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Avant8

Get
ahead.

Avant8
Salt Lake City, Utah
Est. 2010

We make brands people choose, websites that get found and earn their keep, and software that works past the demo. If it won't help your business, we'll say so.

Bootprint in grey lunar soil, black and magenta duotone

Someone had to go first.

APOLLO 11, 1969

(01) Selected workIndex of all projects ↗
Illustration of an orange Arkade arcade cabinet with numbered callouts01Arkade
Brand, product identity and website for a voice AI platform.BrandingVisits a monthSeed to sale48,000600May 2020Oct 202002Panacea Life
Website and SEO. From 600 to 48,000 visits a month in six months.Web · SEO

Since 2010, the work gets judged on one thing: did it help the business? See the work →

(02) What we doKnow / Make / Grow
01Brand Strategy & IdentityA brand people choose, not just recognize. We find what's true about you, then make it impossible to miss.↗02Websites & Digital ExperiencesBeautiful is the baseline. We build sites that do a job, then keep making them better after launch.↗03SEO & Organic GrowthBe the one they find, in search results, on the map and in AI answers. Measured in enquiries, not just rankings.↗04Software & SystemsYou built something. Now what? From the idea on a napkin to the tool your business runs on, we help you work out what's next and build it.↗
(03) The studio
Astronaut screenprint in magenta and yellowFigure on a ridge under the night sky

Good work should do something.

Looking different is easy. Doing something is the hard part, and it's the only part that counts.

So we start with the business, not the brief. Then we build what makes sense, and tell you when something doesn't.

Plan.

Work out what the business actually needs.

Prepare.

Pick the approach, then set the timeline and the budget.

Execute.

Build it, then keep improving it once it's live.

(04) From the wallPops of chaos, on purpose
Giambologna's Flying Mercury, bronze, in magenta

What you leave alone

The original Macintosh computer, January 1984, as a screenprint

When the tools changed

Bold.
Never
business
as usual.

The tools keep changing. So do customers' needs.

Good thinking and good execution don't go out of date. The trick is knowing what to change and what to leave alone.

Webb Space Telescope first deep field, galaxies in cyan, magenta and yellow

What we see now

Images: Flying Mercury, after Giambologna, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Macintosh, 1984, Bernard Gotfryd, Library of Congress. Deep field, NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

Woman in mirrored visor lit by neon panels

The future, minus the hype.

(05) Start a project
Let's
talk ↗

Got something that should be working better? Bring it. We'll tell you straight whether we can help.
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Salt Lake City, Utah
Mon to Fri, 9 to 5 MT