We make products people
can see themselves using.
An AI-native design agency in Boston. We've spent our careers designing and engineering products for startups and Fortune 500s, and AI now lets the same senior team take on the whole thing, from the interface to the agent to the generated video. No middlemen.
Who We Are
Alec is a product designer with 16+ years of experience, from his roots in graphic design to consulting for Google and leading design for startups like Linus Health and O2X. These days he builds with AI as much as he designs with it, and he loves teaching other designers to do the same.
Mark is a lead engineer with 16+ years of experience, from early Boston startups like CampusLIVE and CustomMade to years of independent consulting before co-founding VisualBoston. He leads our engineering practice and is the senior engineer accountable for everything we ship.
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Our Story
The Google Project
Alec, having recently moved on from co-founding a boutique agency, designed the frontend for a complex SaaS application for Google. When he left the project, Mark was brought in through shared colleagues to develop and bring those designs to life.
A Coffee That Changed Everything
The quality of Alec’s design work stuck with Mark, and he reached out to meet the designer behind it. They connected at the Starbucks on 1 Financial Center in Boston’s Financial District. It was immediately clear they shared the same passion for quality design and thoughtful development.
Strategic Partners
That first conversation led to years of collaborating on and off as strategic partner consultants. They kept finding their way back to each other’s projects, building trust and a shared working style along the way.
VisualBoston Is Born
After wrapping a project together as independent contractors, they decided it made the most sense to team up officially. VisualBoston launched at the start of COVID with a simple bet: quality work, honest strategy, no middlemen. They grew through referrals and a loyal network built over 15+ years each—never compromising on quality, always guiding clients in the right direction.
The AI-Native Era
In late 2022, Alec and Mark each got an early look at ChatGPT and came to the same conclusion: this was going to change what a team like ours could take on. VisualBoston went all in. Since then we have built a hand-tracking 3D game in half a day, shipped a fully AI-generated video guide for a national mattress brand, and rebuilt this website with Claude Code. Today VisualBoston is an AI-native agency: a senior, global team of designers and engineers who design the product, build it, and teach other teams how to do the same.
Nearly everyone on this team started in graphic design, illustration, or animation before moving into product design and development. Those roots are why AI fits us so well: the taste came first, and the tools now let us act on it from the first sketch to the shipped product.
We’re headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and strategy, design direction, and project leadership stay here in the US with us. The extended team of senior engineers, designers, and motion specialists spans Latin America and Europe: hand-picked collaborators we’ve worked with for years, not a rotating bench of contractors.
Depending on the project, our team extends to include product managers, marketing partners, and SEO specialists. We keep things intentionally small and senior. Whether a client needs a full product team or a single specialist, we assemble exactly the right people for the engagement.
We’re both fathers of three young kids, so we understand the value of time. That perspective shapes how we run every engagement: intentionally, efficiently, and with real care.
We treat every client project as if it were our own. Our team draws on decades of combined hands-on experience to provide the strategic guidance that steers projects toward measurable success—not just a finished deliverable.
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