Independent digital studio
We design & buildthe web.
A small, senior studio that designs and builds custom websites and products for clients who refuse to choose between performance and design. Sites engineered to load in under a second and look like nothing else — no templates, no junior team, no handoffs.
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Trusted by industrial brands, contractors, and SaaS founders
What we do
We don't hand you a template and a junior team. From a 112-product industrial catalog to a 478-page lead-gen engine, one senior studio takes the whole thing — design, build, and ship — and tunes it to load in under a second without ever sacrificing the design.
Proof, not promises.
A few builds that show the range — industrial catalogs, lead-gen engines, and seismic-retrofit and coatings sites. Fast, custom, and unmistakably theirs.
A studio-sized team with a full-stack toolkit.
Strategy, design, engineering, and the weird fun stuff — under one roof.
Four steps, no mystery.
One senior studio, the whole way through — from the first conversation to the live, fast, distinctive thing your customers use.
Discover
We learn the business, the audience, and what 'winning' actually means — before a single pixel.
Design
We design in the open: fast, distinctive, unmistakably on-brand. Zero template smell.
Build
We engineer for real — Next.js, performance budgets, and motion or 3D where it earns its place.
Ship & sharpen
We launch, measure, and keep refining. A great site is never quite 'done'.
Every build ships loaded.
Accessibility, consent, performance, and AI-search infrastructure come standard in every build, never as add-ons.
What clients say.
Real words from the teams we've built for.
“I've been working with Ian at Spider Digital Group for nearly a year, and his services and support have been absolutely instrumental.”
Kate Williams — Director of Sales, Black Bear Talent“I've had the pleasure of working with Ian and he has provided excellent guidance to me.”
“My company has used Spider Digital Group on many occasions over the past few years … we trust them to interact with our customers.”
“Spider Digital Group has been a great company to work with. Management makes great effort to connect and engage with customers.”
“Spider Digital has made a tremendous difference in our marketing and social media advertising.”
Powerful where it counts. Beautiful everywhere.
Ten brands. Two thousand-plus pages. A perfect Lighthouse. That range — industrial catalogs, hundred-page lead-gen engines, seismic-retrofit sites — ships server-rendered and image-optimized on the edge, so every build still paints in under a second.
Before you reach out.
The things people usually want to know.
How much does a project cost?
Most of our builds land between $5k and $50k depending on scope. A focused marketing site sits at the lower end; a large catalog, web app, or lead-gen engine with hundreds of pages sits higher. Tell us what you're after and we'll scope it honestly — no surprise line items.
How long does it take?
Typical timelines run one to three months from kickoff to launch, depending on scope and how fast feedback comes back. On a tighter deadline? Tell us — we'll say straight whether it's realistic.
Do I own the site and the code?
Yes — outright. You own the code, the brand, the content, and the data. No proprietary page-builder lock-in, and you never rent your own website back from us.
Why a small studio instead of a template or a big agency?
A template gives you the same site as a thousand others and a ceiling you hit fast. A big agency gives you a sales team and a junior build team. With us, you work directly with the senior person who designs and builds it — custom, fast, and unmistakably yours, without the overhead.
What do you need from me to start?
A short conversation about the business, the audience, and what success looks like. From there we scope it, agree on a plan, and start — one point of contact, one high bar, all the way to launch.
Why custom code instead of a template?
A template rents you a look. Custom code means you own everything: the code, the speed, the search plumbing, all of it. Our builds run on 4–7 dependencies instead of hundreds, and they routinely score 100 where it counts.
What do you mean the cookie banner actually blocks trackers?
Most cookie banners are theater: the trackers load anyway, consent or not. Ours gate every tracker behind consent. No script, no request, no cookie until you opt in, and Global Privacy Control is honored automatically.
Can you run our ads and build the site?
Yes, and it works better as one system. The people writing the ad write the page it lands on, so the promise and the payoff match, and the tracking is built into the site instead of bolted on after. No handoff between an ad agency and a web team, and no arguing over whose half is underperforming.
How do you measure ads when attribution is broken?
Honestly: platform attribution overstates. Across 663 randomized Facebook experiments, the best observational method still missed true causal lift by a median of 24% at the bottom of the funnel and 58% in the middle. So we treat the dashboard as directional and prove the rest with holdouts and geo tests. Google dropped the minimum budget for its own incrementality experiments from roughly $100k to $5k, which puts real testing in reach for a business your size.
Do we own the ad account and the data?
Yes. Accounts, pixels, conversion history and audiences are created under your business, not ours. If you ever leave, you keep the account and everything learned in it. We are not interested in holding your spend history hostage.
Is AI writing our website?
No. We judge by output, and the output data is not kind: across 42,000 pages, human-written pages held Google's top spot about 80% of the time versus 9% for purely AI-generated ones, and while 70% of SEO teams say AI made production faster, only 19% say it made the content better. We use tools where they are genuinely better and nowhere they would cut a corner you would notice.
What happens to our SEO if we move platforms?
Nothing, if the migration is done properly. Every legacy URL redirects in a single hop, never a chain, and the build fails if one is missing. On one recent move, 893 CMS records and 1,507 assets came across with zero broken references. On another, IndexNow pushed 466 URLs to the engines and all 466 were accepted on launch day.
Is the site ADA compliant?
We build to WCAG 2.1 AA, the standard the DOJ and the courts reference, and every site ships with a public accessibility statement you can stand behind. Two honest notes: there is no such thing as an ADA certificate, and accessibility is ongoing practice, not a permanent state, because content changes after launch. Worth knowing why it matters: plaintiffs filed 3,117 federal website accessibility suits in 2025, up 27%, and 64% of defendants had revenue under $25 million.
Do you handle GDPR and California privacy?
Yes, as engineering. Trackers are components that return null until consent, so nothing loads before opt-in. Global Privacy Control is honored as a binding opt-out, defaults are geo-fenced off where the law requires opt-in, withdrawal actively expires cookies that were already set, and Accept and Reject carry equal weight. Do Not Sell or Share links and CCPA rights request forms ship with it, and the privacy policy is written as typed data that matches what the code actually does.
Is a cookie banner enough?
No, and there is now hard evidence. A March 2026 forensic scan of 7,634 sites found all 11 consent platforms it evaluated failed to consistently block advertising cookies after opt-out, and 55% of those sites set advertising cookies anyway, 125,106 of them. A banner that asks permission and then loads the tracker regardless is worse than none: it documents that you knew. We do not gate a script that already ran, we do not render it at all until consent.
Will this pass our SOC 2 audit?
SOC 2 audits an organization, not a website, so the report is yours and the opinion is your auditor's. What we control is the build: server defenses commented with the control they map to, request-size caps and length bounds on the contact route, a CSP shipped Report-Only first with a documented promotion path, and a change-management runbook with clean-tree and green-gate release steps that ties every deployment ID back to a commit SHA. A security audit of one of our builds, control-mapped across 492 URLs, returned 43 findings with 0 critical and 0 high. The point is that when your auditor asks how a control is met, someone can trace it.
Can you build us something HIPAA compliant?
We build the technical safeguards the HIPAA Security Rule calls for, and we have shipped them: mandatory TOTP multi-factor enforced at the middleware layer, role-based access where you can never grant a permission you do not hold, append-only audit logs where update and delete are blocked even for the service role, brute-force and privilege-escalation detection, 30-minute idle logout, durable login lockouts, and row-level security on every tenant table. The gate, stated plainly: a HIPAA engagement needs a signed Business Associate Agreement and HIPAA-eligible hosting, and that gets scoped per project before any protected health information is involved. We do not route PHI through a standard build.
So are you a compliance firm?
No, and that distinction protects you. Compliance is a legal determination about your organization; a build either implements the required controls or it does not. We build the mechanisms and document them so they can be verified. Your counsel signs off on the policy.
Let's talk
Got something worth building?
Whether it's a brand-new site, a rebuild, or a product you can't find off the shelf — let's make it.
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