Local to the Central Valley
Web design & business software for Stockton and Northern California.
ShepHouse is a one-person Central Valley studio — based in Oakdale, close enough to shake hands from Stockton to Sacramento, small enough that you always talk to the person doing the work.
What working with a local studio actually looks like
Most of the web work sold to Central Valley businesses comes from agencies that have never stood in the shop they're building for. Working locally changes the product: an in-person walkthrough of your counter, your shelves, and your busiest hour tends to surface the things a questionnaire never does — and those details are usually what make the difference between a website that describes your business and software that actually runs it.
The process is the same one described on the services page: it starts with a free, plain-English audit of your current site, followed by a fixed quote — no hourly meter, no surprises. Build, launch, and if you want it, maintenance handled by the same person who built it.
Who this suits
Businesses with real shelves and real customers: gyms and supplement stores, retail shops, trades, and service businesses. If your website was built from a template years ago, or your inventory lives in a spreadsheet and someone's memory, that's the exact situation the retail build on the work page — a Modesto-area client — started from.
Three services do most of the work for local shops: hand-built websites that load fast and rank, local SEO so you show up when neighbors search, and business software — point of sale, inventory with expiry tracking, customer records — that runs on your own computer instead of a monthly cloud bill.
Where the studio works
In person, across Northern California: Stockton, Modesto, Manteca, Tracy, Lodi, Turlock, Ceres, Riverbank, Oakdale, Sacramento — San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties are the everyday range, and a site visit anywhere in Northern California is on the table. Remote, anywhere: web and software work doesn't need a shared zip code. Southern California is remote-only — no in-person service there.
Local questions
Asked and answered.
Where is ShepHouse located?
The studio is based in Oakdale, California, and works in person across Northern California — Stockton, Modesto, and the wider San Joaquin and Stanislaus county area. There's no storefront to visit — work happens remotely, or in person when meeting makes sense.
Do you meet local clients in person?
If you're in Stockton, Modesto, or anywhere in Northern California, yes — an in-person walkthrough of your shop often makes the software fit better. Nothing requires it, though; plenty of projects run entirely over email, text, phone, or Slack.
Do you only work with businesses in Northern California?
No. Websites and software are delivered remotely, so the studio works with clients anywhere — Southern California included, just without the site visit. The Central Valley is simply home, which means nearby businesses get the option of a handshake, not just a video call.
Start with the audit — it's free either way.
One email — read and answered by the person who’d do the work — gets you a plain-English review of your current site: speed, search visibility, and what it's costing you.
Request the free audit