Meet Our Team of Experts

We are a small & mighty team prepared to help take your site & business to the next level. Are you ready?

We craft user experiences tailored around your content.

We value pixel-perfect attention to detail in every project.

Lauren Gray

Director of Development

Hanna Bowen

Director of Operations

Kristofer Kraul

Marketing Manager

Danika Gurley

Content Manager

Core Values

  • We have a user experience obsession.
  • Our firm belief is that a website should be easy for everyone to use. The developer, the blogger, and the reader.
  • You won’t find corporate ladders here, just people excited to help you improve a process, strategize, and participate in high-level problem-solving and implementation.
  • Quality trumps rush jobs; results take time.
  • Working with a developer (and shelling out the money to do so when you’ve worked so hard to earn it) can be stressful. The start-to-finish experience should be one of communication, mutual understanding, and respect on both ends.

What’s in a name?

The name “Once Coupled” comes from the idea that once a client works with us, we build a lasting partnership together. Our goal is to communicate not just what we’re doing, but why we’ve made that decision. It’s why our clients are raving about what a positive experience they had – even more so when they had anxiety about finding a developer beforehand. That’s because we’re not just developers: we’re people, just like you, and we’re dedicated to helping you love your life and lifestyle – just like we do!

Work with Us

With our experience working with 500+ clients and performing over 100-speed audits, Once Coupled specializes in fast, pixel-perfect sites. We’ve built our team from current bloggers and experienced developers, giving us a combined 40+ years of experience and a level of expertise other companies cannot rival. We’ve helped our clients get ad-approved, grow their traffic, improve their site’s pages per session and session duration, and go from 0 to green in Google’s PageSpeed Insights tool. At Once Coupled, we’re about more than just the “what” – what we do is “why.”

Passionate about both product quality and client communication, Once Coupled has worked with over 500+ bloggers on projects from reducing above-the-fold white space to taking a site from a “0” PageSpeed Optimization score to green! Specializing in fast, pixel-perfect themes, we’ve spent our careers helping bloggers spend more time doing what they love!

In 2024 we launched new plugin solutions & a templated theme. These tools offer custom development, easier editing & tech optimizations accessible to bloggers of all sizes.