Anvil Development
Technology & AI
We build AI-integrated websites and custom AI systems for companies that want to move faster than their competition. Premium engineering, designed for the era where search is being rewritten.
Explore capabilitiesA parent company building specialized operating businesses across technology and real estate. Today we ship AI-integrated websites and custom AI systems. Tomorrow, more.
Anvil Holdings exists to launch and steward specialized operating companies — each focused, each excellent, each built for the long haul.
Technology & AI
We build AI-integrated websites and custom AI systems for companies that want to move faster than their competition. Premium engineering, designed for the era where search is being rewritten.
Explore capabilitiesComing when ready
We don't announce companies we haven't built. When the next one is ready to ship, you'll see it here.
To be forged
Anvil Holdings is built to grow. Future operating companies will live here as they're founded.
Anvil Development's current focus. Two tracks, one philosophy: build technology that earns its place.
Track 01
The web is being rebuilt for AI. Search is becoming conversation. Sites built five years ago are invisible to the engines that matter now. We build sites engineered for both — beautiful for humans, structured for the AI that will recommend you.
Structured for AI Overviews, ChatGPT search, Perplexity, and the agents coming next.
Core Web Vitals, semantic markup, and the technical foundations Google still rewards.
Chat assistants, smart search, lead qualification, content engines — built into the site, not bolted on.
The kind of site that makes a prospect believe the rest of your company is just as serious.
Track 02
Beyond the website, AI changes how a company runs. We build the workflows, agents, and integrations that turn "we should use AI" into measurable hours saved, leads recovered, and decisions made faster.
Workflows that handle scheduling, follow-up, collections, customer comms — the work no one wants to do twice.
QuickBooks, ServiceTitan, Slack, your CRM — we connect what you already use rather than forcing a migration.
AI proposes, your team disposes. Real oversight, no rogue automations.
See what the system is doing, what it's saved you, and where to point it next.
We don't take twenty clients at once. Each engagement gets the attention a hand-built project deserves.
We learn the business — the real one, not the org chart. Where the time goes, what the leads cost, what the website is or isn't doing.
A concrete plan: what we'll build, how it integrates, what it costs, what it'll move. No surprises, no scope creep.
Iterative delivery with you in the loop. Working software, real previews, fast feedback. Nothing disappears into a black box.
We don't ghost after launch. AI moves fast — we keep your systems on the right side of the curve.
An anvil is a base. It doesn't move. It absorbs every hammer strike and lets the maker shape the work above it.
Anvil Holdings is built on the same idea. The companies we launch sit on top of a stable foundation — shared standards, shared discipline, shared belief that work should be done well or not at all.
We're a small operation by design. Two operators, real accountability, no layers between you and the people doing the work. Headquartered in the Kansas City metro and working with clients wherever the internet reaches.
Brendon Akins & Bob DeFries, founders
Tell us what you're working on. We'll respond within one business day — and if we're not the right fit, we'll say so plainly.
Or reach us directly
info@anvil-holdings.com