Websites, built and cared for
A beautiful, fast, findable website, designed for your organization, not stamped from a template. We build it, host it, and keep it fast and secure. It’s not a project we hand off. It’s a relationship we keep.
Craft-grade websites & softwareDo good.
Do good.
Look like it.
The organizations doing the most good often have the least to show for it online. We change that.
Beautiful, blazing-fast websites for churches, nonprofits, and mission-driven teams. Built with real craft, hosted with care, and impossible to break.
Agency-grade work. Guerrilla-grade efficiency.
The gap
Your website was the one thing you never had time for.
You built something that matters. A company, a church, a cause. A team giving its best to the work.
The website came last, because it always does. Maybe a volunteer built it, and then the volunteer moved on. Maybe you bought a template, and now you look like ten thousand other organizations that bought the same one. Either way, the site quietly stopped keeping up with who you've become.
Here's the part that stings: the people who need you are searching right now, and finding someone else. Not because that organization is better. Because their website is.
You know the fix is an agency. You also know what an agency costs. So you wait, and the site keeps underselling the best thing about you: the work itself.
That's the gap we exist to close.
What we doOne studio. One standard.
One studio. One standard.
Three ways in.
Software & strategy, when a website isn’t the whole job
Custom applications. Data platforms. AI. Marketing that actually moves people. We’ve built enterprise software and shipped for a stealth Silicon Valley startup. The chops are real.
Software we built for people like you
We don’t just recommend tools. We make them. TrueBoard gives boards a permanent memory; AerisForge is the engine under every site we build. Proof we can build the real thing.
Why it's different
The reason our sites don't rot
Every site we build runs on AerisForge, an engine we built ourselves because the tools everyone else uses couldn't do what we wanted. Here's what that means for you.
You own it. Actually own it.
No database to hack; your site is just files that belong to you. Leave whenever you like. We earn your business every month, and never hold it hostage.
You can’t break it.
Change your words, events, and staff as often as you like. The design and the SEO stay locked. A year and a hundred edits later, it still looks like a professional made it.
It can’t fall out of sync.
Update your data once, and it changes everywhere at once: the page, the Google listing, the social preview. No stale info hiding in a corner nobody remembers to fix.
It’s built to be found.
Underneath the design, AerisForge is a search engine’s best friend: the technical foundations Google rewards (the ones most sites get wrong and never catch) are correct by default.
This is why we can charge less than an agency and still out-craft one. The engine does the heavy lifting, so we spend our time where it counts: getting to know you, and crafting the design and details that make the difference.
Proof, not promisesWe're a young studio.
We're a young studio.
Our people aren't.
Featured: a church we built for
Lighthouse Covenant Church
A home online as welcoming as their Sunday morning: fast, warm, and easy to find. It's the site we point every church to first, because it's the clearest picture of what we do.
See it live at lighthousewestsac.comLeading a church? See how we build churches a home online.
100Lighthouse
We chase a perfect 100 on Google's report card for speed, accessibility, and quality. Not because a client asked. Because we can't help it.
We've built for
Different worlds. One standard.
Julie Patterson
Experience Designer & Digital Strategist
A decade leading marketing at The Salvation Army, one of the largest nonprofits on earth. She knows mission-driven work from the inside.
Rob Hughes
Founder & Technology Visionary
Helped invent the Wi-Fi camera industry and built video tech for an app used by 12 million people. When the tools fell short, he built his own.
JT Taylor
Solutions Architect & .NET/Oracle Guru
Marine veteran, .NET and Oracle specialist, Snowflake expert, the one you want when it absolutely has to work.
For boards
Explore TrueBoard Sit on a board? We built something for that, too.
TrueBoard is board governance with a permanent memory: files, minutes, motions, and votes in one record that never forgets. Made for churches and nonprofits that have outgrown shared drives and group texts. It's ours, start to finish.
Who we are
There's a particular ache in watching a good organization lose to a lesser one — for no better reason than a better website.
We've seen it too many times. A church with a beautiful mission and an invisible presence. A nonprofit changing real lives, stranded on the third page of Google. A founder pouring everything into the work, and losing the room to a competitor with worse ideas and a slicker page. Good work, going unseen.
We started Aeris Labs to close that gap. To take the kind of craft that big companies pay agencies a fortune for, and put it in the hands of the people who could never afford it, and need it the most.
We're proudly for-profit. But we choose our clients the way we'd hope you'd choose us: for what they stand for, not only for what they can spend.
Not the cheapest. Not the biggest. Not for everyone. But if you're building something good, and you want it met by something worthy — you've found your studio.
Let's give your best work the front door it deserves.
A conversation is thirty minutes. No pressure, no canned pitch. If we're a fit, we'll show you how. If we're not, we'll say so, and point you somewhere better.