# Wicked Code

> Wicked Code is a software company founded in 1997 that builds websites, web apps, mobile apps, museum kiosks and AI agents, repairs AI projects that went wrong, trains teams to work with AI, and hosts what it builds. It works from Seattle, Washington and Amsterdam, the Netherlands, for clients across the United States and the Netherlands.

## Facts

- Founded: 1997
- Founder: Kimberly Paternoster
- Office: Wicked Code, Inc., 1037 NE 65th Street, Suite 81960, Seattle, WA 98115, United States
- Office: Wicked Code BV i.o., Keizersgracht 241, 1016 EA Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Email: web@wickedcode.com
- Phone: +1 415 517 7183
- Languages: English, Dutch

## Two countries, one team.

- **United States**: Wicked Code, Inc. has built software for American businesses, museums and non-profits since 1997, with hosting in the US.
- **The Netherlands**: Wicked Code BV i.o. is on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam. Dutch clients work with a Dutch company, in Dutch, with hosting in Amsterdam.
- **San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States**: Websites, web apps, museum kiosks and AI agents for Bay Area businesses and history organisations, from San Francisco to the Richmond shoreline.
- **Greater Los Angeles, California, United States**: Websites, web apps and AI agents for Los Angeles-area companies, built and supported remotely.
- **San Diego, California, United States**: Websites, hosting and AI-assisted products for San Diego businesses, built and supported remotely.
- **Seattle, Washington, United States**: Home of Wicked Code, Inc. Websites, web apps and AI agents for Seattle and Puget Sound businesses.
- **Boston, Massachusetts, United States**: Websites, web apps and AI training for Boston-area companies, built and supported remotely.
- **Austin, Texas, United States**: AI-assisted products, agents and repairs for Austin companies, built and supported remotely.
- **South Carolina, United States**: Websites, hosting and AI agents for South Carolina businesses, built and supported remotely.

## Build. Automate. Fix. Host.

- **AI-assisted products & apps**: Web apps, mobile apps and internal tools built with AI-assisted engineering and hardened by people who've shipped for three decades. Weeks, not quarters.
- **Agentic AI systems**: Agents that read the inbox, update the CRM, draft the quote, chase the invoice. Wired to your real systems, with guardrails, logs and a human where it counts.
- **AI rescue & repair**: Inherited an AI project that doesn't work? We audit it, tell you straight what's salvageable, and finish it or rebuild it properly. Fixed-price audits.
- **Websites, kiosks & managed hosting**: The work that built the company: business and e-commerce sites, touchscreen museum kiosks, course platforms, and managed cloud hosting answered by a human.

## The short answers.

### Where is Wicked Code based?

Wicked Code, Inc. is in Seattle, Washington, and Wicked Code BV i.o. is in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We work with clients across the United States and the Netherlands, including the San Francisco Bay Area, Greater Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, Boston, Austin and South Carolina.

### What does Wicked Code build?

Websites, web apps, mobile apps, museum kiosks and AI agents. We also repair AI projects that went sideways, train teams to work with AI, and host what we build.

### How long has Wicked Code been in business?

Since 1997. We have built software through every era of the web, and today most of our new work is AI-assisted.

### Do you work in Dutch?

Yes. We work in English and in Dutch, and Dutch clients contract with Wicked Code BV i.o. in Amsterdam.

### Do you host the sites and apps you build?

Yes. Managed cloud hosting in US and EU regions: monitored, backed up nightly, patched, and answered by a person.

### How do we start?

Send a message or call. You get a straight answer on scope, cost and whether AI belongs in the project, within one working day.

## Pages

- [Home](https://wickedcode.com/en)
- [Work](https://wickedcode.com/en/work)
- [Services](https://wickedcode.com/en/services)
- [Optimization: SEO, GEO and AEO](https://wickedcode.com/en/optimization)
- [Our story](https://wickedcode.com/en/story)
- [Contact](https://wickedcode.com/en/contact)
- [Nederlands](https://wickedcode.com/nl)

## Selected work

- [Wooden Shoe Boater](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/woodenshoeboater) (AI-assisted web app): Built end-to-end with AI by Wicked Code. Helps boaters in Europe navigate waterway closures. We build using a combination of AI and our 30 years of software engineering techniques. 5 countries, 4 languages.
- [DAFTPath](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/daftpath) (AI-Assisted Web App): An online planner for Americans heading to the Netherlands
- [Battleship USS Iowa Museum](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/battleship-uss-iowa) (Website + hosting): Battleship IOWA Museum: the official site for the USS Iowa in Los Angeles, built to turn web visitors into crew, members and donors.
- [Online Training (Behavioral Tech Institute)](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/behavioral-tech-institute) (Course platform): 22-hour self-paced course built on Thinkific from raw session recordings, slides and documentation.
- [Iron Bottom Sound Interactive Map](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/iron-bottom-sound) (Touchscreen Kiosk): A wall-sized touchscreen for the museum’s Dr. Robert Ballard exhibit. Visitors touch any ship on a map of Iron Bottom Sound to explore the story of its loss and its wreck on the sea floor.
- [Interactive Resources](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/interactive-resources) (Website): Interactive Resources: a project-driven website for a Point Richmond architecture and structural engineering firm, showcasing work that ranges from historic preservation and seismic retrofits to forensic investigation.
- [Podium Boats](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/podium-boats) (Website): Bronze Medal Olympian, Caleb Paine, asked us to build a website for his new business. This is the 2nd site we've built for him.
- [Behavioral Tech Institute](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/btech-coaching-counseling-website) (Website + e-commerce): Behavioral Tech Institute: a training-catalog website for the organization at the origin of dialectical behavior therapy, helping clinicians and agencies in 60+ countries find and enroll in the right DBT course.
- [International Society of Breast Pathology](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/international-society-of-breast-pathology) (AI-assisted web app · New York City, NY): International Society of Breast Pathology: a membership website with online joining, member login and a webinar library for a worldwide society of medical specialists.
- [Think-X](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/think-x) (Web application): Multi-device web application with user accounts and database-driven functionality.
- [Peralta Hacienda Historical Park](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/peralta-hacienda) (Touchscreen kiosk): Five-video Ohlone room kiosk in a custom cherry cabinet with keyed lock and fold-down desk.
- [Rugged Controls](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/rugged-controls) (Website): A product-catalog and quote-request website for a Seattle manufacturer of programmable controllers, sensors and smart instrumentation built for offshore and industrial work.
- [Richmond Museum of History & Culture](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/richmond-museum) (Touchscreen kiosk): We built the touchscreen software behind the museum’s interactive language exhibit, where visitors read and hear Chochenyo, the language of the East Bay Ohlone, spoken by an Ohlone language specialist. It’s simple enough for a first-grader on a field trip and sturdy enough to run all day, every day.
- [Antigua Classics](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/antigua-classics) (Website): The official website for one of the Caribbean’s great classic yacht events, handling everything from yacht registration and race documents to results, news and photo galleries.
- [Elana James](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/elana-james) (Website): Elana James, fiddler for Hot Club of Cowtown (another Wicked Code build), needed a website for her personal endeavours, and based on the success of the Hot Club of Cowtown site, she chose Wicked Code to help.
- [Leiden Home & Hound](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/leiden-home-and-hound) (AI-assisted web app · Leiden, Netherlands): This custom-built platform was designed around what sets Sherry and John apart: professional, nurse-level care for elderly and medically fragile pets — medications.
- [Hot Club of Cowtown](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/hot-club-of-cowtown) (Website): The official website for Austin’s celebrated hot jazz and western swing trio, keeping fans current on tour dates, music, videos and news.
- [Ramboll-Shair](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/shair-web-app) (Web App + Website): Ramboll’s Shair platform models air quality across whole regions, not only where monitors happen to sit. We built the website that explains the science to cities, communities and the public, and connects them to the live map.
- [Snijder Hettinga Bootwerken](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/snijder-hettinga-bootwerken) (Website · Netherlands): Our first fully Dutch-language site, for a marine services company, delivered across a nine-hour time difference.
- [Fripp Island Sea Rescue](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/fripp-island-sea-rescue) (Website): Volunteer sea rescue site with event pages for their golf tournament and auction.
- [Wind in Their Sails: Death and Resurrection](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/wind-in-their-sails) (Website): Emmy Award-winning director Vince Casalaina is telling the story of San Francisco Bay’s classic wooden sailboats and the people who refuse to let them disappear. Wicked Code built the film’s online home: a place to watch, follow the production, meet the boats and their keepers, and support the project.
- [The Big Band of Rossmoor](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/big-band-of-rossmoor) (Website): In Walnut Creek, California, high school students and retirees sit side by side and play the music of Miller, Goodman and Ellington. Wicked Code built the online home for this one-of-a-kind multigenerational big band, a place for fans to find the next dance and for the community to discover the story behind the sound.
- [Moana Brightwork](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/moana-brightwork) (Website): A showcase and lead-generation website for a San Francisco Bay Area marine carpentry and varnish specialist, with before-and-after galleries and a simple estimate request for boat owners.
- [Starboard Marine Surveyors](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/starboard-marine-surveyors) (Website): Buying a boat is a big decision, and the survey is where it gets real. Wicked Code built the website for this San Francisco Bay Area survey firm, giving boat buyers and owners a clear picture of the services, the credentials behind them, and a simple way to request a survey.
- [Pegasus Voyages](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/pegasus-voyages) (Website): For three decades, the volunteers of Pegasus Voyages have taken Bay Area kids sailing, free of charge, to show them the marine world at their doorstep. Wicked Code built the website that keeps the mission afloat. It tells the story, books the charters that help pay for the youth trips, and brings in the donors and crew who make it all possible.
- [Signature Yachts](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/signature-yachts-seattle-boat-brokerage) (Website): Signature Yachts sells new and pre-owned sail and power boats from its marina on Seattle’s Lake Union. Wicked Code built a website that works as a second showroom, with new models from the builders the dealership represents, current brokerage listings, and a clear path for owners who are ready to sell.
- [Jim Dewitt](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/jim-dewitt) (Website + e-commerce): Jim DeWitt’s paintings put the speed and color of sailboat racing on canvas, and they have earned praise from America’s Cup champions and maritime museum directors alike. Wicked Code built an online gallery and shop for his work on Squarespace, chosen so the owners could manage the art, the orders and the updates themselves, with no technical background required.
- [The Parker Approach](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/parker-approach) (Website + e-commerce): David Parker’s flexibility and strength classes help people move without pain. Wicked Code built the website that takes his teaching beyond the room, with an on-demand library of workouts his students can follow from anywhere and a clear path to private, one-on-one work.
- [Compass Canvas](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/compass-canvas) (Website): Compass Canvas builds custom covers, enclosures and architectural fabric in Point Richmond, California, using 3D measuring and CNC cutting alongside traditional skill. Wicked Code built a website that presents the shop as the precision manufacturer it is, speaks to each of its markets directly, and turns visitors into qualified quote requests.
- [Texas Ramp Project](https://wickedcode.com/en/work/texas-ramps-project) (Website): The Texas Ramp Project builds free wheelchair ramps for people who can’t safely leave their homes. Its volunteers have built more than 34,000 of them across the state. Wicked Code built the first website that keeps this work moving, connecting ramp requests, volunteers and donors from Amarillo to Houston.