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Founder & Creative Director · The PorterStone Tech

Building clear, high-performing digital experiences for ambitious businesses.

I help founders and teams turn complex business needs into thoughtful websites, digital products, and growth systems people can trust and use.

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Strategy

Business clarity before visual decoration.

Craft

Design and engineering considered together.

Growth

Performance and discoverability built in.

Selected work

Work that brings strategy, experience, and execution into focus.

A selected view of digital engagements. Verified outcomes and final assets are added only when approved for publication.

Featured case study

A digital experience designed around a real business challenge.

A structured approach from discovery to refinement, without unnecessary complexity.

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How I help

The right level of thinking for the work in front of you.

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Digital strategy

Clarify the problem, audience, priorities, and path before committing to solutions.

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Web architecture

Build durable structure for clear content, conversion, and growth.

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UX, build & performance

Make the experience intuitive, technically sound, discoverable, and fast.

About Jacob

A builder who values clarity, detail, and work that lasts.

I work where business strategy, user experience, and technology meet—helping teams turn complex needs into clear digital progress.

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A builder at heart

Technology should make the next step clearer.

My approach begins with listening: understanding the business, audience, and constraints before choosing a system, pattern, or technology. The goal is not to add complexity; it is to create useful momentum.

As Founder and Creative Director of The PorterStone Tech, I bring strategic direction and hands-on digital craft into the same conversation.

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Career and craft

Experience shaped by ongoing practice.

  1. Foundation

    Learning how digital work creates business value.

    A grounding in the connection between good communication, usable systems, and meaningful outcomes.

  2. Practice

    Designing and building with greater intention.

    An evolving practice across strategy, architecture, user experience, development, and search performance.

  3. Today

    Leading work through The PorterStone Tech.

    Partnering with businesses and teams on digital experiences that need to be credible, clear, and built to last.

Capabilities

A connected set of skills—not isolated services.

Strategy

Positioning, priorities, and practical decision-making.

Architecture

Structure for content, systems, and future scale.

UX & UI

Experiences that feel clear, considered, and useful.

Development

Clean, maintainable implementation suited to the work.

SEO & performance

A technical foundation for discovery and trust.

Technology should solve real business problems—not create more complexity.

How I can help

Practical expertise for digital work that needs to earn trust and perform.

I bring strategy, design, technology, and optimization together so a digital investment supports a real business goal.

01 · Strategy

Digital strategy & web architecture

Clarify what the website or product must do, for whom, and in what order before visual or technical decisions take over.

Best for

Teams with a complex brief, unclear website structure, or a high-stakes redesign.

Typical outputs

Priorities, audience logic, content architecture, requirements, and direction.

02 · Build

Website design & development

Create thoughtful, responsive websites that make the offer understandable and the next action easy.

Best for

New launches, established businesses, and teams ready to replace an underperforming website.

Typical outputs

UX structure, page design, implementation, content guidance, and launch support.

03 · UX

User experience design

Make complex journeys easier to understand through clear hierarchy, useful interfaces, and considerate interaction design.

Best for

Products, portals, workflows, and service journeys where usability affects confidence.

Typical outputs

Flows, wireframes, interface systems, prototypes, and usability improvements.

04 · Growth

SEO & performance

Strengthen the technical and content foundation that helps a site load quickly, be found, and feel trustworthy.

Best for

Teams that need clearer technical priorities or a stronger organic growth foundation.

Typical outputs

Audit findings, performance fixes, technical SEO, content direction, and measurement.

05 · Advisory

Technical consulting

Bring clarity to a decision, validate an approach, or add experienced perspective to a team or agency engagement.

Best for

Leaders facing complex digital choices or teams who need an independent technical view.

Typical outputs

Decision support, audits, architecture reviews, and focused working sessions.

Process

A clear path from uncertainty to useful progress.

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Discover

Understand context.

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Define

Set priorities.

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Design

Make the path clear.

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Build

Implement carefully.

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Refine

Learn and improve.

Questions

A practical way to begin.

Selected work

Digital work shaped by the intersection of business, design, and technology.

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Challenge

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Strategy

Explain the priorities and tradeoffs behind the approach.

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Discover

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Architect

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Design

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Build

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Solution

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Results

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Insights

Practical thinking for better digital decisions.

Writing on strategy, web architecture, user experience, development, performance, and the work of making technology useful.

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Speaking & workshops

Useful conversations about building better digital products and websites.

For teams, founders, and event audiences who need technology, user experience, and business growth to become clearer and more actionable.

Topics

Topics shaped for practical conversation.

Websites that drive business growth

For leaders who want their website to do more than look current.

The business case for better UX

How clearer journeys build confidence and reduce avoidable friction.

SEO, performance, and digital trust

Why technical quality affects discoverability and a visitor’s decision to stay.

Formats

Adaptable to the room and the work.

Keynotes & panels

A focused perspective for an audience exploring digital progress.

Team workshops

Structured working sessions that turn uncertainty into priorities.

Founder sessions

Practical conversations for leaders navigating an important digital decision.

Contact

Let’s make the next digital decision clearer.

Start a project, discuss an advisory need, invite Jacob to speak, or ask a practical question. Expect a response within two business days.

Start a project

For a new website, redesign, product, or growth initiative.

Book a consultation

For a focused conversation about the right next step.

Speaking request

For keynotes, panels, workshops, and team sessions.

Collaboration

For agencies, partners, media, and professional connections.

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