contact, Brevo — any platform with a real API plugs in. The app becomes your data source (who booked what, who's a member, who hasn't visited in 60 days) and your existing tool keeps doing the sending. You don't have to migrate to gain the segmentation, the triggers, or the in-app surface.

Let's talk

Tell us what's slowing your business down. We'll tell you whether an app is the fix.

First calls run about 20 minutes — with the person who'll actually build the thing, not a salesperson. You'll leave with a clearer picture of what you need: a quote, a recommendation, or sometimes an honest "you don't actually need an app for this, you need a website." Any of those answers saves you money.

— Quinton
Book a free discovery call