I design and build both ends of the spectrum — clean marketing sites that turn visitors into customers, and the logged-in software teams use every day to actually operate.
I'm Luke Lackey. I build the website a customer sees and the system your team logs into — so the whole thing works as one piece instead of four tools taped together.
A public site has about five seconds to earn trust. A portal has to survive daily use by people who didn't choose it. Both are on this page, oldest first.
The software a mentoring organization runs on. Four roles behind one front door — matching, background checks, weekly check-ins, campaigns, curriculum, and the reporting the board reads. Built so a volunteer can use it with no training at all.
A Waco general contractor doing everything from drywall to landscaping had one job for the site: make a homeowner believe one crew can handle the whole property. Editorial serif headlines, real project photography, and a quote form that's never more than one scroll away.
Basecamp in your pocket — a native iOS app, not a wrapped website. All four roles come along, each built for what that person actually does on a phone. Over forty screens, now one app in testing.
A bookkeeping and tax practice whose whole promise is precision you can count on — so a careless site would have argued against its own headline. Navy and gold, an editorial serif, and the two questions nobody asks answered in the open: what it costs, and what happens after you call.
Every one of these is something I've already shipped — not a service list I'd like to try. Design through launch, one point of contact.
The site a customer judges you by — a trade, a professional practice, any business bought on trust. Fast, mobile-first, written to convert, and easy to update without calling me.
Built for Rio VistaSign-ups, applications, document collection, screening, and approvals — so new people move through a process instead of an inbox.
Built for AscentThe system your team logs into daily. Roles, permissions, dashboards, and admin tools built around how you actually work — not a template you bend to fit.
Built for AscentNative iOS built around the two or three things people actually do on a phone — with notifications that arrive when something is due.
Building for AscentSpreadsheets, PDFs, and charts your board or leadership can read — generated on demand instead of assembled by hand the night before.
Built for AscentA site that looks dated, loads slow, or breaks on a phone — or a platform somebody else started and left. Often the highest-return project on your list.
Fixed quote, fast turnaroundNo open-ended retainers and no mystery. You know what's happening at every step.
A call about what the business does, who you're trying to reach, and what's actually broken. Free.
A fixed quote and a design direction — layout, type, color, structure — before a line of code.
I build it on a private link you can watch come together and comment on as it goes.
Domain, hosting, and analytics wired up. Then I show you how to run it yourself.
I design and build for the web, and I work across a range most people don't — the polished front door and the machinery behind it. A contractor's site that has to win a homeowner in five seconds, and a portal where hundreds of mentors and students log in every week.
Working both ends changes how I design. A pretty site that generates leads your team can't process isn't a win. Neither is powerful software nobody can figure out. I care about the whole loop — from the first click to the work getting done.
Tell me what you're building or what's not working. I'll tell you straight whether I'm the right fit — and roughly what it takes.