// 012025
Linkage
A free reentry-support platform for people leaving Michigan corrections, with a documentary companion piece.
Web platform
Narrative
See it at linkage.studio
// DIGITAL STUDIO
Digital systems
with a human edge.
We build web platforms, narrative systems, and interactive work for people making something specific and public.
// Selected work
Work that shipped.
// 022024
Michigan Inside
A public-records utility and research portal for Michigan corrections data, built to make dense tables legible.
Data
Editorial
See it at michiganinside.org
// 032025
Closed Ladder
The capital and advocacy arm's web presence — a quiet, durable surface for a multi-site network.
Web
Systems
See it at closedladder.com
// Approach
We build systems people stay in.
A project starts with research — cultural, technical, and human — before any interface.
The work we keep is the work that reads clearly years later. We aim for the point where the technology recedes and the thing a person came to do is what remains.
§ 01 — Research
We listen as much as we build. Context precedes code.
§ 02 — Craft
Every transition and detail is decided on purpose, not by default.
§ 03 — Systems
We build things that grow. Not static pages, but surfaces that hold up under change.
§ 04 — Longevity
We design for five years, not five months. Work that ages well is the only kind worth doing.
// The studio
A small studio that takes on a few things at a time.
H2 Online started in 2019 as a place for research-driven digital work that does not feel corporate or generic.
We work with a few clients at a time — organizations and people who care about what they put into the world. The practice sits where design, engineering, and storytelling meet.
// Online studio · remote collaboration
Project contexts
Linkage
Michigan Inside
Closed Ladder Capital
Prison journalism tooling
Working principles
Research before interface
Small teams, direct ownership
Durable maintenance over launch theater
Currently
Selectively accepting 1–2 new partners for late 2026. Long-term relationships preferred.
// Start a project
Tell us what you're making.
Currently booking for Q4 2026 and 2027.