Case Studies

Real outcomes for real communities.

Public-sector and rural-business clients are not allowed to share fluffy numbers. Here are the ones we can defend with their boards.

Local Government · Economic Development · Tourism

City of Liberal, Kansas

Economic development, tourism, and financial intelligence dashboards built for a western Kansas city — and the Liberal Air Fair campaign that drew 14,000 attendees.

14,000 attendees BI dashboards
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Local Government · Website Rebuild · SEO

City of Ulysses, Kansas

How a Southwest Kansas city replaced its CivicPlus website with a custom WordPress platform it actually owns — eliminating the licensing fee, cutting mobile load time from 6.2s to under 2s, and passing all three Core Web Vitals.

$0 CivicPlus fee 6.2s → <2s mobile
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Rural K-12 · Website Rebuild

Freedom Public Schools

A full website rebuild and communications overhaul for a rural Oklahoma K-12 district — modern, accessible, staff-maintainable.

ADA compliant Staff-manageable
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Rural K-12 · Digital Modernization

Optima Public School

Complete digital modernization for a rural Oklahoma school district — website, communications, and family-facing systems.

Full digital modernization
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Rural Business · DTC

A&K Land and Cattle

How Southwind helped a family ranch launch a premium direct-to-consumer beef brand and hit $17,000 in online sales in the first 30 days.

$17K in 30 days DTC brand launch
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