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Built by builders,
not account managers.
The Code Smith is an independent studio. No layers, no hand-offs, no junior teams learning on your invoice — the person you brief is the person who builds.
We eat our own cooking
Most agencies sell systems they've never had to live with. We run our own products — LeadProwl (lead data), NoMailBounce (email verification), Unbuilt Lab (startup research) — on exactly the stack we build for clients. When we recommend a pipeline design, it's because ours have been running on it around the clock.
Same stack we sell — yes, exactly
Craft over volume
Our template library — twelve complete, animated, nine-page websites — exists because we'd rather show craft than talk about it. Every one was hand-coded here: no themes, no page builders, no "customised" purchases. That's the standard your project gets.
Pages hand-built — 151
Honesty as a feature
We're a young studio and we don't pretend otherwise — you won't find invented testimonials or stock-photo teams here. What you will find: working software, live demos, plain pricing, and advice that includes the words "you don't need this" when you don't.
Live proof — this whole site
The workshop
Boring tech, sharp results.
We pick tools for reliability and ownership — things that will still run quietly in five years.
Python · FastAPI · Postgres · queues & schedulers · LLM APIs (used where they earn their keep, skipped where they don't).
Hand-written HTML/CSS/JS · self-hosted fonts · zero-framework front-ends that load in seconds and never break on update day.
Scrapers · enrichment · verification (our own NoMailBounce engine) · outreach with honest deliverability practices.