Elev. 5,280 ft
Tech agency · Denver, CO
01Why it works
A small studio with the technical depth of a big one.
Keeping business networks, servers and sites running.
Free first call to look at your site and your Google listing.
Person you talk to, from first call to launch and after.
From audit to launch on most sites, depending on pages and content.
02Services
It starts with a marketing website that gets you booked. Around it, Lab 5280 builds the tools, gets you found, automates the busywork and keeps it all secure.
01 Marketing websitesStart here
The site most businesses need first: custom designed, written around what your customers search, fast on a phone, and built so every page makes it easy to book, buy or get in touch.
02 DevelopmentBuild
Booking, client portals, quote forms and small web apps, built around how you work.
Website development →03 Local SEOGrow
Your Google Business Profile, city pages, reviews and citations, worked on every month.
How local SEO works →04 AI automationAutomate
Instant lead replies, review requests, intake and reminders, with a person checking what customers read.
AI automation →05 AI searchNext
Structure your site so ChatGPT, Google and other AI tools can read your business details accurately.
AI search explained →06 Care & hostingRun
Hosting, nightly backups, weekly updates, SSL and monitoring, month to month.
See the care plan →07 ComplianceProtect
Secure patient forms and hosted card payments for clinics, practices and shops.
HIPAA & PCI websites →03Local SEO
When someone nearby searches for what you do, Google shows three businesses on a map. The work is the steady monthly kind that moves you up toward them. No one can promise a spot.
Data-led local SEO
Every town you serve and the businesses ranking above you, mapped and worked each month until you are the one people find.
Illustration · Front Range
Illustration only · example businesses
Worked every month
04How it works
A free audit of your site, your Google listing and your top three competitors. You get a clear plan and a fixed price.
You see real pages early and give feedback as it takes shape. Hosting, security and tracking are set up along the way.
The site goes live, your Maps listing gets worked every month, and you get a short report on leads and rankings.
05Selected work
Hover any film to see it in colour. Every one is a live site or app.
Client site · Space logistics
A company, customer and investor site for a space-logistics startup. The idea is hard to explain in words, so the page shows it happening.
Brand system · Launch site · Film
A brand system and launch site for a botanical energy shot. Calm, premium, and built to make one small bottle feel considered.
Website
Portfolio and booking for a Colorado tattoo artist and oil painter.
Our app
Paste a suspicious email, get a plain-English verdict. Uploads nothing.
App
Work, clients and home on one board, with an assistant that drafts the next step.
App
A speaking trainer: you talk, then you listen back. Levels 1 to 100.
06Graphic design
Logos, posters, menus, flyers and social graphics, finished like real print: worn ink, newsprint, canvas, a little misregistration where it earns it. The same hands that build your site make the pieces around it.
Front
Range
Print
Elev. 5,280 ft · Denver
| Made for | Print and screen |
|---|---|
| You receive | Source files, yours to keep |
| Suitable for | Your brand |
Film poster · Deco Design
Den*co
A one-sheet for DEN*CO: a torn print of a face, one sprayed eye, and the credits set the way a real film poster runs them.
Retro print · Lab 5280
Found & booked
A matchbook-style print for Lab 5280: red lettering with a soft ink bleed, a slate field, the Front Range and a pin dropped on Denver.
07Care, hosting & security
The same checks an IT team runs on business systems, run on your website every day.
08Pricing
Every project starts with a fixed quote after the free audit. Here is what each tier covers.
Tier · Launch
LaunchOne-time build
A sharp, fast site for a business that needs to look credible and win customers.
Tier · Growth
GrowthBuild + monthly SEO
A site built to rank, plus monthly local SEO to keep you climbing on Maps.
Tier · Care
CareMonth to month
For an existing site that needs hosting, security and someone to call.
Domain, site and accounts are in your name from day one.
Monthly plans can be cancelled any time, with no penalty.
You know the price before work starts. No surprise invoices.
Hi, I'm Tony. I build the site and the tech behind it. I've spent more than ten years in IT, keeping business systems online and secure. Lab 5280 brings that same care to small business websites, with design and local SEO on top.
Areas served
Local
Lab 5280 is based in Denver and works with businesses across the Front Range. You deal with the person who builds your site, on a cell number that gets answered.
Get a free audit09Questions
Most sites launch four to six weeks after the audit, depending on how many pages you need and how quickly content comes together.
Yes. Your domain, hosting account and site files are in your name. If you ever leave, everything goes with you.
Profile fixes can show results in weeks. Moving up in the map results usually takes months of steady work, no one can guarantee a position, and it depends on your area and competition.
Often, yes. The free audit tells you whether it is worth improving or cheaper to rebuild.
Every website starts with a fixed quote after the free audit, so you know the price before work begins. Ongoing work is $175 an hour, or monthly blocks at $160, $150 or $140 an hour, and plans run month to month.
Tony, who runs Lab 5280. The person you meet on day one is the person who builds your site and answers when you call, and the client list stays small so that stays true.
Denver, Boulder County, Boulder, Broomfield, Arvada, Lakewood, Aurora, Centennial and Fort Collins, plus remote clients anywhere in the US.
No one can promise that. What the work does is make your site easy for those tools to read and quote: clear service facts, plain answers to common questions and structured data.
10Free site audit
Send your site and you'll get a short video review of your website, your Google listing and the three businesses outranking you, with what to fix first.
