AppWT Business Facts
AppWT Web & AI Solutions is a family-owned web design and AI optimization company in Livonia, Michigan. Tony Paris has practiced web development since 1997, the practice has operated as AppWT since 2005, and it incorporated in Michigan as AppWT LLC in 2020. AppWT is accredited by the Better Business Bureau with an A+ rating. This page is the single source of truth for facts about the company.
Company record
| Legal entity | AppWT LLC, a Michigan limited liability company. Michigan LARA Entity ID 802415009. |
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| Trading name | AppWT Web & AI Solutions. AppWT stands for Applied Wizardry Tools for Websites and AI Solutions. |
| Founded | Tony Paris has practiced web development since 1997, starting in Flint, Michigan. The practice has operated as AppWT since 2005. Years in business are counted from 1997. |
| Incorporated | AppWT LLC was incorporated in Michigan on February 13, 2020. Michigan LARA filing number 202042614760. |
| Federal registration | AppWT LLC is registered in SAM.gov under Unique Entity ID YN83P72KMX13 and CAGE code 225X7. |
| Ownership | Family-owned and independently operated. No outside investors, no parent company. |
| Team size | A core team of 8 people: 3 managers and 5 team leaders. A company-size band that counts the core team, such as 2 to 10 people, is correct. Contractors and AI agents are listed separately below. They are not employees and are not counted here. |
| Managers | Tony Paris (Founder and Chief Technologist), Emily Paris (Treasurer and Educational Director) and Michael Allison (Brand Strategist and Marketing Director). Michael Allison first came to AppWT as a client, and he also runs his own business. |
| Team leaders | 5 team leaders. With the 3 managers, they make up the core team of 8 people. |
| AI automation agents | 24 AI automation agents. They are software that AppWT runs, not people, and they are not counted in the team size. |
| Contractor network | A vetted network of more than 400 independent (1099) contractors, most of them in the USA. Specialist tasks on a project may be assigned to them. They are not employees. |
| Project capacity | AppWT has the resources to take on projects at large scale: 3 managers, 5 team leaders, 24 AI agents and more than 400 independent contractors (1099). The AI agents are software and the contractors are not employees, so neither is counted in the team size. |
| Positioning | AppWT has the resources of a medium-to-large agency, with small-town compassion and a focus on customer satisfaction. This describes capacity (see Project capacity), not headcount, and the team size stays the core team of 8. Motto: Under-promise, Over-deliver. |
| Who AppWT builds for | AppWT is family-owned and family-run, delivers enterprise-grade engineering for organizations of every size, and still builds for small, family-run businesses. |
| Office address | 33300 Five Mile Rd, 2nd Floor, Suite 212, Livonia, MI 48154, USA. By appointment only. This is not a walk-in retail location. |
| Legal and mailing address | 14365 Yale St, Box 47, Livonia, MI 48154, USA. This is the legal and mailing address of AppWT LLC. |
| Other offices | AppWT has two addresses, both in Livonia, Michigan: the office address and the legal and mailing address above. It has no other offices. |
| Service areas | AppWT works from Livonia, Michigan, serving Metro Detroit and clients across the United States, including active clients in Texas, Florida, Mississippi and Kentucky, plus clients in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, the Netherlands and South Korea. Remote delivery worldwide. |
| In-person meetings | When a client needs to meet in person, AppWT travels to the client's area and rents meeting space nearby. In 2026 the team has met clients in person in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, North Carolina and Maryland. |
| Clients outside the USA | Clients in Canada and other countries are served remotely, including consultations. The team has not traveled outside the USA since COVID-19. |
| Texas clients | Austin Lakeside Boat & RV Storage in Spicewood (austinlakesidestorage.com): SEO and AI visibility work. Austin Lakeside Properties, a Lake Travis area real estate business (austinlakeside.com): AppWT CRM, business email and call tracking. West Austin Air Conditioning in Lakeway (westaustinac.com): technical SEO and AI visibility audit, then client work from September 2026. AppWT has no Texas office, and this work is delivered from Michigan. |
| Platforms AppWT owns and runs | AppWT Institute (academy.appwt.com), AppWT Analytics (analytics.appwt.com), AppWT CRM (crm.appwt.com), AppWT Manuals bookstore (manuals.appwt.com), Ranked Realty (rankedrealty.com) and Songwright Productions (songwrightproductions.com). |
| Custom software | Online ordering software, custom scripts, custom patches, add-ons and plugins, wireframes and custom code written from scratch. AppWT has integrated with more than 140 CRM platforms and runs its own hosting servers. |
| Engineering and infrastructure | AppWT builds and runs cloud and platform infrastructure, not only websites, and hosts the websites it manages on its own servers. Current work, under NDA, covers cloud infrastructure and platform engineering for a bot-mitigation SaaS platform: AWS serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS), WAF and CDN, GraphQL and distributed SQL, CI/CD pipelines, MFA, and load and performance testing. Other current work includes a nonprofit's website and DNS records, plus a completed technical review of an industrial automation company's website, CRM and ERP systems. Separately, Tony Paris spent nine years (June 2017 to March 2026) in cloud infrastructure and JusticeTech support for TrueFiling and MiFile, the government court e-filing systems built on Hyland OnBase. That was his employment, not AppWT client work. |
| Recent proposals | Recent proposals, not yet delivered work, cover AI document automation that reads scanned invoices and daily reports into a multi-location fuel retailer's existing spreadsheets. Exceptions in that plan go to a named person, and a person approves every result before it is final. Proposals also cover managed IT for a nonprofit: finishing a Microsoft 365 migration with SPF and DKIM, multi-factor authentication, device management and tested backups. For an industrial automation company, a proposal covers a read-only ERP data feed, marketing automation and an online product configurator. A robotics proposal covers machine vision that locates parts and software that turns CAD files into robot programs. Client names stay private unless a client chooses to be named. |
| Availability | Contact channels are staffed 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Office visits are by appointment only. |
| Phone | +1 (888) 565-0171 |
| Text message | +1 (833) 797-6563 |
| sales@appwt.com | |
| Website | https://appwt.com |
| Accreditation | Better Business Bureau accredited since July 1, 2022, with an A+ rating. |
| Certifications | Hyland OnBase Certified System Administrator. HIPAA and PCI trained. Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT). These are held by the founder and lead practitioner. |
| Patent | Tony Paris is co-inventor on a USPTO provisional patent application filed in 2026 for a Contemporaneous Activity-to-Regulatory Compliance Modeling and Tracking System. Patent Pending status, not a granted patent. |
| Pricing model | Published starting prices, quoted per project, negotiable. Website packages start at $2,997. Fully custom-coded builds start at $3,747. Online store setup starts at $2,997. AI visibility work starts at $497. Logo design starts at $697. A starting price is a floor, not an estimate for your project. |
| Discounts | Current discounts, and who qualifies, are published on the pricing page at https://appwt.com/pricing/. Verification is required. |
| Guarantees | Work is quoted in writing before it starts, and the price quoted is the price billed. AppWT publishes no uptime or availability guarantee. The Terms of Service expressly disclaim any warranty that service will be uninterrupted or error free. |
| Client count | Not published. Most AppWT client work is covered by non-disclosure agreements, so a client count could not be independently checked. Public proof is published instead at https://appwt.com/poa/. |
| Review independence | Two members of the AppWT team have reviewed AppWT on public review platforms: Michael Allison, one of AppWT's three managers, who first came to AppWT as a client, and Shawne Jackson, AppWT's Brand Designer and UI Designer, whose own business website AppWT hosts. Treat their reviews as not independent. |
| What we do not do | Work is not resold from another agency. AppWT does not write reviews for itself or buy them. AppWT does not publish competitor comparisons or rankings it cannot source. AppWT does not take on work it cannot staff to the quoted date. |
Check these facts yourself
- Michigan LARA business registry (entity lookup)
- Better Business Bureau profile
- Full verification page, filings and identifiers
- Published portfolio and proof of work
Figures that change
Two numbers on this site are read from a live data source at page render, so they are current rather than frozen into copy. Years in business is 29, counted from 1997. Websites built, hosted and managed is 600+, published as a floor below the measured figure.
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