Meet the Team

One Partner, Four Experts, Zero Handoffs.

DM Solutions is a small, senior team by design—four specialist pods, each led by someone who does the work, not just manages it.

10+

Full-Time Team Members

4

Specialized Pods

22+

Services Covered In-House

1

Accountable Partner

Team Philosophy

Small, Senior, and Structured to Grow

Plenty of agencies lead with headcount. We'd rather lead with who actually touches your project. Right now that's four discipline leads—each senior enough to own their domain end-to-end, and each directly reachable from day one.

The pod model is how we scale without diluting that. Each lead heads a pod covering a distinct slice of the digital lifecycle: Engineering, Design, Optimization, and Growth. As we bring on junior specialists, they join an existing pod under an established lead—inheriting a documented standard, a review culture, and a senior mentor rather than being dropped onto a client account cold.

It means your project never gets handed to whoever was free that week. It gets the lead who owns that discipline, supported by a pod that grows deliberately around them.

The Four Pods

Every Discipline Has an Owner

Four pods, four leads, and one shared roadmap. Each pod owns its discipline end to end—so nothing falls between the cracks.

Engineering Pod

Code That Ships and Keeps Running

The Engineering pod owns everything that has to work in production—custom software, web applications, mobile apps, platform builds, and the API integrations that tie your stack together. Architecture decisions get made by someone who'll still be maintaining the result six months later.

Core Stack

  • TypeScript
  • React & Next.js
  • Node.js
  • React Native
  • WordPress
  • Webflow
  • Shopify
  • WooCommerce
  • REST & GraphQL
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Software Development
  • Mobile App Development
  • Webflow Development
  • WooCommerce Development
  • Web App Development
  • WordPress Development
  • Shopify Development
  • API Integration

Pod Roster

Design Pod

Interfaces Built to Be Shipped, Not Just Admired

The Design pod covers UI/UX, product design, brand identity, graphics, infographics, and e-commerce design. Every interface is designed against real technical constraints and real business goals—which is what happens when the design lead sits in the same planning session as the engineer.

Core Stack

  • TypeScript
  • React & Next.js
  • Node.js
  • React Native
  • WordPress
  • Webflow
  • Shopify
  • WooCommerce
  • REST & GraphQL
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Software Development
  • Mobile App Development
  • Webflow Development
  • WooCommerce Development
  • Web App Development
  • WordPress Development
  • Shopify Development
  • API Integration

Pod Roster

Junior designers joining under Michael's mentorship as the pod grows.

Optimization Pod

Fast, Findable, and Secure—Non-Negotiable

The Optimization pod takes over where “we launched” ends. Performance tuning, technical and local SEO, conversion rate optimization, security audits, ongoing maintenance, and managed cloud hosting—the compounding work that turns a live site into a growing asset.

Core Stack

  • TypeScript
  • React & Next.js
  • Node.js
  • React Native
  • WordPress
  • Webflow
  • Shopify
  • WooCommerce
  • REST & GraphQL
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Software Development
  • Mobile App Development
  • Webflow Development
  • WooCommerce Development
  • Web App Development
  • WordPress Development
  • Shopify Development
  • API Integration

Pod Roster

Junior designers joining under Michael's mentorship as the pod grows.

Growth Pod

Traffic Is Vanity. Revenue Is the Point.

The Growth pod runs content marketing, email marketing, social media, PPC, Google Display Network campaigns, marketing automation, and copywriting. Campaigns are built on top of what the other three pods shipped—so the messaging, the landing page, and the load time all pull in the same direction.

Core Stack

  • TypeScript
  • React & Next.js
  • Node.js
  • React Native
  • WordPress
  • Webflow
  • Shopify
  • WooCommerce
  • REST & GraphQL
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Software Development
  • Mobile App Development
  • Webflow Development
  • WooCommerce Development
  • Web App Development
  • WordPress Development
  • Shopify Development
  • API Integration

Pod Roster

Junior designers joining under Michael's mentorship as the pod grows.

How We Grow the Pods

Adding People Without Diluting the Standard

Growth is deliberate. Every new specialist joins an existing pod under an accountable lead—never a loose freelancer bolted on at the edges.

Stage 01

Lead Owns the Discipline

Each pod starts with a senior lead who defines the standard, owns the roadmap, and is accountable for every deliverable that leaves the pod.

Stage 02

Specialists Join the Pod

Junior and mid-level specialists join and grow under that lead—learning the standard by working to it, not around it.

Stage 03

Capacity Scales, Quality Holds

As pods deepen, we take on more concurrent work without diluting the senior oversight that defines the outcome.

The Advantage

Why a Small Senior Team Beats a Big Anonymous One

You get direct access to the people doing the work—and decisions that used to take a week now take an afternoon.

Talk to a Lead

You Talk to the Doer

No account manager relaying your requirements through a game of telephone. You brief the person who actually builds it.

Decisions in Minutes

Four leads on one shared roadmap means cross-discipline calls happen in a Slack thread, not a three-vendor conference call.

Full Lifecycle Coverage

Development, design, optimization, and marketing under one roof—one team accountable from first sketch to ongoing growth.

Senior Work by Default

Every deliverable passes through a discipline lead. Senior review isn't an upsell; it's the baseline.

How We Work

The Defaults That Keep Us Sharp

A small team only stays fast if the habits are right. These are ours.

Written First

Decisions, specs, and standards get documented—so nothing lives only in one person's head.

Craft Reviews

Every significant deliverable gets reviewed by a discipline lead before it ships.

Shared Roadmap

All four pods plan against the same project roadmap, so priorities never quietly conflict.

Modern Toolchain

Figma for design, Git for code, Sanity for content—modern tools, no legacy drag.

Always Learning

Platforms change, algorithms shift, frameworks evolve. We keep testing so your stack stays current.

Direct Access

Clients get the leads, not a switchboard. You always know who's accountable.

Join a Pod

We're Growing—Deliberately

We're building out each pod with specialists who want to do senior-level work under senior-level mentorship.

Let's Work Together

Work Directly With the People Who Build Your Product

No layers, no handoffs, no wondering who's actually doing the work—just a senior team accountable to your outcome.

Tell us what you're building and we'll put the right leads on the call.