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Digital & technology agency · Arizona

Make running a business feel like what you thought owning one would feel like.

We build websites and the systems behind them.

Northstar builds beautiful websites and the systems behind businesses — removing repetitive work, connecting workflows and giving owners more time to actually run the company.

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How deep it goes

As simple, or as deep, as your business needs.

01 · The website

Need a better website?

We design and build fast, professional websites around your actual business — not a generic template filled with filler copy.

Websites

02 · Behind the website

There’s more going on behind the website?

We can go deeper into how the business runs: intake, customer communication, approvals, files, internal workflows, repetitive digital work, integrations, reporting and custom tools.

Systems

Work

Selected work.

Websites we have designed and built, each labeled for what it is.

Pup Town Resort: the website's first screen on a desktop.
Pup Town Resort: the same website on a phone.

Website design and build · Live

Pup Town Resort

Dog boarding and daycare · Payson, Arizona

A five-page website for a dog boarding and daycare business, with a contact path that opens a text to the business straight from a phone.

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Pack Print Lab: the website's first screen on a desktop.
Pack Print Lab: the same website on a phone.

Website concept · Prepared for the business's review, not yet launched

Artwork system · In development

Pack Print Lab

Paint protection film, window graphics, signs and decals

A multi-page website concept for a vehicle-protection and print shop — and, behind it, a system for the artwork work that comes in with print jobs, now being built.

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The owner problem

The owner shouldn’t be the API between their own tools.

In plain terms: the owner shouldn’t be the person who carries every file, message and update from one place to the next.

  1. A customer sends a file
  2. You download it
  3. Rename it
  4. Send it to someone
  5. Check it (a decision that needs a person)
  6. Someone finally makes the invoice

Tell us the repetitive task

Case study · Active, in development

Pack Print Lab: an artwork system, being built.

Pack Print Lab is a vehicle-protection and print shop. When a customer’s artwork isn’t ready to print, it has to be cleaned up, resized or vectorized first. We are building the system that carries that work, with Pack in control of every production decision.

  1. Customer intakeIn development
  2. Artwork processing and preflightIn development
  3. Proof and revisionsIn development
  4. Customer acceptanceIn development
  5. Production review by PackIn development

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What we build

A great website on its own — or the systems behind it.

Each of these stands on its own. You don’t need one to hire us for another.

  • Websites

    Beautiful, fast, practical websites designed around the business and its customers.

    • New websites and redesigns
    • Service, landing and location pages
    • Quote, booking and contact paths

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  • Automation

    Remove repetitive digital work and connect workflows that currently depend on someone manually moving information around.

    • Inquiries routed to the right person
    • Files and requests that move themselves
    • Follow-ups that don’t rely on memory

  • Custom systems

    Internal tools, customer portals, dashboards, job systems and purpose-built software when off-the-shelf products don’t fit.

    • Job and order systems
    • Customer portals
    • Internal dashboards

  • Digital infrastructure

    Make the underlying web, domain, deployment, integrations and technical systems reliable and maintainable.

    • Domains, hosting and deployment
    • Forms, analytics and lead routing
    • Integrations between systems

Process

How a project runs.

  1. Discover

    We start with what already exists: the business, the customer, the current site or workflow, and what is actually getting in the way.

  2. Design

    We turn that into a clear direction before piling on features.

  3. Build

    Then we build the smallest complete version that solves the job well.

  4. Verify & launch

    Before launch, we test the paths that matter, including the ugly cases.

How a project runs

About

About Northstar Digital

Northstar Digital is an Arizona-based digital and technology agency building websites, automation, and custom systems for businesses.

About Northstar

Northstar Express

A fixed-scope one-page website, for businesses that need a faster, standardized path to a professional site.

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Tell us what you need built.

A new website, or the work behind it. A few details are enough to start.

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Or email northstardigitalaz@gmail.com.