Zephyr Pixels — web development - Websites your team will be glad to own.
Fast sites, Sanity CMS, custom web apps, and AI workflows.
What I can build for you
- Websites
Websites that load fast and stay easy to edit
Custom Next.js builds on a headless CMS: 95+ Lighthouse, accessible, no page builders or templates. Most ship in 2–6 weeks, at one price agreed up front.
See the work - Sanity CMS
A CMS your team will actually use
Custom Sanity studios, live preview, and CMS migration with zero downtime, so editors publish without filing a ticket. Built by an Official Sanity Partner.
Sanity CMS services - Web apps
Software for the job a website can’t do
Customer portals, dashboards, quote calculators, internal tools, and integrations, built full-stack, without hiring a software company.
Custom web app development - AI workflows
AI that follows your brand rules
On-brand drafting, content repurposing, custom Claude skills, and publishing automation in the tools your team already uses, with a person approving what goes out.
AI workflows for content teams
Three ways to work together
- For teams
Embedded development
A senior developer inside your marketing, design, or engineering team. Billed hourly or as a monthly retainer.
- Design to deploy
Fixed-price builds
Hand off the whole thing at one price agreed up front. I bring in designers and writers I trust when the project needs them.
- Advisory
Consulting
Architecture and code review, stack and CMS selection, performance and SEO audits, or ongoing technical advisory.
Trusted inside bigger teams
- Principal engineer
Fortivex
Ongoing principal-engineer role at a digital agency — architecture, code review, and the builds nobody else wants to estimate.
- Full build, embedded development
Blue Cadet
The experience-design agency brought me in to develop a full build, working alongside their producer, content, and design team — inside their process, on their timeline.
- Senior software engineer
The Motley Fool
Ongoing senior engineering contract on a content platform serving millions of readers.
Websites built to last
- 2026 · Moving On Up LLC
We Move Montana
Moving On Up, a Missoula moving company with 123+ five-star Google reviews, traded a 2000s-era BlueVoda site for a phone-first Astro build with 99–100 Lighthouse scores and a perfect agent-readiness score, made to turn the traffic it already earns into calls, texts, and quotes.
- 2024 · Quality Pump Service
Made in Montana for Montanans
Quality Pump Service, family-run well pump specialists in Potomac Montana, partnered with me to build a professional lead-generating website.
- 2024 · Transcend Mind and Body
Elevate yourself
Transcend Mind & Body hypnotherapy practice needed a compelling website to introduce their services to the Missoula community with online booking.
Something different
Web App Development · Headless CMS · Video Automation
Chipter
Chipter is my own product: a chip-review site with the ambitions of a media company and none of the staff. An editor writes the review, and the platform turns it into the article, platform-sized videos, a newsletter, and social posts.
It’s also where I find out how far a content platform can go when video, AI, and email live inside the CMS instead of being bolted on the side.
One review becomes
- the article
- platform-sized videos (Remotion)
- a newsletter
- social posts
- Open source
Sanity Resend plugin
The plugin that turns Sanity into an email platform: a visual email builder, audience lists, and sending through Resend, all inside the Studio. I gave a 25-minute talk walking through it.
Montana businesses
McKay Painting, Montana Wildlife Federation, Kiki Glass, MyWorkBalance, Hufford Homestead, Truthbomb Social, Quality Pump Service, Kootenai Organics, Copilot CBD, Phish directory, Transcend Mind & Body, Bar Bangers Motorcycle Club.
Writing
The Chip Review Site I Waited 14 Years to Build
In 2011 I couldn't find a good chip review. Christmas 2025, I built one. What building Chipter taught me about content platforms, AI voice, and automation.
On-Brand AI Landing Pages with Sanity Context
An open-source Sanity template where marketing owns the rules AI follows to write landing pages. Edit a rule in Studio and the next page follows it.
The Pre-Migration Checklist for Sanity
Everything to lock down before you run your first Sanity migration — content audits, schema design, backups, dry runs, and a rollback plan — so the migration itself is the boring part.
Tell me about your project.
Every message comes straight to me, and I write every reply myself. No sales team, no ticket queue.