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Web Presence
Hosted websites and ongoing care for local businesses, makers, and operators who'd rather not babysit a CMS. We design, build, host, and keep it current.
See packages§ Independent Technical Studio
We Build
Things.
Slow Bear Systems is a small, founder-led studio making the unglamorous bones of modern work — websites, software, infrastructure, and physical objects — for people who'd rather have one good thing than five rushed ones.
§ 01 — Services
Four lanes,
one workshop.
We keep the studio small on purpose. The same hands that scope your project write the code, rack the server, or solder the board. Pick a lane — or hand us a problem and we'll figure out which one it belongs in.
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Software & Automation
Custom tools, dashboards, and back-office plumbing — the things that should exist but no off-the-shelf product does. Built in the open with you, not behind a curtain.
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Hosting & Infrastructure
Managed hosting, self-hosted services, and secure deployments. We run our own iron and our clients' workloads — boring, monitored, and resilient on purpose.
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Fabrication & Hardware
3D printing, small-batch electronics, and physical prototyping. From a one-off enclosure to a kiosk that ships, we like things you can hold.
Get in touch§ 02 — Web Presence Packages
A real site,
a real person
maintaining it.
Three monthly plans that include hosting, the domain, ongoing edits, and a human you can email when something looks off. No annual contracts — pause or change tiers whenever your business does.
Base
A clean, hosted site that quietly does its job.
$60/ month
Billed monthly · No setup fee
- Custom designed single-page or 3–5 page site
- Fully managed hosting & SSL certificate
- Domain registration & DNS management
- 2 content changes per month
- Monthly uptime & backup report
- Email support, 1 business-day response
Most Common
Standard
Everything most small businesses actually need.
$120/ month
Billed monthly · No setup fee
- Everything in Base
- Contact forms & inquiry routing
- SEO setup, schema & sitemap submission
- Google Maps & Business Profile integration
- 5 content changes per month
- Quarterly performance & SEO review
Pro
Bookings, integrations, and a priority lane.
$200/ month
Billed monthly · No setup fee
- Everything in Standard
- Booking / appointment system
- Advanced integrations (CRM, Stripe, mailing)
- Priority changes — same-day on most requests
- Quarterly strategy call
- Direct Signal / phone line for emergencies
§ 03 — The Lab
Things we build
for no one in particular.
The Lab is the studio's open workbench — internal experiments, half-finished tools, and the curious side-projects that keep the practice sharp. Some become products. Some stay strange. Personality lives here.
Active · Internal / LAB-007
Sediment
A small-world physics & ecology simulator. Watch a tide-pool civilization argue over real estate for an afternoon, then ship the screenshot to clients as a punchline.
Type · SimulationStage · Alpha
Active · Internal / LAB-012
Marginalia
A local-first reading assistant that lives in the margins of long PDFs — notes, summaries, and counter-arguments from a model you actually run on your own machine.
Type · AI ToolingStage · Private beta
Active · Internal / LAB-018
Field Kit
An open-source set of small printable fixtures, jigs and clip-ons for makers — designed in the studio, fabricated on a Bambu, and released under a permissive licence.
Type · Creative / HardwareStage · Ongoing
§ 04 — About
Slow on purpose.
Hard to kill.
A short note on who runs the studio, why it's named after the toughest animal in the world, and what we actually mean by "deliberate."
Slow Bear Systems is a one-builder studio operating under the Isometric Labs umbrella. We've shipped marketing sites for plumbers, internal dashboards for clinics, racks of self-hosted services for small teams, and a simulation engine that nobody asked for. It's all the same craft.
The name is a translation of tardigrade — the microscopic "water bear" that survives boiling, freezing, vacuum, and radiation by simply slowing down until conditions are better. We liked the metaphor. We work at a deliberate pace, scope honestly, and prefer durable things to clever ones. When the surrounding tech world panics about whatever framework launched yesterday, we keep moving.
If you have a project that needs to be built well, kept running, and not rebuilt every eighteen months — that's our entire shape.
§ 05 — Start a Project
Tell us
what you're
building.
One short form, one real human reading it. We answer every inquiry within two business days — usually the same one, sometimes from a phone in a workshop. No funnels, no sales calls.
Email
[email protected]
Hours
Mon–Thu · 09:00–17:00
Fridays reserved for The Lab.
Fridays reserved for The Lab.
Response Time
Within 2 business days