Nobody at your company owns technology.
So decisions get made by whoever asks loudest, quotes are impossible to compare, and nobody can tell you what happens next. I'm Jai Smith. I'm the technology person for businesses around the Lehigh Valley. I take the whole thing off your plate: the decisions, the vendors, and the building.
You probably know a few of these
None of these need a full-time hire. All of them need someone.
- “There's too much tech work to ignore, and nowhere near enough to justify hiring someone full time.”
- “Our developer left and nobody here knows how any of it works.”
- “Everything's moving fast, AI especially, and we can't tell what actually matters.”
- “We know what we want built. We have no idea who to trust to build it.”
What I actually take off your desk
All of it in one place: the planning, the meetings, the design, the build, and the call when it breaks.
- Direction
- What to build, what to buy, and what to leave alone — with a plain reason for each.
- What you already run
- Your site, your accounts, whatever the last developer left behind. I take it over, learn it, and keep it running. No rebuild unless rebuilding is genuinely cheaper.
- The technical calls
- Vendors, hosting companies, support lines, whoever built the last version. I sit in those meetings so you don't have to.
- Design & build
- Designed, built, launched and fixed in one place. Nothing gets handed between three companies, and nothing falls down the gap between them.
- Keeping current
- I keep up with what's new, AI included, and tell you the short list worth your time.
- When it breaks
- Site down, orders not going through, a question at five on a Friday. You call me, not a ticket queue.
Things I build
Not just advice — the actual work. Web design and software development for businesses in Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, and across the Lehigh Valley.
- Websites
- Online stores
- Web & mobile apps
- WordPress
- Booking & ordering
- Tools for your team
- Getting your systems talking
- Automating the busywork
- Hosting & moving hosts
I built Lehigh Daily. Go look at it.
I founded Lehigh Daily in June 2024 and still run it. You are not hiring me to run a newsroom — you are hiring the person who built and operates the software underneath one.
- I built the whole stack A custom WordPress build — not a theme, not a page builder. The publishing tools, the front end, and AI wired into the CMS.
- Including the part that takes money The ad platform it sells through is mine too. Direct sales, priced and processed in software I wrote.
- And I keep it running Over 1 million visitors since I launched it in June 2024, on hosting I manage, publishing live every day.
Independent and digital-only, with 120,000 followers and 100M+ content views across social — the fastest-growing hyperlocal newsroom in the Lehigh Valley.
See it at lehighdaily.comWhat it costs
Prices are by scope, not by hours. You get a fixed number before I start, and that's what you pay.
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Projects
From
$2,500
per project
Sites, apps, and everything in between. We scope it on a call, you get a fixed number, and it's yours in your own accounts when it's done.
A delivery date in writing before I start.
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Your tech person
From
$4,000
per month
About a day a week, ongoing. I own the technology, take the vendor and support calls, handle the small stuff as it comes up, and pick up the phone when something goes wrong. Bigger builds are scoped as projects on top.
Month to month. Cancel any time.
A full-time hire for this role runs six figures before benefits and payroll taxes — and you carry the recruiting, the ramp-up, and the severance. This is a fraction of that, month to month.
Start with a scoping call
Thirty minutes, no charge, no pitch. Tell me what you're dealing with and you leave with a straight answer on what it takes and what it costs.
“Every business around here runs on technology now. Almost none of them have someone whose actual job is to own it. That's the job.”
- 01 A call Thirty minutes, no charge. You tell me what you are dealing with.
- 02 A look I go through what you already have and where it actually hurts.
- 03 A number A fixed price and a plan, in writing, before anything starts.
- 04 The work I build it, launch it, and stay on the phone afterwards.
Who owns this at your company?
If you had to think about it, let's talk.