About

The people behind the code.

A small team that spends real time understanding your problem before writing a line of code. Here’s who we are and how we work.

Custom websites, apps, and software that help teams get more done

What we’re actually like

We’re a small team, and we’ve done this long enough to know that a week spent understanding your problem is a month you don’t spend building the wrong thing. We build things people have to live in for years. So we build them to last, and we’ll tell you when an idea isn’t worth your money.

That’s the kind of problem that keeps bringing us back to Craft. It rewards the people who need a website that’s easy to manage, the people who have to maintain it after we’re gone, and the businesses that need it to grow without a rebuild.

Our standards.

We’re defined by more than our skill sets and process. These standards come before the first meeting, outlast every deadline, and matter more than anything in a scope document.

Listen twice: Understanding comes first
Make it last: Longevity is a sign of quality
Make it better: Progress is iterative
Stay true: Humility and honesty above all
Celebrate the good: Joy is contagious
Learn often: Knowledge exists for us to pursue it
Tiende puentes: Amplia tus horizontes “Build bridges. Broaden your horizons”
Be thorough: It saves time
Be kind: Always

A small team, on purpose.

Every client works directly with experienced developers.

No junior handoffs: No account managers in the middle, no offshore delivery layer on the work that matters.
The people who scope it build it: The team that sizes your project is the team that writes it. Nothing is passed on after the pitch.
Compared with a hundred-person agency: One person will design it and three will build it. Same as here, except ours have done this before.
Proven at sustained output: We ran a single client engagement at four hundred hours a month for three years.

Foster Commerce was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. We are privately owned, have operated profitably since the start, and have taken no outside investment.

Our client relationships average several years.

We keep our services focused: strategy, design, development, and the ongoing site and server management most agencies hand off to someone else. See what we build →