AboutThe studio

The people who answer after year three.

Happy Dog Web Productions is a small, in-house web & software studio in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Not small enough to vanish without a trace. Not big enough to be a revolving door, red tape, disgruntled staff, and bureaucracy.

What we are

Built for the businesses software forgot.

Most companies find us with the same problem: a stack of software from many vendors, and data scattered across all of it. Lots of copy-paste, logins across a dozen tabs, features you never asked for, and clunkiness everywhere.

We replace the duct tape with custom software, built in-house, that puts your data in one place you actually own. Not another subscription you rent. Something that fits how your business already works.

The point was never the software. It’s what the software lets you do. With data you can have confidence in, and less that you have to worry about, you get to focus on what actually matters: running your business.

Who you’ll talk to: The people on this page
Where the work happens: In-house, one team
Who owns the result: You do. Code and data.

The roster

Industry veterans. No revolving door.

This is the whole company, not a sales layer in front of it. Most of these people are hand-picked to work with you. Nobody new, never an intern.

Ryan
Founder
The voice on the first call.

Marlyn
Administrative & Financial Coordinator

How we work

Four things we don’t bend on.

Discovery starts with a magic wand.

Every project opens with the same question: “If you had a magic wand, what would you want your software to do for you?” Then a long discovery phase, so the scope is clear before anyone writes a line of code.

Everything is built in-house.

No subcontractor chain, no offshore hand-off. The people who scoped the work are the people who build it, so the quality never leaves the room.

You own what we build.

The code is yours. The data is yours. We’re not renting you access to a platform you can never leave with what’s rightfully yours.

Launch is the midpoint, not the goodbye.

We don’t ship it and disappear. Same team, same number. Still here when you need the thing changed two years from now.

From the other side of the table

They checked in on me consistently, worked to make sure that the project met my new schedule, and even sent some amazing flowers and a heartfelt note to go along with them. What company does that?

JonDirector of Retail SalesTopsOnline

Keep going

Where the work lives.

What we doAI & agentic systems, product engineering, and strategy. Three ways this team gets put to work.What we’ve builtXcel Energy, Grafe, MBE. Real systems for real businesses, taken from discovery to production.

Want to know if we’re the right fit? Ask the people above. They’re the ones who’ll answer.

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