Cates Works

A body of work

Digital products built to look exceptional and perform reliably.

A selection of engagements spanning marketing and lead-generation sites, transactional storefronts, multi-tenant platforms, and developer tooling. Beautiful software that does a job.

CarelineOS — An operating system for appointment-based service businesses — booking, payments, memberships, clinical records, and a lead-gen engine in one platform.

CarelineOS

2026

Multi-tenant SaaS platform

An operating system for appointment-based service businesses — booking, payments, memberships, clinical records, and a lead-gen engine in one platform.

  • Multi-tenant
  • Payments
  • Booking
  • Compliance
  • Next.js
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RooflineOS — Field-service software shaped around a season — measure the roofline from satellite, design the display, quote it, install it, and take it down as one job.

RooflineOS

2026

Seasonal field-service platform

Field-service software shaped around a season — measure the roofline from satellite, design the display, quote it, install it, and take it down as one job.

  • Field service
  • Seasonal scheduling
  • Mapping
  • Multi-tenant
  • Next.js
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CrewlineOS — Field-service software for trade crews — booking to quote to job to invoice, with nothing re-typed in between.

CrewlineOS

2026

Field-service platform for trades

Field-service software for trade crews — booking to quote to job to invoice, with nothing re-typed in between.

  • Field service
  • Dispatch
  • Invoicing
  • Multi-tenant
  • Next.js
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Offerly — An AI-assisted job-application and resume platform with a kanban tracker, ATS scoring, and an in-app assistant.

Offerly

2026

AI-assisted SaaS

An AI-assisted job-application and resume platform with a kanban tracker, ATS scoring, and an in-app assistant.

  • AI
  • Multi-tenant
  • Supabase
  • Kanban
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Deal Night — An all-in-one app for organizing recreational home poker games — scheduling, RSVPs, a synced blind timer, and live results without the group-chat chaos.

Deal Night

2026

Home poker organizer

An all-in-one app for organizing recreational home poker games — scheduling, RSVPs, a synced blind timer, and live results without the group-chat chaos.

  • Realtime
  • Supabase
  • Vercel Blob
  • Next.js
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Glow by Kristy — A marketing site and booking app for a mobile spray-tan business — a multi-step booking wizard, session-balance packs, and real accounts with SMS notifications.

Glow by Kristy

2026

Mobile spray-tan business

A marketing site and booking app for a mobile spray-tan business — a multi-step booking wizard, session-balance packs, and real accounts with SMS notifications.

  • Booking
  • Stripe
  • Supabase
  • Twilio
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ARCA Salon — An editorial marketing site that converts Instagram attention into bookings for a premium, fashion-grade salon.

ARCA Salon

2026

Luxury hair salon, Costa Mesa CA

An editorial marketing site that converts Instagram attention into bookings for a premium, fashion-grade salon.

  • Editorial
  • Conversion
  • Booking
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Phyllisophical — A transactional e-commerce storefront that carries the curatorial authority and warmth of the physical boutique.

Phyllisophical

2026

Women's boutique, Old Town Tustin CA

A transactional e-commerce storefront that carries the curatorial authority and warmth of the physical boutique.

  • E-commerce
  • Editorial
  • Storefront
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Rooted Smiles Studio — The entire front door for a mobile dental-hygiene practice — designed to make a new service feel legitimate and reachable.

Rooted Smiles Studio

2026

Mobile dental hygiene practice

The entire front door for a mobile dental-hygiene practice — designed to make a new service feel legitimate and reachable.

  • Healthcare
  • Conversion
  • Mobile-first
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Tinley Construction — A content-driven marketing site for a Southern California carpentry firm — owner-editable via Sanity, with a consultation form that fires instant email and SMS alerts.

Tinley Construction

2026

Custom carpentry & remodeling

A content-driven marketing site for a Southern California carpentry firm — owner-editable via Sanity, with a consultation form that fires instant email and SMS alerts.

  • Sanity CMS
  • Lead capture
  • Email + SMS
  • Next.js
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Tomahawk Salon — A content-managed marketing and booking site for a Costa Mesa hair studio — stylist galleries, Square-powered booking, reviews, and owner-run promotional campaigns.

Tomahawk Salon

2026

Boutique hair & color studio

A content-managed marketing and booking site for a Costa Mesa hair studio — stylist galleries, Square-powered booking, reviews, and owner-run promotional campaigns.

  • Sanity CMS
  • Square booking
  • Campaigns
  • Next.js
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Accessorie Air — A fast, credible marketing site for a since-1978 air-compressor dealer — built to convert visitors into phone calls and quote requests, not to be a store.

Accessorie Air

2026

Industrial air-compressor dealer

A fast, credible marketing site for a since-1978 air-compressor dealer — built to convert visitors into phone calls and quote requests, not to be a store.

  • Lead-gen
  • Sanity-shaped CMS
  • Maps
  • Next.js 16
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Fleetworks — The apex home for a suite of internal platform apps — one “one suite, one control plane” narrative that lets a technical visitor self-select into the right tool.

Fleetworks

2026

Platform apex site

The apex home for a suite of internal platform apps — one “one suite, one control plane” narrative that lets a technical visitor self-select into the right tool.

  • Platform
  • Suite nav
  • Design system
  • Next.js
Storefront Demo — Shopify Adapter — A working proof-of-concept storefront on the headless-commerce architecture with a Shopify-Storefront-API-shaped adapter — instant catalog and PDP loads, a live price/stock strip, and an optimistic add-to-cart with a cache-tag revalidation demo built in.

Storefront Demo — Shopify Adapter

2026

Internal capability demo

A working proof-of-concept storefront on the headless-commerce architecture with a Shopify-Storefront-API-shaped adapter — instant catalog and PDP loads, a live price/stock strip, and an optimistic add-to-cart with a cache-tag revalidation demo built in.

  • Next.js 16
  • Shopify-shaped adapter
  • Optimistic cart
  • Cache-tag revalidation
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Storefront Demo — Medusa Adapter — The same headless-commerce UI shell as the Shopify-adapter demo, rebuilt on a Medusa-shaped adapter instead — direct proof that only the data adapter changes when the commerce backend does, not the storefront.

Storefront Demo — Medusa Adapter

2026

Internal capability demo

The same headless-commerce UI shell as the Shopify-adapter demo, rebuilt on a Medusa-shaped adapter instead — direct proof that only the data adapter changes when the commerce backend does, not the storefront.

  • Next.js 16
  • Medusa-shaped adapter
  • Optimistic cart
  • Cache-tag revalidation
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Internal tools & experiments

Developer tooling, platform infrastructure, and early prototypes. Less glossy than client work, but where a lot of the engineering depth lives.

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