Torrance builds real things. Your back office still runs on copy-paste.
AmiFi is a South Bay engineering firm based one town over in Redondo Beach. We work with Torrance manufacturers, medical-device shops, and operators to automate the paperwork between the ERP, the inbox, and the shop floor, so senior people stop re-keying what a computer should handle.
The floor is efficient. The office is where it piles up.
Purchase orders re-keyed by hand.
A supplier PDF comes in with forty line items and someone types them into the ERP, one variance at a time. Every quote and every change order runs the same gauntlet.
Quotes that take a day to turn.
RFQs sit because pricing lives in a spreadsheet, the last job lives in someone's memory, and the person who knows both is on the floor.
Quality and compliance docs by hand.
Certs, first-article reports, and traceability records assembled by hand for every shipment, because the aerospace and medical customers demand them and the system doesn't produce them.
Systems that don't talk.
The ERP, the quoting tool, the shipping software, and email each hold a piece of the truth, and a person is the integration layer stitching them together.
The Friday report nobody should be building.
Someone rebuilds the same production or job-cost report every week by exporting, pasting, and reformatting, hours that produce nothing new.
Institutional knowledge walking out the door.
The person who knows how the job really flows is retiring, and none of it is written down anywhere a system can use.
First a call, then we walk your Torrance floor when it helps.
Same senior engineers from the first conversation to production. No junior handed your account, no discovery template filled in from another state.
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Intro Call, Over Meet
FREE · 30 MIN · GOOGLE MEETThirty minutes over Google Meet. Walk us through how a job moves through your office: quoting, purchasing, shipping, and where a person is re-keying what a computer should handle. No travel on either side, nothing to schedule around.
You'll get an honest read on the call. If the numbers don't justify automating, we'll tell you and part as friends. If they do, we name the two or three highest-value targets and quote the Roadmap, which is usually where we come walk your floor.
WHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITH- An honest read on whether automation earns its keep here
- The highest-value targets in your 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. We spend a day or two where the work happens, usually on your floor, watching the process end to end, map how your ERP, quoting, and quality systems really connect, and rank the automation targets by projected time and dollar return.
You walk away with a written plan you own, whether you build with us or not, plus a fixed quote for the build. If you build with us, the Roadmap fee comes off the build price.
WHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITH- A map of your office workflows and where the hours leak
- Ranked automation targets with projected returns
- An integration plan that fits your ERP and compliance needs
- 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 systems 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 through a contract or as-needed, and being local means we're never a red-eye flight away when you need a hand.
WHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITH- Production software running inside your systems
- Training and documentation for your team
- Local support, sized to how you operate
A real local firm, not a landing-page mirage.
- Based in Redondo Beach, minutes from your floor.
Torrance is one town over from home. The first call is over Google Meet, and when a visit helps it's a short drive to your shop, not a travel line item.
- Senior, US-based engineers only.
Every engineer is a US citizen working in the United States. No offshore handoffs, no junior learning on your retainer, no overseas access to your systems.
- Fixed quotes, no open-ended billing.
A defined-scope build is a fixed quote you approve before we start, and changes are quoted, never absorbed into a runaway invoice. Support runs as a retainer, and where a flat rate doesn't make sense we work hourly against a cap you approve.
- Built for regulated, audited work.
We've shipped under PCI-DSS, built KYC and AML programs, and worked inside a Fortune 500 healthcare company. Aerospace and medical traceability requirements are familiar ground.
What Torrance operators ask first.
Are you actually based in Torrance?
One town over: AmiFi is based in Redondo Beach, and Torrance is a ten-minute drive. The first call is over Google Meet, and when the work calls for a visit, being ten minutes away means that's a drive, not a travel line item. That's the whole point of hiring a local firm instead of a phone number in another time zone.
What kinds of Torrance businesses do you work with?
Manufacturers most of all: machining and fabrication, RF and microwave, medical devices, aerospace suppliers, and the contract shops that feed them. We also work with the healthcare admin, distribution, and regional back-office operations around Del Amo and Old Torrance. If your team re-keys purchase orders, chases quality docs, or rebuilds the same report every week, that's our work.
What does it cost?
There's no published price, because the right number depends on what we're automating. The first call is free. If we go further, the two-week Automation Roadmap is a single fixed fee quoted on that call, and any defined-scope build is a fixed quote you approve before we start. Ongoing support runs as a retainer sized to your operation, and when a flat rate doesn't make sense, we work hourly against a cap you approve. No open-ended billing running in the background.
Can you work with our ERP and shop-floor systems?
That's usually the job. Most of the waste in a manufacturing back office lives in the gaps between the ERP, the quoting spreadsheet, the email inbox, and the quality system. We build into the tools you already run rather than asking you to rip anything out.
Do you only work on-site, or remote too?
The free intro call is over Google Meet. The Roadmap observation days usually happen at your shop, because a real workflow rarely maps itself over a webinar, and being ten minutes away means that's never a production, just a drive. After that, most build work is remote, and we come out when the work calls for it.
Talk to an expert in Torrance.
Tell us where the time goes. The first conversation is 30 minutes over Google Meet, with an honest read on what's worth automating by the end of it. We're one town over, so when a visit makes sense it's a short drive to your floor, not a travel line item. Free, no prep, no pitch deck.
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.