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PARTNER STORYAKH DIGITAL · DALLAS2026

one partner,
six launches.

AKH Digital is a Dallas agency with clients who need more than a template. This year we have been the studio behind their builds: they bring the client, the strategy and the brand; we design and build the site, the platform, sometimes the software. Six launches in one year, and none of them look alike.

6
Launches shipped together in 2026
5
Industries — trades, tech, hospitality, interiors, construction
2
Custom platforms alongside the sites: a CRM and a crew operations app
1
Shared process, from the first brief to managed hosting

01 · THE PARTNERSHIP

how it works.

An agency and a studio, each doing the half it is best at. AKH is the client's agency of record; we are the team that turns the brief into a build. Nobody hands anything over a wall: one Slack channel, one launch checklist, one set of numbers after.

  1. 01 AKH The brief

    AKH owns the client relationship: the positioning, the brand direction, the goals the site has to hit.

  2. 02 SOUTHWELL The build

    We design and build. Custom on Astro when the work needs it, on Aether when speed matters more than novelty.

  3. 03 TOGETHER The launch

    One launch checklist, shared analytics, and hosting we manage so the site is as fast in year two as on day one.

The Cirries homepage on a laptop — the largest of the six builds cirries.com — the largest of the six

02 · THE PHONE GUYS · 2026

tickets, tamed.

The first build together, and the one that set the pattern. A repair shop drowning in walk-ins and text messages needed a system, not a website. We built both: a custom CRM with intake forms on the front, tickets and appointments on the back, and a brand to hold it together.

The Phone Guys CRM dashboard on a monitor
The Phone Guys — ticket detail
The Phone Guys — intake form
The Phone Guys — appointments
1
System for tickets, customers and appointments
3
Intake forms feeding one queue
0
Spreadsheets left
Custom Website · Custom CRM · Branding · Onboarding

03 · GREEN DOOR · 2026

website, app, dashboard.

Valet trash for multifamily communities: sold to property managers, delivered by crews at night. AKH brought the client. We built all three pieces of the business — the website that wins the contract, the app the crew runs the route on, and the dashboard the office runs the company from.

The Green Door crew app mid-shift: clocked in at a property, route tracking active greendoorstep.com
The Green Door website on a laptop
WEBSITE greendoorstep.com

The pitch. Photographed crews, a service map, and a proposal request that lands in the right inbox.

A property in the crew app: service window, notes and shift history
CREW APP · iOS The route

Clock in inside the property boundary, GPS while the shift is live, a photo before a stop counts, violations logged on the spot.

The Green Door operations dashboard replaying a shift on a map
OPERATIONS DASHBOARD The office

Replay any shift on a map. Review violations and resident tickets. Run pay and reports off the same records.

2
Products beyond the site: a crew app and an operations dashboard
10s
Between GPS pings while a shift is live
TBD
Properties on the route
Custom Website · Crew App · Operations Dashboard · UI/UX

04 · BIG JUNK · 2026

book the truck in a minute.

Junk removal is bought in a hurry, usually from a phone, usually on a Saturday. Everything on the site serves that: a price-from grid, a booking flow that asks four questions, and photography that makes a full truck look like relief.

4
Questions to a booked pickup
TBD
Bookings from mobile
TBD
Cost per lead, paid search
Custom Website · UI/UX · Lead Generation

05 · CIRRIES TECHNOLOGIES · 2026

enterprise, made legible.

The biggest build of the partnership. A network observability company selling to enterprise buyers had a site that undermined the product. We rebuilt it from the ground up around how they sell: simulated dashboards a prospect can feel, animated explanations of hard concepts, and a demo request flow that qualifies.

TBD
Demo requests, quarter over quarter
3
Interactive product simulations
TBD
Lighthouse performance
Custom Website · UI/UX · Custom Platform

06 · ALLEN KIRSCH · 2026

three sites that whisper.

An interior designer whose Paris apartment ran in Architectural Digest needed more than a portfolio. We built three sites on one design system: the design practice, a separate home for the artwork, and a Paris edition, all internationalised so the same pages read in English and French. Almost no interface: large photography, an editorial rhythm, type that steps out of the way. The hardest brief of the six was to do less, three times over.

3
Sites on one design system
2
Languages, English and French
1
Architectural Digest feature
Three Custom Websites · UI/UX · Editorial · i18n

07 · REAP CONSTRUCTION · 2026

capabilities, on the record.

A general contractor that renovates the multifamily communities its parent company buys. The site is a capabilities statement first: the scope of work, the completed projects, the team. Built on Aether so it shipped in weeks and shares a spine with the Reap Capital platform.

TBD
Weeks to launch
TBD
Projects documented
1
Shared design spine with Reap Capital
Custom Website · UI/UX · Built With Aether

STACK & TOOLS

WEB
Astro · React · Tailwind · MDX · Vercel
PLATFORM
Aether · Supabase · Postgres · Resend
CRAFT
Figma · Claude Design · Mockuuups · Sony FX3
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