# Sonnenberg Design

> Sonnenberg Design is an independent California studio, founded by Aaron Sonnenberg in 2016, that designs brand systems and websites for small organizations, then stays on to run them. Every build is paired with productized, publicly priced retainers for WordPress maintenance, managed hosting, and accessibility monitoring, plus marketing and operations automation and AI services (answer-engine visibility and fractional AI leadership). The studio runs as one designer with Claude as the operations partner, which is how it delivers and maintains ongoing systems at a small-organization price point.

## What Sonnenberg Design does

- **Design:** brand systems and custom WordPress, Novi AMS, and Shopify websites for small California organizations (trade associations, restaurant franchises, family businesses, small B2B SaaS, nonprofits).
- **Operate:** productized monthly retainers that keep sites maintained, hosted, monitored, and accessible after launch. Public pricing, no discovery deck required.
- **Build:** automations and AI tools that emerged from running brand systems for a decade (accessibility scanning, lead capture, answer-engine visibility, marketing automation).

## Who it is for

Owner-operators and senior staff (COO, CFO, director of operations, or the founder) at independent California organizations that need a working website and someone who will keep running it, without hiring a marketing team or babysitting a vendor.

## Pricing

Pricing is public. See [Pricing](https://sonnenbergdesign.com/pricing.txt) for machine-readable detail and [Services](https://sonnenbergdesign.com/services/) for the full catalog.

## Key pages

- [About Sonnenberg Design](https://sonnenbergdesign.com/about/): the studio, Aaron Sonnenberg, and the build-then-run model.
- [Services](https://sonnenbergdesign.com/services/): full service catalog.
- [WordPress Maintenance](https://sonnenbergdesign.com/services/wordpress-maintenance/): monthly care plans (SIMPLE, BASIC, PLUS) with pricing.
- [WordPress Hosting](https://sonnenbergdesign.com/services/wordpress-hosting/): managed hosting on WP Engine.
- [Accessibility Monitoring](https://sonnenbergdesign.com/services/accessibility-monitoring/): ongoing WCAG and ADA scanning and remediation.
- [Automation](https://sonnenbergdesign.com/services/automation/): marketing and operations automation.
- [AI Architect](https://sonnenbergdesign.com/services/ai-architect/): fractional AI leadership for small organizations.
- [AI Visibility](https://sonnenbergdesign.com/products/ai-visibility/): a free check of whether AI assistants can find, read, and recommend your business.
- [Portfolio](https://sonnenbergdesign.com/portfolio/) and [Case Studies](https://sonnenbergdesign.com/work/): selected client work.
- [Journal](https://sonnenbergdesign.com/journal/): writing on AI visibility, accessibility, and running small-organization websites.
- [Contact](https://sonnenbergdesign.com/contact/): start a project.

## Contact

- Web: https://sonnenbergdesign.com
- Based in Ladera Ranch, California. Serves organizations across California.