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Press kit.
Everything you need to write about, reference, or partner with Stratus Creative. For press inquiries, podcasts, or partnerships, email business@stratus-creative.com.
Quick facts
Founded
2026
Based in
Simpsonville, SC, USA
Team size
Solo studio (founder-led)
Stack
Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Vercel, Supabase, Anthropic, OpenAI
Specialties
Websites, AI workflows, online presence
Starter price
$1,495 flat
Custom range
$5K – $20K typical
About Stratus Creative
Stratus Creative is a one-person studio building websites, workflows, and online presence for businesses that want to look bigger than they are. Founded by James Farmer, an Industrial IT Specialist at Michelin North America who's spent four years deploying production systems across eight international sites.
Stratus is differentiated by transparent pricing — particularly on AI workflows, where most agencies hide ongoing costs. Stratus publishes its prices, runs a free public AI workflow cost estimator, and breaks every quote into Build / Care / API as three explicit lines.
Stratus uses modern infrastructure (Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Vercel, Anthropic, OpenAI) and AI-assisted development to ship fast at fair prices. The Starter — a productized website — is $1,495 flat and ships in 5–7 business days. Custom engagements (multi-page, automation, AI agents) start at $5,000.
Founder
Founder, Stratus Creative · Industrial IT Specialist, Michelin North America
James leads MES (Manufacturing Execution System) deployments across eight Michelin sites in North and South America. He built the PowerShell automation that reduced multi-day deployments to under 30 minutes — now the standard across all Michelin sites.
On the side, James built Spark Analyzer, an AI-powered Minecraft server diagnostics tool. Through orchestration architecture and a smart pre-processing pipeline, the cost per analysis dropped from $5–7 to cents. 300+ users, 400+ reports processed.
Stratus Creative is the studio for the same operational discipline applied to web and AI work for small businesses.
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Logo
Logo files (SVG, PNG transparent, dark + light versions) available on request. Email business@stratus-creative.com.
Self-serve download will be added once the brand is finalized.
For press
We'll respond to press inquiries within one business day.