01 / About
Behind this machine
is one person.
Sacred Lantern Studio.A one-person technical studio in Suzhou, China:AI integration, web development, Stripe paymentflows and technical SEO.
This site used to be something else. In November 2026 it was rebuilt from a content site into a technical services site. The rebuild itself is documented in the engineering notes — including what went wrong.
Location
Suzhou, China · UTC+8
Model
One person, no subcontracting
Pricing
Fixed, per project
Timeline
7–14 working days for typical scope
After launch
30 days of free fixes
Response
Within 24h on weekdays
Four rules
Judgement before contract
Tell me the problem and I'll tell you whether it's worth building, and whether there's a cheaper route. If it's not a fit I'll say so — cheaper than finding out after you've paid.
One person, end to end
No sales layer, no project manager, no handoffs. The person writing the code is the person you talk to, and the person who fixes it after launch.
Shipped means running
No slide decks or prototypes. Code in production, payments actually processing, scheduled jobs actually firing — that's the finish line.
No promises I can't keep
I won't guarantee rankings or traffic multipliers. What I can do is clear the technical debt and make delivery quality verifiable.
Why trust any of this
There's no client logo wall to show, so here's everything that can actually be checked:
This site is the portfolio
Measured with Lighthouse: 97 performance, 100 accessibility, 100 best practices, 100 SEO. The source and the rebuild process are in the engineering notes.
Real scan data, not estimates
19 US small-business sites audited, 13 reachable. Mean score 73. 12 of 13 robots.txt files never mention a single AI crawler. Per-site data available on request.
The tools are free to use
Site audit, AI cost calculator, AI crawler check, JSON-LD generator. No signup, no email capture.
Everything written is from a real failure
Every note has concrete numbers, reproducible commands and what didn't work. No "boosted traffic by 300%" claims.
Just send an email
Tell me the problem, where you're stuck, and roughly when you need it.
If I can build it, you get a fixed quote. If I can't, I'll say so.
E-E-A-T isn't a pile of tags. It's claims that survive being checked — every capability on this site points at something you can open.