SPEAKERS & FUTURISTS · HEADLESS WEB & AI DEV

Headless Web & AI Dev for Speakers & Futurists

We help Speakers & Futurists teams ship fast, secure, AI-native web software. A fast, conversion-built speaker or bureau site with clear booking intent, and code you own.

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AEO/GEO

cited by AI search

30%

CVR — Smiota

$56M

pipeline built

And we build the pipeline that books it.

(01) THE APPROACH

Why headless web & ai dev for Speakers & Futurists is a different job

A fast, conversion-built speaker or bureau site with clear booking intent, and code you own.

The pipeline runs from AI-search visibility through transactional pages to a captured, qualified inquiry. First, be the answer: schema, citable structure and an llms.txt that gets you recommended when a buyer asks an assistant for a speaker. Then be findable the classic way, with a page per keynote topic and a page per industry, plus the hire, book and fees pages most speaker sites simply do not have.

The web solutions for the future of business are fast, secure, composable, and intelligent, and you own every line. Anyone can bolt a chatbot onto a template. We build software around your real priorities, whether that is a client platform, an internal system, a custom B2B product, or the site that sells, and we ship it to production under your name.

(02) WHAT'S INCLUDED

The build.

Custom Software & Web Apps

Client-facing apps and the internal tools your team runs on, built to fit. We build the apps your customers use and the software your team runs the business on: customer portals, platforms, and dashboards, plus internal tools for CRM, projects, HR, and operations shaped to how your people actually work. Custom B2B systems, admin panels, and the automations and integrations between them ship as one connected build, with UI and UX design, wireframes, prototypes, and a design system behind every screen.

Composable Sites & Headless Content

Fast, composable sites your marketers run without waiting on a deploy. We build marketing sites, blogs, documentation, and conversion-focused pages on a composable, headless architecture, with a CMS like Sanity, Payload, or Contentful and editorial workflows, roles, and live preview so your team publishes on its own. One API-first content core, the MACH pattern, feeds your web, mobile, and whatever surface comes next, and every page is engineered to load fast and stay stable on real devices.

Backend, Architecture & Security

Services, system architecture, and security engineered to hold up in production. We build the services, APIs, and databases underneath the product, with authentication, role-based access, and single sign-on, plus the integrations that connect the tools you already run. Outgrowing a legacy system, we design the target enterprise architecture and re-platform onto it in stages with the strangler pattern, so the old system carries load until the new one is proven, on a migration path you own. Security is engineered in from the first commit: secure defaults, hardened access and encryption, dependency and code review, and the compliance your industry requires.

AI-Native Software

AI built into the product and the data, running in production. On the frontend we build streaming copilots, generative UI, semantic search, and real-time assistants with tools like the Vercel AI SDK. On the backend we build RAG pipelines grounded in your own content over pgvector, agents with tool-calling wired to your systems through the Model Context Protocol, and structured extraction, all with the gateways, evals, and guardrails that keep AI dependable in production.

(03) PROOF

$56MPIPELINE

Smiota

demand, engineered

PIPELINE TRIPLED · +30% CVR

15xROAS

Cirque du Soleil — Dralion

a full house, every night

88,000 TICKETS SOLD · 22 EVENTS

4xROAS

Gold Collagen

beauty that converts

+50% DISTRIBUTION DEALS

The strongest signal here is not a logo. We are an AI-native agency — private LLMs, agentic AI and predictive ML in production — which means we build the systems futurists get on stage to describe. Smiota is the lead-engineering proof: 30% CVR and $56M of pipeline from the same inquiry machinery.

TRUSTED BY 80+ COMPANIES

(04) HOW WE WORK

A plan, from day one.

Discover & Scope

We start with a paid discovery sprint: stakeholder interviews, a technical audit, and the requirements, data model, and success metrics for what you are building, whether that is a client app, an internal platform, a custom system, or a site. We map where AI earns its place, where a simpler build wins, and what the security and compliance needs are up front. You leave with a documented brief and a scoped plan, signed off before design begins.

Design & Prototype

We design the experience and build an interactive prototype on your real design system, wireframes first for every key flow and screen, then high-fidelity screens your team can click through. Accessibility, performance, and security are designed in from the first component. Nothing moves to build until the design is approved.

Architect the Stack

We choose the architecture your project needs: the data model and databases, the auth and permission model, the hosting and rendering strategy, the CMS if there is one, and where AI, search, and integrations live. We settle the data contracts and the threat model on paper so the build has one foundation to stand on. Everything is picked to be owned, extended, and swapped without a rebuild.

Build Frontend & Backend

One team builds the frontend and the backend together, in your repository, with typed APIs, automated tests, security checks, and documentation as it ships. Integrations get wired, the content and admin tools go in, and any AI layer is built with evals and guardrails from day one. You see working software in a live environment early and often.

Launch, Measure & Own

We ship to production with a full QA, accessibility, and security review, performance validated, and monitoring live. Then we transfer the keys: source code, repositories, and every infrastructure credential move to you. Keep us on to iterate and extend, or run it yourself with the documentation and training in hand.

(05) WHAT YOU GET

Deliverables that ship.

A legacy system re-platformed onto a modern, owned architecture, migrated in stages with the old system carrying load until the new one is proven.

Full ownership transferred to you: source code, repositories, and every infrastructure credential, documented and live in production.

Client-facing web apps and internal team tools, from customer portals to CRM, project, HR, and operations software, built around how your business runs.

Composable, headless sites and content, marketing sites, blogs, and docs your team publishes to without waiting on a deploy, engineered to load fast on real devices.

Backend services, APIs, and databases with authentication, role-based access, and single sign-on enforced at the data layer.

(06) FAQ

Questions, answered.

Do you have headless web & AI development experience with Speakers & Futurists companies?+

Yes. Our published work includes Smiota at $56M PIPELINE. We run headless web & AI development inside a full-stack engagement built for Speakers, Futurists & Speaker Bureaus, so it is wired to the same measurement layer, CRM and first-party data the rest of your growth runs on — which is what makes the numbers defensible.

I get booked through referrals and my bureau.+

I already have a nice website.+

Can you modernize or migrate a legacy system we have outgrown?+

What does headless mean, and why does it matter?+

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