Web design and development changed more in the last year than in the five before it. AI coding agents can now read an entire website, find what is broken, write and test fixes, and check the result, in hours rather than weeks. What they cannot do is decide what your business needs, notice when an answer is wrong, or take responsibility for the outcome.

That is the combination I offer: more than 25 years of design and development judgment, with an AI-accelerated workshop behind it. You work with one experienced person. The tools make that person faster and more thorough, and the savings show up as shorter timelines and more included in every project.

What this makes possible

Website audits that check every page

Every URL, link, image, form, title and redirect on your site, plus your Search Console and Analytics data, turned into a ranked list of what is costing you customers.

Site Care: maintenance that actually looks at your site

Updates tested on a copy before they touch your live site, a full crawl every month, and a report in plain English.

SEO and AI search optimization

Being found on Google and in the answers AI assistants give, built on real data from your own site.

AI assistants and automation

A website assistant that answers from your own content, lead follow-up that happens in seconds, and the repetitive work between your tools handled for you.

AI coding consulting for teams

Setup, guardrails and training for agencies and development teams adopting agentic coding tools such as Claude Code and OpenAI Codex.

Faster custom builds

Custom features and integrations that used to be out of a small business’s budget are now realistic. See Chicago web developer and WordPress web designer in Chicago.

How the work is kept safe

One accountable person — I review everything before it ships; AI does the legwork, not the judgment
Staging first — changes are tested on a private copy of your site before they touch the live one
Backups before every change — so anything can be rolled back
Your data stays yours — no customer records, passwords or payment data go into AI tools, and you own all code and content

Proof: I ran it on my own site first

In September 2026 I audited and repaired johnschuster.net in a single working day: three pages that crashed, a homepage link that led to an image file, about a hundred broken image paths, fourteen dead forms, a service page that was one paragraph pasted seven times, some sixty pages competing with each other in search, and four security exposures. Read the full case study.

Next step

Tell me what you have and what you need. You get a plan and a fixed quote before any work starts. Call 312-380-5745 or use the form. Curious how the work is done? Read how I use AI.

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