The Blog
Company news on web design, search, paid media, video production and visual effects, written in the Made In The Dark studio in Chesapeake by the people doing the work.
Our Marketing Avatars
Our Marketing Avatars Meet the four people we build every film, page and post for: GC owners, specialty subcontractors, manufacturers and their marketing managers.…
Recruiting Better People
Skilled trades candidates choose employers, not just jobs. Here is how construction and manufacturing companies recruit better people with film and a real careers…
Attract Qualified Buyers
Engineers shortlist suppliers before procurement sends an RFQ. Here's how manufacturers attract buyers and stop chasing quotes.
Doing Marketing In-House
Sooner or later, every growing contractor and manufacturer asks the same question. Should we hire our own marketing team? It is a fair question.
How Companies Win More Bids
Most contracts are won or lost before anyone opens your bid. The owner, the developer or the GC has already looked you up and…
Darkside for WordPress
A theme and plugin suite for people who build WordPress sites for clients, built to replace the usual stack.
AI Photo Editing
An AI pipeline that sorted, quality-checked and composited nearly 1,500 photographs from one media day, delivered through a custom gallery.
Filmmaker Tools
A browser-based set of tools for cinematographers, built as a web application that runs without installing anything. Made In The Dark case study.
Garage Door Enterprises
A website redesign and search program for Garage Door Enterprises, built on our own WordPress platform by Made In The Dark in Chesapeake.
Intelligence Brief
A custom 4K map generator that turns a news anchor's script into animated 3D globe graphics and exports broadcast-ready photos and video.