About
Built for the trades - because we run one.
French Press Labs is the in-house development team at French Press Custom - a 30-person production business in Santa Fe Springs, CA that's been shipping custom work since 2010. We understand calls-per-week, crew scheduling, seasonal revenue, and what a missed lead actually costs - because we live it.
Origin
Labs didn't start as an agency. It started as an internal tools team.
We built a full ERP for ourselves: production pipeline, sales CRM, quote engine, QuickBooks integration, payroll, inventory sync across three supplier APIs, customer portal, marketing automation. 40,000+ lines of code. It runs our business every day.
Clients kept asking us to build it for them. Eventually enough asked that we stopped saying no - and Labs is what came out of it.
This site was built on the exact same stack we sell. That's not a coincidence. If you're going to trust us with yours, you should be able to audit ours.
How we work
Four rules.
Non-negotiable.
Operator lens on every deliverable
We run our own QuickBooks, our own payroll, our own production schedule, our own inventory sync. When we recommend an automation, we've lived with the consequences.
We ship, then we ship again
No 12-week "discovery" phases with nothing to show. We move fast, commit often, and course-correct in public. Our clients know what's shipping every week.
Honest reads over retainers
If the work isn't delivering, we say so. If you should stop paying us, we'll tell you. The alternative - extending engagements that don't work - is how agencies go out of business slowly.
No subcontracting
Your project runs through the same people every week. No junior pod, no offshore handoff, no account manager playing telephone with the actual builders.
The parent brand
French Press Custom
Our 16-person production team runs screen printing, DTG, DTF, and embroidery out of a 10,000 sq ft facility in Santa Fe Springs. 4,355+ five-star reviews. 40,000+ orders shipped.
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Running a real production business
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40k+
Orders shipped
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