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Listen.
Before any design, a real conversation about the business, the audience, and what success looks like. I ask the questions most people don't think to answer. The shape of the project usually changes by the end of this step.
Independent studio · Available for select projects
Twenty years.
Twenty years.
One person.
End to end.
I'm Alex Bean — an independent digital production specialist working with small businesses across the Space Coast, Central Florida, and Orlando. Brand identity, web, and email — handled by one person, with no handoffs.
Alex Bean
Founder · Digital production specialist
What I do, in plain terms.
321 Enterprise is a small studio of one. I design, build, configure, and look after practical digital systems for small businesses — the kind of work that used to take a four-person agency, handled by one person with twenty years on it.
For the past twenty years I've worked with clients of every size — from local shops to enterprise brands like Disney, Movable Ink, and a long bench of agencies. Every scale has its own habits, constraints, and ways of going wrong. On 321 Enterprise projects that range shows up as judgment calls — knowing what holds up after launch, what tends to break, and when to push back early instead of patching later.
The work splits roughly into three pillars: brand identity (the logo, the system, the way it reads), web design and development (hand-coded sites and WordPress where it makes sense), and email template engineering (Mailchimp, Klaviyo, Customer.io, plus deep transactional-email work). Underneath all of it is the same eye and the same hand — no agency handoffs, no version of the work being passed between four people who never spoke.
I work best with owners who are clear about what they want their business to be and want a trusted partner to figure out the digital side. Run-with-it clients, in other words. If you're looking for someone who will second-guess every choice and bill by the hour, this probably isn't the studio.
Listen. Plan. Design. Develop.
The same four-beat rhythm on every project, whether it's a single landing page or a full brand-and-site build. The order matters — most of the work that goes sideways does so because someone skipped a step.
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Plan.
A written scope and a realistic timeline. What's in, what's out, what's deferred to a later phase. No surprises later because everything got named upfront. This is also where we agree on the two or three things the project actually needs to do.
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Design.
Visual direction, layout, copy guidance, brand decisions — whatever the project calls for. Iterative, not a big reveal. You see the work as it takes shape, with room to react before anything's expensive to change.
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Develop.
Hand-coded HTML/CSS for sites that don't need a CMS, a clean WordPress install for ones that do. Email templates that render the same way across every client. Files clean enough to outlast the project.
Florida-based. Open to anywhere.
Where I work
Dual-base in Central Florida: Winter Park (Orlando metro) and Cocoa Beach (Space Coast / Brevard County). I move between the two each month, which covers most of the I-4 / 528 corridor in person.
For everyone outside Central Florida, the work is remote. Comfortable with async time zones, video reviews, and clients I never meet in person — current relationships include San Diego, Hawaii, New Jersey, Tennessee, and the occasional international.
Who I'm a good fit for
- Small local businesses, typically 1–20 people
- Owners who'd rather delegate digital than learn it
- Service providers, wellness, restaurants, owner-operated retail
- Small nonprofits
- Founders who want a direct line to the person building the work
- Agencies that need senior brand or front-end work on demand
AI is part of the process, not the product.
I use AI tools every day — Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini for different parts of different jobs. They accelerate the parts of the work that can be accelerated: research, first drafts, code scaffolding, sanity checks. They don't replace the parts that require judgment, craft, or accountability.
What this means for clients: faster delivery on the mechanical parts of a project, more time on the parts that actually need a human hand. You're hiring me, not a model. I sign every piece of work the same way I always have — because I built it, decided about it, and stand behind it.
If you want a studio that pretends AI doesn't exist, this isn't it. If you want a studio that hands the steering wheel to a chatbot and charges full agency rates, also not it. I sit in the middle — the model is a power tool, the craft is still mine.
Three ways to start.
Browse the work, look at the menu, or book a paid Discovery session to figure out what you actually need.
Or send a note if you'd rather start with a question.