CommonTiger* expands in LoDo with website repair

CEO Julian Rai and COO Stephanie Alaimo launched CommonTiger* in 2011 in San Diego with an unusual premise: website repair and maintenance.

 

"There is no maintenance sector on the Web," says Rai. "It seems obvious. It seems websites don't change, but they always do."

 

In 2012, CommonTiger* expanded to Denver and now employ five in an office in LoDo, and Rai hopes to hire two more people in the near term.

 

Clients include Wobble Wedges, the Mediation Association of Colorado and the Windsor Downtown Development Authority. On the latter, Rai says, "We helped them rebuild their website from scratch. There had been no maintenance for 15 years."

 

For website repairs, CommonTiger* offers a square deal: $50 an hour for pay-as-you-go work or $45 an hour for projects. "We're at the very low end of the price range," says Rai. Competitors could charge as much as $10,000 for what CommonTiger would charge $500, he adds.

 

"We steer clients towards more affordable solutions," echoes Alaimo. "We endeavor to provide what is good for the client, even it it's a lower price tag."

 

Rai and Alaimo have been splitting time between California and Colorado. "We've been bouncing back and forth," says Rai, who fell in love with Denver as a touring musician. Soon they will stop the bouncing, he adds. "Denver is set up to run without us."

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