1. Start with the firm’s actual bottleneck
East San Gabriel is recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California, with a 2020–2024 ACS five-year population estimate of 23,410 and a margin of error of 1,651. For custom software, its practical value is narrower: it confirms the local service context in which your firm should define its operating problem. Your requirement should come from an observable task inside the firm.
Recommended approach
Write the problem as an action your staff performs repeatedly: entering the same intake information in multiple places, answering routine status questions, maintaining a referral spreadsheet or routing new inquiries from a shared inbox. Then identify who performs the task, what information they use, where the process stops and what a successful result would look like. If the problem cannot be described without jumping to a product, keep investigating before commissioning a build.
