Software Studio · Los Angeles
Platform Engineering · Partner delivery

Ride dispatch: 3,000 calls a day, 25% less overhead.

A Los Angeles design-and-development studio needed the engineering half of a big one: an automated ride dispatch and tracking platform for patient transport, handling 3,000+ calls a day. We took it A–Z — IT strategy, architecture, web development, third-party API integration, automation — unifying ride-share platforms into one interface where operators see the cheapest price, shortest wait, and most efficient ride. Result: overhead down 25% versus other providers’ cost per ride.

−25%
Overhead per ride versus other providers — the metric the whole platform exists to move
The challenge

Patient ride scheduling at 3,000+ calls a day, spread across disconnected ride-share platforms.

What shipped

Architecture → web app → ride-share API integrations → automation — one dispatch interface, A–Z.

The result

25% lower overhead per ride · "everyone is really happy with the solution" · still supporting it.

Industry
Healthcare transport
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Engagement
2018 – ongoing
Platform
Web app · ride-share APIs
Motions
Discover · Configure · Integrate · Operate
Discover
2018 · IT strategy + architecture
Configure
Web application build
Integrate
Ride-share API + automation
Operate
Live · ongoing support
01 / The situation

What was actually happening.

Patient appointments and ride scheduling at volume — over 3,000 calls a day — with operators juggling separate ride-share platforms to find a car. Every booking meant comparing prices, wait times, and routes by hand across systems that didn’t talk. The studio could design it; the architecture, integrations, and automation needed a build partner.

02 / Pain point matrix

Where it hurt most.

Operational impact → Frequency → Monitor Critical Low priority Fix fast
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  • 1Disconnected ride platformsOperators hand-comparing prices and wait times across separate systems.
  • 23,000+ daily callsVolume that turns every manual step into a payroll line.
  • 3Overhead per rideCost per ride above market — the number the business lived or died on.
  • 4Studio without the build armDesign capability in-house; architecture and integration needed a partner.
03 / What we shipped

The work, in motion.

Not development alone — the whole IT strategy. Architecture first, then the web application, third-party ride-share API integrations, and the automation tools that removed the hand-comparison entirely. A five-person pod, communicating over Jira and Slack: “the collaboration was efficient because of their good communication skills.”

OS modules used Dispatch engineBest-ride selectionRide-share APIsLive tracking
3,000+ CALLSper day · patients ONE DISPATCH INTERFACE cheapest price · shortest wait most efficient ride ride-share APIs unified −25%overhead per ride BUILT A–Z FOR A DESIGN STUDIO'S CLIENT · SUPPORTED SINCE 2018
{{VIDEO — dispatch interface walkthrough · awaiting capture}}
{{GIF — best-ride selection}}
{{GIF — live tracking view}}
One screen picks the ride — price, wait, and route already compared.
04 / The ROI

Measured, not promised.

−25%
Overhead versus other providers' cost per ride — the platform's reason to exist
3,000+
Calls handled per day — appointments and ride scheduling, automated
5.0
Quality + schedule, verified — "not cheap; the value is quite high though"

At 3,000 calls a day, a 25% overhead cut isn’t a feature — it’s the margin.

In their words

“Their strongest side is managing the expectations of the client and the deliverable. They’re good at achieving the end result. Everyone is really happy with the solution — it’s working well.”

Director of Operations, software studio (Los Angeles) · verified Clutch interview, Dec 2019
Under the hood
Web applicationRide-share APIsDispatch automationArchitecture A–Z

End-to-end ownership: technical architecture, web application, third-party ride-share API integrations, and automation. The dispatch interface resolves pickup, destination, price, and wait across platforms in a single operator flow — delivered for the studio's third-party client, supported since.

−25%overhead per ride · “good at achieving the end result” — Director of Ops, LA studio

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