Live work, and the bar every build has to clear.
Every site below is live right now. Open one on your phone and judge it the way your customers will — a screenshot in a mockup proves nothing, a site that loads instantly proves a lot.
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Robert's Shoe Repair
Robert's Shoe Repair
Cobbler & leather repair · Atwater Village, Los Angeles
Thirty years at the bench and almost nothing online. The job was to make a neighbourhood institution findable across the whole east side.
What we built
- Full custom rebuild with a warm, editorial design
- Service area pages covering the surrounding neighbourhoods
- Repair gallery built from the shop's own photography
- Verbatim customer reviews, shown with their real source
- Click-to-call and directions fixed to the screen on mobile
Robert's Shoe Repair, project 1 of 5
Four things we will not ship without.
These are not aspirations. If a build misses one of them, it does not launch.
Under 1 second
Largest Contentful Paint benchmarked on a throttled mobile connection — not on your office fiber. We send you the before/after report.
Indexable by design
Server-rendered HTML, clean heading structure, unique titles and descriptions, XML sitemap, and validated LocalBusiness schema on every page.
Mobile-first, actually
Tested on real devices at real screen sizes. Tap targets sized properly, click-to-call always reachable, forms usable one-handed.
Accessible & owned
WCAG 2.2 AA targets, keyboard navigable, screen-reader tested. Domain, hosting, repo and analytics all registered in your name.
Four shapes of project, tuned to what your customer is trying to do.
A plumber and a med spa need genuinely different sites. These are the templates of thinking we start from — never templates of code.
The local service site
Plumbers, electricians, HVAC, roofers, landscapers
- Service pages for each trade you offer
- City pages for the markets you cover
- Click-to-call fixed on mobile
- Quote request form routed to your phone
- Review showcase pulled from Google
Built to win emergency searches and convert in one tap.
The practice site
Dentists, medical, chiropractic, med spas, law firms
- Practitioner and treatment pages
- Online booking or intake integration
- Insurance and pricing transparency blocks
- Before/after or results galleries where appropriate
- HIPAA-conscious form handling
Built for credibility first, because that is what gets the booking.
The storefront
Restaurants, cafés, retail, salons, studios
- Menu or catalog that loads instantly
- Reservations, ordering or booking integration
- Location, hours and parking done properly
- Photo-forward design that survives compression
- Google Business Profile fully aligned to the site
Built so a hungry person on a phone finds you and acts in 30 seconds.
The commerce build
Product brands, wholesalers, specialty retail
- Shopify or custom headless storefront
- Product pages structured for search
- Fast collection filtering
- Stripe or Shopify Payments
- Local pickup and delivery zones
Built to rank locally and sell nationally at the same time.
Every case study we publish is approved by the client and backed by their own data.
You can see the work above and judge it yourself. Numbers are a different matter: we release traffic, ranking and lead figures only with written client approval, and only where they come directly from Google Search Console, Analytics and call tracking. No estimates, no rounded-up percentages.
To evaluate the work before you commit, request an audit. You'll receive a technical review of your own site — load performance, indexation, Google Business Profile and competitor positioning — which is a more useful measure of an agency than a portfolio grid.
Ready to stop losing customers to a slow website?
Tell us your city and what you do. We will run a free audit on your site, your Google Business Profile and your top three local competitors — and send you the findings whether or not you hire us.
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