A studio built for the businesses nobody serves.
Wildcore Studio builds the systems local businesses actually run on. The phone that gets answered, the site behind it, and the follow-up that turns an enquiry into a booked job.
Three things, and they work together.
Most of our clients start with one and end up with all three, because the problem is rarely just the website.
The AI front desk
Answers every call, day or night, works out what the caller needs and books it straight into the calendar. Then texts the owner what happened.
Read moreThe website behind it
Custom built, fast, and made to be found. Never a template with a logo dropped into it, and never a page builder you cannot leave.
Read moreThe follow-up nobody does
The 11pm form fill, the quote that went quiet, the customer nobody has spoken to in a year. The work everyone knows they should do.
Read moreBecause they're the ones that make communities actually work.
Our founder grew up around small businesses in Vermont. The hardware store where everyone knew your name. The pizza shop that sponsored the little league team. The salon where half the town caught up on gossip every Saturday.
He managed a cafe inside a local deli for a while, and the best part was never the coffee. It was the regulars. The same faces, the same catch-ups, the place quietly becoming part of people's week. Almost every job any of us had before this was at a business like that, and that is where the roots of Wildcore are.
Those places are the heartbeat of a community. But most of them are getting outpaced online by chains with massive budgets and faceless agencies that charge a fortune and deliver a template.
That is why Wildcore exists. Not to build “just another website”, but to give local businesses the same quality of work that the big guys get, at a price that actually makes sense. Every launch still feels like giving something back to the kind of communities that make the world go round.
You're not a ticket number
A real person reads what you send and answers it. Nobody gets handed to an account manager who has not read their file.
We build it, and we keep building it
Custom work for your business, never a template with your logo dropped in. If you want the source code at the end, that is a tier you can buy rather than something you have to negotiate for.
Vermont work ethic, Florida energy
Show up, do the work, keep your word. Same as it ever was, just with better weather and a little more hustle.
The founder.
Corey Hathaway started Wildcore. Here is the short version, in his words.
I grew up in Vermont, the kind of place where you know your neighbors, the local diner knows your order, and small businesses are the backbone of every town. My dad was a tech guy, and he got me into computers before I could tie my shoes.
We built my first computer together when I was two.
Okay, fine, I mostly handed him screwdrivers and pressed the power button at the end. But it counts.
The real one came when I was fifteen. I built it from scratch, picked every part, wired it up, and felt that click when it actually posted for the first time. I was hooked. From that point on, if it involved a screen, I wanted to understand how it worked.
I didn't take the straight road.
I did four years of theater in high school, everything from acting to tech to set design. I loved it enough to study it in college. Then, in a move that surprised absolutely everyone, I switched to dental hygiene. Yeah. From spotlights to molars. Life's weird like that.
But theater taught me how to tell a story, how to hold someone's attention, and how to make people feel something. Turns out, that's exactly what a great website does.
After that, I ended up working on Apple hardware, MacBooks, iPhones, the whole ecosystem, at an authorized service provider. Then I managed a cafe that was opening inside a local deli, building the whole thing from scratch. The creativity, the regulars who became friends, the pride of making something real, that's where my love for local business really took root.
Through all of it, I kept building websites. Side projects, favors for friends, late-night experiments. I taught myself design and engineering the same way I learned everything else: by doing it until it worked. Over ten years of that adds up.
“The best websites don't just look good, they tell your story in a way that makes people want to walk through your door.”
We do touch grass, we promise.
What the work does not get all of.
Volleyball
Sand or indoor, doesn't matter. A proper reset button. Orlando has great leagues year-round.
Hiking
Vermont kids at heart. A trail is how you clear your head and come back with better ideas.
National Parks
There is nothing like standing somewhere that makes you feel small. Working through the bucket list one park at a time.
How we got here.
First computer "build"
"Built" my first PC with my dad at age 2. I mostly supervised. And drooled on things.
Actually built a computer
At 15, I picked every part, wired it myself, and felt that first POST beep. The real beginning.
Theater, then dental hygiene
Four years of theater in high school, then studied it in college. Switched to dental hygiene because... life's weird. Both taught me more than I expected.
Apple hardware tech
Worked on MacBooks, iPhones, and everything Apple at an authorized service provider. Got my hands dirty with the machines I'd grown up loving.
The cafe that changed everything
Managed a cafe opening inside a local deli. Built it from scratch. The regulars, the community, the creativity, that's where my love for local business really clicked.
Moved to Orlando
Escaped the Vermont cold (like everyone else), found opportunity, and built a community that actually feels like home.
Wildcore Studio
Launched Wildcore to give local businesses the same quality of work the big guys get, without the agency price tag or the six month timeline.
Your business deserves someone who gives a damn.
Tell us what you're building. No pitch, no pressure, just a real conversation.
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