The connected system for real estate agents.
One company builds the website, connects the tools you already pay for, installs the hardware, and answers the phone when something breaks.
- ✕Your listings live on the portal's site — buyers never remember you.
- ✕Leads sit in a spreadsheet with no follow-up cadence.
- ✕No neighborhood content, so you're invisible for local searches.
Listing dashboard
IDX listings on your own site, every lead captured under your name.
Lead nurture
Automated drips that keep you first in mind when they're ready to move.
Area authority
Neighborhood guides that rank and prove you actually know the market.
A real-estate website should help buyers decide before it asks for a call.
Three live coastal Delaware platforms show different versions of that job. Leslie Savage pairs a worker-fed Bright MLS browser with 86 structured communities, four calculators, saved homes and searches, comparisons, and direct listing enquiries. Kristina Lingo combines live inventory with five candid area profiles, cost context, a nine-question beach-town matcher, and showing requests. Both keep useful research on the agent's own site rather than sending every visitor back to a portal.
Merritt & Shawn's DeBeach platform adds six original town guides for Lewes, Rehoboth, Dewey, Bethany, Fenwick Island, and Milton, plus live map-and-list search, favorites, comparisons, buyer and seller paths, and property films. The common system is not an IDX frame with a headshot above it: local content creates a reason to arrive, live inventory answers the property question, and lead capture appears when the visitor has useful context to share.
Real-estate website questions
Can an agent site show live coastal Delaware listings?
Yes, with authorized listing access and a dependable data layer. The portfolio uses Jack Lingo and Bright MLS sources through Cloudflare workers, with map and list views, filters, saved state, comparison, and direct enquiry paths.
Why publish neighborhood and town content when portals have listings?
Portals can show inventory, but they rarely explain fit, seasonality, parking, flood exposure, rental context, or how one coastal town differs from another. Original local guidance gives a buyer a reason to remember and contact the agent.
Can buyers save homes without making an account?
Yes. The Leslie Savage and Kristina Lingo builds keep favorites and saved searches in the browser, while enquiries go directly to the agent. An account is only worth adding when the ongoing customer workflow truly needs one.
Does a real-estate website replace the brokerage or MLS?
No. Brokerage disclosures and authorized listing sources remain clear. The agent site adds brand, local research, decision tools, useful search paths, and direct contact while respecting the systems that own the listing records.
One problem is never one problem.
You don't have a website problem or a software problem. You have a system problem — the pieces don't talk. Here's the whole chain, and why each link makes the next one stronger.
The one address you own outright — fast, findable, built to convert.
- What it is
- A site engineered from the ground up: sub-second loads, real structure, and every page pointed at a clear next step.
- Who needs it
- Anyone whose current site is a slow brochure, or lives on a platform they rent.
- Engagement
- Fixed-scope build over 3–6 weeks, then handed off or kept on a light retainer.
A visit is wasted if it can't turn into a booking on the spot.
- WebsiteGrowth Layer
The one address you own outright — fast, findable, built to convert.
- What it is
- A site engineered from the ground up: sub-second loads, real structure, and every page pointed at a clear next step.
- Who needs it
- Anyone whose current site is a slow brochure, or lives on a platform they rent.
- Engagement
- Fixed-scope build over 3–6 weeks, then handed off or kept on a light retainer.
How it connectsA visit is wasted if it can't turn into a booking on the spot.
- SchedulingOperations Layer
Let customers book, reschedule, and pay without a single phone call.
- What it is
- Real-time booking wired into the calendar and tools you already use — not a form that just emails you.
- Who needs it
- Clinics, service businesses, and anyone losing after-hours leads to voicemail.
- Engagement
- We consult on and integrate your scheduler — we don't reinvent it or sell our own.
How it connectsA booking isn't revenue until the register agrees it happened.
- Point of SalePhysical Layer
The register as a source of truth, not a silo.
- What it is
- The right POS chosen and integrated so sales data flows everywhere it's actually useful.
- Who needs it
- Restaurants, retail, and venues running card, redemption, or food on separate systems.
- Engagement
- We consult on the right platform and connect it — no proprietary hardware pushed by us.
How it connectsYour menu board should already know what the POS knows.
- Digital SignagePhysical Layer
CanvasRelay — the signage platform this studio built and runs — puts any design on any TV.
- What it is
- A live, self-serve product at canvasrelay.app for designing, publishing, scheduling, and managing screens across web, Roku, and Android players.
- Who needs it
- Restaurants, retail, venues, and offices — self-serve through CanvasRelay, or local with Studio Sussex handling design, hardware, installation, and support.
- Engagement
- A player and content system we build; you run every screen from one place.
How it connectsChange a price once and every screen and channel should update itself.
- AutomationSoftware Layer
The follow-ups, reminders, and busywork that should never touch a human.
- What it is
- Event-driven workflows that move data and send the right message at the right moment.
- Who needs it
- Contractors chasing leads, clinics sending reminders, anyone re-typing data between apps.
- Engagement
- Mapped to your real process, built incrementally, measured in hours returned.
How it connectsWork that runs on its own still has to be watched — quietly.
- DashboardsOperations Layer
One honest screen for the numbers that actually run the business.
- What it is
- Live reporting that pulls from POS, site, and tools into the metrics you'll genuinely check.
- Who needs it
- Owners flying blind across three logins and a spreadsheet.
- Engagement
- Built on your real data sources, starting with the five numbers that matter most.
How it connectsA number is only as honest as the hardware that measured it.
- HardwarePhysical Layer
The screens, readers, and devices that make software physical.
- What it is
- Spec, source, and integrate proven hardware — kiosks, displays, readers — with your systems.
- Who needs it
- Venues and shops where the software has to leave the browser and live in the room.
- Engagement
- Consult-and-integrate: we pick hardware that lasts and never lock you in.
How it connectsOff-the-shelf ends exactly where your business gets interesting.
- Custom SoftwareSoftware Layer
When the tool you need doesn't exist yet, I build it.
- What it is
- Bespoke applications for the workflow that's uniquely yours — the part no SaaS ever covers.
- Who needs it
- Businesses whose real edge is a process they're still forced to run by hand.
- Engagement
- Scoped discovery first, then a real application — owned outright by you.
How it connectsThe software people touch is your brand, whether you designed it or not.
- BrandGrowth Layer
The identity that makes all of it feel like one deliberate company.
- What it is
- Name, mark, voice, and system — so every screen and sign reads as unmistakably yours.
- Who needs it
- Anyone whose touchpoints look like they came from five different vendors.
- Engagement
- An identity system and guidelines, applied across every system above.
How it connectsA brand they trust sends the next customer straight back to the top.
Real work. Live links.
Shipped websites, real-estate platforms, and three SaaS products — each case study opens the hood on the problem, the trade-offs, and the systems that connect it all. Every live one links out.
Start with the problem that's loudest.
Tell me what's breaking and I'll show you the system that fixes it.