Work.
Four live builds you can open and audit in ninety seconds. Two more in build. And the disclosure that goes with all of them.
Start with the part most studios leave out.
Every site on this page came to me through a personal relationship, or it is my own business. Family, in-laws, a company I co-founded twenty years ago, a nonprofit I donated the work to. No one has yet paid Clarion its published rate. Nobody outside that circle has hired this studio.
I could put six names in a row, call them clients, and let you fill in the rest. That is what a work page normally does and you would very likely never check. But this studio’s whole argument is that a claim is worth less than the evidence behind it, and a portfolio that depends on you not looking is a decoration.
So take this page for what it is, which is narrower than what most studios will hand you and more specific about its own limits.
It is not evidence that the market has voted. No stranger has yet written a check, so I have no standing to tell you that people pay for this. When that changes I will say so on this page, with a name.
It is evidence of what gets built. That part does not depend on how I met the client. The structured data is either present or it is missing. The entity graph either holds together across every page or it comes apart on the second one. The site either loads in under a second on a phone or it does not. Those are inspectable from your side of the screen, in the browser you already have open.
If you want to run the check but are not sure what you are looking for: open any of the live sites below, view source, and read the JSON-LD block in the head. Then do the same on the site of whoever else you are considering. That comparison is the argument, and it does not require me to be in the room.
Four live builds
Each link opens the client’s live site.
Northwest Lagotto is the only one written up at length: read the case study →
Two in build
Ecologic Spray Foam. A certified spray-foam insulation contractor in Canada, and a company I co-founded twenty years ago with a partner who still runs it. In development. The link appears here the day it ships and not before, which is why there is no link here now.
Mercy Manor. A transitional housing program for women. Donated work, no fee. Named here so the count on this page is the true one rather than the flattering one, and so that when it launches you can see it arrived where I said it would.
The research
The one piece of work on this page that no relationship of mine had anything to do with. I audited 130 independent advisory firms drawn from the SEC’s own registrant feed, scored their structured data and their AI visibility, and published the method, the sample, the raw findings, and my own conflict of interest. Ninety-five percent scored the lowest possible mark for author and credential structure. Not one had linked its regulatory registration into its data in a form a machine could verify.
It is the only evidence here that is arm’s-length, and it happens to be about the category of firm this studio was built to serve. Read the audit →
What this proves, and what it does not
It proves the work exists and reaches a standard. Four live sites, one builder, nothing subcontracted and nothing bought in. Open any of the four and audit the structured data yourself in about the time it takes to read this paragraph.
It does not prove the work produced business results. I have one honest measurement and it is on my own company: the Northwest Lagotto case study logs dated AI-assistant queries against the site and reports the searches where NWL surfaces first alongside the searches where it is not cited at all. The failures are published because a case study that reports only the wins is telling you what it wants you to believe rather than what it found.
It also does not prove I have built for a firm like yours. None of these is an SEC-registered advisor. None has been through a compliance review. The method is built for that setting and the research behind it was conducted in that setting, but the builds on this page were not, and you should weigh that rather than let this page slide past it.
What I will not do is put an inquiry count or a revenue figure in front of you. Neither is independently verifiable by a reader, both are easy for a founder to shade upward, and I would be skeptical of a studio that offered them. The number is missing on purpose and it stays missing until it can be checked.
The first one
Somebody is going to be the first client here who is not related to me, and I would rather be straight about what that means than dress it up.
You would be buying a method you can read before you commit, a body of work you can open without asking anyone’s permission, and research published with the sample and the conflict of interest in the open. You would not be buying a client list that vouches for me, because there isn’t one. I would rather you had that from this page than assemble it yourself in the second meeting.
If that trade is not one you want to make, it is a fair thing to decide, and better decided now.