You hire me. I do the work. I'm still here.
The Apricity Difference
After 25 years, you get one person who knows your business, backed by specialists I’ve worked with for years, not names off a networking board. The freelancer moves on when a full-time offer lands. The agency hands your account to a junior. I’m still the one who built it, and still the one who answers the phone. That’s the difference: the person who builds your site is still here to keep it running.
Who You'll Be Working With
Mary-Frances O'Dea
Mary-Frances O’Dea founded Apricity Web Solutions nearly 20 years ago with a straightforward idea: small and mid-sized businesses deserve digital infrastructure that actually works, not just a website that looks good at launch and falls apart six months later.
She works as a conductor, not a freelancer or an agency. She leads the strategy, manages the relationships, and coordinates a trusted network of developers, designers, and technical specialists who handle execution. Clients get one clear point of contact and a team behind the scenes.
Her work spans web development, ADA and WCAG accessibility compliance, systems integration, and AI-powered automation platforms. She holds multiple ADA certifications from the Rocky Mountain ADA Center and is a certified partner in the Claude AI Partner Network through Anthropic. Apricity is HUBZone certified.
She has a particular focus on organizations that are large enough to have real operational problems but don’t have an internal IT department to solve them. Those are the clients who get the most out of what Apricity does.
About the snow?
Apricity:
noun: obsolete
The warmth of the Sun in winter.
When I came across this word, I was forming my new company and the mental scene struck me as calm, inviting and everything you should expect from a consultant. I hope to invoke a sense of calm and confidence in everyone I work with and I’m putting these values to work in my professional life and personal life as well.
-Mary-Frances O’Dea
WHO WE WORK WITH BEST
My best clients tend to look like this: a regional nonprofit, a parks and recreation district, a mid-size service business, a trade association, or a growing company that has outgrown its current digital setup. Big enough to have real operational needs and a budget, but without an IT department to lean on. They don’t need one more vendor to patch the immediate problem. They need someone who’s seen it before, sees the whole picture, and will still be here a year from now.
If that sounds like you, a 30-minute conversation is usually enough to tell whether we’re a fit.