Independent web studio · Boston, MA
Websites with
brains & nerve.
Selected work / 2023–26
Built around the real problem—not the fashionable one.
RIFF Boston
Product design · Front end · Data
A live-music discovery engine built for the way Boston actually goes out: by date, neighborhood, room, and last-minute impulse.
JP Recovery Center
Strategy · Design · CMS
A calm, direct home for a peer-led Jamaica Plain community offering free recovery coaching, meetings, and practical support.
Belle Isle Living
Editorial design · Development
A lively digital companion for Winthrop’s community magazine, shaped around local voices rather than an anonymous content feed.
Central Paint Store
Drupal · Commerce · Systems
A robust catalog and commerce experience for an independent paint institution, with color and product discovery doing the heavy lifting.
Meghann Perry Group
Web · Email · Research
Digital care for a recovery education brand: site updates, email campaign design and editing, copy, keyword research, and SEO.
Recovery Boston
Publishing · Community
A regional platform connecting stories, voices, and resources across Greater Boston’s recovery community.
Noise Flower
Editorial design · Development · Publishing
An independent online poetry journal: bold poems, prints on museum-grade paper, weekly workshops, and essays—designed, written, and built end to end.
SEA(k) & Discover
Web design · Copy · Local search
A coastal adventure brand turned into an interactive treasure-hunt experience: guided hunts, local partnerships, and a site built to convert curiosity into bookings.
One studio, the whole system
The words are part of the interface.
Strategy stays connected to design. Design survives development. Content has a home. The finished thing still makes sense six months later.
UI & UX
Information architecture, interface systems, user flows, accessibility, and details that make complex tasks feel obvious.
Design & development
Distinctive visual direction and fast front-end builds, developed together so the original idea survives contact with the browser.
Copy & editing
Expert writing, structural editing, voice development, and language precise enough to do real work—not fill boxes.
SEO & AI search
Technical SEO, semantic structure, local search, schema, and source-worthy content built for Google and answer engines.
CMS & publishing
WordPress, Drupal, and tailored publishing systems your team can confidently use without calling a developer.
Research & applied AI
Audience research, practical AI workflows, prototypes, and content systems with human judgment firmly in the loop.
About the studio
Boston, Massachusetts
Beal Street Media is led by Mike Jewett—a Boston University alum, developer, designer, researcher, writer, editor, and poet.
Language is not placeholder material here. I write and edit expert copy alongside the interface, so the structure, voice, search intent, and calls to action strengthen one another.
I work especially well with community organizations, cultural projects, independent businesses, healthcare, recovery, and teams whose expertise deserves a clearer digital form.
Have a project in mind?
Let’s make the web less forgettable.
Need a site? Redesigning one? Got an idea?
Tell me what you’re working on and I’ll reply personally, usually the same day.