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Websites built with care, shipped with speed.

A small studio for custom websites, AI-assisted applications, and the quieter work of making the web fast, findable, and open to everyone.

Services

What we
actually do.

Four threads of work, one studio. Each project pulls from whichever ones the problem needs — often all four at once.

01 / 04
Custom websites
DesignFront-endCMS

Hand-crafted sites, built for the brand in front of me — not a template. Typography, motion, and layout treated as first-class tools, not decoration bolted on at the end.

02 / 04
AI-built applications
LLMPrototypingIntegrations

Real working applications powered by AI where it earns its place — tools that draft, summarize, search, or personalize — wired to the data and workflows you already have.

03 / 04
Accessibility, by default
WCAG 2.2AuditsRemediation

Semantic HTML, keyboard-first flows, legible color, honest focus states. Accessibility isn't a checklist I run at the end — it's how the thing is built from the first commit.

04 / 04
SEO that sticks
Technical SEOSchemaContent

Fast, crawlable, structured. Page speed, metadata, schema, sitemaps, and content architecture tuned so your site actually shows up — and keeps showing up.

Capabilities

The bench
is deep.

A spread of disciplines that live under one roof, so the handoffs between design, engineering, and content never quite become handoffs.

a

Design & direction

Brand systems, art direction, and interface design carried from sketch to shipped product.

b

Front-end engineering

React, Next.js, Astro, vanilla — whatever the project actually needs. Hand-written, well-tested, fast.

c

AI integration

LLM-backed features, retrieval systems, AI-assisted authoring tools, and honest evaluation of what belongs.

d

Accessibility audits

WCAG 2.2 AA reviews with a prioritized remediation plan — and hands-on fixes, not just a PDF.

e

Search & performance

Core Web Vitals, structured data, sitemaps, and content architecture tuned for real traffic.

f

Ongoing partnership

Monthly retainers for clients who'd rather have a studio on call than a new vendor every quarter.

How we work

A short
honest process.

Four stages, no mystery. Most projects finish in four to eight weeks, and you're in the loop every week.

i
Listen

A call, a shared doc, and questions until the brief is tight.

ii
Shape

Wireframes, moodboards, and a plan you can actually sign off on.

iii
Build

Design and code in parallel, with a staging link live from week one.

iv
Launch

Ship, monitor, and stay close while the site settles into the world.

No. 481 · A note

The best websites feel unhurried. They load quickly, respond honestly, and say what they mean. That's what we build.

— the studio Michigan · remote
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