About
Local. Honest. Sharp.
What this is
The team that builds your marketing and runs it.
What is this?
Samurai Digital Solutions builds the marketing a local business needs and then runs it. The website, the Google listing, the ads, the follow-up system, the online store, the logo. One team, one number to text, one monthly bill instead of six.
We are based in Western Connecticut and work across Connecticut, Western Massachusetts, and Eastern New York. We like to meet in person, at your shop or across a table. Further out, we meet on Google Meet, phone, or text. Seeing each other's face is how trust gets built, and it is how we work.
You own everything we build. Your site, your domain, your ad accounts, your customer list. Month to month. If you leave, you take it all with you.
Why we exist.
I spent fifteen years in sales and marketing before this. High-volume sales floors, software accounts, an agency, an e-commerce warehouse. I watched local owners get sold retainers, chatbots, and twelve-month contracts by people who had never stood in their shop.
So I built the thing I wished those owners had. A small shop that sits down with you first, tells you what is worth your money and what is not, and then does the work. One team. No account manager. No runaround.
I live here. My family is here. The owners we work with are people we see around town, and that is exactly the kind of accountability I want on every job.
“Trust gets built face to face. We meet before we build, we answer when you call, and you own everything we make.”
What we stand for
Local.Honest.Sharp.
The samurai was a craftsman before anything else. Every strike practiced, every decision intentional. That is how we build for you. Not fast and flashy. Sharp, considered, and made to last. One strike at a time.
Transparency
You always know what we are doing, what is working, and what is not. No smoke.
Directness
Straight answers. If something is a bad idea, we say so. If it is great, we say that too.
Accountability
When we commit to something, we deliver, or we tell you why we cannot and what we are doing about it.
Right tool, right time
Text for quick. Email for anything with attachments. Call when it is urgent.
How we work
How we work.
Six things we hold to on every job, whether it is a logo or the whole system.
The offer comes first.
Design and budget cannot fix an offer nobody wants. We settle what you are offering and who it is for before we build a page or spend a dollar on ads.
One page per campaign.
A homepage is not a landing page. Every campaign gets a page built for the search or the ad that brought someone there.
The phone counts.
Most local inquiries are calls. We track them. Reporting that ignores the phone is fiction, and you would be paying for fiction.
You own everything.
Your site, your domain, your ad accounts, your pixel, your data. All in your name. If we stop working together, you keep all of it.
We say when it is not working.
Spending into a campaign that is not converting is not a strategy. You hear it from us first, with what we are changing.
Month to month, face to face.
No long contracts. We earn it every month. In Western Connecticut we sit at your table. Further out, we get on Google Meet so you can see who you are working with.
The team
The team. No layers.
You talk to the people doing the work, from the first call to the last invoice.
There is no account manager between you and the work. The person who scoped your job is the person you text, and the person who built it is the person who fixes it.
The general
AJ Rodriguez
Founder. Sales and strategy.
Fifteen-plus years across high-volume sales, software account work, agency marketing, and e-commerce operations. Bilingual, English and Spanish. Lives and works in Western Connecticut. AJ is the one who sits down with you, scopes the job, and picks up the phone.
The craftsman
Janine
Builds and support.
Janine builds the sites and the Portal setups, keeps every client's files in order, and answers when AJ is at a table. If AJ is at your table, Janine is the one making sure the build is done when he gets back.
A build, start to finish
Handshake to launch.
Blueprint Session
A face-to-face audit of your business. Before we write a line of code, we understand the heart of what you do.
Custom Mock-up
We design a custom website mock-up built around your brand, and you see it before we build it.
Build Phase
Clean code, calendar integration, and automations wired into one platform that runs itself.
Polish and Revisions
We refine every detail until it is sharp. The katana is not finished until the edge is perfect.
Launch and Train
We launch and train your staff on the Samurai Portal so your whole team runs from one place.
Let us understand your business first.