Made in Detroit.
Runs on auto.
We design websites for local businesses and wire up the automation behind them — so the leads, the follow-ups, and the busywork take care of themselves. You work with me directly, start to finish.
What we do
Three things, done right.
01
Websites that book the job
A fast, beautiful site that loads in under a second and works on every phone in the parking lot. Built to turn a visitor into a booked appointment.
- Custom design, no templates
- Sub-second load times
- Booking & quote forms
- Built-in local SEO
02
Autopilots that do the busywork
Every lead lands in one inbox and gets a text back in seconds. Follow-ups, reminders, and review requests run themselves while you work.
- Instant lead text-back
- Missed-call follow-up
- Appointment reminders
- Auto review requests
03
Found first — on Google and in AI answers
Show up when a neighbor searches for what you do — and when they ask ChatGPT or Google's AI for the best shop nearby. SEO + GEO, tuned so the calls come to you.
- Google Business Profile
- AI answer optimization (GEO)
- Neighborhood landing pages
- Reviews & monthly recap
The autopilot
What happens when you miss a call.
You're under a car and the phone rings out. The part you don't see: the system answers for you.
Recent work
Shops we've shipped for.
Landscaping · Seasonal
Greenline Lawn & Landscape
One scrolling story — summer lawns into winter snow — so a homeowner sees they only hire once.
Plumbing · Drains
Metro Drain Specialists
Three guarantees up front and a call rail that follows you down — built to win the midnight search.
Restaurant · Catering
Cedar Table Mediterranean
Online ordering, catering inquiry, full menu — a Royal Oak Mediterranean landmark, appetite-first.
How it works
Garage-built, in three weeks.
No drawn-out timelines, no agency runaround. The same hands-on process every time.
Walk the shop
We learn how your business actually runs — who calls, what they want, where the time goes.
Draw it up
A site design and an automation plan, mapped out before a line of code. You sign off on everything.
Wire it up
We build the site and connect the autopilots — booking, follow-ups, reviews, reporting.
Hand over the keys
Live in about three weeks. We stick around to tune it and keep it humming.
About the studio
One client.
Full attention.
I'm Matt Garvin — a Royal Oak web designer with 20+ years building digital products for NASA and the Fortune 500. Michigan born and raised, with a master's in UX and Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Michigan School of Information.
Most local websites fail basic accessibility, and almost none are built for how people search now — through AI as much as Google. Too many owners have been burned: the guy who ghosted and kept the site, the agency that handed the job to a junior the day the check cleared, the builder that handed back a template with one round of edits and called it done. Here, you work directly with me. I'm not going anywhere.
Automation isn't a sideline, either. I trained in how humans and intelligent systems work together and have built with AI professionally for years — so when I wire an autopilot into your shop, I know exactly what's under the hood.
I build for restaurants, medical offices, law firms, and shops across Royal Oak, Ferndale, Birmingham, and Metro Detroit.
The honest difference
Why not a builder, or the cheap guy?
A template site costs less up front, and for some businesses that is the right call. Here is the honest difference.
A builder hands you a layout from a gallery, one round of revisions, and a support line. After that you maintain it, or you pay a monthly care plan every time something needs to change. Nobody on the other end knows your shop, and the website is where it ends, with no missed-call text back, no follow-ups, no review engine.
Here, you get a site designed around how your business actually runs, the automation wired in behind it, and one person who stays. I build it, I tune it, and I pick up when you call. You're hiring a studio, not renting a template.
Not sure which you need? That's what the free audit is for. I'll give you an honest read, even if the answer is a builder.
Ready to talk?
No commitment, no pitch. Tell me what you're working on and I'll give you an honest read on what you need — and what you can skip.
Not ready for a call? Ask for a free site audit — a short video walking through exactly what your current site is costing you. Yours to keep either way.