Red Maya Media helps small businesses cut busywork and ship the tools they actually need. I advise on where AI fits, automate the workflows eating your week, and build custom web and mobile apps you own — so you spend less time on spreadsheets and more time on the business.
We're not an enterprise consultancy. We're a small studio helping small businesses ship the tools they've been trying to build for years.
We start with what your business actually needs to run better. Not a 40-page roadmap — a working plan you can afford and understand.
One consultant, front to back. Web and iOS, designed and built together. Weekly working demos — the real product, not slides.
Menu-from-a-photo, auto-categorized transactions, drafted customer replies. AI on the parts of your workflow that eat your day — nowhere else.
You're hiring judgment — not a black box. I say clearly what I own and where AI helps me move faster.
I own the decisions that shape your brand, your customer experience, and how your software works day to day. AI doesn't set your pricing, pick your look, or decide what to build.
I use AI the way a good editor uses a spellchecker — always reviewed, never trusted blind. That is how a solo consultant ships in weeks what used to take a big shop months, at a fraction of the cost.
I build my own products alongside client work — for small operators, just like the ones I work with. It keeps me honest, and it proves the method before I sell it.
Menu · website · Dish Pages · social
Turn the menu into the restaurant's marketing system.
Manage the menu once. Publish a branded website, SEO Dish Pages, social posts, and analytics from the same source of truth.
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IRS WISP · FTC Safeguards for tax firms
Annual WISP compliance without the scramble.
Guided reviews, devices, vendors, training, and packet export — built for solo and small-firm tax preparers who don't have an IT department.
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Strict-mode iOS budgeting
A budget that actually stops overspending.
Every category has a hard cap. Cross it and the app tells you loudly — no reports after the fact. Built for solo operators and households, not banks.
One menu system for the website, SEO Dish Pages, social posts, and analytics — so owners stop rebuilding the same content by hand.
Categories, prices, tags, specials, and photos — the source of truth every other surface reads from.
Hero, about, gallery, and menu preview — without hiring a web designer or rebuilding pages by hand.
Every item gets its own page and URL — so guests searching the dish land on you, not a marketplace.
Pull a dish into Social Hub, format a post or story, write with AI, and prepare Instagram and Facebook shares.
Page views, dish detail views, QR visits, and CTA clicks — so owners know which dishes and links earn attention.
Three phases. Fixed fee per phase. Walk away between any two — no long-term contracts, no hostage-taking.
One workshop, two working sessions. You leave with a concrete build plan and a signed price for the actual work — a real deliverable, not a proposal.
Weekly working demos, not status updates. You use the product while I build it. First real feature in week two.
Optional monthly retainer for iteration and monitoring. Or hand off to a freelancer or in-house developer — repo, docs, and a two-hour walkthrough are yours either way.
As a small business, I couldn't afford a six-figure quote or a nine-month timeline. Red Maya was the only one who actually listened before pitching. They told us we didn't need half the features the bigger shops were charging us for — then they shipped in nine weeks for a price I could stomach.
Red Maya is run by an operator who's lived every seat on a software team — enterprise, mid-market, and scrappy small-business builds. AI-accelerated work doesn't cut corners on the parts most studios forget: the quality gate, the timeline, the honest stakeholder conversation.
You get a partner who's shipped enterprise releases and one-person MVPs — and knows which one fits your small business.
No. AI drafts and accelerates — humans decide, design, and ship. Every line of AI-drafted code is reviewed by a senior engineer before it's merged. If you want a black box that generates untested code, we're not it.
Almost certainly not. Most of our clients are one- to twenty-person operations. If the project fits inside a weekend of work, we'll say so and point you at a good freelancer. Anything bigger is our sweet spot.
Most automation agencies wire no-code tools inside their own accounts and rent them back to you monthly. We build real software that you own — code, infrastructure, and data — so your business isn't held hostage to our subscription.
No. Fixed fees only. Equity distorts recommendations. Performance pricing pushes toward features that goose short-term metrics. Neither serves you.
The $4,500 Blueprint — priced so a small business can afford to find out whether it's worth building at all. If it isn't, you keep the plan.
Yes — roughly half our work is this. We deliver into your repo, follow your review process, match your stack. Ego is not a deliverable.
We'll say so and build the boring version. About 30% of "AI projects" we scope end up as normal software with one small model call somewhere. That's a good outcome.
Tell us a little about your business and what you're trying to build. We reply within one business day with a proposed time — or with an honest "this isn't the right fit" and a pointer to someone who is.
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