Search & answer engines
We take on a site and improve how it ranks in search, and how reliably answer engines can quote it. Driven by our own audit tool, not a generic checklist.
SEO & AEOMakeko — New York
We build it, we run it, and we make sure it can be found.
Makeko is a small New York technology company. We write custom web software, move sites off legacy CMS platforms, tune them for search and answer engines, help companies work out where AI actually helps, and look after the servers underneath — in-house, by the same people you talk to.
What we do
Six things, done properly.
Most of our work is some combination of these. If your problem sits across two or three of them, that is normal — it is usually why people call us rather than a specialist.
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Putting AI to work
Finding where AI genuinely earns its place in how you operate — and where it does not — then building it in so you can see what it costs and when it is wrong.
AI in practice
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Websites & CMS migration
Getting off a legacy CMS you have outgrown, and onto something lighter you actually control — often our own site builder.
Websites
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Custom software & automation
Applications built to your specification — and the data flows, analytics and automations behind them, for when nothing off the shelf fits how you work.
Custom software
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Servers & infrastructure
FreeBSD and Linux servers specified, built and maintained around what you actually need — up to parallel computing clusters for research.
Infrastructure
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Hosting & email
Application and website hosting, plus email for the domains we already look after. For clients whose systems we build or maintain.
HostingWe don’t see technology as ones and zeros. We see it as a creative means of facilitating communication, interaction and commerce.
Makeko — technology with a human face
How we work
Small on purpose.
You talk to the people building it
There is no account layer between you and the work. The person who scopes your project is the person who writes the code and, later, the person who picks up the phone.
We build things you can leave
Standard languages, standard databases, documented setups, your data exportable. We would rather you stay because the work is good than because leaving is painful.
We use our own tools
Our site auditor and our site builder are both built and maintained here. When something is missing, we add it, instead of waiting for a vendor.
Tell us what you are trying to do.
Most of our work has arrived by word of mouth. If you were sent here by someone we have worked with, mention it — and if you were not, that is fine too.