SS SS Systems

Multi-site platform · Design, build, operate

We build the systems that run businesses online.

SS Systems designs, builds, and operates complete web platforms — the public site, the admin behind it, the AI that improves it, and the backend that keeps it all running. Five platforms, one team, end to end — for businesses anywhere.

Platforms built
5
Live in production
3
SEO decisions automated
Daily
Uptime target
99.9%

What we do

Three disciplines, one team — every platform we ship uses all three.

Website creation

Design-to-deploy builds: fast public sites with structured data, local SEO, and content systems an owner can actually run.

  • Laravel + Livewire builds
  • Technical & local SEO
  • Content that ranks

AI & automation

Self-improving systems, not chat toys: automated SEO decisions with measured outcomes, content pipelines, and lead handling.

  • Self-healing SEO autopilot
  • AI content pipelines
  • Automated lead routing

Systems & backend

The unglamorous part done right: multi-tenant platforms, admin dashboards, integrations, and the ops behind them.

  • Multi-tenant architecture
  • Dashboards & reporting
  • API integrations

Platforms we build & run

Live products, operated end to end — not handed off.

gs.construction
Live

GS Construction & Remodeling

Construction

Full platform for a Chicago-suburbs remodeler: public site, project portfolio, client portal integration, and an SEO autopilot that measures its own results.

Public site Admin SEO autopilot
dawnsellshomes.com
Live

The Dawn Simmons Team

Real estate

Real estate platform for a RE/MAX mother-and-son team in the northwest suburbs: 200+ community and condo landing pages, live MLS search, instant home valuations, and an interactive map of every closed sale.

200+ local pages MLS search Sold map
hive.contractors
Live

Hive Contractors

Contracting ops

Operations backend for contracting businesses: lead intake and routing, dashboards, and the reporting that keeps jobs moving.

Lead routing Dashboards Ops
waterisprecious.org
In build

Water is Precious

Public sector

Public-office platform for MWRD Commissioner Precious Brady-Davis — a dive-through site about the district that treats wastewater and protects Lake Michigan for Chicago and 128 suburban communities, with volunteer intake, partnership requests, and a media kit.

Scroll narrative Volunteer intake Media kit
jpeterson-design.com
In build

J. Peterson Design

Interior design

Portfolio and client platform for a North Shore interior design studio — built on the same Laravel stack we run everything else on.

Portfolio Client platform

How we work

Four steps, always in this order. Step four is the one most of the industry skips.

  1. Map the business

    Before any design, we learn how the business actually makes money — who calls, what closes, and which pages have to earn it. Sites fail on this step, not on the CSS.

  2. Build the platform

    The public site and the admin behind it ship together. Structured data, local SEO, and page speed are part of the build rather than a pass someone does later.

  3. Launch and instrument

    We deploy it and wire up what gets measured: rankings, forms, calls, and where each lead actually came from. You cannot improve a platform you cannot see.

  4. Operate and improve

    This is most of the work. Deploys, monitoring, content, and automation continue after launch — a site that stops changing starts losing ground the week it goes quiet.

Ways to work with us

Three shapes, depending on what already exists. All three end the same way — with us running it.

New platform build

From nothing to live.

Design, build, launch, and then run it. The public site and the admin behind it ship together, and we stay on afterwards as the team that operates it.

Best for
A business with no site, or one it has outgrown.

Takeover & rescue

Someone else built it. Now what?

We adopt what exists, fix what is breaking, and take over the deploys and the hosting. If the current stack cannot be operated sanely we will say so and quote a rebuild instead of billing you to fight it.

Best for
A site nobody is maintaining, or an agency that went quiet.

Ongoing operation

The part that never ends.

Deploys, uptime, content, structured data, and the automation that keeps improving rankings and lead flow. Launch is where this starts, not where it stops.

Best for
Anyone who has a platform and no one to run it.

What ships with every build

Not a menu of upsells. The industry habitually splits this list across a developer, a host, and an SEO vendor — which is how things fall between them.

  • A public site built for speed and search
  • The admin the owner actually runs it from
  • Structured data and technical SEO
  • Analytics and lead-source tracking
  • Hosting, DNS, TLS and deploys
  • Content pipelines and automation
  • Integrations with what you already use
  • A team that answers after launch

What it runs on

One stack across every platform on this page — so a fix we learn on one site lands on all of them, and nothing we hand over is a dead end.

Application
  • Laravel
  • Livewire
  • Alpine.js
  • PHP 8.3+
Interface
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Flux UI
  • Vite
Automation
  • LLM content pipelines
  • Queues & scheduled jobs
  • Structured data
Infrastructure
  • Laravel Forge
  • Nginx
  • Redis & Horizon
  • Zero-downtime deploys

Questions we get asked

The short, honest answers — the same ones we give on a first call.

The public site, the admin behind it, hosting and deployment, structured data and local SEO, and the integrations the business already depends on. One team ships all of it — there is no handoff to a separate developer, host, and SEO vendor who each blame the other two.

A focused marketing site is weeks. A platform with an admin, search, and automation behind it is months. Either way we scope in stages and put something real in front of customers early, rather than disappearing for a quarter and hoping.

Yes — the code, the domain, the content, and the hosting account are yours. Nothing we build runs on a proprietary page builder you would have to abandon in order to leave us.

We keep running it: deploys, uptime, content, and the automation that keeps improving rankings and lead flow. Most agencies treat launch as the finish line. For us it is the point where the interesting work starts.

Often, yes. If it is on a stack we can operate, we will take it over and improve it from there. If it is on a platform that fights back, we will say so plainly and quote a rebuild instead of charging you every month to wrestle with it.

Have a business that needs a system?

We take on a small number of platform builds — sites we design, automate, and keep improving after launch.