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Web, marketing, and AI automation. One team.

HiKit Studio is a digital studio in the Chicago area. Since 2018 we have built websites, online stores and applications for small and mid-sized businesses across the United States, and run the marketing and automation behind them.

Five disciplines, one team. The people who design your site are the people who build it, market it, and connect it to the systems you already run. Nothing is passed to a subcontractor, and nothing arrives with a seam down the middle.

WHAT WE DO

  • Min project size
    $1,000+
  • Hourly rate
    $50 - $99 / hr
  • Employees
    10 - 49
  • Year founded
    Founded 2018

Service Lines
Web Development
30%
Content Marketing
25%
AI Agents
15%
Social Media Marketing
15%
Search Engine Optimization
10%
Advertising
5%
Select Focus Area
Application Platforms
Amazon Application Development Framework
30%
Azure Platform
30%
Google app engine
30%
Linux server
10%
Advertising Focus
Broadcast video advertising
35%
Radio advertising
30%
Other advertising
25%
Programmatic advertising
10%
AI Agent Development Focus
Voice AI Agents
45%
AI Agent Platforms & Builders
35%
AI Agent Frameworks
20%
AI Agent Purpose Focus
Sales & Lead Generation AI Agents
35%
Content Creation AI Agents
20%
Customer Service AI Agents
20%
Data Analysis AI Agents
15%
Productivity AI Agents
10%
AI Platform Integration Focus
Google Workspace AI Integration
35%
Notion AI Integration
25%
Hubspot AI Integration
20%
Salesforce AI Integration
20%
CMS Focus
WordPress CMS
95%
Wix CMS
5%
Content Marketing Focus
Blog Writing Services
55%
Copywriting
40%
eBook Writing
5%
Frameworks and CMS
Laravel
25%
NextJS
25%
NodeJS
10%
Oracle Application Development Framework
10%
React
10%
React Native
10%
Ruby on Rails
10%
Influencer Marketing Platforms
LinkedIn Influencer Marketing
35%
Instagram Influencer Marketing
30%
Tik Tok Influencer Marketing
20%
YouTube Influencer Marketing
15%
Influencer Marketing Services
Micro-Influencer Marketing
65%
Influencer Campaign Reporting
20%
Influencer Management
15%
Platform SEO Focus
WordPress SEO
65%
YouTube SEO
20%
Shopify SEO
15%
Programming & Scripting
AJAX
15%
HTML5
15%
JavaScript
15%
Typescript
15%
PHP
10%
Python
10%
ASP.NET
5%
SQL
5%
Swift
5%
jquery
5%
SEO Focus
Local search
35%
Content development
20%
On site optimization
15%
Technical SEO
15%
Link earning & development
5%
Mobile optimization
5%
Multilingual SEO
5%
Social Media Focus
Facebook Advertising
25%
Instagram Advertising
20%
LinkedIn Advertising
15%
Tik Tok Advertising
15%
Influencer Marketing
10%
Pinterest Advertising
5%
Reddit Advertising
5%
Twitter Advertising
5%
Industries
Business services
20%
Construction
15%
Medical
15%
Supply Chain, Logistics, and Transport
15%
eCommerce
15%
Beauty
5%
HVAC
5%
Real estate
5%
Roofing
5%
Clients
Small Business (<$10M)
60%
Midmarket ($10M - $1B)
35%
Enterprise (>$1B)
5%

Pricing Snapshot

Min. project size $1,000+
Avg. hourly rate $50 - $99 /hr
Rating for cost 5 /5

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< $10,000 based on 1 review
< $10,000 $10,000 - $49,999 $50,000 - $199,999 > $200,000
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SEO Packages

starting at $499/month

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  • Quality

    5.0 /5

  • Schedule

    4.5 /5

  • Cost

    5.0 /5

  • Willing to Refer

    5.0 /5
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Web Development for Graphic Content Company

Featured Review
  • AI Development CRM Consulting and SI Web Development
  • Marketing automation Other CRM focus Voice and Speech Recognition
  • Less than $10,000
  • Feb. - Apr. 2026
5.0
Quality
5.0
Schedule
4.5
Cost
5.0
Willing to Refer
5.0

“We were impressed by HiKit Studio's unity; it felt like they really cared.”

Sep 8, 2026
Executive, Amperial Art
Anonymous
  • Arts, entertainment & music
  • 60047 Lake Zurich, IL
  • 1-10 Employees
  • Online Review

HiKit Studio developed a website for a graphic content company. They also set up a CRM system and a voice assistant and created social media profiles.

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SEO Growth Program

Monthly SEO run by the same team that builds the pages, so fixes ship instead of landing in a report. Keyword coverage, technical work, published articles and a monthly readout. Available in English, Russian and Ukrainian.

Small

One location, one language, getting started

$499 /month
  • Blog Article Writing : 2 Posts
  • Website Speed Optimization
  • Monthly Performance Reporting
  • Meta Description
  • SEO Audit & Report

Medium

Multi-service firms competing locally

$999 /month
  • Blog Article Writing : 4 Posts
  • Website Speed Optimization
  • Google My Business Setup
  • Monthly Performance Reporting
  • Meta Description

Large

Multi-location or multilingual operators

$1,499 /month
  • Blog Article Writing : 8 Posts
  • Website Speed Optimization
  • Google My Business Setup
  • Monthly Performance Reporting
  • Meta Description
Features

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$499

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Medium

$999

/mo

Large

$1,499

/mo

Blog Article Writing

2 Posts

4 Posts

8 Posts

Website Speed Optimization

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Monthly Performance Reporting

Meta Description

SEO Audit & Report

Link Building (number of links)

100

200

500

Title Tag Optimization

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Keywords Optimized

10

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200

H1, H2, H3 Tags

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XML Sitemap

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Robots.txt

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Copywriting

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Backlink Analysis

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Content Audit & Strategy

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Broken Link Removal

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Small

$499

/mo

Blog Article Writing

2 Posts

Website Speed Optimization

Google My Business Setup

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Monthly Performance Reporting

Meta Description

SEO Audit & Report

Link Building (number of links)

100

Title Tag Optimization

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Schema Markup

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Keywords Optimized

10

H1, H2, H3 Tags

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XML Sitemap

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Robots.txt

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Copywriting

Basic

Competitor Analysis

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Backlink Analysis

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Content Audit & Strategy

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Broken Link Removal

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Medium

$999

/mo

Blog Article Writing

4 Posts

Website Speed Optimization

Google My Business Setup

Monthly Performance Reporting

Meta Description

SEO Audit & Report

Link Building (number of links)

200

Title Tag Optimization

Schema Markup

Keywords Optimized

50

H1, H2, H3 Tags

–

XML Sitemap

Robots.txt

Copywriting

Advanced

Competitor Analysis

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Backlink Analysis

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Content Audit & Strategy

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Broken Link Removal

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Large

$1,499

/mo

Blog Article Writing

8 Posts

Website Speed Optimization

Google My Business Setup

Monthly Performance Reporting

Meta Description

SEO Audit & Report

Link Building (number of links)

500

Title Tag Optimization

Schema Markup

Keywords Optimized

200

H1, H2, H3 Tags

XML Sitemap

Robots.txt

Copywriting

Professional

Competitor Analysis

Backlink Analysis

Content Audit & Strategy

Broken Link Removal

Our Story

We started HiKit in 2018 after watching small businesses get burned: agencies that overpromised, freelancers who disappeared, tools that never talked to each other. The problem was never the businesses. It was fragmentation. Five vendors and nobody accountable.

So we built the opposite. Five departments under one roof, one bill, one team answerable for the whole thing. Today we work with 100+ businesses across 15+ industries, and 200+ projects later the commitment has not changed.

What Sets Us Apart

One team, one bill

Five departments under one roof: development, design, marketing, automation and apps. No vendor juggling, no gaps between who built what, and nobody to point at when something falls between two suppliers.

A written scope before any invoice

Every engagement starts with a document stating what gets built, in what order, what it runs on, and what is deliberately excluded. Pricing is fixed per phase and agreed before work begins.

You work with the people doing the work

Specialists, not account managers. The designer, developer and strategist on your project are the people you actually speak to, and every client gets a private workspace showing the current state of the work.

Quick Facts

8 years in business

Team Breakdown

Development (5)
Marketing (6)
Design (4)
AI Automation (3)

Tools and Technology

Google Meet
ClickUp
Airtable
Google Drive
Make
GitHub
AWS
HubSpot
Canva
Adobe Creative Cloud
Figma
Google Workspace

Commonly Asked Questions

Work runs in phases, and each phase carries the same four stages that appear on your invoice: deposit, design, development, completion. The plan, the invoice and the work are one list read three ways, which is what stops them drifting apart. Design is approved before any code is written. Each phase ends with something you can open and check rather than a status update, and nothing replaces anything live until you have read it on a preview address first. Progress is tracked in your workspace, not in meetings. A roadmap page shows every stage with a label saying whose move it is: done, ours, yours, or together. If a project is waiting, that page names what it is waiting on and who holds it, which is usually more useful than a percentage. No calendar date is published until the thing it depends on has cleared, because a date with no condition attached is a date nobody owns. Everything we need from you lives in one list, each item explaining why it is being asked. Changes to scope are handled the same way as the original: written down, priced, and agreed before the work is done, never absorbed quietly and never discovered on an invoice. You work directly with the specialists delivering the project. When a phase involves a switch that could disrupt something already running, the rollback is prepared and rehearsed before the switch, not improvised after it.

We are a digital studio, not a certified compliance vendor, and we say so plainly rather than claim an accreditation we do not hold. What we do is build to the requirements a given engagement carries, and put the boundary in writing before work starts. In practice that means data stored in a United States region, encrypted in transit and at rest. Named staff accounts with roles and a second factor rather than shared logins. Every access to a record written to a log. Retention set as a configurable period with deletion run on a schedule and evidenced. Where a third party processes end-user content, we require written zero-retention or short fixed-retention terms, and no use of that content for model training, named in the contract before the provider is selected. The strongest control we apply is scope. On healthcare work we design so the site or system does not touch protected health information at all: no connection to the practice management system, no clinical records, no figures from a patient file. Where an engagement genuinely requires handling regulated data, that is agreed in advance in a separate written agreement, and we will not begin until it is signed. For sites serving visitors in the European Union we implement consent collection, data minimisation and the disclosure obligations, and the site's privacy policy is written to name the tools actually running on it rather than a generic template. We do not give legal advice and we do not certify compliance. Policies and disclosures are implemented from the client's instructions and standard templates, and approval by the client's own counsel is part of the process, not an afterthought.

Nothing is quoted before we have looked. We measure what exists first: page weight and load time, what a catalogue actually contains, how a process runs today and where the hours go. Those readings are dated and given to you, including the ones that argue against what we are about to recommend. You then receive a written scope. It states what gets built, in what order, what each part runs on, and carries a section listing what is deliberately excluded so that a disagreement six weeks in has something to read. Pricing is fixed per phase and set out in a separate proposal, because a scope that also carries prices tends to have one of the two quietly edited. A proposal is reissued rather than amended, so both sides can always see which version was agreed. Once you accept, your workspace opens. It holds the project pages, the commercial documents behind a second password so the work can be shown to somebody without the money being shown with it, and a single list of everything we need from you. Each request on that list explains why we are asking and roughly who on your side it is for. Answers save as you type. We never ask for a password or a card number, and the page says so. The first invoice is a deposit. After that, design begins, and nothing is coded until you have approved how it looks. Typical elapsed time from first conversation to work starting is a week or two, and most of that is you reading rather than us preparing.

We do not publish a success rate or a typical ROI figure. A number averaged across a jewellery catalogue migration, an accounting firm's after hours phone line and a local services website would describe none of them, and on a platform where reviews are verified it is the first thing a serious buyer discounts. What we do instead is agree the measure before the work starts. At the outset we take a baseline of whatever the project is meant to move: page weight and time to load, how many enquiries arrive and through which route, how many hours a month a manual process consumes, how many calls go unanswered outside working hours, how much of a catalogue is out of date on any given day. Those numbers are recorded and dated. When the work ships we measure the same things the same way, and the comparison is like for like rather than one tool before and another after. Verification sits with you rather than with us. Every deliverable carries a check you can run yourself, on your own device, without us in the room, and a phase is complete when all of its checks pass on your side. That is written down before work begins. Where an outcome is not ours to control we say so in writing rather than promise it. Search ranking is Google's decision. Card processor approval is the processor's. A third party's timetable is theirs. We commit to what we build and to what can be measured on the day it ships.

Collaboration. You work directly with the specialists delivering the project rather than through an account manager. Every client is given a private workspace containing five pages per project: what we are building, what we measured before proposing it, the order of work and whose move it is at each point, what we need from you, and what you end up holding. It replaces status meetings, and it is current because it is where the work is tracked. Onboarding. Before any invoice is issued you receive a written scope stating what gets built, in what order, what it runs on, and a section listing what is deliberately excluded. Pricing is fixed per phase. Once agreed, we collect access and materials through a single list of requests, each one explaining why we are asking. We never ask for a password or a card number. Results. We do not publish a success rate or a typical ROI figure, because a number averaged across a jewelry catalogue migration and an accounting firm's phone line would describe neither. Instead we agree what will be measured before work starts, take a baseline, and report against it. Where an outcome depends on someone else, a card processor's approval or where a search engine ranks you, we say so in writing rather than promise it. Project management. Work runs in phases, and each phase carries the same four stages that appear on your invoice: deposit, design, development, completion. Design is approved before any code is written. Every deliverable ships with a check you can run yourself, on your own device, without us in the room. When every check for a phase passes on your side, that phase is complete. That is our definition of finished, and it is written on the page before the work begins.

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Business Entity Name Hikit, Inc.
Source Office of the Illinois Secretary of State
Jurisdiction of Formation Illinois
Date of Formation June 19, 2018
Status Active
Last Updated September 4, 2026
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