A small studio in Burbank that builds unreasonably fast websites for LA businesses.
AAX Agency exists because the small-business web is broken in a specific, fixable way. A local shop pays a few thousand dollars for a website, gets a page-builder template stuffed with plugins, and ends up with something that takes six seconds to load, cannot be edited without a support ticket, and never appears in a single Google search that matters.
We build the other thing. Custom code, written for your business, on the same stack modern software companies use. Local SEO that targets the searches your customers actually type. Marketing measured in phone calls. And a report each month that a normal person can read.
- Burbank
- Where we are
- 204
- Cities served
- 5
- Counties
- 13
- Regions
Six things we believe, including the inconvenient ones.
Every agency says they are honest and transparent. Here is the specific version, so you can hold us to it.
Speed is a feature, not a nice-to-have
Roughly half of mobile visitors abandon a page that takes more than three seconds. Most small-business sites take four to eight. That is not a design problem — it is a revenue problem, and it is the first thing we fix.
You should be able to leave
Registering a client's domain to the agency is common and, in our view, indefensible. Everything we build is in your name from day one. If you ever want to go elsewhere, we hand over the keys the same week.
Guarantees are a red flag
Nobody controls Google's ranking algorithm — Google's own guidelines say to be wary of anyone who claims otherwise. We guarantee the work and the reporting. The rankings we earn.
Reports should be readable
If a monthly report needs a translator, it is hiding something. Ours fit on a page: where you rank, how many people called, what it cost, and what we are doing next month.
Local means local
We are twenty minutes from most of our clients. That matters when you want someone to actually look at your shop, your menu, your fleet — the things that make your business specific.
Say the uncomfortable thing
Sometimes the honest answer is that you do not need what you asked for, or that your budget is not yet at a level where ads will work. Saying so costs us a sale and earns us a client for years.
We know the difference between Sherman Oaks and San Pedro.
That sounds like a throwaway line. It is not. Search behavior, competition levels, languages, price expectations and even the devices people use vary enormously across this region.
Local, not offshore
We are in Burbank. We answer the phone, we know the difference between Sherman Oaks and San Pedro, and we can meet you at your shop.
Custom code, no page builders
Every site is written in Next.js and React. That is why ours load in under a second while template sites crawl.
You own your assets
Domain, hosting, code and analytics stay in your name. No lock-in, no ransom, no mystery logins.
Numbers, not vibes
Rankings, calls, form fills, cost per lead. Reported monthly in plain English, including the months that go sideways.
Regions we cover
- San Fernando Valley
- Central LA
- Westside
- South Bay
- Harbor Area
- Gateway Cities
- San Gabriel Valley
- Conejo Valley
- Santa Clarita Valley
- North Orange County
- Central Orange County
- South Orange County
- Inland Empire
A real person answers. If we are on a build, leave a message and you will hear back the same day.
Want to see whether we are actually any good?
Ask for the free audit. You will get a specific, technical read on your site and your local search presence — which is a much better test of an agency than a portfolio page.
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