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Founding client offer $500 to $1,000 · 5 of 5 spots open
A web studio in Corpus Christi, Texas

Websites that win you work.

We design and build fast, good-looking websites for businesses on the Texas coast. Every line of code is ours, every page has a job, and the job is to bring you customers.

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Page load
Every page we ship loads in under a second, on a phone, on cell data.
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Templates or plugins
We write the code. Nothing to update, nothing to break, nothing to rent.
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Weeks to launch
Kickoff to live site, with a fixed price agreed before we start.
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Corpus Christi
Born here, based here, working with businesses across Texas.

Most websites are brochures. Nobody calls a brochure. Yours should work like your best salesperson: clear, quick, and always on.

We're a small studio, on purpose. You work directly with the people designing and building your site. We write everything by hand, and we run our own software business on the same foundation, so we know what it takes to keep things working.

02 — How we build

No page builders. No plugins. We write the code.

Most agency sites are a template, forty plugins, and a prayer. Ours are written by hand, load in under a second, and don't break at two in the morning. The framework underneath is open source, so you're never stuck with us.

  • We build our own products
    BLKTIDE, our software for tattoo artists, takes real bookings and real payments every day. We know what it takes to keep something working.
  • Every section earns its place
    If we can't say what a part of the page is for, it doesn't ship.
  • Fast is the feature
    Slow pages lose customers and rankings. Ours load in under a second.
  • You own everything
    The design, the words, the code. No monthly ransom, no lock-in.
main.go — your site● live
func main() {
  site := app.New().Load(".env")

  site.Route(func(r *routing.Router) {
    // every page, rendered in milliseconds
    r.Get("/", pages.Home)
    // every inquiry, scored and in your inbox
    r.Post("/api/leads", leads.Store)
  })

  site.Serve() // one program, one server, done
}
03 — How we work

Eight weeks, one fixed price, no surprises.

You see the site on a private link from the first week and know exactly what happens next.

  1. 01 Week 1

    Listen

    We learn your business, your customers, and who you're up against. We leave with one clear job for the site and a fixed price.

    • A one-page brief
    • Who the site is for
    • What success looks like
  2. 02 Weeks 2–3

    Plan

    Site map, page plans, wireframes written with real words. Every section has a job before it has a look.

    • Site map
    • Wireframes
    • Technical plan
  3. 03 Weeks 4–7

    Build

    Design, code, and the inquiry system, all at once. You get a link on day one and watch it come together.

    • Finished design
    • Working site on a private link
    • Inquiry admin
  4. 04 Week 8 onward

    Launch and grow

    A quiet launch with everything wired up, then a monthly rhythm of small, measured improvements.

    • Launch checklist
    • Analytics and search set up
    • Monthly improvements
04 — Work

A client, a product, and room for yours.

A brand and a site for ten artists under one roof. Tattoo studio · Corpus Christi 2026
Black Lantern Tattoo Studio

A brand and a site for ten artists under one roof.

Live now, with every artist bookable straight from the site and the whole shop running on one system.

Brand, site, and booking
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The studio OS for tattoo artists. Our product 2026
BLKTIDE — our own product

The studio OS for tattoo artists.

Live at blktide.ink. Black Lantern Tattoo Studio and sponsored artists in Corpus Christi and New Braunfels run their whole practice on it: books, deposits, and taxes.

Free for solo artists
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Now taking new clients

Your project goes here.

We're a new studio and we're choosing our first clients carefully. You get our full attention, a fixed price, and the same care we put into our own product.

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05 — Founding clients

No borrowed logos. No invented reviews. We'd rather earn yours.

01

Our full attention

We take a few projects at a time. You work directly with the people designing and building your site.

02

A fixed price

Agreed in the first week, before any build work starts. No hourly meter, no surprise invoices.

03

Proof you can check

Our own product, BLKTIDE, is live and taking real bookings. Look it over before you talk to us.

06 — Working together

Three ways to start.

A fixed-price launch, a custom build, or a monthly plan for everything after. Priced in the first week, before any work begins.

Launch

A complete site in eight weeks.

For businesses that need a fast, good-looking site that brings in work. Fixed scope, fixed price.

  • Up to about 12 pages
  • Inquiry admin and alerts
  • Set up to rank locally
  • 30 days of support
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Platform

Most popular

Custom software, built end to end.

For businesses whose website is a product: customer portals, quoting tools, booking systems, multi-location operations.

  • Custom application, written by hand
  • Integrations and live dashboards
  • Many locations or many users
  • A dedicated team
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Care

Keep getting better after launch.

A monthly plan for upkeep and a steady round of improvements to how the site performs and ranks, running on your own server.

  • Deploys to your VPS or dedicated server
  • Monitoring, backups, security updates
  • Monthly improvements
  • A quarterly check-in
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07 — Questions

Good questions.

Anything else? Ask us directly.

How much does a website cost?
Most sites land in the low five figures. Bigger projects with custom tools, integrations, or many locations cost more. We agree a fixed price in the first week, before any build work starts, so there are no surprise invoices.
How long does it take?
A typical marketing site takes eight weeks from kickoff to launch. Larger platforms run twelve to sixteen. You'll have a staging link in the first week of the build and see progress daily.
Do you only work with businesses in Corpus Christi?
We're based in Corpus Christi and most of our clients are across the Coastal Bend and South Texas, but the work is remote-friendly. We take on clients anywhere in the US when the fit is right.
What do you build sites with?
Our own open-source framework, written in Go. In plain terms: your site is a small, fast program we wrote by hand, not a pile of plugins. It's free and open, so any good developer can work on it if you ever want to move on.
Do we own the code?
Yes. You own the site, the design files, the content, and the source. The framework underneath is MIT-licensed. If you ever leave, you take everything with you.
Can you migrate us off WordPress, Wix, or Webflow?
Yes, and it's most of what we do. We preserve your rankings with a full redirect map, move your content, and usually make the site several times faster in the process.
What happens after launch?
Every site includes thirty days of post-launch support. After that, most clients move to a Care plan for monitoring, updates, and a monthly improvement sprint. We don't resell hosting: the site runs on your own VPS or dedicated server, and we handle the deployment.
08 — Where we are

Corpus Christi, born and based. Working anywhere.

We meet clients in person across the Coastal Bend and South Texas, and work remotely with businesses anywhere in the country. Same people, same care, same results.

  • Corpus Christi
  • Portland
  • Rockport
  • Port Aransas
  • Kingsville
  • Alice
  • Victoria
  • Robstown
  • Ingleside
  • Aransas Pass
  • Padre Island
  • South Texas
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Ready when you are.

Tell us what you need. We'll reply within one business day, and we'll say so if we're not the right fit.