Grey Sky Media GSM · Est. 2000 · Roseville, CA
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FILE 04 · ABOUT

On the air since 2000.

Grey Sky Media is a software studio in Roseville, California. We design and build custom websites, web applications, native apps, and AI-powered tools. We've been doing this for twenty-six years. We still get a kick out of it.

FILE 04A / ALMANAC

The numbers that hold up.

Year established 2000 Roseville, California
Years on the air 0 And counting
Flagship products live 0 All running in production
Stack of choice CF edge Workers · D1 · KV · R2
FILE 04B / PROCESS

How we do the work.

Four steps. Same since 2000. The names change, the discipline doesn't.

  1. 01
    LISTEN UP

    Two ears, one mouth.

    Before we propose anything, we sit with you and understand the business — what it does, who it serves, what's working, and where it leaks. The most useful thing we can do early is ask better questions.

    "Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom." — Chip Bell
  2. 02
    PLAN IT OUT

    Iterate, then iterate again.

    We design the system on paper, then on screen. Wireframes, data models, and an honest scope. We'd rather find the hard problems before we write the first line of code.

    "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." — Abraham Lincoln
  3. 03
    EXECUTE

    Make it happen.

    We build with test-driven discipline, security as a baseline, and ship weekly. You see the work as it lands — not in a big reveal at the end.

    "It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated." — John Ruskin
  4. 04
    MEASURE

    Analyze, adjust, deploy.

    After launch, we instrument what matters and watch how it's actually used. The first version is rarely the last. We adjust based on what the data says, not what we hoped for.

    "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." — Winston Churchill
FILE 04C / STANDING ORDERS

What we won't compromise on.

1

Tests first

TDD isn't a buzzword here. It's how we sleep at night when your platform goes live.

2

Security baseline

Secrets in Cloudflare, never in GitHub. Auth on every endpoint. Boring discipline, repeated.

3

You own it

Code, data, credentials, infrastructure. You own everything we build. We're not a lock-in shop.

4

Honest scope

Flat fees on small work. Honest estimates on big work. If we don't know, we say "we don't know yet."

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