# Wedge Studio

> Wedge Studio is the smart agency for the AI era, founder-led and based in Los Angeles. It designs and builds websites, runs SEO and AEO (answer engine optimization: being the business AI assistants recommend), puts AI to work inside small-business operations, and builds custom web apps for internal operations. Four specialties, sold individually or stacked. Every engagement runs on Docket, the studio's own client dashboard, so clients see live status, timelines, approvals, files, and billing at all times. No hourly billing; projects and month-to-month retainers, scoped per client.

Key facts:

- Founder-led: David, the founder, is on every call and in every build. No hand-offs, no account managers.
- Based in Los Angeles, CA. Works with clients anywhere.
- Contact: hello@wedgestudio.dev
- The four specialties: Foundation (brand, web design, development; a scoped project), Growth (SEO and AEO; monthly retainer), Partner (AI consulting and operations: workflows, automations, agentic tooling, team training; monthly retainer), and Internal tools (custom web apps for internal operations, like client portals and ops dashboards; a scoped project). Clients take any combination.
- Process: a 20-minute call, then an audit of how the business shows up on Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini, then a proposal that includes a designed mockup of the client's actual site before anything is signed.
- Ideal clients: revenue-generating, owner-led businesses (venues, events, hospitality, local services) whose online presence lags the quality of the actual business.
- No hourly billing, ever. Retainers pause anytime, no notice period.
- Shipped in-house work: Docket (the client portal) and wedgestudio.dev itself.
- Docket: the studio's proprietary client portal, built and run in-house. Every client gets a login. It shows a live project timeline with target dates and phase status, requirements, updates from the studio, tasks, shared files (proposals, invoices), one-click approvals with a decision record, and billing. Included with every engagement at no extra cost.

## Pages

- [Home](https://wedgestudio.dev/): what the studio does and how engagements run
- [What we do](https://wedgestudio.dev/what-we-do): the three specialties in depth
- [Work](https://wedgestudio.dev/work): case files and what counts as proof
- [How it works](https://wedgestudio.dev/process): the call, the teardown, the proposal, the build
- [Field notes](https://wedgestudio.dev/blog): short notes on AI-era visibility
- [What ChatGPT says when someone asks for the best venue in L.A.](https://wedgestudio.dev/blog/what-chatgpt-says): field note on how AI engines pick businesses to recommend
- [The studio](https://wedgestudio.dev/studio): who builds the work and how the studio runs
- [Start a project](https://wedgestudio.dev/contact): book the call