Website design & AI strategy

Helping Local Businesses Succeed in a Technology-Driven World

From your website to how you use AI, we help the businesses that keep your community running turn technology into an advantage instead of a headache.

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What we do

Two ways we help

Website Design & Development

A real, working website for your business, built around your actual services and your real customer reviews, not a generic template with your name typed in.

✓ A page for every service you offer, in every town you serve
✓ Your real reviews and real photos, never fake stock photos
✓ Built so people can find you on Google from day one
✓ Fast, reliable web hosting included

Most advice about using AI in your business is either overhyped or just a pitch to get you to buy one particular tool. We sit down with you, learn how your business actually runs, and find two or three realistic ways AI can save you time or bring in more customers. Then we help you actually put them to use.

✓ No confusing tech talk, and no expensive software to sign up for first
✓ Real, practical help: following up with leads, scheduling, writing content, answering customer messages
✓ We set it up for you, we don't just hand you a PowerPoint
✓ Start with one meeting, not a long-term contract

Who's behind this

Local help for a technology-driven world

Otter Collective Studio is run by Jacob and Lily Rigmaiden out of Upstate South Carolina. We started it for one reason: we like helping small businesses that are good at what they do but stuck without the technology to show for it. No bigger story than that.

Jacob Rigmaiden

Technology

Senior software engineer with eight years in the industry. Jacob builds every site and every AI workflow Otter Collective Studio ships, and has been building AI-assisted tools both at his day job and for VentureBadger, the startup he and Lily co-founded together, not just reading about them.

Lily Rigmaiden

Client Relationships

A physician assistant by trade, Lily leads client relationships and growth at Otter Collective Studio and already handles marketing and expansion research for VentureBadger, the startup she and Jacob co-founded. Years spent explaining complicated things clearly and earning trust with people on their hardest days translate directly to walking a business owner through exactly what they're getting and why.

Running a small business already takes everything you've got. Technology keeps moving whether or not you have time to keep up with it, your website, your online reviews, and now AI. We handle that side of things, on the website side and the AI side alike, so you can keep doing what you're actually good at.