About
Done properly, nobody notices them. They load, they say the right thing, they keep working. Structural boredom is the point.
We build for whoever needs that. Digital humanities archives with catalogues and long-lived data. Mom-and-pop shops that need a phone number and a map. The scope changes wildly; the discipline does not.
The practice grew fastest during Covid, when people who had just been laid off started shops, studios and side trades that had to become a living. They were taking real risk, and needed a site that kept working without a monthly surprise attached.
Lately the questions have moved past the website. You may be wondering what AI means for a business your size. Ask us. We answer the way we build: plainly, with few moving parts.
Three of us, in Florida, since 2019. 317 sites under care.
Who you will be dealing with
I started GatorGeeks in 2019. I studied English literature at Berkeley, then went back for an advanced degree in computer science.
For fifteen years I wrote every line of code by hand. These days I am the architect and AI is my construction crew: I draw the plans and inspect the work. More than 317 businesses run on the platform I built.
History came later and never left. I research Haitian history and host the Nèg Mawon Podcast. I also run the daily operations of a pediatric practice, so I have sat on your side of the desk.
When you call, you get me. No account manager stands between you and the person who can fix it.
Telling a machine exactly what you mean is a writing problem first and a programming problem second. My literature degree trained me for the first part. AI also makes confident claims all day, and somebody has to check them against what is true for your business.
Moses brought the plans down the mountain. Bezalel was given the skill to turn them into wood and gold. Ezra’s helpers read the Law aloud and “gave the sense” so the people could understand. I do that work with AI, for your business.
How we build
No themeA pre-made design bought off the shelf and applied to a site. It arrives carrying features you did not ask for., no builderA drag-and-drop page editor. Convenient to start with, but it writes dense markup that is hard for anyone to change later., no pluginsAdd-on code that bolts extra features onto a site. Each one is written by someone else, and each one has to be kept updated forever.. One compiled program that serves your site and nothing else. Most of what goes wrong over time is simply absent.
Outdated pluginsAdd-on code that bolts extra features onto a site. Each is written by someone else, and each must be kept updated for as long as the site exists. are how most WordPress sites get compromised. The attack surface here is code we wrote, not code from forty authors you cannot call.
Nothing to breach, corrupt, or restore wrong at 2am.
The site compiles into one binaryThe single compiled file that is the entire website. Deploying is copying it; rolling back is putting the previous one back.. Rolling back is putting the old file back.
This page answers in under a millisecond. No cache to purge, no plugin to tune.
A booking widget or a map may need it. Most pages do not. This one needed none.
Go guarantees today’s code still builds years from now. Language churn never becomes your bill.
It is right when you already have a WordPress site worth keeping, or your team publishes daily without us.
We maintain hundreds and do it well. For a new site that has to load fast and keep working, it is a great many moving parts solving a problem you do not have.
How we work with AI
Code got cheap. Knowing what your business needs built is now most of the job. We bring the same habits to your back office. Field Note 09 explains why.
Before we choose any tool, we sit with you and write down how the work moves through your day. Half the value is in that page.
The machine drafts, sorts and fills in. Someone you trust approves anything that touches one of your customers or one of your dollars.
We hand you a plain list of which service sees which information. Sensitive data gets the care we give patient records.
One small program you own beats five subscriptions wired together. Run a school? Field Note 08 is written for you.
Plenty of your work should stay with your people, and we will tell you so. Field Note 06 is our working list.
Pick the task your staff complains about most. We run the machine beside your person until the comparison gets boring.
How a template site is assembled
All of it must be updated, tested and secured for as long as the site exists. None of it is what your customer came for.
The bottom two rows exist only to manage the top two.
What that costs you
Before we begin
A representative first invoice on a template build. Every line removes something you never asked for.
| Line item | Hours | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Disable slider, popup, chat widget | 3.0 | $450 |
| Repair layout that assumed they were on | 5.5 | $825 |
| Strip demo content and placeholder pages | 2.0 | $300 |
| Install and tune a caching plugin | 3.5 | $525 |
| Install security plugin for the new surface area | 2.5 | $375 |
| Cookie banner, consent policy, review | 4.0 | $600 |
| Spent before one word was written for you | 20.5 | $3,075 |
Illustrative, at $150/hr. Your quote will differ. The shape of it will not.
Tell us what your week looks like. We will say honestly which parts a website, a small tool or an AI workflow can take off your hands, and which are better left alone.
