DropQ
An operating system for independent sellers running timed product drops — built zero to a live Stripe Connect marketplace in two weeks.
Visit DropQ (opens www.drop-q.com in a new tab)Artifact Digital is a strategy, design, and technology company creating bespoke software, intelligent digital products, and modern experiences built around the way organizations actually work.
Most organizations are forced to adapt their business to their software. Artifact reverses that relationship.
We combine strategy, experience design, visual design, engineering, and AI to create digital products and platforms tailored to the people and organizations that use them.
Custom platforms designed around unique business operations.
Agents, predictive experiences, intelligent workflows, and AI-enabled products.
Customer-facing and internal applications from concept through production.
Research, strategy, information architecture, interaction design, and visual design.
High-performance websites and interconnected digital experiences.
Scalable systems connecting brand, product, design, and development.
Transforming legacy platforms, workflows, and experiences into modern systems.
Moving ideas into working software quickly enough to learn from the real experience.
Before Artifact, our founder and team led digital platforms and ecosystems for major organizations, in director and senior roles at other agencies. These engagements belonged to those agencies and their clients, so each is labelled that way and the clients stay anonymized, as they are across this site.
Learning platform · 2024
A leading online IT training and certification platform helping people build technology careers through certifications and guided learning pathways.
Read the case study: IT Training & Certification School →Brand & marketing systems · 2021
Unified a global food and nutrition brand's marketing ecosystem across 15+ business units, with 30+ shared design components.
Read the case study: American Big Food →Digital for retail · 2023
An in-store AR experience showcasing the company's Connected Home products.
Read the case study: Major Electronics Company →Operational intelligence · 2019
A weather intelligence platform helping a major electric utility see wildfire risk sooner and act with confidence.
Read the case study: Seeing Risk Before It Becomes Reality →Artifact doesn’t only build for clients. We design and build our own products and prototypes, which is where much of how we work gets tested first. Each one is labelled with where it actually stands.
Website & digital experience
A live assembly program translated into a site that moves like the show and books like a business.
Website & digital experience
A neighborhood church in Clairemont since 1953, rebuilt around the question a newcomer actually has: what happens if I show up?
Website & custom web tool
A print shop site where customers place their own artwork on the garment — and the order arrives ready to produce.
CRM & productivity platform
A CRM for people running the whole business, not a sales department — with the day's priorities on the first screen.
Website & digital presence
Years of manufacturing relationships across two continents, turned into a digital front door that earns trust before the first call.
Drop commerce platform
Timed product drops, payments and pickup for independent sellers.
In-house SaaS
Audits a website against real competitors and turns the findings into prioritized, trackable work.
Mobile app & admin platform
A Scripture-first daily formation app for senior-living residents, with an admin portal staff run without a developer.
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An operating system for independent sellers running timed product drops — built zero to a live Stripe Connect marketplace in two weeks.
Visit DropQ (opens www.drop-q.com in a new tab)
An AI website improvement platform that audits your site against real competitors and turns the findings into prioritized, trackable work.
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Founder & Experience Design Director
A multidisciplinary creative and digital product leader whose work spans design, technology, music, strategy and storytelling. Before founding Artifact, he led digital strategy and experience design in director roles at agencies, for organizations including Samsung, Levi's, Under Armour, LEGOLAND, CompTIA and SAG-AFTRA.
Executive Creative Director
Leads visual design, product thinking and AI-enabled creative workflows. He has led product and brand design for organizations including ServiceNow, Intuit, Qualcomm, Disney and Under Armour.
CTO
Leads the architecture and engineering of intelligent digital products across agentic AI, spatial computing and interactive systems, built for reliability, observability and trust.
VP of Business Development
Leads partnerships and business development, drawing on more than 35 years of work with leaders and organizations across all 50 states and 73 countries.
Organizations our founder and team worked with in previous roles, before or outside Artifact Digital. This is not a list of Artifact Digital clients.
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Andrew Statezny · headshot
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Senior-Living Ministry · admin portal
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When anyone can generate thirty interfaces, producing another one stops being a distinction. The value moves to judgment: knowing which interface should exist, and whether one is needed at all.
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Discovery, wireframes, design, handoff. The sequence made sense when building was expensive. A case for a different rhythm: question, working prototype, user feedback, production — with research throughout.
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AI can generate an interface in seconds. That doesn't mean it designed a product. On hierarchy, craft, and why the bar goes up — not down — when everybody can ship.
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