Santa Cruz, CA
Web Design & Software Development
in Santa Cruz, CA
Santa Cruz audiences expect more from a website. People here came from the Bay, work remote, or grew up around tech — they notice when a page feels slow, generic, or templated. Your site has to hold its own against anything they'd see at a YC-backed startup.
Built for the audiences Santa Cruz actually has
UC Santa Cruz students and faculty, second-wave Bay Area transplants, longtime locals, and visitors from the Valley over for the day. Each group judges your site differently — and most templates fail all four at once. We build sites that feel intentional: thoughtful typography, smooth animation, real photography, and the kind of polish you used to need a Bay-Area agency budget to get.
Who we work with in Santa Cruz
Surf and lifestyle brands looking for an e-commerce site that doesn't look like every other Shopify storefront. Makers, artists, and small studios who need a portfolio that does justice to the work. Independent restaurants on Pacific and Soquel that want reservations and menu updates they can manage themselves. Service businesses — fitness studios, wellness practices, independent practitioners — that need to convert visitors to booked appointments. Small SaaS or hardware startups that need a real engineer for their marketing site, not a designer with a Webflow login.
What you get
Custom code, no templates. Next.js, React, and TypeScript with performance budgets that hit green Core Web Vitals on the first commit. SEO, AEO, and GEO engineered in from day one — schema markup, sitemaps, and AI-engine-friendly content structure. A site that's as nice to update as it is to look at, with a direct line to the engineer behind it.
Santa Cruz businesses
Let's build something good
We'll talk through what you're building, what audience you're trying to reach, and what a realistic timeline looks like. Thirty minutes, on Zoom, free.