Hipcraft Tell us what's not working

About·Founded 2016

A decade of building things that had to work.

The company

Hipcraft was founded in 2016 by CJ Rooney. It started where a lot of small consultancies start: search, local SEO, websites and customer acquisition for owner-operated businesses that needed the phone to ring.

What changed over the following decade wasn't ambition, it was the nature of the problems. Clients kept arriving with something described as a marketing problem that turned out to be a follow-up problem, an integration problem, a reporting problem, or a process that stopped scaling two years earlier. Fixing the marketing without fixing those produced short-lived results.

So the work moved. Today Hipcraft diagnoses what's constraining a business, builds the system that addresses it, and stays on to keep it running. The marketing, ecommerce and technology capability didn't go anywhere — it's the machinery. It just isn't the product.

How we work

  • Diagnosis before deliverables. We won't sell a system to a business that doesn't have that problem.
  • Build it, don't recommend it. A strategy document nobody implements has no value.
  • Say what's actually true. Including when the honest answer is that you don't need what you asked for.
  • Own it after launch. Which is why coverage exists.

2016 → 2026

How it evolved

2016

Hipcraft founded. Search, local SEO and websites for owner-operated businesses.

Early

Customer acquisition — ranking, lead generation, and making the phone ring.

Expansion

Ecommerce, conversion, email and lifecycle. Channels started needing to work as one thing.

2026

Integrated business systems, automation and implementation, built to stay running.

Founder

Who does the work

CJ Rooney, founder and principal of Hipcraft

CJ Rooney — Founder & Principal

Hipcraft is led by its founder. The person who scopes the work is the person who builds it.

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