Happy Cog is a full-service digital agency that designs, builds, and markets websites, apps, and digital products. Founded in 1999 and run as a fully distributed team of 85 people across the United States, it works with global brands, publishers, higher education institutions and large nonprofits. Its client list spans industries including fast casual restaurants, biotechnology, fashion, real estate, education and editorial publishing, with past projects for Houghton Mifflin, the Poetry Foundation and Capsugel.
The agency's engineering work runs on modern stacks, including React, Laravel, Craft CMS and Contentful, applied to scalable web and app builds and digital-first transformation projects. Alongside web design and development and app development, the team handles CRM, marketing automation, e-commerce platform and ERP system integrations, as well as digital marketing. The practice combines strategists, designers, developers and digital marketers within a single team.
Happy Cog reports revenue of over $13 million and has appeared multiple times on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies. The firm traces its origins to a high school startup.
