Workhorse

Workhorse has been building websites in Austin, Texas, since 2003, and its tagline sums up the focus: helping organisations build world-class websites. The team, in the 10–49 range, delivers enterprise websites, complex web applications and marketing sites, and stays involved after launch through maintenance and ongoing optimisation.

Alongside web design, its declared services include general SEO, ecommerce SEO, local SEO and PPC in equal measure, and the industries it lists are B2B and ecommerce. That combination makes sense for companies whose website is a primary sales channel, whether an online store needing product and category pages to rank or a B2B firm relying on its site to generate enquiries. Marketers, designers, developers and digital strategists work together on each project, covering brand definition and goal-setting as well as the build itself.

The agency puts its culture front and centre, with stated values that include being respectful and accountable and leaving ego at the door, and it talks about developing its own staff's skills. Budgets start from $2,500 per project. Workhorse is a fit for B2B and ecommerce businesses wanting a long-term web design and SEO agency in Austin that will build a substantial site and then keep improving it, rather than a short-term campaign provider.