Most agencies show you a gallery of brochure sites. We show you production software we designed, built, and still run every day — point-of-sale, telephony, analytics, healthcare integrations, and AI voice. If we can build and operate platforms at this depth, your website or app is well within reach.
Vertex Digital Studios designed, built, and still operates five production platforms: a retail point-of-sale system, a self-hosted SEO analytics platform, a hosted VoIP phone network, dental software integrations, and an AI voice receptionist. Each case study below follows the same honest format — the problem, what we built, and the measurable result — because we own the code, run the servers, and stand behind every claim.
Production platforms designed, built, and operated in-house.
Building for Mid-Michigan businesses since 2007.
Front end, back end, infrastructure, and security — one team.
No rented templates. Every line of code is ours and yours.
Vertex Digital Studios has designed and built live, production websites across many industries — dental and medical practices, construction and manufacturing, septic and home services, retail, leisure, sports, and technology. The 68 sites below are all published and running today, grouped by industry, and every screenshot links to the live site so you can judge the work for yourself. That polish matters: 75% of users judge a company's credibility by its website design, according to Stanford Web Credibility Research, and 88% of consumers are less likely to return after a bad website experience, per Sweor.
Cosmetic and family dentistry in Bay City, MI, with online scheduling.
Visit live site →Modern practice site for a Belleville, MI dental team.
Visit live site →Welcoming site for Dr. Cynthia Skiba's Midland practice.
Visit live site →Specialist prosthodontics site in Saginaw, MI.
Visit live site →Pediatric care practice site for Mid-Michigan families.
Visit live site →Site for a functional and lifestyle medicine clinic.
Visit live site →Physician-led lifestyle medicine practice in Midland.
Visit live site →Chiropractic clinic site serving Saginaw, MI.
Visit live site →Warm, multi-location site for a play-based therapy practice.
Visit live site →General contractor site for residential and commercial work.
Visit live site →Site for a contracting and recycling services company.
Visit live site →Custom door and window shop in the Great Lakes Bay region.
Visit live site →Prototype metalworking and short-run production shop.
Visit live site →Four-stroke engine dynamometer testing services.
Visit live site →Bulk firewood and expert timber services in Michigan.
Visit live site →Local septic service across the Great Lakes Bay region.
Visit live site →Irrigation installation and service in Michigan.
Visit live site →Residential and commercial cleaning across Michigan.
Visit live site →Scouting platform with rankings, events and player profiles.
Visit live site →Seasonal haunted attraction in St. Charles, MI.
Visit live site →Luxury suite and apartment rentals in Accra, Ghana.
Visit live site →Remote fueling and fuel distribution solutions nationwide.
Visit live site →Show, field, and family Labrador retriever breeder.
Visit live site →Official site for the bare-knuckle fighter, actor, and creator.
Visit live site →Storefront for our Mid-Michigan device repair and IT company.
Visit live site →Identity site for an advanced engineering and R&D consultancy.
Visit live site →| Industry Group | Example Clients | Sites |
|---|---|---|
| Dental, Medical & Wellness | McLaren Dental, Signature Dental, A2 Dental Care | 16 |
| Construction, Trades & Manufacturing | Brenske Construction, Primary Electric, Timber Direct MI | 11 |
| Septic & Sewer | Acme Sewer, Apex Septic, City Sewer | 6 |
| Professional & Home Services | Precision Lawn Sprinklers, Superior Cleaning Services, James Dammann CPA | 7 |
| Retail, Leisure & Sports | RISE Softball, Legends Sports Center, Saginaw USBC | 26 |
| Technology & Business | Computers To Go, Prometheus Solutions | 2 |
Screenshots are of the live, published sites. Most are shown on their production domain; a few on a staging domain we host. Links open in a new tab.
A retail point-of-sale platform replaced a rigid off-the-shelf register that could not keep up with real inventory, per-item tax rules, and climbing per-terminal fees. Vertex Digital Studios built a touch-friendly checkout with live stock counts, barcode support, receipt printing, and secure card payments that runs daily on hardware we host and maintain.
An off-the-shelf register system couldn't keep up with real inventory, per-item tax rules, and fast in-store checkout. Monthly per-terminal fees climbed while the software stayed rigid.
A custom point-of-sale and inventory platform: touch-friendly checkout, live stock counts, barcode support, receipt and label printing, secure card payments, and an owner dashboard for sales and reporting.
Checkout time dropped, per-terminal licensing fees were eliminated, and staff got real-time inventory they trust. The platform runs daily on hardware we host and maintain.
Third-party SEO tools are expensive per seat, send client data to outside servers, and rarely track how brands surface inside AI answer engines.
A privacy-first analytics platform that tracks keyword rankings, local-map visibility, and answer-engine mentions — running on our own infrastructure so client data never leaves servers we control.
Reporting that once meant several paid subscriptions now runs in-house at a fraction of the cost, with visibility into both classic search and AI-generated answers competitors can't see.
A hosted VoIP phone platform freed small businesses from legacy systems with costly per-extension pricing and slow support. Vertex Digital Studios built a multi-tenant cloud phone network with zero-touch desk-phone provisioning, call routing and ring groups, voicemail-to-email with AI transcription, and a self-service admin portal running on carrier-grade telephony we operate ourselves.
Small businesses were locked into legacy phone systems with costly per-extension pricing, clunky admin, and slow support for simple changes like a new ring group or greeting.
A multi-tenant cloud phone platform: zero-touch desk-phone provisioning, call routing and ring groups, voicemail-to-email with AI transcription, and a self-service admin portal — built on carrier-grade open telephony we operate ourselves.
Businesses cut phone costs, provision new handsets in minutes, and manage their own call flows. We run the servers, carrier links, and mobile apps end to end.
Dental offices run several disconnected systems — practice management, imaging, and scheduling — that don't talk to each other, forcing manual double-entry and risking patient-data errors.
Secure integrations that sync appointments, patient records, and imaging between practice-management and X-ray systems, with encrypted transport and HIPAA-minded data handling.
Front-desk staff stopped re-keying data, imaging lines up with the right chart automatically, and offices got a single reliable view of each patient — live in multiple practices today.
Missed calls mean missed revenue, but staffing a receptionist around the clock is expensive, and generic call-bots frustrate customers and mishandle sensitive information.
A self-hosted AI voice receptionist that answers calls, understands natural speech, books appointments, answers common questions, and routes to a human when needed — running on private infrastructure so conversations stay in-house.
After-hours and overflow calls get answered instead of lost, routine questions are handled instantly, and staff focus on the work only people can do — without sending customer data to a third party.
Engineering depth is the difference between a vendor who assembles templates and one who can design a database, secure it, connect it to hardware, and keep it running at 2 a.m. Vertex Digital Studios built and operates a point-of-sale system, a phone network, an analytics platform, and an AI receptionist. That depth matters because most digital projects fail on execution, not ideas.
"Anyone can show a portfolio of pretty homepages. The real question is whether a team can design a database, secure it, connect it to hardware, and keep it running at 2 a.m. — that is the bar we bring to every project," says the team at Vertex Digital Studios.
| Platform | Problem Solved | Measurable Result |
|---|---|---|
| Point-of-sale platform | Rigid register with rising per-terminal fees | Faster checkout, licensing fees eliminated |
| SEO & GEO analytics | Costly tools that leak client data | In-house reporting at a fraction of the cost |
| Hosted VoIP platform | Legacy phones with per-extension pricing | Lower cost, new handsets in minutes |
| Dental integrations | Disconnected systems and double-entry | One synced patient view, live today |
| AI voice receptionist | Missed after-hours calls and lost revenue | Calls answered 24/7, data kept in-house |
Project ownership, custom builds, data security, and service area are the questions clients ask most after seeing this work. Vertex Digital Studios owns and operates every platform shown here, builds custom software from scratch, handles regulated data, and serves clients in Mid-Michigan and remotely. The answers below cover the details.
Yes. Every platform shown here was designed, built, and is still operated in-house by Vertex Digital Studios. We own the code, run the servers, and support real businesses on these systems daily.
Yes. If we can build and operate a point-of-sale platform, a VoIP phone network, and an AI receptionist, your website or custom app is well within reach. We start with a discovery call to scope the right solution.
Yes. Our platforms handle card payments, patient records, and phone calls, built with encryption and privacy-minded, HIPAA-aware data handling from the start.
We are based in Midland and serve Saginaw, Bay City, Mount Pleasant, and Flint in person, but we build and support software for clients anywhere, since the work can be handled remotely.
Whether it's a premium website or a custom platform, book a free discovery call and we'll show you exactly how we'd design, build, and run it.
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