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Websites Apps Brand SEO AI Tools

Websites, apps, brand, and AI tools, built by one person who does the work of five. No agency layers, no markup, no waiting. Built fast and smart from Carpinteria, California.

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Fast Websites

Custom-built, SEO baked in from line one. Not a template. Not Wix. Built to work as hard as you do.

Starting at $5,000
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Web Apps

Manual processes eating your time. Workflows with no good tool yet. I find the right approach and build it.

Starting at $7,500
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Brand & Design

Identity, content, and search strategy. The connective tissue that makes everything else perform.

Starting at $7,500
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AI for Business

Not hype. Tools that change how your business operates, built by someone doing this since day one.

$150 / hour
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Experience is sedimentary.

Built to perform,
not just impress.

Websites

Surface
Lab

01

Custom architectural features in advanced materials. Built a clean, product-forward site that lets the material do the talking. No marketing gloss, no fluff. For a niche audience that cares about finish, not funnels.

Website Design Brand
surfacelab.us →
SurfaceLAB homepage

Healthy
Carpinteria

02

Personal training and nutrition coaching. Custom editorial design built from scratch, full SEO implementation baked in from line one, deployed to production. Not a template. Not Squarespace.

Website Design SEO
healthycarpinteria.com →
Healthy Carpinteria homepage

Gimenez
Consulting

03

Preconstruction consulting. Built a complete brand identity from zero. Concrete and brass palette, Cormorant Garamond display type, single-page professional site deployed to production with Google Workspace email.

Website Brand Identity
gimenezconsulting.com →
Gimenez Consulting homepage

Art of
Books

04

An online museum for turn-of-the-century book covers. Editorial design at archive scale. The collection is the feature, the interface stays out of the way. Currently in final development.

Website Archive Editorial
artofbooks.org →
Art of Books homepage
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Apps

Environmental
Assessment

01

A workspace for environmental consultants to pull EDR data, Sanborn maps, city directories, and regulatory databases into one project view. Track findings, flag RECs, and generate ASTM-compliant Phase I reports without rebuilding the same tables for every site.

App Environmental Phase I
Internal app
Environmental Assessment app

Brando

02

Brando is a guided brand-building app for small teams who want a clear, resilient brand without hiring an agency. Walks you through the story, the audience, the enemy, and the messaging matrix in one sitting. Built for founders who want a brand they can actually use, not a deck they'll never open.

App Brand In Progress
In development
Brando app

Family
Economics

03

A secure app for families to track expenses, investments, taxes, and income in one place. See what's burning and what's saving every month. Built for households that want the picture, not a pile of spreadsheets.

App Finance In Progress
Private app
Family Economics app
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Some people find what they are good at early. I found it by doing almost everything else first.

I have built businesses that worked and businesses that did not. I have been VP three times, run my own agency, managed remote teams, shipped AI products before most people knew what to call them, and started over more than once without much drama about it. The failures were instructive. The successes were better. Neither one slowed me down for long.

What I ended up with is an unusual range: design and brand instincts that go back further than I care to admit, technical ability built from years of having to figure things out myself, and a way of seeing problems that tends to produce solutions nobody else thought of. I work fast. I think sideways. I know what good looks like because I have 25+ years of knowing the difference.

If something on your end is broken, unclear, or just not working as well as it should, that is exactly where I start.

The range is real.

Design

1600+ logo designs shipped. Brand identities built from zero. Editorial systems, art direction, and a fine-arts degree underneath 25 years of taste.

Marketing

Closed deals from small business to $500K+ enterprise, with a focus on growing brands. Hundreds of ad campaigns run, countless creative produced. I don't just run the campaigns. I get in the room and close.

Web

60+ complete websites developed and 300+ SEO landing pages shipped across companies. Custom editorial builds, not templates. Full technical stack, deployed to production, SEO baked in from line one.

Apps

Multiple GPT-powered B2B tools shipped. RAG workflows, no-code app builds, and prompt engineering since before it had a name.

Tools are
table stakes.

Anyone can open Claude or Midjourney and do stuff.

The hard part is knowing what good looks like.

The hard part is having years observing what converts, what brands stick, what's usable, or what copy makes people act. I've spent 25 years inside design, marketing, web and app development, and brand work long enough to know what works in the wild, with real clients and real results.

With AI tools, prompt engineering gets you halfway there. The other half takes 25 years.

Grok
GrokAI reasoning
FigmaDesign & prototyping
MidjourneyAI image generation
GitHubVersion control
Grok Bot
Grok BotDesktop assistant
Google Gemini
GeminiAI search & multimodal
AhrefsSEO & backlinks
Sudowrite
SudowriteAI writing
RunwayAI video & motion
SunoAI music generation
ElevenLabsAI voice synthesis
Hermes
HermesOpen-source agent
Matt Harding portrait
mattharding.co

Field
Notes

Observations, opinions,
and occasional field reports
from 25 years in the work.
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No tiers. No forms. Just a conversation.

Thirty minutes. Let's see.

Free. No pitch. I will tell you how if, how, and when I can help.