Work Built to Last.

The organization

Meridian Bookkeeping is a studio demonstration build: a complete digital presence for a premium small-business bookkeeping practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. It exists to answer the question every service business asks, which is what custom actually buys you over a template. So I built the whole thing, the marketing site and the software the business would run on, as one working system rather than flat mockups.

The challenge

Most bookkeepers, contractors, clinics, and studios get a brochure website: a pretty template that ends at 'Contact us.' The real work of the business happens somewhere else entirely. Managing clients, collecting documents, sending invoices, closing the books each month. All of it lives in spreadsheets, email threads, and disconnected tools. The challenge was to show the alternative end to end: a marketing site and a genuine operating system for the practice, sharing one brand, one design language, and one standard of speed and polish.

What I built

• A cinematic marketing site: animated hero, services, a secure-portal preview, and a working contact form
• A gated client & practice portal with a branded, role-aware sign-in
• An owner's dashboard: live KPIs, a custom revenue chart, a needs-attention queue, and an activity feed
• A searchable client directory with a detail page for every business
• Invoicing that reconciles to the dashboard, with real status: paid, sent, overdue, draft
• A document-intake tracker tied to each month-end close
• A close task board spanning the whole book of business
• An image pipeline that takes 10 MB photos down to ~100 KB without visible loss
• A companion mobile-app concept, so clients upload, track, and pay from their phone

The outcome

It's the clearest proof I have that Frederick Design Studio builds custom software rather than templates: a live marketing site you can visit, backed by a fully-built client-and-practice CRM shown here in full, with dashboard, clients, invoices, documents, and a month-end close. I designed, built, and populated the whole thing as a capability demonstration.

The organization

Mending Indigenous Spirits is a Northern California 501(c)(3) nonprofit creating and connecting Indigenous communities through wellness, culture, and healing. It supports relatives walking the Red Road and Wellbriety frameworks of recovery, survivors of domestic violence, unhoused relatives, BIPOC community members, youth and elders, families affected by Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP), and Two-Spirit relatives, with patience, understanding, and respect.

The challenge

The organization does a great deal: recovery meetings, cultural events, an artisan market, trainings, and a wellness team. It had no cohesive home for any of it. It needed a space that could carry a wide, growing range of programs without feeling cluttered; serve a largely mobile community often reaching out in vulnerable moments, with calm and dignity; and honor Indigenous culture in its look and language rather than treating it as decoration. And it needed to live across web and mobile, not just as a website.

What I built

• A mission-first homepage routing people to eight core areas of the community
• An "Our Vision" page stating the 501(c)(3) mission and exactly who it serves
• A wellness-team directory with filters and full leadership bios
• An events hub for recurring circles, gatherings, and cultural celebrations
• A Wellbriety meeting-flyer grid for Indigenous-led recovery meetings
• Indigenous Artisan Market, Shared Journeys, and Certificates & Trainings
• Clear contact and donation paths, plus companion iOS & Android apps

The outcome

A single, dignified home for a wide-ranging community program, on the web and in people's pockets. The structure gives the organization room to grow without a redesign, the identity reflects the culture it serves, and the most important paths are never more than a tap away. Built pro bono, held to the same standard as paid work.