About Our Web Design Studio

Our Mission

We believe every small business deserves high-quality, custom design, and every talented student deserves a real chance to prove what they can do. So we put students on real projects they own from start to finish, and we make custom work affordable for businesses that are usually priced out of it. Above all, we believe in keeping creativity human. We don’t care what AI can do on its own. We care what the next generation can do with it.

Meet the team

KeepCreativityHuman

The Team

We're a small, multidisciplinary team of developers, designers, and marketers. Staying small means no handoffs between departments and no layers of approval, so we move quickly from first idea to launch.

Our Story

SloppyKo. was supposed to be an ice cream company. There was just one problem.

A few years ago, we started planning an ice cream brand called SloppyKo. Creamery. Our founder, Kieran Apgar, teamed up with our first designer, Abigail, to create the logo and our mascot, Boy Seismic: a cyborg who, despite being part robot, never let the machine take over. He chose humanity.

The problem? None of us knew how to make ice cream.

So we looked at what we did know. We kept seeing small businesses stuck with slow, cookie-cutter websites and a stack of SaaS subscriptions while bigger companies paid for custom development. We had a background in building tools and managing data, so we turned SloppyKo. Creamery into SloppyKo. Creative, a design and development studio in San Luis Obispo.

(For the record, we still own the domain, and we still plan to open that ice cream shop someday.)

We also saw talented students buried in textbooks with few chances to get real project experience. We think both of those are broken. So we put students on real projects they own from start to finish, and we make custom work affordable for small businesses. Boy Seismic is still our mascot, and still the point: technology is a tool, but creativity stays human.

Boy Seismic, the SloppyKo. Creative mascot

About the name

“We kept the name and skipped the ice cream. Our work is a lot less sloppy than a cone in summer.”
SloppyKo. Creamery hasn't served a single scoop (yet), but it left us our name, our first designer, and Boy Seismic.

The timeline so far

  1. 2025 - May

    SloppyKo. Creamery

    Kieran plans an ice cream brand and meets our first designer, Abigail, who helps create the logo and Boy Seismic. Nobody on the team knows how to make ice cream.

    Boy Seismic, the SloppyKo. mascot

  2. 2025

    SloppyKo. Creamery is now Creative

    SloppyKo. Creamery becomes SloppyKo. Creative. Our mission to give students real opportunities and small businesses affordable creative services.

    The SloppyKo. Creative Studio logo

  3. 2025 - September

    Our First Project

    Our first project! We designed a logo and internal receipt tool for a catering service.

    Kahlo Salsas y Mas logo

  4. 2025 - October

    A Big Win

    An engineering firm partnered with us to design a new website and design a database to manage their parts (we're still working on it).

  5. 2025 - December

    Expanding the Team

    We realized that we needed a marketing and media team to keep up with the complexities of marketing.

  6. 2026 - April

    Our First Big Web App

    We released our internal web app for managing projects, clients, and finances. It was a big success, and we continue to improve it.

    Operations Portal dashboard

  7. 2026 - August

    Proof in the Portfolio

    A client we developed a website for reached the #1 position on Google for multiple search terms.

    Country Collision website

  8. 2026 - October

    Expansion

    We moved our office to Cal Poly's Center of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CIE) in downtown SLO.

    The new SloppyKo. Creative Studio logo