Round City
Hire the studio

Columbus · Dearborn · Sterling Heights

The studio
that owns what
it builds.

Brand, web, systems, and operations for real businesses — built end-to-end by an owner who runs his own on the same tools. No handoffs, no vendors, no excuses.

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Ledger entries
18
Running today
09
Job photographs
1,289
Years of published work
2019–
Status
Open for new builds

What the studio does

  1. 01

    Brand

    Naming, identity, art direction — the face a business earns money with.

  2. 02

    Web

    Sites that take the job: fast, found on Google, built to convert. Arabic / English when the market speaks both.

  3. 03

    Systems

    Quote engines, dashboards, order flows, AI operations — the machinery behind the site.

  4. 04

    Operations

    Automation, SEO, local listings, outreach — run for you, the way the studio runs its own.

The work

Running means live and still working today. Past means the engagement finished. Demo is a repeatable engine shown as a sample. Real work only — where a deployment is offline, the slot says so instead of linking to a dead page.

Mo Tint King — rebuilt marketing site, home screen
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01Client WorkLIVE

Mo Tint King

Round City’s first retained client: a family-run Columbus tint, wrap & PPF shop. Rebuilt their Wix site as a 34-route Next.js application — live in production on their domain — and stood up an AI operations backend: Supabase system-of-record plus a shop-PC worker running a local model for $0-per-job drafting, feeding a bilingual owner dashboard.

Role
First retained client · site rebuild + AI operations
Stack
Next.js 16 · React 19 · Tailwind v4 · Supabase · Local LLM worker (qwen2.5 via Ollama) · Bilingual EN / AR dashboard
34routesmarketing routes shipped
4.7★client Google rating (352 reviews)

motintking.comCase file →

EveryWrap vehicle-wrap site — home screen with the quote flow
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02Built & RunOPERATING

EveryWrap

A commercial graphics and vinyl-wrap company owned and run with his brother Karrar, who leads installation. Round City owns and operates the business side: the brand, the site, the quoting, the marketing, and the systems behind it. New York to Sacramento, 2019 onward.

Role
Co-owner · marketing, operations, web & systems
Stack
Next.js · Vercel · Custom quote engine · Avery Dennison / 3M / KPMF
600vehiclesvehicles wrapped, owner-reported

everywrap.vercel.appoffline — restoringCase file →

AlAliGems Jewelry — the storefront: hand-carved aqeeq ring, photographed on Ali’s own hand
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03Built & RunLIVE

AlAliGems

A gemstone and Persian-treasures brand built from nothing in 2018 — the listings, the storefront, the photography, and the automation that kept four sales channels in sync. Grown to five figures a month on organic search alone, with zero ad spend.

Role
Built from scratch · brand, photography, listings, SEO, channel automation
Stack
Amazon Handmade · Etsy · eBay · Own storefront · Multichannel sync · Organic SEO
15000$peak month, owner-reported — no paid ads, all organic

alaligems.comCase file →

EXPERIENCECONTROLINTELLIGENCEEXECUTIONDATA
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04SystemsIN BUILD

Aether

A local-first AI orchestration operating system: one desktop app that turns a request into a planned, dependency-aware task graph, routes each task to the best model, executes in sandboxed workspaces, and reviews the result — with a full audit trail. In active build; no public demo yet, on purpose.

Role
Local-first AI orchestration OS · successor to Jarvis OS
Stack
Tauri 2 · React · TypeScript strict · Fastify · SQLite · Provider-agnostic routing
726testspassing tests
33tablesdatabase tables

Case file →

مكتبة التسليم

Maktabat al-Taslīm — bilingual by architecture

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05Client WorkLIVE

altasleemمكتبة التسليم

Built end-to-end for a Shia research institution: a bilingual Arabic / English Islamic research library and its portal. Next.js + Supabase, full RTL.

Role
Design & build, end-to-end
Stack
Next.js · Supabase · Bilingual AR / EN · RTL

altasleem.vercel.appoffline — restoringCase file →

The rest of the ledger

  1. 06AlmqamOwner-operator · brand & siteRunning
  2. 07CannaboysWebsite, internal system, SEO & wholesale outreachPast
  3. 08UMBRABrand, naming & site — end to endRunning
  4. 09Value TowingWebsite redesign, on-site SEO, content & marketing strategyPast
  5. 10Fix N Go Collision CenterSite architecture & SEO blueprintPast
  6. 11StarWrapzWeb & marketing for a Columbus wrap and tint shopPast
  7. 12Columbus demo seriesLocal-business site engine · demosDemo
  8. 13Jarvis OSAgentic operating system · predecessor to AetherRunning
  9. 14Project XInternal operating systemRunning
  10. 15Āyāt atelierGenerative engines · science + heritageRunning
  11. 16Trading LabFutures strategy research · anti-overfitting pipelineResearch
  12. 17nevermissMotion / social design systemDemo
  13. 18tannūrCinematic film · hadith & heritagePending
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1,289 photographs.
Four years. Published
as it happened.

Every job went up the day it was finished, from the shop floor — dates, captions, and client names still attached. That is what proof looks like.

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Where the studio works

  • Columbus

    Ohio

    Home base. Live client work in production today.

  • Dearborn

    Michigan

    Serving Detroit metro businesses, English and Arabic alike.

  • Sterling Heights

    Michigan

    Same studio, same standard, north of the city.

How it runs

  1. 01

    Plan

    One call scopes the whole build — what it is, what it costs, when it ships.

  2. 02

    Build

    One owner builds it end-to-end. Nothing falls between vendors.

  3. 03

    Run

    It ships live and keeps running — handed over, or operated for you.

Bring the studio
your build.

Project-based. Scoped in one call. Plan, build, run.

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