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What we've built for other people.

Custom-coded websites for local businesses, free tools creators actually use, and the software products the studio runs itself. Every screenshot below is the real thing, and every project carries its honest status — live, or built and waiting on the client.

Client websites

Hand-coded, no page builder and no framework bloat — structured data, real on-page SEO, and a content model the owner can actually maintain. Each one ships with its own pre-deploy checker that has to exit clean.

Filippa Dressage home page — black-and-white editorial layout with a hero photograph of horse and rider
Dressage barn · Austin, TX

Filippa Dressage

A single-page editorial site for a working dressage barn. Black-and-white gallery that reveals colour on hover, a full-screen lightbox, and 33 photographs served as locally optimised derivatives with an automatic fallback if one is ever missing.

Live
Corner Bar Austin home page — dark 'service station' design with the bar's name and an open/closed indicator
Neighbourhood sports bar · Austin, TX

Corner Bar Austin

Five hand-coded pages and a matching owner control panel, built around the building's former life as an oil-change garage. Live open/closed status computed in the bar's own timezone, a validating reservation form, and Schema.org markup for the business, menu and FAQ.

Built · pending owner review
Kula Karate home page — a campus finder sits above the fold in place of a hero photo
After-school karate clubs · Austin, TX

Kula Karate

Fifteen clubs across Austin elementary campuses and no single storefront — so the site is built around a campus finder. A small static-site generator turns one data file per club into a landing page, a finder row, a sitemap entry and course structured data.

Built · awaiting client data

Free tools

Built for the businesses and creators the studio works with, then released for everyone. No signup, no accounts, no tracking — every calculation runs in your own browser, and the pages work offline once loaded.

Indie Film Budget Calculator — department rollups and a budget top sheet
Flagship tool

Indie Film Budget Calculator

60+ line items across 10 departments, SAG-AFTRA aware, with fringes, contingency and top-sheet rollups. Exports to CSV, JSON or PDF so a real budget leaves the browser in a format a producer can actually send.

Live · Free
Aspect Ratio and Crop-Safe-Zone Calculator showing a crop box with title-safe and action-safe overlays
Production tool

Aspect Ratio & Crop-Safe Zones

Pick a source frame and a target platform ratio — 9:16, 1:1, 4:5, 16:9 — and see the crop box, title-safe and action-safe zones live, with exact pixel offsets to take back into the edit.

Live · Free
Export Time and File-Size Calculator with duration, resolution and bitrate inputs
Production tool

Export Time & File-Size Calculator

Duration, resolution, frame rate and bitrate in; exact export file size out, plus a render-time estimate driven by your own machine's encode-speed multiplier rather than a guess.

Live · Free
Social Cut Commander product page — a Premiere Pro panel suite for editorial review markers
Editor product

Social Cut Commander

Three Premiere Pro CEP panels that turn an active sequence into project-aware editorial review markers. No auto-applied effects and nothing uploaded — an unsigned internal beta, not yet verified in a live Premiere host.

Early access · by request

Software products

The studio's own products — the software businesses hire us for rather than a one-off site. Full detail and pricing live on the home page.

Flagship · SaaS

Trident Social

Full-stack social media management — scheduling, AI captions, analytics, link-in-bio and real multi-platform publishing across Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Threads and X. Serving paying clients today as the Williams Media portal.

Live
Deal infrastructure

Trident NIL

Name-image-likeness deal platform for student athletes and local brands — matching, contracts and escrowed payouts through Stripe Connect.

Live
Local business ops

Trident Ops

An AI operations assistant for local businesses — multi-tenant, automation-driven, with self-serve signup and billing.

Live
Free handbook

Trident Playbook

The operating manual for agent-run business — the real playbooks this studio uses to let software do the busywork while humans keep the taste.

Live · Free

Production & media work

Before the software there was — and still is — a camera. Brand films, event coverage, podcast production and live streaming for bars, restaurants, attractions and touring acts. That body of work lives on the founder portfolio, where the footage can actually play.

Start a project

If you run a business and your website is a template someone else also uses, or you're paying monthly for a page builder to render four pages of text — that's the work we do. Sites are hand-built, you own the code, and there's no subscription holding your own content hostage.