Altec Design · St. Louis · since 2004
The software your staff sign into, marketing that brings customers in, and hosting that powers the whole thing. Built and looked after in St. Louis by two Mizzou grads who answer the phone.
Built since 2004
01 Hosting
Most agencies hand over a login and disappear. We run the servers our systems live on, so when something needs fixing, the people who wrote it are already looking.
A preflight runs on the live server before every deploy: HTTPS, secure cookies, mail, the queue, the scheduler, backups and dozens more. A failure becomes a task with exact steps.
After every deploy, launch included, we read the site's error logs at 1, 5, 10, 30 and 60 minutes. A new error goes straight to a person.
Each release is built beside the live one and switched on only when it is ready. A failed build is an inconvenience, not an outage.
The full test suite runs before any change is merged, the full test suite runs again before it goes live, the code formatter checks every push, and a person approves every release.
Every night the database is backed up, encrypted with AES-256 and sent offsite to a private store with its own key. Restores are tested, off the live server.
Two-factor, devices you can sign out remotely, limits on sign-in attempts, spam protection on public forms, and a check that nothing private can be fetched from the web.
Mail goes out through Mailgun with your domain's SPF, DKIM and DMARC checked. Bounces come back to the system, so we know when one did not land.
Every site we host is tracked in one place, with a task for anything that needs a person.
02 What we do
Custom software, the marketing that fills it, and the industries we know best. One team, from launch on.
01
One login for the whole company.
Intranets, back offices, portals and apps, built around how your business already works. An HR system for a fire district, bookings for a nonprofit, production for a bakery: same team, same tested parts.
02
Ads aimed at people already looking.
Google Ads, SEO and retail media, run by Brian, with tracking that ties each campaign to the calls and orders it brought in.
03
From the dealer lot to the mixing room.
One intranet for every store in a dealership group, and a connected-car app with a dealer portal. For food makers: recipes, production, lot tracing and frozen inventory, in the same system as sales.
03 Modules
Sign-in, permissions, records and alerts are where custom software usually goes wrong. Ours come from a shared library of 67 parts, each with its own tests, already running in other businesses.
An emailed link, a tap from a phone it knows, or a PIN on the floor tablet. Two-factor on every door, and an alert when a new device signs in.
You decide who reaches what. With more than one location, a manager edits only their own store's records.
A worker asks, a manager says yes from a queue or with their PIN. Each yes works once.
Who changed what, and when. A flag goes up when someone deletes a lot, fast.
Email and lock-screen notifications from the same event. When an email bounces, the system shows it.
Staff tap their name and a PIN to clock in. Only your enrolled tablets, or your own network, can open it.
Timesheets, overtime past 40 hours, shift invites to confirm, and forgotten clock-ins closed for you.
Daily and weekly report emails people subscribe to, and a page showing what needs attention now.
Hours, alert addresses, your logo and the rest change from the office. No code, no deploy.
Or we'll build it bespoke. Or we'll build you a bespoke customization to meet your exact business needs.
Tell us what you need04 How it works
Four steps, the same two people from the first call to years after launch.
A call, then time with the people who will use it. We learn how the work really moves, paper and spreadsheets included.
A written proposal: what we will build, in what order, and what it costs. You accept it with one click, and nothing starts before you do.
Your client portal shows where the project stands, with updates, files and invoices. You click through the real thing early, while changes are cheap.
We launch it on our servers and stay on as your developers. The people who wrote it are the people who fix it.
05 Who you'll work with
Brian and Sam started Altec in 2004 as juniors at Parkway South High School, building websites for lake resorts on Bull Shoals. Twenty-two years on, there is still no account manager in between. Brian runs your marketing, Sam builds and hosts your system, and you can call either of us.
Co-founder · digital marketing
Brian runs the marketing: Google Ads, retail media, SEO, and the tracking that shows what each campaign sold. Google certified, with multi-million dollar campaigns behind him.
Co-founder · software and systems
Sam builds the software: intranets, back offices, portals and production systems, in Laravel. He takes every build from the first call to launch, and runs the servers it lives on after.
06 Start a project
No ticket queue, no sales rep. The moment you press send, your message reaches our office and our phones, and a thank-you lands in your inbox. Brian or Sam writes back properly within a business day.