Websites that
think, learn, & convert.
Atomic Design is a digital marketing, SEO, and web design agency built for the AI search era. Strategy, design, engineering, and automation work as one system, shaped by three decades of real launches.
A full-stack AI agency built around outcomes, not deliverables.
Six disciplines under one roof. We deploy them as a system, research, design, engineering, and AI working in the same loop, on the same brand.
Web Design & Development
Custom-built sites that scale. No templates. No drag-and-drop compromises. We architect headless, edge-rendered sites built around your business model — whether that’s ten pages or five hundred. Design systems your team can extend, a CMS they’ll actually use, and an engineering layer fast enough to win Core Web Vitals on day one.
GEO — Generative Engine Optimization
Get cited by the AI doing the recommending. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews are the new homepage for half your buyers. We architect your content, schema, and entity graph so the models pull you into the answer — not the link list underneath it.
SEO & Local SEO
Rankings that compound. Technical audits, on-page architecture, programmatic content systems, and local search programs built for businesses that need to win the map pack across multiple cities — not just their headquarters’ zip code.
AI Agents & Automation
Agents that actually ship work. Customer-facing chat, internal copilots, lead qualification, content pipelines, workflow automation. We design, train, and deploy on n8n, OpenAI, and Anthropic — and we measure them against real business outcomes, not chat completions.
Brand & Content Strategy
Voice that holds up at scale. Positioning, identity, messaging frameworks, and content operations that work whether you publish two pieces a quarter or two hundred. Built for an era when half your audience is an algorithm.
Ongoing Optimization & Growth
We operate your site like a product. AI reads your analytics every week — Search Console, GA4, Screaming Frog, Ahrefs — and surfaces the next move. Our team ships it. Your numbers should be moving every quarter, not just at launch.
Thirty years. One agency.
A track record that’s hard to fake — built through every major shift the web has thrown at it.
30+ Years in Business
Founded 1996. Continuously operating.
1,200+ Websites Launched
Across three decades and every major platform shift.
SEO Since 2001
Continuous search expertise since Google’s early years.
11× International Award Winner
Hermes, MarCom & Communicator Awards.
Owner-Led, Not Outsourced
Direct access to leadership on every engagement.
Built for the AI Search Era
AI SEO, GEO & automation specialists.
Receipts.
A few of the brands we’ve built recently.
More than a website.
A growth engine.
Every system is built around a business outcome. We define the measurement before the work begins, then report what changed.
Earn qualified visibility.
We map commercial queries to the right service and location pages, repair the technical foundation, and build the authority required to compete. Rankings matter when they bring the right buyer to a page built to help them decide.
Become easier to verify.
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews reward clear entities, useful answers, structured evidence, and consistent authority signals. We strengthen those inputs and measure where your brand is actually cited.
Make the next step obvious.
Copy, layout, page speed, forms, and follow-up work together around one job: helping the right visitor understand the value and take the next step. We instrument the path and improve it with real conversion data.
Curious what we could move for your business?
See an ROI projection →Two numbers you can’t buy.
Only earn.
Anyone can spin up an agency this year. Almost nobody can show you receipts from 1996. Here’s what those receipts mean for you.
You hire a team that has shipped through every major shift — the browser wars, mobile, social, cloud, and now AI. We’ve seen which patterns compound and which were fads. You inherit thirty years of pattern-matching on day one, so your money goes to outcomes — not to paying for our learning curve.
Volume is a teacher. After 1,200+ launches across nearly every industry, we have a playbook for yours — what converts, what doesn’t, where the regulatory landmines are, what your buyers actually search for. We don’t guess. We’ve already shipped it twenty times.
“I've rebuilt this agency through four eras: print, web, search, and now AI. The pattern never changes. The companies that win are the ones that adapt before the shift is obvious, and AI is the biggest one I've seen since I started in 1996. We build AI-powered solutions, design the websites, and run the marketing as one system now, because in this era they stopped being separate jobs. AI writes the copy, builds into the site, and decides who gets found, so the work has to be done by people who have actually lived through this kind of change, not just discovered it last year.”
Chris Hanna, founder of Atomic Design
Attract. Impress. Convert. Compound.
Four phases, one loop. Each engagement is a system we iterate against your numbers, not a deck we hand off and disappear.
Get found by the right people & agents.
SEO, content programs, answer-engine optimization, paid acquisition. We build for humans and the AIs that increasingly recommend you.
Earn 8 seconds of attention, then keep it.
Identity, narrative, and design that signals quality instantly. Motion, type, and detail that says "these people care."
Move them from curious to committed.
Funnels engineered with real research. A/B at the component level. Lead capture, scoring, and routing wired into your stack.
Operate the site like a product.
Monthly experiments, ongoing content, AI agents that improve as they're used. Sites that get better while you sleep.
Build once. Benefit repeatedly.
See the full framework →Real clients. Real words.
Verified five-star Google reviews from business owners and marketing leaders who worked directly with Atomic Design.
“I would strongly recommend working with Chris and Atomic Design for SEO and web design. Chris has been an incredible partner for almost 3 years and has made a significant impact on our medical device business through his work on our site.”Ginger Spencer · Google review
“I started working with Chris just 4 months ago and have already seen results. He's thorough, knowledgeable, effective and generates results. When you work with Chris you get him, not an associate. He took the time to look at my business and make sensible recommendations.”Jennifer Liepis · Google review
“Atomic Design met and exceeded all expectations by securing top five rankings on Google for dozens of crucial keywords. Communication was smooth and transparent throughout the entire process.”Ben Wilders · Google review
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