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Austin, TX

Design & Development Agency in Austin

&Pixels is an Austin-based, certified Disabled Veteran-Owned design and development agency. UX design, engineering, SaaS, AI and search. The same senior team runs it from the first call to the version you are still using three years later.

Certified Disabled Veteran-Owned Business

What hiring locally actually changes

Plenty of good agencies work remotely, and plenty of bad ones are down the street. On its own, being close by is worth very little. Three things about it are worth something.

Same timezone, same hours

Standups, reviews and the awkward mid-build call all land inside your working day. Offshore teams cost less per hour and more per decision, because every question costs a night.

In the room when it matters

Kickoffs, user interviews and design workshops go better in person. We come to you anywhere in the Austin area for those. The rest runs over video, because we do not invent reasons to meet.

The people who pitch are the people who build

No sell-then-vanish. The senior designer and engineer at your kickoff are the ones still shipping in month four. That one thing is what Austin businesses most often tell us went wrong last time.

What we build for Austin businesses

UX Design & Research

Interviews, usability testing and journey mapping. Then wireframes, prototypes and a design system your developers can actually build from.

Web & SaaS Development

React, Next.js and Node. Multi-tenant SaaS, APIs and the connections between them. Built to hand over, not to keep you stuck with us.

AI Solutions

Real integration, not a demo. We automate the task that is actually eating your week, then test it enough to prove it holds up.

White-Label for Agencies

Design, development and SEO under your brand through &Co. You shine, we ghost. Several Austin agencies use us as their silent build team.

Search: SEO, AEO & GEO

Classic ranking work, plus the answer engines and AI tools that now write a reply instead of listing links. We report them apart, because they move apart.

Hosting & Maintenance

Hosting, updates and monitoring on any platform. The point is that the site you paid for does not quietly rot a year after launch.

The map is taking the clicks

Search almost any service in Austin and Google shows three businesses on a map before the ordinary results. On a phone that fills the screen.

In Austin the three slots are fought over hard, because almost every category has hundreds of businesses inside the same few miles. That cuts both ways. It is difficult to break into, and the businesses already sitting there are often coasting on a profile nobody has updated since they claimed it.

Getting into it is a different job from ranking a website, and mostly an unglamorous one.

Get found in the map
Square
Setup and integration

Then there is taking the money

Getting found is half of it. The other half is what happens in the thirty seconds after, and for a lot of Austin businesses that runs on Square.

Coffee shops, salons, trailers, studios and clinics across the city run the register, the bookings and the online orders through it, and more often than not those three things disagree with each other by Friday.

  • +Payments and point of sale
  • +Square Appointments booking
  • +Store and register sharing stock
  • +Booking link on your Google profile
Schedule a consultationEcommerce and point of sale

How the work runs

The same six steps whether you are on a subscription or a fixed project. We scope after discovery, because a date given before anyone has read what you need is a guess.

1

Discovery & Definition

Interviews with your team, a look at your competitors, and research with real users. It ends with an agreed scope and a way to measure it.

2

Strategize & Architect

User journeys, site structure, a recommended tech stack, and a plan you can hold us to.

3

Create & Prototype

Wireframes, screen design and clickable prototypes. We test them early instead of admiring them late.

4

Test & Iterate

Usability testing, accessibility checks and speed work. All of it before anyone has to defend a line of shipped code.

5

Build & Launch

The real build, the deploy, training for your team, and a launch that does not need anyone awake at 3am.

6

Monitor & Evolve

Analytics, search visibility, and steady improvement. Launch is where the useful data starts, not where the project ends.

Who we work with here

Startups

From first MVP to post-raise growth. The work resizes as your plan and your runway change.

Established businesses

Companies whose site was built once, years ago, and has been losing ground ever since.

Enterprises

Teams with buying processes, security reviews and supplier diversity targets. The veteran-owned certification often matters here.

Agencies

Firms who need design or engineering hands under their own brand, invisibly.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is &Pixels actually based in Austin?+
Yes. We are an Austin-based, certified Disabled Veteran-Owned design and development agency, and the senior team is here. Same time zone, same working hours. When a project needs a real meeting, we can be in the room for it. We work with clients outside Texas too, so Austin is where we are rather than a limit on who we take on.
What does &Pixels actually do?+
UX design and research. Web and SaaS builds. Mobile apps. AI integration. Ecommerce. Search work, covering SEO, AEO and GEO. The same senior people run your project from the first call to launch. You will not be sold by the owner and then handed to a junior team. That is the most common complaint we hear about the last agency.
Are you a veteran-owned business?+
Yes, a certified Disabled Veteran-Owned business. Some Texas companies and public agencies have to track how much they spend with diverse suppliers. For those buyers, the certification can matter as much as the work does. If your team needs the paperwork, ask and we will send it.
Do you work with Austin startups?+
Yes, at every stage from first MVP to post-raise growth. We scope the work to where you actually are, not to where a template says you should be. You can pause it or resize it as funding and plans change. That beats a fixed bid written before anyone knows what the product needs to be.
Can we meet in person?+
Yes. Kickoffs, design workshops and user interviews all go better in a room. We will come to you anywhere in the Austin area. The rest runs fine over video. Most projects settle into a mix: a few sessions in person, weekly check-ins online.
How do you charge?+
Scope first, price second. We quote after discovery, not before. A number given before anyone has read what you need is a guess, and someone always eats the difference. Some work suits a fixed price. Some suits ongoing monthly hours. We also run separate design and development subscriptions for teams who need a steady stream of work. The pricing page has the options.
How long does a project take?+
A marketing site is usually four to eight weeks. A SaaS product or a complex web app runs three months or more. What moves that number is how many other systems it has to talk to, and how settled you are on what it should do. We give you a date after discovery, not before.
How is this different from the other Austin agencies?+
Three things. First, the people who pitch you are the people who build it. Second, we ship our own products through &Pixels Labs, so we live with our own engineering choices instead of handing them over at launch. Third, we run Unvibed, which cleans up AI-generated code. It exists because we spend a lot of time fixing work that shipped fast and aged badly.
What is the fastest way to find out if you can help?+
Run the free website audit. It checks speed, SEO, accessibility and security. It takes about a minute and gives you a ranked list of fixes, whether or not you ever talk to us. Most of our Austin conversations start there instead of with a sales call.

Ready to build in Austin?

Start with the free audit and see where your site stands before you talk to anyone. Or book a call and we will walk through it together.