Your digital partner when you can’t afford to get it wrong.
For over 20 years, we’ve helped complex organizations think through, design, and build software that holds up, and left their teams stronger for it.
RECENT WORK
Fresh honey from the hive.
Custom Truck Equipment
Own the machine.
eCommerce · Systems Integration · Data Pipelines · B2C
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Jumbo
Built when the world shut down. Still going strong six years later.
SaaS Platform · Virtual Events · App Build · Video
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New Georgia Encyclopedia
Georgia’s encyclopedia was disappearing from the internet.
Research · SEO / AEO · Wordpress · Accessibility
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Georgia Department of Audits & Accounts
Auditing the auditors.
Government · Accessibility · Information Architecture · Wordpress
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Central Arkansas Library System
The audit said fix it. The math said start over.
Institutional · Design Systems · Accessibility · Wordpress
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Stone Mountain Park
Nobody noticed. That was the assignment.
Data Migration · Systems Integration · Design Systems · WordPress
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SKILLS & CAPABILITIES
Yes, we do that.
Design
- Product & app design
- Branding
- Marketing sites
- Data-dense interfaces
- Research & prototyping
- Information architecture
- Design systems
- Accessibility
Technology
- Full-stack app development
- CMS platforms like WordPress, Webflow, HubSpot, and Shopify
- Legacy systems & gnarly integrations
- Live data feeds & multi-source reconciliation
- E-commerce & payments
- Performance & Core Web Vitals
Strategy
- Discovery workshops
- SEO, AEO & conversion optimization
- Analytics, GTM & measurement
- Content strategy
- Design, code & accessibility reviews
- Honest technology advice
- Figuring out the right thing before anyone builds it
But do you work with [PLATFORM]?
Yes. We frequently onboard to new platforms. The learning curve is our problem, not yours.
OUR STUDIO
We’re small by design.
Army of Bees
The partners do the work- You talk to the people building it
- One team, no departments
- Built for you to run yourself
- Low overhead, priced like it
- We’ll tell you when you shouldn’t build
Traditional Agency
- A junior team you’ll never meet
- An account manager relaying messages
- Handoffs between siloed teams
- Built so you’re dependent on them
- A Midtown lobby that you’re paying for
- Whatever’s in the brief, billed hourly
Doing It Yourself
- You, at 2am, learning as you go
- You’re the whole team now
- Disconnected tools in different tabs
- Yours to run... and yours to debug
- Cheap upfront, expensive when it breaks
- Nobody tells you when you’re wrong
The People on Your Calls
Tim Wheelock
Martin Parets
Steve Farley
The Hive
Trusted senior specialists pulled in when a project needs more hands.
TENETS
Rules we work by.
A user interface is like a joke
If you have to explain it, it’s not very good.
We’ll tell you when you’re wrong.
That’s what you’re paying for. Your call still wins.
Sometimes the boring solution is the right one.
Conventions are conventions for a reason.
You should outgrow us.
We build systems your team runs on their own. No retainer required.
Accessibility is just good design.
The curb cut helps everyone.
Scrolljacking is almost always a bad idea.
There’s been loads of studies about this. Just don’t.
The unglamorous work is the work.
Data plumbing, integrations, edge cases. That’s where projects live or die.
Rules are just guidelines.
Including these. An expert knows when to break them.
