Bay Area agency or offshore shop? There's a third option. Orange County's two usual options for engineering help are a Bay Area agency or an offshore shop. Here's a third.
AmiFi is a senior, US-based engineering firm based in the South Bay, an hour down the 405. We automate the document-heavy back-office work inside Orange County businesses, from Irvine's office parks to the coast and the industrial core, and we do it without Bay Area agency rates or an offshore shop you'll never meet.
One county, a dozen industries, the same back-office drag.
Professional and financial services.
The law, accounting, and insurance practices across the county run every new matter through the same manual intake, onboarding, and document collection, over and over.
Medical device and life science.
OC's device and biotech cluster carries regulatory documentation, traceability, and quality records on top of the ordinary back office, most of it assembled by hand.
The coast: real estate and small business.
From Newport to Huntington to Costa Mesa, owner-run firms, property managers, and small shops drown in leasing paperwork, owner reporting, and invoicing that lands on one person.
Industrial and logistics.
Around Anaheim and Santa Ana, manufacturers, distributors, and warehouses re-key purchase orders, chase shipping documents, and rebuild the same reports every week.
Recurring reports rebuilt from scratch.
Whatever the industry, someone exports, pastes, and reformats the same monthly and quarterly report every cycle, hours that produce nothing new.
Systems that were never connected.
The practice-management tool, the CRM, the billing system, and a stack of spreadsheets, with a person copying data between them all day. You are the integration layer, by hand.
We drive down the 405, sit in your office, then build.
Same senior engineers from the first conversation to production. No account handed to a junior, no discovery run from an offshore template or dialed in from three hundred miles north. We're an hour down the 405, so on-site is a drive that reads honestly, not a travel line item dressed up as one.
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Intro Call, Over Meet
FREE · 30 MIN · GOOGLE MEETThirty minutes over Google Meet. Walk us through how a matter, an order, or a report actually moves through your systems, the real version, not the one in the process doc, and who runs intake, billing, and reporting.
You'll get a straight read on the call. If automation won't pay for itself, we say so and part as friends. If it will, we name the highest-value targets and quote the Roadmap, which is usually where we drive down and sit in your office.
WHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITH- A straight read on whether automation is worth it for you
- The highest-value targets in your back office, ranked
- A fixed fee for the Roadmap if you want to go deeper
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The Automation Roadmap
FIXED FEE · 2 WEEKSA fixed-fee, two-week engagement. It usually opens with a day or two on-site, a straight run down the 405, mapping how your systems really connect and ranking the automation targets by projected time and dollar return.
You get a written plan you own and a fixed build quote. Build with us and the Roadmap fee comes off the price; hand it to your own team, and it still stands on its own.
WHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITH- A map of your back-office workflows and where the hours leak
- Ranked automation targets with projected returns
- An integration plan that fits your existing systems and compliance
- A fixed quote and timeline for the build
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Build, Integrate, Support
FIXED SCOPE · WEEKSYou approve a fixed scope before we write a line of code. Then we build the automation into the tools you already run, ship working software in weeks, and train your team before we call it done.
Everything is yours: code, data, documentation. We support it on terms that fit your firm, and being an hour up the freeway means we come out when the work calls for it, no red-eye and no offshore handoff.
WHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITH- Production software running inside your systems
- Training and documentation for your team
- Support sized to how your business operates
The third option: senior, local, and in the country.
- An hour down the 405, not three hundred miles or twelve time zones.
We're based in the South Bay, and Orange County is familiar territory. The first call is over Google Meet, but a visit is a drive down the 405, not a consultant flown in, so you get a local firm without paying agency travel.
- Senior, US-based engineers only.
Every engineer is a US citizen working in the United States. No offshore shop you'll never meet, no junior on your retainer, no overseas access to your client data.
- Senior talent without Bay Area agency rates.
You get the engineers who actually do the work, not a Bay Area agency billing agency rates from three hundred miles away, and at a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire.
- Fixed quotes, no open-ended billing.
A defined-scope build is a fixed quote you approve before we start, and changes are quoted, never buried in a runaway invoice. Support runs as a retainer, and when a flat rate doesn't make sense we work hourly against a cap you approve.
- Built for regulated, audited work.
PCI-DSS implementations, KYC and AML programs, and Fortune 500 healthcare systems. We build to the compliance requirements your clients and regulators expect.
What Orange County operators ask first.
Do you actually come to Orange County?
Yes, when the work calls for it. The first call is 30 minutes over Google Meet, so there's no drive to schedule around before you get a straight read. If it makes sense to go further, we're based in the South Bay, an hour down the 405, so a visit is a drive, not a travel line item, and the Roadmap usually opens with observation days at your office, because a real workflow rarely maps itself over a webinar.
Why not just hire a Bay Area agency?
You can, and you'll pay Bay Area agency rates to a team three hundred miles away that dials in for status calls. We're a senior, US-based team an hour down the 405, so you get engineers who can sit in your conference room when it helps, at a fraction of the cost, without the travel on your invoice.
What about an offshore shop to save money?
An offshore shop looks cheaper until you count the rework, the time-zone lag, and the overseas access to your client data. Every engineer here is a US citizen working in the United States, senior enough to scope the work correctly the first time, and close enough to show up. You're not managing a handoff you can't see.
What does it cost?
No published number. The first call is free. The two-week Automation Roadmap is a single fixed fee, quoted on that call. When the scope is clear, a build is a fixed quote you approve up front; when a flat rate doesn't make sense, we work hourly against a cap you approve. Build with us and the Roadmap fee is credited against it.
Which parts of Orange County do you serve?
All of it. Irvine's office parks are our anchor in the county, and from there it's the same drive out to the coast at Newport, Huntington, and Costa Mesa, up to Anaheim and Santa Ana, and down through the south county. If you're in Orange County, the 405 gets us to you.
Talk to an expert in Orange County.
Tell us where the back office bogs down. The first conversation is 30 minutes over Google Meet, with an honest read on what's worth automating by the end of it. If a visit makes sense, we drive down and sit in your office, a straight run down the 405. Free, no prep, no pitch deck, and no offshore handoff.
Book straight onto Chris's calendar. No sales rep and nothing to prepare: you talk with the engineer who would actually scope the work.
- Where your team's hours actually go.
- What's worth automating, and what isn't.
- A concrete next step, or an honest no.