Custom Websites With Advanced Functionality
Not simple websites. Not templates. Custom-coded websites built for businesses that need serious functionality, connected systems, and room to grow.
This is the right fit when your website needs more than pages and content blocks. I build customer-facing platforms, member areas, workflow-heavy forms, dashboards, advanced integrations, and custom functionality tailored to the way your business actually works.
With 35+ years of experience and former CTO leadership, I help businesses build stable, scalable custom websites that can also grow into larger application-style systems when needed.
- Advanced website functionality such as member areas, calculators, dashboards, and connected business workflows
- Customer-facing experiences supported by complex integrations, APIs, and internal systems
- Practical AI-assisted features added to custom websites where they improve usability, speed, or workflow quality
What A Custom Website Can Do
Many businesses come in thinking they need a website refresh, when what they really need is custom functionality that supports how the business runs.
Advanced Customer Experiences
Build more than a brochure site with portals, account areas, calculators, quoting flows, structured intake, and other features your visitors actually use.
Connected Business Workflows
Connect your website to CRMs, internal tools, third-party APIs, forms, and admin workflows so the site supports the business instead of just sitting beside it.
Built To Grow With You
Start with the website you need now, with the option to grow into richer tools, dashboards, internal workflows, and application-style features over time.
Practical AI Integration for Custom Websites
I help businesses add thoughtful AI assistance to custom websites when it improves speed, usability, and workflow quality. The goal is not hype. The goal is a better experience for your visitors and your team.
Drafting Assistants
Help users create first drafts for forms, polls, structured content, or admin-side workflows so they can get started faster and publish with more confidence.
Guided User Workflows
Add AI-powered suggestions and refinement steps that guide users toward better decisions, cleaner inputs, and higher-quality outcomes.
Summaries & Insights
Turn raw user input into structured summaries, clearer reporting, and more useful business data that teams can review and act on quickly.
Customer-Facing AI Features
Build practical AI into customer portals, dashboards, and custom experiences where it helps people move faster without making the product feel complicated.
Internal Business Assistants
Create admin-side tools that help your team search, draft, summarize, and move through repetitive internal tasks more efficiently.
Automation With Oversight
Automate parts of a workflow while keeping the right human review points in place, so the system stays useful, reliable, and aligned with your business.
Why Work With a Former CTO?
You are not just hiring someone to code pages. You are working with someone who can help shape a complex website around business goals, workflows, integrations, and long-term growth.
Strategic Partnership
I can help think through the architecture, scope, and tradeoffs so the website supports the business properly from the start.
Clear Communication
No jargon, no empty promises—just clear updates and real progress. I translate complex technical concepts into business value you can understand.
35+ Years Expertise
Deep experience across industries means I know how to approach complex website and platform requirements with steady, practical judgment.
See the Kinds of Custom Website Work I Do
These examples show the kind of functionality I can bring to a serious custom website: richer user experiences, connected systems, advanced workflows, and room to grow into deeper application-style features.
BrightTally
Interactive Polls, Forms & Guided Data Collection
A custom-built platform for interactive polls and forms that shows how a website can go far beyond publishing pages. It supports richer user interaction, better data collection, and the kind of guided experience businesses need when forms are central to the workflow.
MetricPoints
Monitoring, Analytics & Technical Oversight
A custom platform for monitoring, analytics, and technical oversight. It shows how a custom website or portal can expose deep operational data through dashboards, alerts, reporting, and account-level tooling.
Need a Website That Behaves More Like a Product?
Many of the best custom website projects sit right on the edge between website and application. If you need portals, dashboards, workflows, guided forms, member experiences, or AI-assisted features, I can help you shape and build the right solution.
Customer-Facing Experiences
Portals, member areas, guided workflows, and richer interactive features
Connected Business Logic
Integrations, account-based behavior, approvals, automation, and custom rules
Room To Grow
Built so the website can evolve into deeper tools and systems over time
Let’s Build Something Great Together
Ready to bring your ideas to life? Contact me today to get started!
Client Testimonials
See what clients say about working with me on advanced custom website and platform work
"I had my plate full wearing too many hats in running a digital agency. That means having my hands full with numerous tech tasks. Michael clears my plate of everything tech so I can focus on working 'On' my business and not 'In' the business. Michael is intelligent, personable and simply gets it done."
Chijo Takeda
Digital Agency Owner
Dogpaw Studio
"Michael is the best back-end developer I've ever worked with. He really knows his stuff, communicates really well and has always been able to figure out whatever I throw at him. He rocks!"
John Falke
Digital Marketing Specialist
Johnny Flash Productions
"We've been working with Michael for some time now on various WordPress websites that require an in-depth technical skillset. From projects that have a deep tech stack, to projects with very specific requirements, we've partnered with him and had some amazing success. I never worry if the technical needs are being handled properly or on-time because he's always got them taken care of before I even have a chance to look. I HIGHLY recommend working with Michael. I was a website developer for 10 years before turning into an agency owner and I know a great developer (and person) when I see one."
Adam Silverman
Agency Owner
Mule Town Digital
Examples of Advanced Website & Platform Work
These examples show the kinds of projects that start as “we need a better website” and turn into deeper custom solutions with workflows, integrations, portals, and business-critical functionality.
Remote Inspection & Meeting Platform
A secure customer-facing platform for remote inspections in the insurance industry. Helped reduce inspection time by 30% while keeping the process easier for both staff and end users.
Key Metrics
Lending Website with Advanced Workflows
A custom lending experience for a business lender serving small businesses, especially minority- and women-owned companies. Combined advanced forms, workflow logic, and connected systems to support a more complex application process.
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Publishing Website with Connected Systems
A custom publishing platform supporting online and print workflows, partner feeds, monetization, and connected systems. This is a strong example of a public-facing website growing into a deeper business platform.
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Advertising Platform With Advanced Business Rules
A custom advertising platform with advanced business rules, network-owner workflows, and higher-volume operational demands. A good example of website functionality growing into a more specialized system.
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Why Businesses Trust Me With Complex Website Work
35+ Years Solving Real Business Problems
I have spent decades building custom systems across insurance, finance, publishing, healthcare, and other industries where the technical work has to support real operational needs.
Former CTO Perspective
I understand how to think beyond the feature list and shape a project around business goals, maintainability, and long-term growth.
Proven Results in Complex Environments
I have built revenue-generating platforms, workflow-heavy systems, and complex integrations that helped businesses operate more efficiently and serve users better.
A Practical, Senior-Level Approach
I focus on clear architecture, thoughtful functionality, and solutions that can keep growing instead of forcing you into fragile workarounds later.
The right custom website can simplify workflows, connect systems, support customers better, and create room for the business to grow. That is the kind of work I aim to deliver.
Ready to Build a Website With Real Functionality?
Let’s talk through the custom features, workflows, integrations, or portal-style experiences your project needs.
Start Your Journey with a Quick Chat
My guided contact form walks you through a few simple questions about your project. It's quick, easy, and designed to ensure we create something incredible together.
Discuss Your Vision
Share your goals and ideas
Get Tailored Advice
Receive personalized next steps
No Pressure
Friendly chat to see if we fit
Looking for Custom WordPress Solutions?
If WordPress is part of your project, I also handle custom plugin work, advanced integrations, and higher-end functionality that goes well beyond routine theme edits.
Ready to Get Started?
Whether you have a clear vision or just a spark of an idea, I’m here to help you bring it to life. Let’s create something amazing together!