Trusted by 200+ businesses since 2001

Who we are
We are Cloud Nine Labs, a full-service digital agency that has been launching, scaling, and rescuing brands since 2001. We are not just builders. We are founders and business strategists who have sat in your chair, so we get it. We live for challenges and LOVE to solve problems.
We believe there is GENIUS in simplicity and thrive in refining the complex to create powerful, effective, RESULTS-oriented marketing and business consulting.
We aim to be your real-life superheroes, saving your businesses from pitfalls, steering you in the right direction, and keeping you on track. Our commitment to excellence pushes us to continually raise the bar with unfailing accuracy. To do this, we bring you an extraordinary team of brand strategists, business consultants, AI experts, digital marketing gurus, precision-driven coders, software developers, and creative visionaries, a team that is as passionate and dedicated to your success as you are.
We know you want and deserve the best. That is why GOOD is never enough for us. So let us be your team. We will work relentlessly with passion to understand, imagine, strategize, and deliver for you. It is our promise to create incredible brands, strategies, and experiences that deliver meaningful, measurable results for your business.
We do it differently. We ask the right questions first, find the real problem, and build the fix RIGHT the first time. Then we stick around.
What we believe.
Do it RIGHT the first time.
Faster and cheaper later starts with better now.
Strategy before pixels.
We are definitely not yes people. If something will not work, we will tell you.
Bridge data and neuroscience.
We design around how people actually think and decide, not guesses.
Make it easy.
Your job is running your business. Ours is making the digital part feel effortless. Relax, Cloud Nine Labs has your back.
Simple process. Serious results.
Talk
We ask the right questions and find the real goal.
Plan
Strategy and design mapped to how your customers actually decide.
Build
Done RIGHT the first time. Fast, and ready to scale.
Grow
Support, content, SEO, and AEO to keep you found, chosen, and optimized.
You usually know the symptoms, and the headaches that come with them. You just need someone to find the cause. That is the part we love.
Meet the Cloud Nine Labs team.

Ethan sees the entire board, legal, business, brand, and strategy simultaneously. With a Doctorate of Jurisprudence, an MBA, and over two decades guiding businesses through their hardest problems, he does not just build strategies. He builds bulletproof business systems designed to win and built to last.
He has guided businesses across industries, turned underdogs into market leaders, and spent his career proving that the right strategy, executed properly, changes everything. His legal background means he approaches every engagement with one eye on opportunity and one eye on risk. His clients do not just grow. They dominate.

Every brand we build needs to look trustworthy. Kie makes sure it does. From brand identity to digital experience, she transforms what a business looks like on the outside to match what it is becoming on the inside, building visual systems that are beautiful, memorable, and designed to drive action.
Shaped by Los Angeles and Tokyo, her work bridges cultures, connects emotionally, and turns brands into experiences people remember.

Data is the new currency, and Daniel has been fluent in it for over two decades. Long before AI became a boardroom buzzword, Daniel was building systems that make complex data simple, actionable, and competitive. He translates the world of AI and machine learning into real business advantages your team can actually use.
He does not just implement technology. He makes the complex feel inevitable.

Mike turns ideas into production systems and keeps them running for years. His career spans mainframe automation, early web infrastructure, enterprise platforms, cloud transformation, and now AI-assisted development.
Mike owned the platform behind a large-scale digitization operation serving the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, and the U.S. Copyright Office.
He leads through architecture, constraints, and judgment to reduce complexity and risk.