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Your business might be small, but your operational challenges aren’t.

You’ve outgrown spreadsheets. Customer information lives in three different places. Your team copies data between Excel, email, and QuickBooks daily. Reporting takes hours of manual work. You know there’s a better way, but enterprise software costs too much and doesn’t fit how you actually work.

We build custom database solutions for small businesses (10-100 employees) who need automation that scales with growth—without enterprise complexity or cost. Since 1997, we’ve helped hundreds of small businesses eliminate spreadsheet chaos, connect disconnected systems, and automate the manual work holding their teams back.

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Common problems faced by post-production crews:

Your Data Lives in Too Many Places

Client information in one spreadsheet. Projects in another. Invoices manually created in Word. QuickBooks separate from everything. Your team wastes hours copying data between systems. Information gets out of sync. Nobody knows which version is current.

Manual Processes Don’t Scale

What worked at 5 employees breaks at 15. Every new client requires hours of manual setup—creating folders, sending welcome emails, entering into multiple systems. Your team spends more time on admin work than revenue-generating tasks.

You Can’t Get Answers from Your Data

How many active clients do you have? Which projects are over budget? Who hasn’t been contacted in 90 days? These should be simple questions. Instead, someone spends Friday afternoon compiling reports manually from multiple spreadsheets.

Spreadsheets Are Breaking

Files are too big and slow. Multiple people can’t work simultaneously. Formulas break when someone edits the wrong cell. Important information gets accidentally deleted. You’re terrified of what happens if the file corrupts.

You Don’t Have Time for IT Complexity

You need systems that work, not another full-time job managing technology. Generic software requires too much configuration. Enterprise platforms need dedicated IT staff you don’t have. You want automation that just works.

Growth Means More Manual Work

Every new employee means training on your patchwork of spreadsheets and systems. Every new client adds to the administrative burden. You’re adding overhead proportionally with growth instead of scaling efficiently.

Stop Drowning in Spreadsheets

We’ve helped hundreds of small businesses escape Excel chaos and build databases that actually scale. Let’s talk about where your manual processes are slowing growth and what automation could eliminate.

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Solutions for Small Businesses

Great technology makes great films happen. You don’t just need the latest and greatest software – you need the right applications for your company. That’s where we step in.

Custom CRM databases built for how your business actually works—not how generic software thinks you should work. Track clients, contacts, communication history, projects, and sales pipeline in one system. Automated follow-up reminders. Custom fields for information that matters to your business. Integration with email, calendar, and QuickBooks.

Built for: Service businesses, agencies, consultants, and B2B companies managing complex client relationships.

Organize projects, track progress, assign tasks, and coordinate team work without spreadsheet juggling. Client projects linked to contacts and invoices automatically. Resource allocation across multiple projects. Deadline tracking with automatic alerts. Time tracking that feeds directly into billing.

Built for: Professional services, contractors, creative agencies, and consulting firms managing multiple client projects simultaneously.

Manage product inventory, equipment, or business assets across locations. Real-time stock level visibility. Automatic reorder alerts when inventory drops below thresholds. Track serial numbers, locations, and status. Integration with sales and purchasing systems. Barcode scanning for fast updates.

Built for: Retail, distribution, manufacturing, and service businesses managing physical inventory or equipment.

Automate invoice generation from project milestones or time tracking. Track estimates, proposals, invoices, and payments in one system. Integration with QuickBooks or other accounting software. Automatic payment reminders for overdue invoices. Real-time financial dashboards showing revenue, outstanding AR, and cash flow.

Built for: Any small business that bills clients and needs better financial visibility than spreadsheets provide.

Give clients secure web access to view project status, download files, submit requests, and approve work—without email chaos. Automated status updates. Document sharing organized by project. Approval workflows. Reduce “where are we?” emails and streamline client communication.

Built for: Service providers, agencies, and consultants who want clients to self-serve project information instead of emailing constantly.

Automate repetitive tasks that waste team time. Automatic email sequences. Task creation based on triggers. Data synchronization between systems. Document generation. Notification routing. Free your team from administrative busy work to focus on revenue-generating activities.

Built for: Growing businesses where manual processes are becoming bottlenecks and limiting growth capacity.

Custom dashboards showing metrics that matter to your business. Real-time visibility into sales pipeline, project status, financial health, and team capacity. Automated report generation and distribution. Turn data into actionable insights without manual spreadsheet compilation.


Built for: Business owners and managers who need data-driven decision making but don’t have time for manual reporting.

Connect your database to tools you already use. QuickBooks synchronization for accounting. Stripe or Square for payment processing. Mailchimp for email marketing. Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 integration. Zapier connections to hundreds of other apps. Your database becomes the hub coordinating everything.

Built for: Small businesses using multiple tools that don’t talk to each other and need automated data flow between systems.

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We’ve helped hundreds of small businesses build databases that scale with growth. Let’s discuss where your manual processes are slowing you down and what automation could solve.

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HarlowTech helped my company create a best-in-class quoting tool that was tailored to our very exacting sales process requirements.

This project saved our company hundreds of hours of time in the sales process, and boosted our ability to pull meaningful data from our formerly paper process. In addition to FileMaker and Web App projects, HarlowTech consulted with us on cybersecurity and IT issues, and I am very happy with their performance. I would be happy to work with them again in the future!

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Arecont Vision LLC