Services

Six things we do. Done well, since 2009.

The shape of an INNOV8 engagement depends on what the work actually asks for. Below are the six service categories we’ve refined across sixteen years of practice — each with concrete deliverables and at least one shipped engagement that demonstrates the work in production.

  • 01 / Frontend architecture

    The codebase you'll still want to be in three years from now.

    TypeScript, React, Angular, SvelteKit, htmx — chosen for fit, not fashion. Performance budgets enforced from the first commit. Accessibility baked in, not bolted on. We architect frontends that age alongside the product instead of against it.

    For existing codebases: targeted refactors, dependency hygiene, build-pipeline modernization. For greenfield work: stack selection grounded in the team's hire profile + the product's five-year roadmap, not the current month's GitHub stars.

    What you get

    • Stack-decision document with trade-offs explicit
    • Performance + accessibility budgets baked into CI
    • Component architecture + design-system handoff
    • Codebase you can hand to the next engineer without an apology
  • 02 / Marketing sites

    From hero to /pricing to changelog. Lighthouse 100/100, every site we ship.

    Edge-rendered, motion-rich, profiled to a perfect Lighthouse score. The kind of site that ages alongside the product — not against it.

    We build marketing surfaces the way most teams build product surfaces: with engineering rigor, performance budgets, and an obsession with the user's first-paint experience. Hero copy, design tokens, motion principles, accessibility — all in one engagement, not handed off across three vendors.

    What you get

    • Production-ready static site on Cloudflare Pages / Vercel / Netlify
    • Design system documented + handed off
    • Performance baseline: 100/100 Lighthouse across mobile + desktop
    • WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility verified, not just claimed
  • 03 / Product UI

    Configurators, dashboards, builders. The deep technical surface most agencies stop short of.

    The interactive surface where most agencies stop and the actual engineering work starts. Build & Price configurators, real-time dashboards, interactive calculators, multi-step forms with state machines — the kind of frontend that has to be correct, not just pretty.

    Acura.com Build & Price — six years in production. automobiles.honda.com shopping tools — five and counting. The work below the marketing layer that determines whether the product actually converts.

    What you get

    • State-machine-driven UX flows with explicit invariants
    • Real-time data layer (WebSockets, SSE, polling — whichever fits)
    • Cross-browser + cross-device QA, including legacy fleet support if needed
    • Long-running production reliability — not a six-month half-life
  • 04 / Performance optimization

    Core Web Vitals into the green. Without rewriting your stack.

    Existing site with bad numbers? We audit, profile, and remediate against the actual budgets your business needs to hit. Largest Contentful Paint, Interaction-to-Next-Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift — measured, prioritized, fixed.

    Most performance work is engineering archaeology, not greenfield rebuilds. We find what's hot, what's heavy, and what's actually moving the metric. Then we fix it without breaking the team's existing workflow.

    What you get

    • Performance audit report with prioritized findings
    • CI-integrated performance budgets that fail the build when regressed
    • Lighthouse + CrUX field-data baseline before + after
    • Knowledge transfer so the team can maintain the gains
  • 05 / Accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA)

    ADA-compliant, screen-reader-clean, keyboard-navigable. Verified, not claimed.

    Accessibility is one of the few areas where intent and outcome diverge constantly. Lots of teams ship sites they believe are accessible because the linter said so; very few ship sites that actually work with a screen reader, voice control, or keyboard-only navigation.

    We close the gap. Component-level remediation, axe-core CI integration, manual VoiceOver / NVDA / JAWS testing, color-contrast audits, focus-management overhaul. WCAG 2.2 AA as the floor, not the ceiling.

    What you get

    • Component-level accessibility audit + remediation
    • CI-integrated axe-core / Pa11y / Lighthouse-a11y checks
    • Manual screen-reader + keyboard-navigation testing
    • WCAG 2.2 AA conformance report with evidence
  • 06 / Team leadership + code review

    Senior eyes on the architecture before the team commits to it.

    Frontend architecture review for in-flight engagements. Codebase audits for technical-debt remediation. Mentorship for senior engineers stepping into staff/principal roles. We engage as the senior voice in the room when the team needs one but doesn't have one to hire full-time.

    Typical engagement: a few hours a week over a quarter, focused on the architectural decisions that compound. Stack-selection review, code review cadence, hiring-loop calibration, technical-interview design.

    What you get

    • Architecture review document with prioritized recommendations
    • Recurring code-review presence in the team's PR pipeline
    • Hiring-loop + technical-interview rubric design
    • Senior-engineer mentorship + career-mapping for staff/principal candidates
The toolkit

The toolkit

Three decades of accumulated frameworks, platforms, and runtimes. Each one earned a place in the kit by shipping something that paid for itself.

Frontend
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Redux
  • RxJS
  • Angular
  • NgRx
  • SvelteKit
  • Vue
  • Next.js
  • Gatsby
  • htmx
  • Eleventy
  • Nunjucks
  • Markdown
  • SCSS
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Material UI
  • shadcn/ui
  • Styled Components / Emotion
  • Storybook
  • Webpack
  • Vite
  • Vitest
  • Jest
  • React Testing Library
  • Playwright
Backend & Cloud
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • T-SQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Drizzle / Prisma
  • GraphQL
  • REST APIs
  • WebSockets
  • AWS
  • Cloudflare Pages
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Cloudflare Pages Functions
  • Cloudflare KV
  • Cloudflare R2
  • Cloudflare Turnstile
  • Wrangler
  • Vercel
  • Kubernetes
  • Auth0
  • Stripe
  • Resend
Mobile & Design
  • React Native
  • iOS (Swift)
  • watchOS
  • Android (Kotlin)
  • Capacitor
  • Contentful
  • Figma
AI & Performance
  • Anthropic Claude
  • Claude Agent SDK
  • OpenAI
  • Google Gemini
  • DeepSeek
  • Llama
  • Task-Aware Multi-Model Routing
  • Multi-Pass Critic-Refine Pipeline
  • Prompt-Caching
  • RAG
  • Vector DBs
  • Cloudflare AI
  • Edge runtimes
  • Core Web Vitals
  • Real User Monitoring
  • Lighthouse
  • Web Workers
  • Service Workers
The stack

The capability inventory, era by era.

A toolkit accumulated across four technological eras. Every discipline production-proven; every tool earned its place by shipping work that paid for itself.

Stack matrix: each row is a capability category, each column is one of the four eras of the modern web; cells show the primary technologies used for that capability in that era.
.COM BOOM
1994 — 2001
WEB 2.0
2002 — 2010
MOBILE ERA
2008 — Present
AI FRONTIER
2020 — Now
Web Development
31Y
HTML · CGI · Early JS AJAX · PHP · jQuery Responsive · React · Angular React 19 · SvelteKit · htmx · Next.js
Software Engineering
28Y
ASP · early C# / .NET beta ASP.NET · PHP · ColdFusion · Java Node.js · TypeScript · REST APIs Express 5 · GraphQL · WebSockets
Mobile Apps
17Y
iOS (Objective-C / Swift) · Android · React Native · PhoneGap / Cordova Capacitor · PWAs · watchOS
AI Integration
1Y
Anthropic Claude · OpenAI · Gemini · DeepSeek · Llama · multi-model routing · multi-pass critic-refine · prompt caching
Cloud Systems
15Y
AWS · GCP · Azure Cloudflare Workers · Pages · R2 · KV
UI / UX Design
31Y
Photoshop · hand-coded wireframes Fireworks · jQuery UI prototyping Sketch · Adobe XD · design systems Figma · shadcn/ui · Tailwind · Claude Design
Brand Identity
31Y
The Web Group · Protean Group identities Logos · style guides Brand systems · voice · motion principles Design tokens · motion specs · Phlip identity
Performance
27Y
Page-weight discipline Early caching · CDN Core Web Vitals · caching · CDN Edge runtime · RUM · Lighthouse 100
02 / What we commit to

Track record is one thing. Standards are another.

8wk

From kickoff to launch. Standard-scope marketing engagement, hero to changelog.

100/100

Lighthouse score on every site we ship. Performance budgets enforced from the first commit.

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