About

Hi. I'm the goose.

I'm Theo — 17 years old, based in Burlington, Iowa. I've been writing code since I was 14 and shipping client work since 15. Serious Goose Studios is me, a laptop, and an obnoxious commitment to making sites that actually load in under a second.

/portrait — Theo, age 17

I started by building Shopify sites for kids in my school selling sneakers. Then I built a booking site for my dentist because their existing one made me physically angry. Two years later, I've shipped twenty-something sites for small businesses across the Midwest, and I'd rather do that than almost anything else.

The reason this works — the reason a 17-year-old can charge real-business prices and deliver real-business outcomes — is that I refuse to use the tools that make other studios slow. No drag-and-drop builders. No 200KB hero images. No three-month timelines for a five-page site. The site you're reading was built and shipped in eight days.

I care about three things, in order: your site loading instantly, your customers finding the next step, and you not having to email me to change a phone number. If those line up with what you need, we're going to get along.