Custom web apps
Practical, browser-based tools built around the way you actually work—not a giant piece of software packed with things you'll never use.
See what that means →Small digital tools. Built to solve real problems.
Digital stuff.
Built a little differently.
Custom web apps and AI-assisted promotional videos for small businesses, organizations, and regular folks with an idea. No big agency. No tech-bro nonsense. Just useful digital work.
What can we build?
Start with the problem.
We'll figure out the tool.
You don't need to know the technical lingo. Tell me what you need to accomplish—or what keeps eating up your time—and we'll see if a simple app or a sharp promotional video can get it done.
Promotional videos
Commercials and social videos made from your footage, photos, information, and ideas—without the traditional production-company price tag.
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Custom apps
“I wish there was an app for that.”
Good. That's exactly where we start.
Maybe you need a calculator for customers, a form that turns answers into a finished document, a simple estimator, a training tool, or something nobody has thought to name yet.
- Works in a regular web browser
- Designed around one clear job
- Simple enough for real people to use
- Hosted for you—or handed over to host yourself
Promotional video
Look professional without hiring a camera crew.
You provide what you've got—phone footage, photos, a logo, and the basic story. I'll help shape the message and turn it into a finished video that feels like your business, not a cookie-cutter template.
This is where decades of advertising experience still matter. I use modern AI tools to do more, move faster, and keep production affordable—but the tools don't supply the judgment. Knowing what to say, what to leave out, and how to keep somebody watching comes from experience.
Let's talk about your videoCommercials & social videos
Short, focused pieces for Facebook, Instagram, your website, or wherever your customers spend their time.
Script help included
You don't have to show up knowing what to say. We'll find the message before we worry about the polish.
Built from what you have
No fancy production day required. We can often make a lot from a handful of solid ingredients.
And yes, websites too
“My website sucks.”
Yeah. We can fix that too—without turning it into a six-month ordeal.
Built in a shed. Seriously.
AI tools. Old-school marketing sense.
I'm Jeff Barkacs. I've spent more than 30 years in advertising and marketing—writing newspaper ads, producing TV commercials, hosting radio, doing graphic work, building websites, and helping small businesses make sense of the next new thing.
I don't shy away from AI. I know how to put it to work. Shed Built Digital combines powerful new tools with the marketing background to know what ought to be built, what the message should say, and whether the finished product will make sense to the people it's meant for.
AI is part of the workbench. Experience is knowing which tool to pick up—and what to build with it.
30+ years in advertisingWebsites since 2002Based in Sedalia, MissouriAI-assisted production
Pull up a chair
Got an idea? Let's kick it around.
You don't need a spec sheet or a polished pitch. Tell me what you're trying to do, and I'll give you an honest opinion about whether I can help.