About Opexcell
Who builds this.
Opexcell builds custom automation for operations-heavy businesses, mostly law firms and medical practices. The idea is simple. Growing the business should stop meaning another hire.
The short version
Opexcell is run by Drew Patterson, out of Houston. Before the agency, Drew spent about seven months as a partner at a Social Security Disability firm, Brad Thomas Disability, not an employee, actually in the operation. The firm went from about $7.1M to $15M while he was there. He rebuilt the whole back office.
Here is the honest part, because it matters. The automation did not cause that growth. What it did was carry the operational load, so the same team could handle roughly double the volume without drowning in it. That distinction is the entire pitch. We do not sell you a revenue number. We take the busywork off your people so the number you already have room to hit stops being capped by how fast you can hire.
How the work is built
Most of it is custom code. Python, official APIs, and browser automation only in the spots where a system genuinely has no API to talk to. That is more work up front than dragging boxes around in a no-code tool, and it is the reason the systems survive portals, messy documents, and the edge cases that quietly break a Zapier flow.
Everything gets built inside the accounts and tools the client already uses, so it belongs to them and not to us. Our deepest experience is with Clio, where we run five production integrations sharing one OAuth token chain.
No single point of failure
A second engineer builds alongside Drew, so the work does not stall when one person is heads-down or out. And every system ships with a runbook, plain documentation of what it does, how it runs, and how to fix it.
If Opexcell vanished tomorrow, a client’s systems would keep running, and any competent developer could pick them up from the runbooks. That is on purpose. You should never be locked in to us to keep your own operation alive.
Where we are
See what this looks like in practice.
Read how we ran the operation for a disability firm through a period where it nearly doubled, or look at what we actually automate.
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