Developer-led · Irvine, California
Web design, development & SEO in Irvine, California.
We are Div Digital — senior engineers serving Irvine’s business community from south Orange County. We build production-grade websites and make sure Google and the AI engines put your company in front of the right buyers.
01 — Why local matters
A Irvine partner who writes the actual code.
Irvine is Orange County’s business engine. The competition for attention here is the toughest in the county — and the most winnable with real engineering.
Irvine is dense with companies that take digital seriously: B2B technology firms, healthcare groups, professional services, franchises, and the startup ecosystem around UC Irvine and the Spectrum. Buyers here are technical and they research thoroughly — often by asking an AI to compare vendors before a human ever picks up the phone.
It is also the part of the county where companies are actively hiring marketing managers, web developers, and SEO specialists. If you are weighing whether to add a full-time hire, an engineering-led agency often delivers a whole team — developer, SEO, designer, analyst — for less than one loaded salary, and starts this week instead of after a three-month search.
We are engineers, not a content shop. We led web teams at CNN, Sony Music, and Columbia before founding Div. In a market this competitive, the technical foundation — speed, structured data, AI-readiness — is what separates the companies that get found from the ones that do not.
02 — Who we help
Built for Irvine businesses.
The categories we know in this market — and what we do for each.
- B2B technology & SaaS
- Sites engineered to be compared favorably by buyers and by AI. Fast, structured, and built around the comparative content that LLMs extract when someone asks which vendor is best.
- Healthcare & biotech
- Credible, accessible, compliance-aware sites with the structured data and authority signals that win competitive Irvine healthcare search.
- Professional & financial services
- Authority-driven sites that rank locally and get cited in AI answers. We build the E-E-A-T foundation the AI engines require.
- Companies weighing an in-house hire
- Considering a full-time marketing manager, web developer, or SEO specialist? We deliver the whole function as a senior team — often for less than one salary, available now.
- Franchises & multi-location
- Local-SEO at scale across locations, with consistent structured data and an AI-discoverable presence for every storefront.
03 — The full suite
One local partner for every digital service.
Most businesses stitch together a web person, an SEO vendor, a designer, and an email tool. We are all of it, under one roof — see the full services list.
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Web design & development
WordPress, Shopify, Drupal, and custom React / Node builds. Fast, accessible, semantic, and engineered to last — not a page-builder that bogs down in a year.
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SEO, AIO & GEO
Traditional search optimization plus the new layer: making your site machine-readable and citable by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews.
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Creative & brand
Brand strategy, UX/UI design, and information architecture — the design and the engineering done by the same team, so nothing gets lost in handoff.
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Analytics & security
Proper analytics implementation, performance optimization, and security audits — so you can see what is working and trust that the site is safe.
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Marketing automation
Email campaigns, lead scoring, and customer-journey work across Salesforce, Marketo, HubSpot, and the rest. The pipeline that turns visitors into conversations.
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AI & data
Automated workflows, generative-AI integration, and data analysis that give a small team the leverage of a much larger one.
04 — Where we work
Irvine, in person.
We are based in south Orange County and come to you. Neighborhoods and areas we cover across Irvine:
- Irvine Spectrum
- University Town Center
- Woodbridge
- Northwood
- Turtle Rock
- Quail Hill
- Great Park
- Portola Springs
- Cypress Village
- Oak Creek
- Westpark
- Orchard Hills
Not listed, or just outside Irvine? We work across all of south Orange County — and with enterprise clients nationwide. Tell us where you are in the form below.
05 — Why Div
Engineers who do marketing — not marketers who outsource the build.
Three senior engineers with sixty-plus combined years. We write the code that makes your site fast, secure, and machine-readable to both Google and the AI engines.
Tim Hobert led web engineering at CNN.com, SonyMusic.com, and Columbia.edu before founding Div Digital in September 2014. Shawn Gregg was Head of Web Production at Sony Music Entertainment. Ramon Pujol Cots is an Acquia Certified Developer and career enterprise consultant. Read the full team page, or start with a free AI visibility audit.
06 — Questions
Frequently asked — Irvine.
We are thinking about hiring a marketing or web person in-house. Why use an agency instead?
A single hire is one skill set, plus benefits, PTO, recruiting time, and months of ramp-up. An engineering-led agency gives you a developer, an SEO specialist, a designer, and an analyst as one team — often for less than a loaded salary, with no hiring risk, starting this week. Many Irvine companies use us to cover the function while they decide whether the role is worth a full-time seat.
Our buyers are technical. Can your work hold up to scrutiny?
That is exactly our strength. We are senior engineers — former CNN, Sony Music, and Columbia web leads — not a marketing team that subcontracts the build. Clean code, real performance numbers, valid structured data. We are happy to walk your technical team through any of it.
Are you local to Irvine?
We are based in south Orange County and serve the Irvine business community in person — the Spectrum, UTC, and the office parks in between. Close enough for real meetings, not a remote vendor.
Do you do more than SEO?
Yes — the full suite. Web design, WordPress and custom development (React, Node, headless), SEO and AI optimization, analytics, security, data science, and marketing automation. One senior partner across all of it.
07 — Start a conversation
In Irvine? We’ll come to you.
Tim replies directly within the hour during business hours. Or email tim@div.digital.