A Chicago digital shop
Old-school service.
New-school systems.
We build the site, the store, the quote flow, and the software behind the counter for shops, contractors, practices, farms, and startups. Then we stick around to run it.
Capabilities: websites, landing pages, e-commerce, configurators, web apps, branding, local SEO, quote flows, automations, follow-up, hosting, analytics.
What we do
Get found. Get contacted. Get built. Get organized.
Everything under one roof: site, store, search, software, and the upkeep that keeps it all running.
Get found
Show up when someone Googles what you do, in your town.
Websites
Make your business look as good online as it does in person.
Branding
A logo, colors, and a look that matches the quality of the work.
Local SEO
Maps, reviews, and pages that rank where you work, in Google and in AI answers.
Get contacted
Make it easy to reach you, and easy to say yes.
Quote flows
Photo uploads, clear options, fewer back-and-forth texts. More quotes turn into jobs.
Landing pages
One offer, one page, one button. Built for campaigns, measured in conversions.
Follow-up
Missed calls get a text back. Quotes get answered. No lead sits overnight.
Get built
When a template can't do it, we build the thing that can.
E-commerce
Storefronts on Shopify, WooCommerce, or fully custom. Catalog, checkout, shipping, repeat orders.
Configurators
Pick the options, see the product, get the price. For parts, products, and made-to-order work.
Web apps
Customer portals, dashboards, booking, internal tools. Software shaped to how you run.
Get organized
Turn DMs, forms, and sticky notes into one system you run.
Automations
Confirmations, reminders, handoffs. The busywork runs on software, not memory.
Hosting & care
Fast, updated, online, backed up. The IT department you don't have to hire, month after month.
Analytics
Plain numbers you can read: calls, quotes, jobs.
Selected work
We build the products, not just the pages.
A range of real work: a SaaS platform, web apps, e-commerce brands, and the local sites we still run today.
Baddie Garage
An automotive lifestyle brand and online store, from the logo to the checkout.
Brand Riot
An apparel and merch brand: the identity, the drops, and the store that sells them.
Dream Art
A portfolio and quote-request site for a creative studio, built to turn browsers into bookings.
Why THICKRIM
We're the tech team you don't have to hire: senior-led, building our own software, still here long after the site goes live.
Senior-led
Senior design and engineering on your project, not a junior on your dime.
One team
Site, email, hosting, security, and software under one roof. The person you call is the person who built it.
Our own products
Garage Bae and WashNear.Me are ours: designed, built, and operated in-house. We ship real software.
Midwest reach
Chicago HQ, working from Chicagoland to Milwaukee, Indiana, Iowa, and Kansas farm country. Small shops to mid-size companies.
Start the conversation
Tell us what you're building.
A new site, a store that should sell more, a product that needs to get built, or tech nobody's looking after. Send a note and you'll talk to the people who do the work, not a sales desk. You'll hear back within one business day.
Tell us about itPrefer to talk? (847) 496-0013 · or email contact@thickrim.com