Design, build, and grow your products and services

We help companies like yours design, build, market, sell, hire, fundraise, operationalize, and scale.

What we do

Product Development

User research & testing

Quantitative and qualitative data provides a clear path for designing products in a useful, usable, and meaningful way. Our research and testing teams are thorough, thoughtful, and data-driven.

Web & mobile development

We’re raising the bar for web and mobile application development. Our clients’ software is built by top-of-the-line engineers who leverage modern frameworks and write clean, well-documented code.

UI / UX design

No matter the user demographic, we always support the end user. Our design and research teams collaborate to craft beautiful and usable interfaces that positively support the user experience.

Ideation & road mapping

With 15 years of building scalable businesses of our own, we can help at any stage of your growth path. Our experts go beyond the backlog; we brainstorm innovative solutions and put practical plans into play.

Operations

Project Management

We aim to make project communication with our clients as seamless as possible so that you can focus on your prerogatives and rest assured that we are running a tight ship.

Delegation on Demand

Need a designer, developer, marketer, or project manager, but don’t have the budget for agency services? Hire vetted freelancers 1:1 via our Delegation on Demand program.

Agile Workflow

Our goal is to release updates and gather user feedback in as sustainable a cadence as your market and our team can allow for. We set up our sprint schedules and workflows accordingly.

Growth Marketing

Data mining & extraction

Need data? We’ll get it for you. Put information to work with a thoroughly researched database of your prospects, competitors, or competitors’ products.

API integration

Do you use software that should talk to each other? We can help with that. We’ll connect your tools and databases, so that information from one platform flows seamlessly to and from the other.

Marketing automation

We’ll automate manual processes so that we can save you time and make your business more efficient. Whether with tools like Zapier or by building custom software, we’ll optimize your data flow.

Lead generation

We’ll help you target all of your prospects, drive them into landing page funnels, nurture your leads, and convert your sales. We’ll help you prospect and nurture leads across every platform and channel.

Strategy

Market worldview strategy

It’s 2020 and the world is online. Nearly every person, company, and business detail is accessible on the internet. We use tools and technologies to identify each of your customer prospects globally and implement a strategy to contact them. We target them across every channel and platform. We carefully and thoughtfully connect with your prospects and nurture them into conversion funnels that cater to their needs—so that we can cater to yours.

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Our values

Integrity

We say what we do and do what we say.

Creativity

We think outside the box to provide crafty, elegant solutions.

Communication

If anything, we over-communicate for utmost clarity.

Efficiency

We don’t like wasting time or resources. Let’s make meaningful, accelerated progress.

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Our clients

Companies we’ve helped grow

About us

Who we are

We are passionate for helping companies grow astronomically through leveraging scalable technologies.

Chris Beaman

CEO & Founder

Chris began his career as a software engineer after studying computer science at Harvard’s Extension School. Later, he transitioned to product design as a UX/UI designer. In 2010, he founded his first startup—Grapevine—which participated in the Techstars accelerator, raised venture capital, and was acquired by one of its investors. Over the past 10 years, Chris has worked with and mentored dozens of startups in product and growth capacities.

Ashley Balstad

Director of Operations

Ashley’s experience working with other startups and agencies has led to a deep understanding of SEO, Analytics, and Growth Marketing. As Project Manager, she takes a thoughtful approach to client communication with great documentation and well-structured reporting.

Adam Acheson

Sales

Adam got his degree in Advertising and led a career in advertising, marketing, and entrepreneurship before joining Astronomic. Today, Adam helps Astronomic’s clients achieve big results using digital strategies.

Asya Teslenko

Art Director

Asya has extensive experience working as a UI/UX Designer, with a design discipline rooted in user research, testing, and analytics. In addition to working as Astronomic’s Art Director, Asya mentors students and teaches university classes in design.

Shelby Cornell

Marketing

Shelby is a copywriter turned marketer, collaborator, sarcastic optimist, and self-proclaimed customer discovery wizard. Her experience ranges from writing for brands and companies within industries like conservation, travel, education, and legal.

Roman Stolyar

Growth Manager

Roman’s career has spanned Engineering to Project Management to Marketing. In the past few years, Roman’s passion for software automation has led him to become deeply knowledgeable about chaining together multiple marketing tool APIs to form extensive prospect and lead nurturing flows.

Gentian Shkembi

Engineering Manager

Gentian is passionate for writing clean, well-documented code. With proficiencies ranging from the Microsoft stack to Javascript and its frameworks, Gentian began his career building proprietary enterprise applications before moving to open-source consumer web and mobile apps.

Astrit Jashari

Data Manager

Astrit is an expert at mining and extracting data and has a passion for building complex systems for auditing, extracting, matching, manipulating, and analyzing data structures. Astrit’s hunger for knowledge leads him to a lifestyle of constant learning.

Daniel Moore

User Researcher

Daniel spent years working in Austin’s music scene as an audio engineer before transitioning to UX Design. As a researcher, Daniel conducts user tests, research synthesis, and monitors data analytics to understand users’ needs and inform product/conversion optimization.

Elcie Bolding

Copywriting

Elcie’s background spans from copywriting to UX research. A strong writer, Elcie excels at writing performant, actionable marketing copy. Recently, they’ve also gotten started with doing user research, testing, and synthesis of data.

Illia Pushnov

iOS Development

Illia’s background spans Magento store development to mobile app development, with a current focus on iOS. Today, he helps Astronomic Agency’s clients build and scale their iOS apps, with deep experience in iOS and associated APIs.

Slavik Shabanov

Android Development

Slavik is a software developer with over 5 years of experience, currently focused solely on Android application creation using Kotlin and all contemporary design patterns. He also has experience with C/C++ programming languages and Linux system administration.

Sherief Alaa

Engineering

Sherief is a dedicated and disciplined web application developer, who specializes in Python / Elixir, with over 7 years of experience. He also specializes in web API development and enjoys writing well tested code.

Case studies

Projects

Cabinets Plus

Cabinets Plus is Austin’s one-stop-shop for kitchen and bath remodeling needs. We were hired to revamp the company’s website, build customer and partner personas, scrape a prospect list, drive traffic into lead-conversion funnels, and help direct the company’s SEO, Facebook/Google advertising, social media, and content marketing strategies.

RESULTS

Built a lead list of 30,000 Austin-area trade partners
Emailed each of them; drove leads through landing pages; responded to each reply
Best sales months in the company’s history
Increased month-over-month revenue by 20%

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GlimpseK12

GlimpseK12 is a YCombinator EdTech startup that quantifies school districts’ eROI. We were hired to build several of the company’s web applications after they raised their seed round of funding.

Results

Built 3 of 5 of the company’s web apps from concept to launch
Ran agile sprint development through each product lifecycle
Extensive UX prototyping, user testing, Laravel+Vue.js stack
Products built have helped company achieve $1M+ in sales

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Listing Village

Listing Village is a Capital Factory accelerator startup that offers a website builder and marketing platform for real estate agents. We were hired to bolster their marketing and fundraising efforts.