A shop owner outside a single-storey Los Angeles storefront at golden hour, palms and dry hills behind the rooftops
Greater Los Angeles, CA

Web, app and AI development for Los Angeles businesses

Built for a city where your customer is twelve freeway miles away and searching on a phone.

Los Angeles County contains 88 incorporated cities, and a resident of Sherman Oaks will not drive to Long Beach for a dentist, a detailer or a physiotherapist. That single fact breaks most of the digital marketing sold to LA businesses: agencies build one site targeting "Los Angeles", then wonder why it ranks nowhere useful. The businesses that win here are visible in Santa Monica, Pasadena, Glendale, Culver City and the Valley as separate markets.

Free quote for your Los Angeles business

Fixed price in writing, within 24 hours.

Your details stay private. We never sell or share them.

A real quote in 24 hours — not a sales sequence.

Serving all of Greater Los AngelesWebsites from $169Apps from $1,049SEO from $299/moFixed price in writingYou own the code

The short answer

Who builds websites and apps for businesses in Los Angeles?

Mana Studio builds websites, mobile apps, ecommerce stores, AI automation and SEO for Los Angeles businesses, working remotely from India with published fixed prices — a landing page at $169, a full business website at $499, ecommerce from $1,249, app MVPs from $1,049 and local SEO at $299 a month. We are not based in Los Angeles and we say so rather than renting a virtual address; what is local is the work — your Google Business Profile, the Los Angeles search terms we target, the competitors we benchmark you against, and schema that tells Google exactly which parts of Greater Los Angeles you serve.

Doing business in Los Angeles

What makes Los Angeles its own market

Layered on top is an entertainment and creator economy that has quietly rewritten what a small business site is expected to look like. Your customer in LA has spent years scrolling professionally-produced video. A static, text-heavy site reads as dated here faster than almost anywhere else in the country — which is why video-first landing pages and short-form ad creative do disproportionate work in this market.

What anchors the local economy

  • The Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach — the busiest container complex in the Western Hemisphere
  • The studio corridor from Burbank to Culver City
  • Cedars-Sinai and the UCLA and USC health systems
  • The Fashion District and the Downtown garment and wholesale trade
  • El Segundo's aerospace and space-technology cluster

Business districts we work across

Downtown & the Arts DistrictSanta Monica & VeniceCulver CityPasadena & GlendaleSherman Oaks & Studio CityLong BeachEl Segundo & the South BayKoreatown

Who we build for

Los Angeles industries — and what each one usually needs first

We'll tell you honestly which of these applies to you, including when it's less than you came to buy.

Entertainment & production services

Portfolio sites, reel hosting, crew booking

Import, wholesale & logistics

B2B catalogues, quote automation, order portals

Restaurants & food service

Ordering, reservations, delivery integrations

Health, wellness & med spas

Booking flow, review capture, local SEO

Real estate & property management

Listing sites, lead routing, tenant portals

Aerospace & advanced manufacturing

Capability sites, RFQ workflows

The Los Angeles problem

What's actually costing Los Angeles businesses customers

Three things we see repeatedly in this market specifically — not a generic list.

One site trying to rank for a county of ten million people

Targeting "Los Angeles" puts you in a fight with every agency, franchise and national brand at once. Targeting Culver City, Glendale, Torrance and Sherman Oaks individually puts you in five fights you can actually win — and those are the searches your real customers type.

Agency rates set by Westside office rent

LA studios routinely quote $12,000–$30,000 for a business website, and a meaningful part of that number is overhead you don't benefit from. We publish our prices instead, and they are set against our delivery cost in India, not against a lease in Santa Monica.

Beautiful sites that fail on a phone

LA has a strong design culture and a weak performance culture. We see gorgeous, heavy, image-stacked sites that take eight seconds to load on cellular — which is exactly how most of this city browses. Fixing Core Web Vitals on an existing site is often worth more than a redesign, and we'll say so if that's your situation.

What we'd do about it

Where the leverage is in Los Angeles

The services that move the needle most in this market, and why.

Neighbourhood-level local SEO, not city-level

SEO from $299

We build and optimise pages for the specific parts of LA you actually serve, set your Google Business Profile service area to match how far you'll really travel, and target the suburb-plus-service terms with real intent behind them.

Short-form ad creative that survives an LA feed

AI Videos from $29

In a city where your customer's baseline is professionally produced content, a static ad gets scrolled past. AI-produced video ads let you run and test creative weekly at a cost that makes weekly testing rational.

Sites that load fast on cellular in traffic

Websites from $169

Next.js builds with green Core Web Vitals, because a large share of LA local searches happen from a phone on a bad connection — and the site that loads gets the call.

Pricing in USD

What we build for Los Angeles businesses

Published fixed prices — the number in the proposal is the number on the invoice. Click any service for the full package breakdown.

From

$169

Website Development

Fast, mobile-first websites built on Next.js — designed to rank on Google and turn visitors into booked calls.

  • Custom design — never a recycled template
  • Next.js build: 90+ PageSpeed, Core Web Vitals green
  • On-page SEO, schema markup and sitemap done at build time
  • Click-to-call, WhatsApp and booking-form wiring
Launch in 7–21 daysSee pricing

From

$1,049

App Development

iOS and Android apps from one React Native codebase — shipped to both stores, not left in a demo folder.

  • One React Native codebase → iOS + Android
  • Backend API, database and admin dashboard
  • Stripe / in-app purchase payments
  • Push notifications and deep links
MVP in 6–10 weeksSee pricing

From

$29

AI Videos

Scroll-stopping ads, reels and product videos produced with AI — no film crew, no studio day, no $5,000 invoice.

  • AI-generated ad creatives and product videos
  • Reels & Shorts cut for Instagram, TikTok and YouTube
  • AI avatar spokespeople and voiceover in English
  • Captions, hooks and thumbnails included
First cut in 48 hoursSee pricing

From

$299

SEO

Get found by US customers who are already searching for exactly what you sell — locally and nationally.

  • Technical SEO audit and hands-on fixes
  • Google Business Profile optimisation for the map pack
  • Keyword research aimed at buyers, not browsers
  • On-page optimisation and content that ranks
Map-pack wins in 30–90 daysSee pricing

From

$499

AI Automation

We find the manual work eating your team's week and automate it — quoting, invoicing, onboarding, reporting, data entry. Built on your existing tools, not a platform you have to migrate to.

  • A mapped audit of where your hours actually go
  • Automations built on the tools you already pay for
  • AI steps for the judgement work rules can't handle
  • Error alerts to a human when something looks wrong
Live in 2–5 weeksSee pricing

From

$399

Workflow Automation

The repetitive steps between your apps, handled automatically — quotes to invoices, forms to CRM, orders to fulfilment, approvals to payment.

  • A written map of the process before we build it
  • Automated handoffs between your existing tools
  • Conditional logic for the exceptions
  • Approval steps wherever a human should decide
First workflow live in 10 daysSee pricing

From

$899

AI Agents

Custom AI agents that do real work inside your business — reading documents, researching leads, drafting replies, updating records — with guardrails and a human check where it matters.

  • An agent scoped to one job it can do reliably
  • Connected to your real tools and data
  • Guardrails on what it may and may not do
  • Human approval before anything irreversible
First agent live in 3 weeksSee pricing

From

$699

AI Voice Agents

An AI receptionist that answers every call, books appointments straight into your calendar, and texts you the ones that need a human. No more missed calls after hours.

  • A natural-sounding agent trained on your business
  • Books directly into your real calendar
  • Answers your actual FAQs, hours and pricing
  • Warm transfer to a human when asked
Answering calls in 2–3 weeksSee pricing

From

$299

AI Chatbots

A chatbot that actually knows your business — trained on your documents, pricing and policies — answering support questions and capturing leads instead of frustrating people.

  • Trained on your real documents and pages
  • Says 'I don't know' instead of inventing answers
  • Captures the lead before the visitor leaves
  • Hands off to your team with the full transcript
Live in 7–14 daysSee pricing
Pay byWire / ACH transferCredit card (Stripe)PayPalZelleWise— invoiced in USD

A typical project

What a typical LA project looks like

A five-location med spa across the Westside and the Valley: one main site, five location pages targeting the suburb terms, a booking flow wired to their existing scheduler, review capture after each appointment, and monthly short-form video for paid social.

An illustrative scope, not a named client — real work we've shipped is linked below and you can open any of it.

Our Work

Real client work you can open right now

Live sites and products we've actually shipped. We'd rather you judged the work than the pitch.

Rami Silks — built by Mana Studio
E-commerce

Rami Silks

Full-stack e-commerce platform for traditional Indian clothing with AWS integration and advanced analytics

Next.jsNode.jsMongoDBAWS S3
Dwaraka Packers & Movers – Sirisilla — built by Mana Studio
Logistics website

Dwaraka Packers & Movers – Sirisilla

After the successful launch of the first website, the client partnered with Mana Studio again to develop a dedicated website for their Sirisilla branch.

Next.jsReact.jsJavaScript (ES6+)HTML5
Dwaraka Packers and Movers — built by Mana Studio
logistics website

Dwaraka Packers and Movers

A modern, SEO-optimized website designed and developed by Mana Studio for a professional packers and movers company. From UI/UX design to full-stack development, we built a fast, mobile-friendly, and conversion-focused website that helps generate leads, build customer trust, and strengthen the brand's online presence.

Next.js React.js JavaScript (ES6+) HTML5 CSS3
Sri Laxmi Carz — built by Mana Studio
Automotive PWA

Sri Laxmi Carz

Pre-owned car dealership platform for a trusted dealer in Warangal — live inventory browsing, certified listings, and an installable PWA with offline access and instant new-arrival notifications

Next.jsPWASEOPush Notifications
Sarkari Job Samachar — built by Mana Studio
Job Portal

Sarkari Job Samachar

Comprehensive job portal for government job seekers with real-time updates and notifications

Next.jsAppwriteSEOContent Management
AlgoEdge — built by Mana Studio
Algo Trading

AlgoEdge

Automated PNL reporting platform for Tradetron Creators — real-time MTM tracking, drawdown alerts, and Telegram summaries

Tradetron APITelegram Bot

Search intent

What Los Angeles businesses and their customers search

The terms this page targets, published rather than hidden.

These are the Los Angeles searches this page is built and optimised for. The service-plus-city terms carry the commercial intent; the district-level ones convert best of all, because they match how people here actually describe where they are.

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The guarantees

What every project comes with

A fraction of US agency rates

Same senior engineers, without the $150/hour Manhattan overhead. Fixed quotes in USD, agreed before we start.

We work your hours

Daily overlap with US Eastern, Central and Pacific. Calls at 9am your time, not 9am ours.

Fluent English, direct access

You talk to the people building it — no account manager relay, no translation gap.

NDA signed before you share anything

Send yours or use ours, signed same-day at no cost. Your idea, code and data stay yours.

Fixed price, in writing

A dated proposal with scope, milestones and the final number. No hourly meter, no surprise invoices.

You own everything, always

Code, designs, hosting, domains and logins handed over in full. Nothing is locked to us.

How it works

From first message to launch

01

Free 30-minute call

Tell us what you need. We ask the questions that actually change the price, and tell you honestly if we're the wrong fit.

02

Fixed proposal in 24 hours

Scope, milestones, timeline and the exact USD number — in writing, before you pay anything.

03

NDA + 40% to start

We sign the NDA, take 40% upfront and assign your team. The rest is tied to milestones you approve.

04

Weekly demos, live preview link

A working link you can open any time, plus a weekly call. You see progress, not status reports.

05

Launch and full handover

We deploy, monitor, and hand over every login. Then we stick around — most clients stay on a retainer.

FAQ

Los Angeles — your questions answered

The local questions first, then the ones we get from everywhere.

Should I target Los Angeles or my specific neighbourhood?+
Your neighbourhood, almost always. "Los Angeles" terms are dominated by national brands and directories, and the traffic they send is geographically useless — someone in Pomona finding a Santa Monica studio isn't a lead. Ranking for Culver City, Glendale, Torrance or the Valley delivers customers who will actually show up. We'd rather build you five pages that rank than one that doesn't.
Do I need a Spanish version of my site in LA?+
It depends entirely on where you are and who you serve. For a business in East LA, Boyle Heights, Huntington Park or much of the San Fernando Valley, a properly translated Spanish version — not a Google Translate widget — measurably widens the customer base. For a B2B firm in El Segundo it usually isn't worth the maintenance. We'll look at your actual catchment and tell you which one you're in.
How do you compete with an LA agency that can meet me in person?+
For some businesses, we shouldn't — if you need someone in the room weekly, hire locally and we'll say that on the call. What we offer instead is a published fixed price, a live preview link you can open at any hour, and the same senior person on your project throughout rather than a junior after the pitch. Most of our US clients have never met us and don't want to; they want the site launched and the price honoured.
My business serves the whole LA metro. Does the neighbourhood advice still apply?+
Yes, but differently. If you genuinely serve everywhere — a mobile detailer, an IT firm, a delivery-based business — you want one strong city page plus service-area pages for your top five zones, and a Google Business Profile with a service area drawn to match. What you don't want is fifteen near-identical suburb pages; Google reads that as doorway content and it can hurt the whole domain.
Are you actually based in Los Angeles?+
No — and we say so on the page rather than renting a virtual office address to imply otherwise. Our team is in Hyderabad and Warangal, India, and we work with Los Angeles businesses remotely: video calls, WhatsApp, and a live preview link you can open at any point during the build. What is genuinely local is the work itself — your Google Business Profile, the Los Angeles search terms we target, the competitors we benchmark you against, and the schema that tells Google exactly which area you serve.
How do I pay you from CA?+
Wire or ACH, Zelle, credit card through Stripe, PayPal or Wise — invoiced in USD, with a proper invoice for your accountant. Payment is milestone-based: 40% to begin, the remainder as you approve deliverables. There is no retainer and no minimum contract on the build work.
What are your hours compared to Los Angeles?+
India runs 9.5 to 13.5 hours ahead depending on your time zone and the season, which works in your favour more than against it: work happens while you sleep, and you review it in the morning. Calls are scheduled for your evening, which is our morning. Anything urgent gets a WhatsApp reply the same day.
What if the project goes wrong?+
You own the code, the domain, the hosting account and every asset from the first day — not at handover, from the beginning. If you stop working with us, everything is already yours and there is nothing to extract. The price is fixed in writing before work starts, so the number in the proposal is the number on the invoice. Websites start at $169.
Free consultation

Let's get your Los Angeles business found

One free call. We'll tell you which Los Angeles terms are actually winnable for you — including when the honest answer is that your category is already saturated and your money is better spent elsewhere.

Prefer to talk now? +91 86885 48048 — we call US numbers back same day.