About Desque
We’re a Houston web design agency that’s been quietly building, ranking, and growing small businesses online since 2017. No buzzwords. No mystery invoices. Just websites that pay you back and people who pick up the phone.
How Desque started
Back in 2017, our co-founders Fredy and Trung kept hearing one kind of story from Houston business owners. Their site looked fine, sometimes great, but the relationship with whoever built it had gone sideways. The agency would not return calls. Updates that should have taken a day were stretched into weeks, or quoted back as a brand-new project. Some owners did not even have the login to their own site. By the time they called us, the website was almost beside the point. What they really wanted was control back.
Not every business we meet starts in that spot. Some already have a great site and just need more of the right people finding it. Some are starting from a blank page and building a brand for the first time. But that early pattern shaped how we run Desque today.
A site should belong fully to the business that paid for it: the login, the files, the content, the data, and every line of code. The people who built it should still be picking up the phone after launch, because there is always more to do. The line we will never cross is using that ongoing work to lock you in. If a client ever decides to move on, we hand off everything they need to keep going.
That was almost ten years ago. Desque has grown since, picked up more clients across Houston, and added creative, development, and customer-success roles to the team. The founding idea, though, has stayed put:
Build sites we are proud to put our name on, treat the people who hire us like partners, and stay reachable long after launch day.
Why we do this
Most small business websites cost too much and do too little. We’re here to flip that.
Building a great website is only half the job. The other half is making sure people can actually find it, and the way people search has changed. AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity now answer the questions buyers used to type into Google, and Google itself puts an AI answer at the top of most results before anyone clicks.
The work behind that part goes by a few names. Most often Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), sometimes Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), and the umbrella term you may also hear is AI SEO. Whichever label, the goal is the same.
When a customer asks an AI for a recommendation, we want it to name your business.
Why people stick with us
Built for AI search
Most agencies still run 2015-style SEO. We have been optimizing for ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews since each one shipped.
A modern web stack
We build on Webflow, Shopify, and Astro. Fast to load, easy to scale, and yours on your terms, even if any one developer disappears.
A team that sticks around
You are not buying a service. You are hiring a team that learns your business, knows your customers, and stays for years.
Honest data, honest plans
We watch what real visitors do and let the numbers shape the work. Leads, calls, and sales drive the plan, not likes.
Plain-English everything
If we say something you do not understand, that is on us. Every technical choice gets a clear reason in plain language.
Local in a useful way
We live in Houston. We have shipped work for energy, real estate, HVAC, restaurants, and automotive clients across the city. We know how Houston buyers actually decide.
The people behind your project
The person you message on day one is the same one who picks up on day three hundred. That’s the whole pitch.
Trung Nguyen
Creative Director & Co-Founder
Leads creative direction: brand systems, visual identity, and the web design behind every site we ship. Makes Houston businesses look memorable, not just polished.
Fredy Rodriguez
Technical Director & Co-Founder
Runs the data-and-code side of Desque: SEO, GEO, AEO, PPC, copywriting, and the engineering behind every site we ship. Builds in Go and TypeScript.
Kevin Phan
Frontend Developer
Builds the front end in Astro, Svelte, TypeScript, Webflow, and Shopify. Adds the motion and CSS that make each site feel intentional. Photographs professionally on the side.
Angelica Rodriguez
Customer Success Manager
Owns every client relationship after the handshake: onboarding, cadence, and the quarterly reviews where analytics turn into the next moves.
How we work together
Every project starts the same way: a real conversation. We ask about your customers, what is working, what is broken, and what success looks like nine months out. No homework. No forty-field intake form.
Then we map a plan. Sometimes that is a new site on Webflow or Shopify. Sometimes it is GEO and content so AI tools start sending you traffic. Often it is both. You see the plan, timeline, and price upfront, and nothing moves until you say go.
After launch we do not disappear. Monthly reports show up in plain English you can forward without translating. We hop on calls when your market shifts. And we keep tuning the parts that need it.
Three words we live by
Creative
We sketch, write, and design every project from scratch, so your site looks like your business instead of a template.
Modern
We build on a modern stack of Astro, Webflow, Shopify, and AI-ready content that still holds up next year.
Logical
Every choice has to answer a business question, and if we cannot defend it in one sentence, we change it.
Built in Houston, on purpose
Houston is home. Born and raised here, we founded Desque in 2017. We know how this city actually buys: restaurants in Montrose, energy companies west of the Beltway, healthcare groups near the Medical Center. We are a few of your customers ourselves.
Local matters more than people think. We meet for coffee when it helps, notice when a Houston news cycle shifts how people search, and answer the phone on your time zone.
Want to see if we’re a fit?
Grab a free thirty-minute call. No pitch deck, no pressure, just a real conversation about whether we are the right team for the job.
Or send us a note if you prefer.