About Us

Within the consulting industry we are a small project based firm, focusing solely on custom software development and solutions.   Learn a little bit about our past. Then let’s work together to build a better future.

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Our Story

Bryan Abbott is the principal and founder of APS. APS has grown organically from a consortium of designers, developers and other web professionals working together in the Chicago area.

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Our Philosophy

We find strength in how our philosophy makes us different. Many of us choose to work together despite better paying opportunities. We value producing results, teamwork, transparency, customer satisfaction, and having fun!

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outstanding value

Explore the many web services we offer

Web Optimization

Tired of wasting money on your website without any results? We’ll perform iterative testing on your website to determine incremental improvements and apply them.

Web Development

Experience, platform independent, Agile, and personable web development driven by your return on investment.

Internet Marketing

APS services can help you improve your results with organic SEO, PPC, social media, and email marketing.

Professional Services

APS has a range has a range of services beyond the web including legal, accounting, fulfillment, communications and consulting.

Partner Services

Where APS is unable to offer services we have established relationships with other companies that are leaders in their respective fields.

Web Design

Treat your customers to a unique visual experience. Our web design services specialize in providing fully custom graphic design and layouts.

We perform custom application development as well as legacy integration, provide business intelligence and consulting,
and architect e-commerce websites for a range of clients from small media and entertainment clients to Fortune 100 institutions.

Take a look at our work past and present.

Brickfish
Wedbush
Anna Sodziak
Vargacom
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Chicago Public Radio
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Sound Opinions
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One Design Company
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Chicago Magazine

  • Working with Bryan and his team is really one of the better decisions we’ve made. APS brings foresight… Their experience working on a wide variety of projects and clients allows them to recognize issues and problems, before they actually become issues and problems – on important projects that’s the most important piece of the pie. I highly recommend APS.

    Sam Rosen  - Owner of One Design Company

  • APS made improvements to our online Pledge system that have resulted in a tipping point where more than half of all member donations now come through our web portal driving the down the cost of our on-air campaigns. APS also worked diligently on search engine optimization that have improved the visibility of Chicago Public Radio on the web resulting in a significant increase in daily web traffic.

    Dmitry Shub  - IT Manager of WBEZ

  • After years of web support difficulty, I discovered APS and they quickly helped us budget our web resources efficiently. They came up with a maintenance package and CMS solution that worked for us. Their experience has brought confidence to our web development decisions going forward and helped us position our radio show to expand in the new media landscape.

    Todd Bachmann  - Producer and Director of Sound Opinons

  • If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

    Red Adair