The Studio — San Jose, California

About us.

A small team above a flower shop in San Jose, California. Since 2014 we have designed, hosted, and rescued small-business websites. A direct line, not a ticket queue. We know every site on the roster by name.

Sam & Theo — Founders
Est.2014
STUDIO / OAK PARK 2014 A short list.
The studio

Founded by Sam & Theo.

Netveano opened above a flower shop in San Jose in 2014, after a decade spent at agencies that did not return calls and billed as though they had. The premise was plain: a fair price, a direct line, and a website the owner is glad to point people toward.

Twelve years on, the studio stays small by choice. A handful of us — Sam leads design and the conversations, Theo runs hosting and the difficult fixes, Priya keeps the studio and the deadlines. We answer the phone. We know every site on the roster by name.

12
Years on this block
340+
Small businesses served
99.97%
Uptime, last 12 months
What we hold to

Six standards.

Not a manifesto. A set of habits the studio keeps, even when dropping them would pay better.

A human answers.

No chatbot, no ticket portal. Call during business hours and a person picks up. Email and the same person reads it. Every time.

$95

One flat price, stated first.

No four-figure invoice that began as a couple of hours. We diagnose at no charge and give the number before touching anything. If we miscalculate, we absorb it.

No jargon.

You should not need to know a DNS A-record from a PHP fatal to run a business. We translate. We explain. We answer "what does that mean" without the sigh.

Same day, most days.

SSL fix, plugin conflict, form repair, simple migration — usually cleared by close of business. Time is held every day for the urgent calls.

You can leave.

No contracts, no lock-in. Want to move on, and we hand over everything — site, content, database, domain — and wish you well. We would rather earn it each month.

Local first.

Most clients are remote, but the studio is rooted in San Jose and built for small businesses — bakers, lawyers, plumbers, groomers — not venture-backed startups. The work is different for it.

The record

Twelve years, in brief.

2014

Netveano opens.

Sam and Theo, done with agency life, take a small room above Esperanza's flower shop. First client: a bakery whose old site had been hacked and replaced with poker ads.

2016

One hundred clients.

Word of mouth carries the studio past a hundred clients. Priya joins. "A human answers the phone" becomes a standing rule.

2018

Hosting begins.

Too many clients on poor hosts, asking us to fix the same host-made problems. We stand up our own infrastructure, with daily backups from day one.

2020

The neighborhood holds.

Through the pandemic, we waive maintenance fees for clients with closed storefronts and build order-and-pickup pages for a dozen restaurants at cost. Many are clients still.

2026

Still small, on purpose.

340+ small businesses, a small team, the same phone number. No plan to scale. The plan is to keep doing this well for another twelve years.

Questions

Working with the studio, explained.

I'm not technical. Is that a problem?
It's the point. Most clients are bakers, lawyers, plumbers, dentists, groomers, and one taxidermist. We translate. You will not need to know what a DNS A-record is to work with us.
Where are you based, and does it matter?
San Jose, CA, on the western edge of Chicago. Most clients have never set foot in the office. Phone, email, and the occasional call handle the rest. The flower shop is where we make the coffee.
How large is the team?
Four: Sam, Theo, Priya, and Bea, a part-time copywriter. Nothing is outsourced. The person who answers your call is the person doing the work.
What kind of businesses do you work with?
Small, mostly local: 1 to roughly 30 employees. Food and drink, healthcare, trades, retail, legal, services. Not a fit for venture-backed startups or enterprise SaaS — we will point you elsewhere if that's you.
Are you taking new clients?
Usually. We cap new design projects at about three a month so each gets the attention it warrants. Hosting and one-off fixes have no waitlist.
Get in touch

Let's work together.

Tell us about the business. No obligation, no sales sequence — a straight conversation about what you need.

Service areas

Website design across the Bay Area.