CASE STUDY 05 · CLIENT WORK · JULY 2026
Energy Flow Systems
My grandfather's company has built precision flow meters in Houston since 1964. Its website was two decades out of date, so I sat down with him and rebuilt it.
VISIT THE LIVE SITE · ENERGYFLOWSYSTEMS.COM→The problem
Energy Flow Systems has supplied custom venturi tubes, flow nozzles, and orifice plates to refineries, pipelines, and municipalities for six decades. Online, all of that was represented by an early-2000s static site: a GIF logo, photo pages, and no clear path to a quote for the engineers speccing real projects.
What I built
The build started as an interview. I walked my grandfather page-by-page through his old site and recorded the company history that became the new Our History page — then rebuilt the whole thing in Astro: a product catalog, a literature library for the spec PDFs, a calibration page, a client wall, and a request-a-quote flow that actually gets answered.
The numbers
Founded 1964; rebuilt by a grandson in an evening. Seventeen pages, live at energyflowsystems.com the same night as the discovery interview.
What it taught me
That the discovery interview is the product. An hour of his stories made a better spec than any brief I've been handed, and the recording matters to the family well beyond the website. Sixty-year companies don't need a trendy site; they need one that finally looks as good as their work.