§ The Studio
A small studio that ships above its weight.
We're engineers and designers who got tired of the gap between agencies that pitch and products that ship — so we do both, and hold them to the same standard.
§01 — The Studio
We build for problems we've felt.
Astoria Digital started in 2017 out of a simple frustration: too many good stores were running on bad software, and too many agencies were happy to bill for the gap. So we built a studio that does the unglamorous parts of commerce well — and put everything we learned on the client side back into tools we ship under our own name. Today we're a remote-first team registered in Sheridan, Wyoming: senior people, no junior handoffs, and an obsession with the numbers that actually move revenue.
§02 — Principles
How we operate.
Ship real software
Working software in staging beats slideware, every week.
Boring tech on purpose
We pick technology you can still hire for and operate in five years.
Own your code
Everything we build for you is yours, documented, handed over clean.
Numbers over opinions
We argue with data and measure what we ship.
Senior people only
The people who pitch are the people who build.
§03 — Why Both
The agency funds the workshop. The workshop sharpens the agency.
Client work pays for products that solve problems a thousand stores share. Building those products keeps our engineers honest about uptime, support, and the unglamorous parts of running real software. Each side holds the other to a higher bar — and you get the benefit either way.
§04 — The People
Senior, and on the keys.
Senior people on the keys — no handoffs to juniors. Portraits and names go live with the team's go-ahead.
Founder / Principal Engineer
Head of Product
Staff Commerce Engineer
Design Lead
Data Engineer
§05 — Careers
We hire people who ship.
We stay small on purpose and pay for senior judgment. If you've built commerce software that real stores depend on — and you'd rather own the hard parts than hand them off — we'd like to talk.
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Let's build something worth shipping.
Whether you need a system built or a tool installed, we'll tell you honestly whether we're the studio for it.