Why We Built Two Bit for Kansas City's Creative Community
Kansas City has always punched above its weight creatively. The arts scene here is real — independent galleries, working illustrators, photographers, musicians, makers, designers, small studios doing genuinely interesting work. It's one of the things that makes Kansas City great to live in.
But a lot of those creative businesses are running on duct tape when it comes to technology. A website they built five years ago that they're embarrassed to share. An email address that ends in gmail.com. Social media accounts doing all the heavy lifting because there's no real web presence behind them. Technology that's either neglected, overcomplicated, or both.
That's not a criticism — it's just the reality of running a small creative business. You're focused on the work, which is exactly as it should be. Technology is supposed to serve the work, not compete with it for your attention.
That's the gap Two Bit was built to fill.
We're a Kansas City business working with Kansas City creatives — and beyond, but this city is home and it's where our heart is. We understand the community because we're part of it. Maura has spent decades in the KC arts world as a professional illustrator and educator. I spent twenty years keeping the technology running at one of the city's most important creative institutions. We know this world from the inside.
What that means practically: we're not going to oversell you on technology you don't need. We're not going to build you something you can't maintain. We're going to help you get a web presence that actually represents the quality of your work, an email address that matches your domain, and technology that quietly does its job so you can focus on doing yours.
KC's creative community deserves better technology support than it usually gets. That's why we're here.
