Penso Co.

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PENSO CO.

About Us

We are a small development studio that creates digital products and experiences focusing on informational and e-commerce websites.

Expertise

We work alongside a variety of clients, vendors, and agencies to craft amazing products, emphasizing the need for open and creative exchanges, invested collaboration, and painless handoffs to give the best to each phase of product creation as a team.

We care about semantics and accessibility, building products and experiences that work across all devices for all users.

  • Technical Direction
  • Prototyping
  • WordPress Theme Development
  • Shopify Theme Development
  • Custom Development
  • User Testing
  • Quality Assurance Testing

10+ Years Around

30+ Years of Combined Experience

61+ Projects Shipped

Selected Works '14-25

Screenshots of the Leaps website

Leaps is a specifically formulated recipe of dogfood for dogs living with cancer that meets the nutritional levels established by the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profiles for adult maintenance.

We partnered with design director Becca Ray to create a digital product and experience that offers a customizable serving size calculator based on your dog's weight and body condition, using Shopify.

Expertise

  • Technical Direction
  • Shopify Theme Development

Screenshots of the LaunchSquad website

LaunchSquad are an independent communications, creative content and digital marketing agency that finds and tells the stories of companies to capture imaginations, spark conversations and make good things happen in the world.

We partnered with Wild Shore to develop a new site to highlight all of LaunchSquad's services, and their personality, using Prismic as a CMS with a custom React front-end.

Expertise

  • CMS Setup
  • React Development

Screenshots of the SVPG website

Silicon Valley Product Group, SVPG, are industry veterans who have each held executive level positions at major Silicon Valley firms where we have been instrumental in the development of leading products.

We partnered with Wild Shore to build a responsive site for the SVPG team to help market their knowledge using WordPress as the CMS.

Expertise

  • Technical Direction
  • WordPress Theme Development

Screenshots of the Megaphone website

Megaphone are pioneers in podcast technology offerings like dynamic ad insertion, audience targeting, and data-driven creative, to name a few.

We partnered with design studio Council to build a shiny new site for the Megaphone team to help market their great product using Contentful as the CMS with a NextJS/React front-end.

Expertise

  • CMS Setup
  • NextJS/React Development

Screenshots of the Orbital Sidekick website

Orbital Sidekick is the premier persistent monitoring service helping commercial and government organizations meet their sustainable operations, ESG, and security goals. Their satellite constellation supplies fast, efficient hyperspectral intelligence from anywhere on the planet.

We partnered with our friends at Wild Shore to develop a new site to highlight all of Orbital Sidekick's monitoring services using Prismic as a CMS with a custom React front-end.

Expertise

  • CMS Setup
  • React Development

Screenshots of the TeachingBooks website

TeachingBooks is a small, dedicated team working to enrich every student's reading experience. Their mission is to equitably give all readers insights and opportunities that deepen their understanding and joy of the books they are reading.

We challenged ourselves and the TeachingBooks team to rethink how the product should operate in the modern web, while setting them up to be future-proof to changes in technology down the road.

Expertise

  • Competitive Analysis
  • Art Direction
  • UX Design
  • Custom Development

Screenshots of the Division Road website

Division Road is a luxury heritage menswear boutique providing enduring footwear, apparel, and accessories online and in-store. Based in Charlottesville, VA, they present exclusive North American, Western European, and Japanese manufacturers with a customer service standard that is equal to the quality of goods they carry.

They came to us looking to unify their brand across all mediums. We worked closely with their stakeholders and brand director to create a digital product and experience that solidifies a unique style from the ground up. Additionally, we took advantage of Shopify's POS system to maintain one inventory tracking system to simplify the customer experience, be it online or in-store.

Expertise

  • UX Design
  • Shopify Theme Development
  • Shopify POS Setup

Screenshots of the Kittelson website

Kittelson & Associates are an engineering consultancy composed of a diverse, interconnected group of more than 200 people (representing 19 different countries) in 24 offices around the United States. Whether they're recommending improvements for a single intersection or helping communities plan for autonomous vehicles, they love tackling transportation challenges through planning, operations, design, and research.

We partnered with Josh Boston to best showcase the amazing work they've done solving these challenges at various different sites across the country. The framework was also updated for a more modern, responsive experience replacing legacy code.

Expertise

  • Technical Direction
  • WordPress Theme Development

Screenshots of the VectorCare website

VectorCare is building the collaborative platform for dispatching healthcare, giving healthcare professionals amazing tools to help move patients back to the center of care.

We partnered with Wild Shore to develop a new site to highlight all of VectorCare's services using Prismic as a CMS with a custom React front-end.

Expertise

  • CMS Setup
  • React Development

Legacy project

Screenshots of the Taos website

Known for their supportive footbeds, Taos Footwear makes comfortable, supportive, and stylish women's shoes, sandals, clogs, boots, and more.

We partnered with Wild Shore to develop create a digital product and experience that solidifies the unique style for the Taos brand, using Shopify.

Expertise

  • Technical Direction
  • Shopify Theme Development

Legacy project

Screenshots of the Coiled website

Coiled helps the Data Science community build scalable, distributed, and intelligent applications powered by Python.

We partnered with Wild Shore to develop a new site following their work with Coiled's company-wide rebrand. The result is a fresh new site that is fast, responsive, and uniquely capable of showcasing their services.

Expertise

  • Technical Direction
  • WordPress Theme Development

Legacy project

Screenshots of the Common Future website

Common Future is a website connecting community leaders, funders, business owners, and social justice advocates through projects and initiatives aiming to keep wealth within local communities while also closing the racial wealth gap at the national level.

We partnered with our friends at Wild Shore to develop a new site following their work with Common Future's company-wide rebrand. The result is a fresh new site that is fast, responsive, and uniquely capable of showcasing their exciting engagements and initiatives.

Expertise

  • Technical Direction
  • WordPress Theme Development

Legacy project

Screenshots of the Raheem website

Raheem is an independent service for reporting police conduct in the United States. By sharing stories, users help build a body of data that can be used by police oversight boards to shape policy and help public defenders challenge violent police officers on the witness stand in court.

We partnered with Wild Shore to create an MVP to help Raheem kick-off gathering incident reports. It had to be lightweight, fast, and responsive with one of the goals being street team advocates talking to people in the community and logging incidents using cellular devices.

Expertise

  • CMS Setup
  • Custom Development

Legacy project

Contact Us

Feel like we'd be a good fit? Let's chat. hello@penso.co