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Loyalty
Long partnerships over quick wins. You'll always know where to find me.
About - Enterprise tools, small-studio care.
Official Sanity Partner Studio in Missoula, Montana. I hand-code fast, accessible websites and custom headless CMS solutions for teams who want the good stuff without the agency overhead.
- Building for the web since
- 2019
- Lighthouse score, every build
- 95+
- Official Sanity Partner Studio
- Partner
What I stand for - Four things you can hold me to
A short list of commitments that shape how I work with every client, from first email to post-launch support.
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Trust
If I say I'll do it, I do it. No surprise invoices, no scope drift.
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Compassion
Deadlines slip. Priorities shift. I work with you, not against you.
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Craft
Hand-coded, performance-audited, accessible. The details matter.
The developer - A one-person studio, done well.
When you hire Zephyr Pixels, you hire me. No account manager layers, no offshore handoffs.
Developer & designer — the whole studio
Matthew Rhoads
I'm Missoula-born, Sanity-certified, and genuinely happiest when a Lighthouse report comes back all green. Ten-plus years of full-stack work has had me building for conservation groups, family farms, local trades, and enterprise Sanity teams — and I still answer my own email. I do the building myself, and when a project needs a dedicated designer or copywriter I bring in people I trust and personally run point. Either way, you deal with one person start to finish: me.
Day to day I also work as a principal engineer at Fortivex and a senior software engineer for a national financial-media brand, and I've built alongside the team at Blue Cadet. That same standard goes into every Zephyr Pixels build.
- Full-stack Web Development
- UI/UX Design
- E-commerce Solutions
- Custom CMS Integration
- Performance Optimization
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Where I'm based
- Missoula
225 W Front St,
Missoula, MT 59802 - Helena
317 Cruse Ave Suite 202,
Helena, MT 59601 - Bozeman
544 E Main St Unit B,
Bozeman, MT 59715