Chicago · Development & marketing
We make the campaigns people actually share, design the website they land on, and build the software behind it — so you stop stitching together five vendors to get one result.
Viral campaigns Short-form video Custom websites Custom applications SEO & paid ads Automation
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Booked jobs
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The difference
Most growing companies end up managing a web developer, an ad agency, a video freelancer, a software vendor and a marketing consultant. Each holds one piece of the picture. Nobody owns the result.
Stratford — and you work directly with the person building it
What we build
Marketing strategy, creative production, software development and business operations under one roof — because a lead is only worth what your systems do with it.
Custom sites built for one clear business goal — booked jobs, filled forms, sold products, proven credibility. Not a template with your logo dropped in.
Viral campaigns and short-form video create demand where none existed, while search and ads catch the people already looking. Both, tracked to real work.
The tools a website can't be: portals, dashboards, quoting and scheduling systems built around the way your company already works.
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Point of contact,
start to finish
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Disciplines in house —
strategy, creative, code, ops
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Services you can pull
from a single agreement
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Account-manager handoffs
between you and the build
Full service list
Take one line or take the whole board. Most clients start with a single problem and expand once the first system pays for itself.
Custom websites
Custom applications
Viral & attention marketing
Search, ads & measurement
Who it's for
Stratford works with local service businesses and growing companies that have pushed basic websites, spreadsheets and off-the-shelf software past what they were built to do.
The siteYour website was built years ago, looks it, and nobody can update it without calling someone.
The leadsNew leads live in a spreadsheet, an inbox and someone's phone — and a few slip through every week.
The softwareYou pay monthly for a tool that does 60% of what you need and forces workarounds for the rest.
The feedCompetitors are all over social with video, and your last post was a stock photo in March.
The paperworkQuotes, scheduling and follow-ups are still assembled by hand, one job at a time.
The vendorsFour companies touch your marketing and each points at the other when results stall.
How a project starts
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What the business actually needs more of — service calls, booked appointments, orders, credibility with bigger clients. Everything downstream is measured against it.
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Where people find you, what convinces them, and where they currently drop out. The gaps in that path are usually the cheapest wins on the table.
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The manual steps, duplicate entry and disconnected tools that eat hours every week. Some of it gets automated, some of it gets rebuilt.
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The site, the application, the campaigns — built in the order that pays back fastest, with tracking in place before anything goes live.
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Real numbers on leads, cost per customer and conversion, reviewed on a regular cadence. The system keeps getting sharper after launch.
Start here
A 30-minute call, no pitch deck. Bring the problem — nobody knows you exist, the site isn't converting, the process won't scale — and you'll leave with a straight answer on what it would take to fix it.