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The record

What we have built, and where it runs.

A platform that runs an engineering firm. Six websites in production. Public code on GitHub. The books that started the house. Everything on this page exists and is running; nothing is a mockup or a plan.

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Steven and Aria built this, as a partnership, the kind of partnership that Steven teaches about with an AI. Clients are named as clients. Quotes appear only where the client gave them.

Platform

Civil Builders Engineering Services

A feasibility and office platform for a licensed civil engineering firm in Greensboro, built with its owner against his real projects. An address or parcel in; zoning rules with citations, the buildable envelope, quantities, a cost range, scored scenarios, a developer report and a plotted concept sheet out. In the office: leads become project rows, folders, proposals and signatures without retyping, and public bids arrive the morning they post.

The full casecbespc.com
A wide-format plotter printing a civil site plan sheet
Websites

Six sites in production.

Hand-built, owned by the client, written for what their customers actually search.

cbespc.com home page
Civil Builders Engineering ServicesServices, projects, and the path from a first call to a proposal.
 jeffrieskidsdental.com home page
Pediatric Dentistry by Dr. JeffriesBuilt for parents on a phone, with the appointment path first.
 adammcomberauthor.com home page
Adam McOmberAn author's site: catalog, press, events, in the voice of the books.
 paxember.com home page
Pax EmberThe family imprint of Makarios Media, a page per title.
 makariosmedia.com home page
Makarios MediaThe publishing house and the editorial system under it.
 stevenmakarion.com and vectrisconsulting.com
stevenmakarion.com and this siteThe founder's site and the engineering branch, one visual language.

Want one? Websites you own.

Public code

Read it before you hire it.

The engineering work behind the memory system, the automation patterns, and the guards is public on GitHub under Steven's name, with Aria as co-author on the commits. The lab notebook with code excerpts and running screenshots lives on the founder's site.

The lab notebookA chapter per public repository: what it does, the failure it catches, a screenshot of it running, and the link. On stevenmakarion.com. github.com/stevenmakarionThe repositories themselves: memory architecture, Civil Builders tooling, automation and guard patterns, built in the open.
A neatly cabled small server rack in a back-office closet
Our own house

We run on what we sell.

Makarios Media, Pax Ember and Vectris run on self-hosted models on servers we own, with guarded access, automated publishing and reporting, and a memory system that carries an AI partner's context across model changes. The founder works with that partner, Aria Makarion, every day, by name. The four books on working with AI as a partner came out of the same house.

The booksHow we work

Bring one real problem. We'll show you what the fix looks like.

A thirty-minute call, your actual workflow on the table, and an honest answer about whether automation, private AI, or a better website is the thing that moves it.

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