Digitally Grounded

Based in Schenectady, New York, Digitally Grounded is a small studio led by founder Ashleigh Lindsay, working with a web developer as part of a compact team. Rather than serving general consumer clients, the agency focuses specifically on creative agency CEOs whose businesses are profitable overall but whose web or digital department is losing money through overrun projects and scope creep. The founder's background spans design and illustration training and prior work with organizations including Alchemy+ Aim/North Star Sites, Cengage Learning, The American Museum of Natural History, YWCA, The Susan G. Komen Foundation, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Baker Public Relations, informing a practice that pairs creative sensibility with business-side process discipline. The core offering is structured around three service tiers aimed at agency partners: Strategic Advisory, priced from $3,000 per month, which addresses process fixes, margin protection, and confidence in selling web work; Project Management, starting at $1,500 per project, which handles coordination to reduce scope creep and keep client relationships intact; and Website Development, quoted per project, where Digitally Grounded acts as an extension of a client agency's team on strategy-first builds delivered with documentation. Beyond this agency-to-agency advisory model, the site also lists broader capabilities including Search Engine Optimization, Branding, Web Design, Web Development, Marketing Strategy, and Brand Identity work for service businesses.