Why We Exist
Frederick Studios exists for the underdog. The mom-and-pops, the small shops, the mid-size businesses doing real work: the coffee shop watching bean prices climb, trying to find the money without giving something up. Not just coffee shops. All the little companies, even the mid-size ones. We don’t work for corporate giants; we work for the people they overlook.
Most of our clients aren’t tech people. They’re shop owners, contractors, restaurant folks, people running real businesses with no time for buzzwords. They need a website that works, videos that show what they do, and fewer repetitive tasks eating their day. So that’s what we build.
Our job: give them the technology the big companies have, at a price they can actually afford. Inexpensive, never cheap: fair to them and fair to us.
Ten services, one standard: honest work at a fair price, explained in plain English. If we can’t explain it simply, we don’t sell it.
Helping Main Street catch up with technology.
The mission, in one line
How We Work
We work lean, keep the price down, hit the goals we promised, and get the client to their next step. Don’t oversell, don’t overbuild: get this one done right.
Every client win is the seed of the next engagement: do this one well and they come back for the next thing. That’s how the studio grows, one win at a time, per client.
And everything is built in-house. The studio runs nine departments (design, development, brand, content, film, social, strategy, AI systems, and local growth), so your project never leaves the building. Never subcontracted, never sent overseas. See what each service includes.
The software that runs this studio is ours, too: the dashboard we work from, the publishing system behind our socials, and the engine that built this website were all designed and written in this building.
The Receipt
Frederick Studios is based in El Segundo, California, with roots in Owatonna, Minnesota. Our founder, Brad Frederick, came up through restaurants and bars (he ran them) and spent years watching good businesses get left behind by technology they couldn’t afford and didn’t have time to learn. After two years studying AI (including a UC Berkeley certificate program in AI integration and infrastructure), he built the answer: a human-directed studio that runs on the same AI systems it sells.
Everything we sell, we run on ourselves first. Our website, our social media, our own operations: all of it runs on the systems in this building. On launch night, October 12, 2026, this site and a client’s investor site went live within hours of each other. That’s not a slogan. It’s the case file.
If you run a small business and you're tired of being overlooked, that's who I built this for.