Denver
Websites and custom software for Denver small businesses
A Los Angeles team working remotely with Denver businesses, an hour behind them all year, with a climbing gym's schedule and waivers as the worked example.
Updated September 24, 2026
In short
We take on websites and custom software for small businesses in Denver, working remotely from Los Angeles. Denver runs one hour ahead of us all year, so seven hours of each working day overlap. For a gym or a studio that already pays for gym software, the right job is often a better site around it, not a new system.
How we work with Denver businesses
In short
Only an hour separates Denver from Los Angeles, and the work runs remotely across it.
Denver keeps Mountain time and moves its clocks on the same days as Los Angeles, so it stays one hour ahead all year. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Denver both sides are at work, a seven-hour window for calls.
A gym's quiet stretch usually comes at midday, inside the shared window, so reviews can happen between the morning and evening rushes.
| Pacific | Mountain |
|---|---|
| 9 a.m. | 10 a.m. |
| 10 a.m. | 11 a.m. |
| 11 a.m. | Noon |
| Noon | 1 p.m. |
| 1 p.m. | 2 p.m. |
| 2 p.m. | 3 p.m. |
| 3 p.m. | 4 p.m. |
| 4 p.m. | 5 p.m. |
- Meetings
- By video from Los Angeles, and in writing between calls
- Time zone
- Mountain Time
- Shared hours
- Denver is one hour ahead all year: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. there is 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Los Angeles.
The business mix
In short
Denver's small businesses follow the city's outdoor habits, from climbing gyms to the taprooms people visit afterward.
RiNo, the River North Art District, mixes breweries and restaurants with studios in old warehouses, and LoDo around Union Station holds offices and restaurants. The Highlands and South Broadway are known for independent shops, and Cherry Creek for its shopping district. Five Points has a long history of jazz clubs and music venues.
Aurora and Lakewood, large suburbs to the east and the west, keep home services and real estate offices busy, and Golden, in the foothills, sits close to the outdoor climbing many gym members train for.
The SBA Office of Advocacy's 2025 profile of the Denver, Aurora and Centennial metro area counts 20,679 small businesses in arts, entertainment and recreation, the census group that includes gyms. Most of them are owners working on their own, but a climbing gym is a bigger operation, with staff at the desk from morning to night.
- Climbing gyms and fitness studios
- Breweries and restaurants
- Home services
- Real estate
- Outdoor gear and retail
Source: SBA Office of Advocacy, 2025 Small Business Profile: Denver-Aurora-Centennial, read September 24, 2026.
Local platforms and directories
In short
Colorado businesses register with the Secretary of State, and the City and County of Denver licenses many kinds of business on its own.
The Colorado Secretary of State registers corporations and LLCs, and a sole owner trading under another name registers a trade name there too. Denver's Business Licensing Center keeps a directory of the business and occupational licenses the city issues, and a gym should check it before it opens.
The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce is the chamber for the region, and the Colorado SBDC offers no-cost advising to small businesses across the state, along with workshops on subjects such as marketing and taxes.
- Colorado Secretary of State, Business Organizations
where Colorado businesses register an entity or a trade name
- Denver Business Licensing Center
the city's office for business and occupational licenses
- Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce
the chamber of commerce for metro Denver
- Colorado SBDC
no-cost advising for small businesses across Colorado
What a site and back office look like for a climbing gym
In short
A climbing gym's site answers a first-timer's questions and gets the waiver signed early, and its back office runs on the gym software it already pays for.
A first visit raises the same questions: what a day pass includes, and when the intro class runs. The site should answer both on one page and link the waiver, so a new climber signs it at home instead of at the desk.
Memberships and check-in usually live in a gym management platform, and it can stay. The site's job is to show the day's schedule from that platform and send each visitor to the right sign-up.
A worked example (hypothetical)
Say an invented climbing gym in RiNo, with a bouldering floor and a yoga room, runs on a gym platform it is happy with. Its old site shows a schedule that is often wrong, and new climbers crowd the desk to sign waivers.
A Growth site at $11,900 covers it: pages for day passes, memberships, classes and the yoga room, with the schedule pulled from the platform, and the two automations of the gym's choice that the tier includes. Here those are a waiver link sent with every first booking and a note to members whose card is about to expire.
No custom app is needed while the platform does its job. After launch, the Grow care plan at $299 a month adds more hours of changes each month, for the class pages and events that change every season.
Services in Denver
A yoga studio in the Highlands or a home services company in Lakewood would lean on different parts of this list.
- Websites that put the day's schedule on the front page
- Custom apps for check-in at the front desk
- CRM records that follow a member from day pass to membership
- Ordering for taprooms that sell cans to go
- Client portals where members manage a freeze or a class pack
- Automations that remind first-timers to sign the waiver
- GEO, so answer engines get your hours and your neighborhood right
- Care plans that update the schedule pages each season
Common questions
Can a Denver climbing gym keep its gym software and still get a new site?
Yes, and it usually should. The platform holds memberships and check-in, and the new site shows its schedule and links to its sign-up pages. Custom software makes sense only when the platform stops fitting how the gym runs.
Can new climbers sign the waiver before they arrive?
Yes. The waiver link goes out with every first booking and sits on the first-visit page, so a new climber can sign it at home. If the gym's platform hosts a digital waiver, the site points to that one.
Where does a Denver business find the licenses it needs?
In the directory that the City and County of Denver's Business Licensing Center publishes, which lists the business and occupational licenses the city issues. Companies and trade names register with the Colorado Secretary of State.
Is Denver one hour ahead of Los Angeles all year?
Yes. Both cities move their clocks on the same days, so Denver stays one hour ahead, and the shared hours run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mountain time.
Can the site show how busy the gym is right now?
Only if the gym platform shares its check-in count. When it does, a line on the home page can show roughly how full the gym is, which helps members pick a quieter hour.
Start with a written plan
Tell us about the business and what you need. We reply with questions, then a written plan that lists the work and its price, and nothing starts until you have read it.