What we do

We look after the whole front side of a business: the website, the software behind it, the video and photo content on it, and the accounts and systems underneath it. It’s two of us, Evan and Justin, and everything below is real work you can click into.

Websites, built from scratch

Not templates, not WordPress. Custom code, designed around what the business actually needs the site to do.

For SURF Incubator that meant wiring the site directly into their space-management platform: all nineteen rooms show live availability and hourly pricing, and a booking disappears from the calendar everywhere else within minutes. What used to be an email back-and-forth is now self-serve.

For Thinkie, a brain-training device backed by three decades of research, the site carries real commerce: a plan picker with 12-month financing and HSA/FSA payment, straight to checkout with no cart and no sales call.

For Sound Startups the job was information architecture: turning a nonprofit’s programs into a four-stage founder journey that reads like a roadmap instead of a menu.

Software that fits your work

When the tools you can buy don’t fit how your team works, we build the one that does.

HotCrate runs gear rental for production houses: the full lifecycle from inquiry to return, automatic weekly and monthly rate tiers, and a catalog that embeds in Squarespace or Wix with hidden markup so search engines index gear lists that never had their own page.

BrainAgeCheckup is three timed cognitive games with live scoring and age-group benchmarks, built as the free front door for Thinkie’s $299 sensor. Closer to a small game engine than a website.

GiftGiftGift is a shared gift list that keeps surprises secret, shipped fast and now running real exchanges for more than a hundred people.

Video, photo, and a studio

This is where we started. Sandpiper Video has shot event capture, testimonials, and promotional films for teams like Microsoft, REI, and Google. And we run our own 800 square foot studio in downtown Seattle: four pre-lit sets, up to four 4K cameras, Shure SM7B microphones, live streaming, and a producer in the room for every session, with edit-ready files delivered before you leave.

It matters here because a website is only as good as what’s on it. When we build your site, the photography and video that fill it can come from the same team, shot in our studio or on your floor.

Evan and Justin recording in Sandpiper's downtown Seattle studio, with Shure microphones and the Sandpiper Video backdrop

And we make the video work harder once it’s up. We’ve moved clients off bare YouTube embeds onto proper video hosting with real calls to action and watch tracking, so a video page stops being a guess and becomes something you can measure.

Measured how? One client came to us planning a single campaign video. We helped them figure out who they were actually talking to, made a video for each audience, and ran them through Facebook and YouTube with retargeting. The campaign finished more than fifty percent past its fundraising goal. Another client wanted one great case study video, so we helped him pin down exactly which customer it should feature and who should receive it. Within a few weeks of sending it out, it landed a $30,000 contract, about six times what the video cost.

The unglamorous parts

Domains, DNS, email, workspace accounts, password management, analytics, how you show up in search. The things every company needs handled and nobody wants to own. We set them up, keep them organized, and hold them steady, so there’s one team to call instead of nine logins to remember.

We’ve been doing this work for years, usually because we noticed something while doing something else. We once logged into a client’s WordPress to set up a video page and found the whole site had been set to hide from search engines. It had been that way for four years, while they paid a designer a monthly retainer. We fixed it, and they started showing up on Google.

It keeps happening, so here’s a sampler:

A client asked for a short video ad and it turned out there was no real website to send anyone to. We moved the domain, built the site, set up email and their Google business profile, and ran the ads. That one has happened more than once.
Thirty terabytes of footage spread across forty hard drives, consolidated and organized before their ads could get made.
Two companies locked out of their own domains by a previous agency. We worked the old relationship and got everything transferred cleanly.
Three Slack workspaces, every one created by an administrator who no longer worked there. We recovered admin access, turned the departed accounts into shared inboxes, and consolidated everything down to one workspace.
Email quietly landing in spam because SPF and DMARC records were never set. We’ve lost count of how many times we’ve fixed that one.
A client paying for three Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions when they needed one. Found and cancelled last week.

The tools are familiar too: Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, Zoom, HubSpot, QuickBooks, Stripe, Square, Mailchimp, Klaviyo, WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, Webflow, Shopify, Cloudflare, GoDaddy, Calendly, Notion, Airtable, Asana, Dropbox, Adobe, Figma, Canva, Vimeo, Wistia, DocuSign, Typeform, 1Password, Google Analytics, Google Ads, Meta Ads, Zapier. If your company runs on it, odds are we’ve set it up, migrated it, or cleaned it up for someone.

Most clients keep us on a monthly retainer for exactly this. We publish our pricing.

Kind words

Rated 5.0 across 22 reviews on Google, Facebook, and Thumbtack.

“While Evan is a great videographer, his super power is organization and attention to detail, which has an outsized impact on the overall production.”

Andrew Garberson

“The ads we have done with Sandpiper have helped us reach several new clients and continue to make our brand stand out. 10/10 experience which is why we keep coming back to Sandpiper again and again.”

Matthew DeMoss

“Evan did an awesome job filming, editing, and producing a top notch professional video for my business... He also developed my website, integrating in his video footage and designing skill.”

Sean Blanchard

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