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Construction insiders who ship code.

Pixel Studio is a construction-only web studio based in Austin, Texas, founded by Yahya Malik in 2024. The studio builds conversion-first websites, SEO and AI-search visibility, client portals, B2B stores, and booking systems for contractors and trade brands across the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia.

Updated August 2026

FounderYahya Malik

Founded2024 · Austin, TX

FocusConstruction · 100%

MarketsUS · UK · Canada · Australia

Parent studioPixel Labs · No. 07

FounderYahya Malik

01 / The origin

The studio started in estimating, not in design school.

Before Pixel Studio, Yahya Malik ran pre-construction estimating and quantity takeoffs for US contractors. Plan sets, scopes, bid deadlines, pay apps: that was the day job. He goes by Malik, and he still answers the sales inbox himself.

Estimating puts you close to a pattern you can't unsee. Contractors who are excellent at the work lose jobs online to competitors with better websites, then hire generalist agencies that can't tell a punch list from a pay app and bill 50% before they show up. The trade deserved a studio that knew both sides.

So in 2024 he built one. Pixel Studio is a Pixel Labs project, Studio No. 07: a small in-house team, no outsourcing, one vertical. Every build is for a construction or trade business. Every build is billed like a draw schedule and signed off like a punch list.

"I came from estimating. You price the work, you show the math, and you get paid when the work is verified. Pixel Studio runs the same way: measured work, inspected draws, and a final payment that waits until the client signs off."

Yahya Malik · Founder, Pixel Studio

02 / The thesis

Why build for construction and nothing else?

Because a website is a bidding tool, and you can't build a good bidding tool for an industry you don't understand.

A generalist agency learns your industry on your invoice. They ask what a takeoff is in the kickoff meeting, guess at what your customers search for, and ship the same template they sold a dentist last month. The first agency a contractor hires is usually the first one to learn what contractors actually do.

We only work with general contractors, home builders, remodelers, plumbers, electricians, HVAC firms, roofers, landscapers, masons, tool sellers, and building-product suppliers. One vertical means the discovery call starts at the real question: what jobs do you want more of? Not a glossary lesson.

It also means the proof compounds. What moves the needle for a general contractor in Austin teaches us something we carry into the next roofer's build, the next supplier's store, the next plumber's booking flow. See what that looks like across all five services.

Builds shipped

Since 2024. Sites, portals, stores, and booking systems, all for construction and trades

Walk-aways

2 of 24 clients exited mid-build. Both kept the brief, the designs, and the code, free

Average lead lift

3.4×

At 90 days post-launch, measured across the 12 builds with clean analytics baselines

Lighthouse

98+

On every build. Hand-coded, static-first, no plugin stack dragging it down

03 / How we operate

Five things we won't compromise on.

Not aspirations. The operating contract. Every one of these shows up in the agreement you sign, not just on this page.

One number, in writing.

On Site & Spec and Headquarters builds, discovery ends with your baseline and a 90-day target on paper: conversion rate for sites with meaningful traffic, qualified-lead volume for the rest. Not "engagement." Not "brand presence." A number we're judged against.

Miss it at day 90 and we keep working free for up to 90 more days. Still short at day 180, we refund what you paid and you keep everything.

Billed like a draw schedule.

$0 mobilization. Milestones tied to deliverables, each billed only after you inspect and approve the work. Final payment waits until the finished site is live and you sign off. You hold the retainage on us.

It's how you bill your own clients. We just apply it to ourselves. The full process is public.

Hand-coded, not assembled.

No WordPress, no plugin stacks, no proprietary CMS. Static-first marketing sites that hit 98+ Lighthouse, hand-written by a small in-house team. Same reason a custom builder doesn't pour pre-fab walls: the joints are where quality lives.

And at delivery, 100% ownership transfers: code, content, design assets, in a clean Git repo. Yours, not licensed.

Construction only. Really.

Contractors, builders, remodelers, trades, suppliers, tool sellers. One vertical, on purpose. It's why the copy sounds like your industry, the proof comes from your industry, and the discovery call doesn't start with us asking what a takeoff is.

You can always walk.

Exit at any milestone and keep everything made so far: the brief, the designs, the code, at no charge. No exit fee, no hostage files. Two clients out of 24 builds have used that door, and both kept the work.

It's a lot to offer for a website. That's the point: the risk sits with us, where it belongs.

04 / Where we work

Four markets, one playbook, delivered remotely.

Based in Austin, Texas. Every build is delivered remotely with the same 24-day process, the same draw billing, and the same ownership terms.

Base

United States

Home market. Contractors, trades, and suppliers coast to coast, from the studio in Austin, TX.

Remote

United Kingdom

Builders and tradespeople across the UK. Same process, same pricing, delivered remotely.

Remote

Canada

Contractors and trade businesses in every province. Time zones overlap, nothing gets lost.

Remote

Australia

Builders and tradespeople Australia-wide. We schedule calls around your morning, not ours.

PIXEL
LABS
· STUDIO 07 ·

Est. 2024

05 / The studio

A Pixel Labs project. Small crew, no outsourcing.

Pixel Studio is Studio No. 07 inside Pixel Labs, established 2024. The team is small and in-house on purpose: the person who scopes your build is the person who ships it. No account managers passing notes, no work farmed out to an agency-of-agencies.

Small is also why capacity is capped at 8 builds a quarter. Hand-coded work doesn't scale by hiring fast, and we'd rather turn down a slot than rush yours.

Talk to the founder, not a sales script.

30 minutes. You leave with a teardown of your current site and the 3 fixes we'd make first, yours to keep, even if we never work together. No pitch deck. No pressure. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you who is.

Book my teardown call→Q3 2026: 3 of 8 build slots open.