Web Design
Custom visual direction, typography, motion, and layout. No templates. No AI-looking boilerplate. Each site is built to match the brand behind it.
Mako Studio is the in-house web team at Mako Logics. Every site we ship is designed, built, and deployed with AI-native workflows — premium quality at a fraction of traditional agency timelines.
Most freelancers hand you a design and disappear. Most agencies pass you between strangers. Mako Studio does all of it — design, build, deploy, host, maintain — without losing the thread.
Custom visual direction, typography, motion, and layout. No templates. No AI-looking boilerplate. Each site is built to match the brand behind it.
Next.js, React, and modern stacks. Fast page loads, accessible components, solid forms, real analytics. Built to be maintained — not abandoned.
Chatbots, LLM-powered search, content generation, embeddings, RAG over client docs. Real AI features shipped inside the product — not bolted-on marketing fluff. It's the whole DNA of this studio.
Schema, sitemaps, Core Web Vitals, structured data, AI-search ready (LLMs.txt, FAQ + HowTo). Built in at build time — not sold back to you as a $500/mo retainer. Most "SEO packages" are agencies charging monthly to fix what should have been done right the first time. We do it right the first time.
Rate limits, Turnstile, MFA, strict CSP, encrypted secrets, Cloudflare edge WAF, error monitoring, automated dependency audits. Not an add-on, not a post-breach scramble — every Mako site ships hardened from day one. The same protection we use on the portal that runs our own business.
Vercel, Cloudflare, domain routing, email deliverability, monitoring, and update work. One partner, one invoice, one Slack thread.
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"AI-assisted" means someone's hand-coding with autocomplete. "AI-native" means the AI IS the engineer — and the studio is built around that. It's a fundamentally different shape, and it's how every Mako Studio project ships.
We use Claude Code as our primary build partner. Not a plugin, not a helper — the core of the development pipeline. No WordPress, no visual page builders, no templates-as-products.
Traditional agencies hand off a design to a developer and lose two weeks in translation. AI-native workflows compress design + code into one motion — you see working pages sooner.
Discovery, design, engineering, deployment, maintenance — each project runs through one engineer with AI leverage, end-to-end. What used to take a five-person team now takes one. Nothing gets lost between specialists because there are no specialists to hand off to.
What used to take 6 weeks ships in 2. Not because we cut corners — because the overhead that a traditional agency bills for (meetings, hand-offs, review cycles) doesn't exist here.
Products we own, client sites we built, and work made on spec to show what we would do. Designed and built AI-native, start to finish.

ADT authorized dealer — 30,000+ homes protected
Full rebuild for a family-owned ADT authorized dealer serving Texas and Florida. Smart home security, 24/7 monitoring, life safety, and home automation — with a custom theme, location landing pages, and a leads pipeline behind a password-protected admin. Shown as shipped on a frozen showcase fork.
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Home water treatment — Houston, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth
A second company launched under the Bulldog roof, built from nothing: a HomeWater dealer selling whole-home filtration, drinking water, point-of-use and replacement systems across four Texas metros. The lead offer is a free in-home water test rather than a quote form, so the site is built to book a visit. It ships with its own control panel — leads, traffic, errors, FAQs, users, two-factor — because a new company needs to run itself from day one.
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Permanent architectural lighting — Houston metro
The third company under the Bulldog roof: an authorized Trimlight dealer installing permanent LED lighting that is invisible by day and programmable by night. Eight product categories from holiday runs to game-day colours and commercial work, seven Houston-area cities, and the same self-service control panel as its sister site. The service area stops at the Houston metro on purpose, because that is exactly what the dealer registration covers.
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Federal security & life-safety contracting — Texas
The fourth Bulldog company, and the one with the narrowest audience: a capability site aimed at contracting officers and prime contractors rather than homeowners. Eighteen years and 30,000+ protected homes behind it, the SAM identifiers a buyer checks first put in the hero, and a past-performance page that says plainly the company is new to federal work instead of dressing commercial jobs up as contracts.
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40-year Texas awning fabricator — full WordPress migration
Complete WordPress → Next.js 16 rebuild for a Houston awning manufacturer serving Texas since 1984. 64 prerendered pages including 36 city landing pages with unique local content, LocalBusiness + FAQPage schema, llms.txt for AI-search visibility, live Google reviews, Resend + Turnstile lead form, and a password-protected Umami analytics dashboard. Shown as shipped on a frozen showcase fork.
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Industrial inspection equipment — La Porte, TX
Custom build for a La Porte, TX provider of non-destructive testing equipment — rental, sales, calibration, and repair across ultrasonic, RVI, PMI, X-ray, and eddy-current. Equipment catalog organized by application, online quote-cart workflow, and an oil & gas / petrochemical content depth that ranks for industrial-buyer intent. Shown as shipped on a frozen showcase fork.
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Free utility concierge — Houston, TX
A WordPress rebuild that kept going. Utilities Plus coordinates electricity, internet and TV, smart security, gas and water, water filtration, moving services, home warranty and insurance referrals for people about to move house — one rep, no charge to the homeowner. It now runs on its own control panel: the office edits page copy, FAQs, providers and media, works the leads, and reads its own traffic without touching a developer.
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Chemical & refining secondary-stream recovery — Houston, TX
Full WordPress → Next.js 16 rebuild for a Houston chemical & refining partner that turns byproducts and off-spec streams into revenue. Verbatim content migration including the real 183-chemical product catalog, full team bios, a cinematic full-screen refinery hero video, the client's own industry line-art icon set, and the complete Mako security + AI-search baseline. Shown as shipped on a frozen showcase fork.
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Independent insurance agency licensed in 33+ states
Ground-up build for a women-owned, mother-daughter independent insurance agency writing personal, commercial, farm, bonds, and specialty coverage across 33+ states. Custom navy brand with a script-accent hero and light/dark theming, an MFA-protected client portal with a document vault and coverage-specific quote requests, a full admin CRM with HawkSoft integration, and a GLBA-aware security baseline. Shown as shipped on a frozen showcase fork.
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The dog boat ladder — an AI-native e-commerce rebuild
Full rebuild of a family-owned dog boat ladder brand from Wix to an AI-native storefront: a cinematic AI hero video anchored to real product photos, Remmy the product-trained chat assistant (MakoChat), a Claude-vision Fit Check that reads customers' boat photos with a human always confirming, a dedicated waterfowl-hunter landing page, drag-and-drop photo uploads, and Stripe checkout — with the old site's search rankings preserved. Shown as shipped on a frozen showcase fork.
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Aerospace & defense engineering — a proposal, not a commission
Nobody hired us for this one. StressAD is a Houston aerospace and defense engineering firm whose site runs on WordPress, and we rebuilt it on spec to show what their own material looks like in a faster shell: an animated blueprint hero, a fixed capability rail, and all 30 routes carrying their writing, photography, technical illustrations and PDFs across intact. Their live site is untouched. The proposal build is noindexed and carries a proposal notice on every page so it can never be mistaken for theirs.
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AI phone receptionist — every call answered, 24/7
An AI receptionist for phone-driven service businesses. Mae picks up on the first ring day or night, books and qualifies the caller, screens spam and robocalls, warm-transfers the urgent ones to a human, and delivers a transcript, summary, recording, and lead after every call. Live demo line, flat published pricing from $24.95/mo, a customer dashboard for calls and leads, and 20+ industry and solution landing pages.
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Uptime monitoring that never cries wolf
A full monitoring platform: seven check types from two continents as often as every 30 seconds, real-browser checks that catch JavaScript errors, AI that diagnoses the root cause within a minute of an incident opening, phone calls that read the alert aloud, heartbeat monitoring for cron jobs, and branded public status pages. Free for 5 monitors, $15/mo for 50. Every Mako client site is on it.
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The AI chat receptionist — from $39/mo
Mae answers the visitors a small business misses. She reads the company's own website to learn the business, replies in a real conversation rather than a decision tree, books onto the actual calendar, and emails the lead the moment it happens. Self-setup takes about fifteen minutes; the same assistant escalates to a phone call on the top tier. Running on live client sites, not a demo.
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AI memory tool for Windows
Desktop app plus marketing site for MakoBytes' cross-project AI memory tool. Code-signed installer, in-app auto-updater, Skills Exchange.
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Screen-capture studio for Windows — signed, Store-certified
The Windows screen-capture app Mac users have had for years, plus the product site, account portal, and billing behind it. Region, window, and scrolling capture, a native markup editor, screen recording with audio, pin-to-screen, and on-device OCR in 25+ languages — free forever locally, with an $8/mo Pro tier for hosted sharing. The homepage is a scroll-scrubbed cinematic that flies into a workstation and shows the app doing the work.
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The software studio site that boots like a desktop
MakoOS: the entire product site runs as a desktop — boot screen, draggable windows, taskbar, start menu. PixelCopy and MakoBot ship installed, code-signing is shown as a certificate dialog, and a captcha-gated contact form composes like an email client.

Scroll-cinematic site theme — the scroll drives a camera flight
A landing site whose hero is a pre-rendered continuous camera flight, scrubbed frame-by-frame by the scroll position: dusk exterior, into the interior, an alert beat, an operations centre, back out to a calm night and the CTA. Filmed twice natively — 16:9 for desktop and a real 9:16 vertical for phones. Available to license and rebrand.
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Industrial / B2B website template — Next.js + Tailwind
A production-ready, brandable website template for industrial, manufacturing, and B2B-supply businesses. One-file rebranding, SEO and security baked in, and a Resend-wired quote form. Built as a Mako Studio product, licensed per project.
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Private psychiatric practice — The Woodlands, TX
Professional healthcare site for a family psychiatry practice with 30+ years in The Woodlands, TX. Provider bios, services, secure intake forms, clinical trials, HIPAA-aware content. Shown as shipped on a frozen showcase fork.
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Pre-employment screening — Conroe, TX
A WordPress rebuild for a Conroe investigation firm that has screened hires for Fortune 500 companies and government agencies since 2005 — pre-employment screening, background checks, DOT drug testing and legal investigations. Built and finished, deliberately not switched on: their client portal has to move across first, because a login going dark for a day is worse than an old site staying up for a month.
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Let's talkPulled live from Mako Logics' Google Business profile — our parent company. We've been doing IT + web work for The Woodlands, Montgomery, Conroe, and greater Houston businesses since 2010 — the same people keep coming back.
“Russel has been managing our account for almost 20 years. His team including Steven is always there to help us!!! Give the a try you won’t be disappointed”
“I've been working with Mako for almost 3 years now within a company of 400+. They provide great service. Very quick responses and professional communication. Would recommend them to anyone needing IT Services.”
“Mako Logics is Outstanding! They have handled our IT work for several years now and they are quick to respond to any of our IT needs. We even have some of our clients using Mako!!!”
“Competent, knowledgeable and friendly group of IT professionals that have helped our group of companies in every aspect of IT need to include cyber-security, helpdesk, server set up and maintenance, hardware inventory, and more. Our go to guys for managed IT services.”
“Steven is the best! Not only is he extremely personable, he’s extremely knowledgeable. Whenever I need help with something, he’s always more than willing to help. He also explains everything rather than just doing it and moving on. 5/5 stars!”
Mako Studio is the in-house AI-native web team at Mako Logics LLC, based in Montgomery, TX. We serve small businesses across The Woodlands, Montgomery, Conroe, Spring, and the greater Houston area. We've shipped AI platforms, client sites, commercial software, and a Windows-signed desktop app. Every project is built with Claude as the core development partner. No WordPress, no page builders, no templates — custom code, production-grade, end-to-end.
One call. We map the goal, audience, constraints, and a honest timeline. No 6-page questionnaires.
Live Figma + working HTML iterations. You see real pages, not static mockups that lie about motion and scale.
Next.js on Vercel. Real analytics. Real forms. Real SEO. You approve on the staging URL before it goes live.
Domain, DNS, email, monitoring — all handled. After launch, you get a partner, not a ghost.
Send a few sentences about the site you want, your timeline, and what "done" looks like to you. You'll hear back within one business day.