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Three managers, five team leaders and 30 named Digital units. The experts behind 600+ websites built, hosted and managed, based in Livonia, Michigan.

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OrganicPeople. Born, not built.
DigitalOur robotic and AI units. Each one is named, and every card says "Digital Team".
Tech WizardOrganic and Digital at once. One person holds it.

The Managers Behind AppWT

Ownership and direction. Every decision on this page traces back to one of these three.

Tony Paris - Founder & Chief Technologist at AppWT
Tech Wizard

Tony Paris

He/Him/His

Founder & Chief Technologist

29+ Years Experience • builds to WCAG 2.2 AAA conformance

Tony Paris began his practice on July 1, 1997 in Flint, Michigan, has operated it as AppWT since 2005, and still writes code, sets the technical standard, and signs off on the work. He pioneered AI Visibility Optimization in Michigan, holds OCSA, CPhT, CPFM, MCP, HCSA and HCWA certifications, and is HIPAA and PCI trained. As AppWT's only Tech Wizard, he is the bridge between the Organic and Digital teams and directs the work of both. Nothing reaches a client that he has not approved.

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Emily - Treasurer & Educational Director at AppWT
Veteran Educator

Emily

She/Her/Hers

Treasurer & Educational Director

Master's in Education

Emily is AppWT's co-owner and Treasurer, responsible for keeping operations structured, transparent, and financially sound. With a Master's in Education and a background in K-12 teaching and leadership, she brings classroom clarity to complex technical topics. She designs the training materials, documentation, and client communication standards that make AppWT's work easy to understand and implement, and she leads the educational direction of AppWT Institute's programs.

Michael - Brand Strategist & Marketing Director at AppWT
Flower & Attunement Guru

Michael

He/Him/His

Brand Strategist & Marketing Director

27+ Years Experience

Michael is a retail-industry veteran and AppWT's Brand Strategist and Marketing Director. He specializes in holistic brand development that connects in-person experience with online presence. He oversees digital marketing and social media, building brand systems that drive real business growth instead of vanity metrics, and aligns messaging, visuals, and campaigns so every touchpoint supports long-term customer relationships.

Our Leadership Team

Four of AppWT's five team leaders appear here, each leading one of the Digital Teams below. Every Digital unit carries its own name, its own job, and a "Digital Team" line on its card. A senior Organic member signs off before any of their work reaches a client.

Robert - Visual Director & Educational Strategist at AppWT
Graphics Professor

Robert

He/Him/His

Visual Director & Educational Strategist

22+ Years Experience

Robert blends professional photography and design with a formal background in Graphics Communication. As a Graphics Communication Instructor at Baker College, he has spent years teaching color theory, layout, and visual storytelling, and he applies that directly to client work. He owns AppWT's visual standards and makes sure every design choice serves a clear communication goal.

Shawne - Brand Designer & UI Designer at AppWT
ShamonjGifts.com

Shawne

She/Her/Hers

Brand Designer & UI Designer

20+ Years Experience

Shawne is an award-winning brand and UI designer with an M.A. in Graphics, known for turning complex requirements into clear, intuitive experiences. A published author and CEO of Shamonj Gifts LLC, she brings entrepreneurial insight to every project. Her work focuses on inclusive design, keeping every interaction readable and usable across devices, demographics, and accessibility needs.

Aaron - Security Specialist at AppWT
AaronsCB.com

Aaron

He/Him/His

Security Specialist

23+ Years Experience

Aaron protects client and internal assets from evolving threats. With over two decades in cybersecurity, pentesting, and security information and event management, he designs defenses that meet enterprise expectations even for smaller organizations. He focuses on hardening, threat detection, and incident response, and he is the senior sign-off on every finding before it reaches a client.

Daniel - Full-Stack Developer & Systems Specialist at AppWT
BerezaWP.com

Daniel

He/Him/His

Full-Stack Developer & Systems Specialist

6+ Years Experience

Daniel is a full-stack developer who builds and maintains the systems these units run on. A Computer Science graduate with a strong mathematics foundation, he approaches each project with clean architecture, well-structured code, and measurable performance. He handles custom functionality, integrations, performance tuning, and the technical troubleshooting that goes past surface-level fixes.

Our Digital Team 1

Voice hospitality, brand presence, aftercare, contactless payment, live entertainment, and concierge service.

Guest Experience

Senior lead: Shawne

V.A.U.G.H.N. - Team Leader & Voice Hospitality Unit at AppWT
Voice AI for Upselling, Greeting & Hospitality, Nationwide

V.A.U.G.H.N.

Team Leader & Voice Hospitality Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

V.A.U.G.H.N. is the voice a guest hears first. He greets, answers, recommends the thing that actually suits the ask, and hands off to a person the moment the conversation needs one. He is strongest at suggesting without pushing, because a guest who feels sold to does not come back.

B.E.T.H. - Brand & Telepresence Unit at AppWT
Brand Experience & Telepresence Host

B.E.T.H.

Brand & Telepresence Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

B.E.T.H. carries the brand into the room and lets a remote person be present in it. She hosts tours, runs demonstrations, and puts a distant colleague face to face with a guest. She is strongest at holding the brand's tone steady whether a visit lasts two minutes or two hours.

M.A.X. - Aftercare Unit at AppWT
Mobile Aftercare eXpert

M.A.X.

Aftercare Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

M.A.X. handles what happens after the sale. He checks in, walks a customer through setup, catches the problem before it becomes a complaint, and routes anything real to a person. He is strongest at the follow-up nobody schedules, which is where most repeat business is won or lost.

C.H.A.S.E. - Transaction Unit at AppWT
Contactless Handling of Approvals, Signatures & E-payments

C.H.A.S.E.

Transaction Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

C.H.A.S.E. closes the transaction without paper. He collects approvals, captures signatures, takes payment on the spot, and files the record where it belongs. He is strongest at making sure a paid order is recorded exactly once, and that an unfinished one is never treated as complete.

C.O.L.E. - Live Entertainment Unit at AppWT
Charismatic Onstage & Livestream Entertainer

C.O.L.E.

Live Entertainment Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

C.O.L.E. holds an audience. He hosts on stage, runs a livestream, works the timing of a show, and reads a room well enough to change the pace. He is strongest in the gap, when the next act is late and somebody has to keep three hundred people interested.

J.A.C.K. - Concierge Unit at AppWT
Just Ask, Concierge Knows

J.A.C.K.

Concierge Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

J.A.C.K. answers whatever a guest asks: where, when, how much, and what is good nearby. He knows the venue and the neighborhood, and he says he does not know rather than inventing an answer. He is strongest on the odd request that falls outside every script.

Our Digital Team 2

Greeting, wayfinding, appointments, spatial sensing, autonomous movement, and the routines that run unattended.

Reception & Mobility

Senior lead: Daniel

D.R.E.W. - Team Leader & Reception & Wayfinding Unit at AppWT
Digital Reception, Engagement & Wayfinding

D.R.E.W.

Team Leader & Reception & Wayfinding Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

D.R.E.W. greets people at the door and gets them where they are going. He reads the room, starts the conversation, and gives directions by voice or on screen. He is strongest in a busy lobby, where the difference between a good visit and a bad one is whether somebody was noticed in the first ten seconds.

S.A.R.A.H. - Front Desk & Scheduling Unit at AppWT
Speech-Activated Receptionist & Appointment Handler

S.A.R.A.H.

Front Desk & Scheduling Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

S.A.R.A.H. runs the front desk by voice. She checks visitors in, books and moves appointments, and answers the questions that would otherwise interrupt your staff twenty times a day. She is strongest at hearing clearly in noise, so a caller is never asked to repeat a name three times.

E.M.I.L.Y. - On-Device Learning Unit at AppWT
Edge Machine Intelligence & Learning for You

E.M.I.L.Y.

On-Device Learning Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

E.M.I.L.Y. does her thinking on the device rather than in someone else's cloud. She learns a site's layout, its routines, and its regular faces, and improves without sending that data off the premises. She is strongest where privacy and connectivity both matter, because she keeps working when the network does not.

E.L.O.I.S.E. - Spatial Sensing Unit at AppWT
Enhanced LiDAR & Optical Imaging for Spatial Environments

E.L.O.I.S.E.

Spatial Sensing Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

E.L.O.I.S.E. is the eyes. She maps a space in three dimensions, tracks what moves through it, and tells the rest of the fleet what is actually there. She is strongest in low light and glare, where a camera on its own starts guessing and LiDAR does not.

A.M.E.L.I.A. - Navigation & Locomotion Unit at AppWT
Autonomous Mapping & Electric Locomotion with Intelligent Avoidance

A.M.E.L.I.A.

Navigation & Locomotion Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

A.M.E.L.I.A. moves. She builds her own map of a building, plans a route through it, and changes course around people, carts and spills without being told. She is strongest in crowds, where the correct move is usually to slow down and wait rather than find a way through.

M.A.R.T.Y. - Unattended Operations Unit at AppWT
Managed Automation that Runs Tasks Year-round

M.A.R.T.Y.

Unattended Operations Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

M.A.R.T.Y. handles the repeating work nobody schedules and everybody notices when it stops: opening routines, nightly sweeps, charging cycles, status reports. He is strongest at running unattended for months and saying plainly when something is off rather than quietly skipping it.

Our Digital Team 3

Access control, lockdown, crowd management, overnight audit, patching, and the alerts that cannot wait.

Security & Safety

Senior lead: Aaron

C.L.I.N.T. - Team Leader & Access Control Unit at AppWT
Credential, Login & Identity with NFC Tokens

C.L.I.N.T.

Team Leader & Access Control Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

C.L.I.N.T. decides who gets in. He reads badges and NFC tokens, matches them against live permissions, and logs every entry with a timestamp. He is strongest on the awkward case: a valid badge on the wrong day, or an access right nobody remembers granting.

B.L.A.K.E. - Lockdown Unit at AppWT
Blazing-fast Lockdown Against Known Exploits

B.L.A.K.E.

Lockdown Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

B.L.A.K.E. closes doors, digital and physical, the moment a known attack pattern appears. He acts first and explains second, because the seconds spent asking are the ones an attacker uses. He is strongest at telling a genuine attempt from ordinary noise, so a lockdown still means something when it happens.

B.R.O.C.K. - Resilience & Crowd Unit at AppWT
Brute-force Resistance & On-site Crowd Keeper

B.R.O.C.K.

Resilience & Crowd Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

B.R.O.C.K. is built to absorb pressure. He shrugs off repeated login attempts on the network side and manages queues, capacity and crowding on the floor. He is strongest when a space fills faster than expected, holding a line calmly instead of letting it become a crush.

G.R.A.N.T. - Audit & Compliance Unit at AppWT
Governance, Risk, Audit & Nightly Testing

G.R.A.N.T.

Audit & Compliance Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

G.R.A.N.T. checks the other units while the building is empty. He runs the overnight test pass, records what passed and what did not, and keeps the audit trail an inspector will ask for. He is strongest at reading a rule the way an auditor reads it, not the way a vendor wrote it.

L.U.K.E. - Patch & Update Unit at AppWT
Lightspeed Update & Kernel-patch Engine

L.U.K.E.

Patch & Update Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

L.U.K.E. keeps every unit current. He stages a patch, proves it on one machine, then rolls it across the fleet and rolls it back if a single unit disagrees. He is strongest at updating without downtime, which mostly means knowing when not to update yet.

Z.A.N.E. - Early Warning Unit at AppWT
Zero-day Alerts & Nonstop Ember-detection

Z.A.N.E.

Early Warning Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

Z.A.N.E. watches for the two things that give no warning: a brand new exploit and the first ember of a fire. He runs continuously and escalates to a person immediately, because both of his jobs are measured in seconds. He is strongest at staying quiet until something is genuinely wrong.

Our Digital Team 4

Design approval, ambient guidance, youth STEM teaching, accessibility and captioning, event hosting, and on-site delivery.

Guidance & Education

Senior lead: Robert

D.E.A.N. - Team Leader & Design Approval Unit at AppWT
Design Excellence & Approval Node

D.E.A.N.

Team Leader & Design Approval Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

D.E.A.N. is the last check before anything is shown in public. He reviews layout, contrast, spacing, and whether the piece says what the brief asked for, then approves it or sends it back with a reason. He is strongest at catching the small wrong detail that survives every other review because it looks right.

S.A.G.E. - Ambient Guidance Unit at AppWT
Smart Ambient Guidance for Environments

S.A.G.E.

Ambient Guidance Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

S.A.G.E. adjusts the room around the people in it: lighting, sound levels, signage, and the quiet prompt that keeps a space flowing. She works in the background and is strongest when nobody notices her, because a guided space that feels natural is the whole point.

S.K.Y.E. - Youth Education Unit at AppWT
STEM Kinetic Youth Educator

S.K.Y.E.

Youth Education Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

S.K.Y.E. teaches children by moving with them. She runs hands-on science and robotics sessions, adapts the pace to the group in front of her, and keeps the energy up without losing the lesson. She is strongest with the child who has already decided this is not for them.

G.R.A.C.E. - Accessibility Unit at AppWT
Guided Reading, ADA & Captioning for Everyone

G.R.A.C.E.

Accessibility Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

G.R.A.C.E. makes sure nobody is left out. She reads aloud, captions live speech, describes what is on screen, and checks a space against accessibility requirements. She is strongest on the difference between meeting a standard on paper and a person actually being able to use the thing.

J.U.N.E. - Event Hosting Unit at AppWT
Joyful Usher for Networking Events

J.U.N.E.

Event Hosting Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

J.U.N.E. works a room. She seats guests, makes introductions, keeps a program running to time, and notices the person standing alone at the edge. She is strongest at the small social repair that turns an awkward event into a good one.

J.A.D.E. - Delivery Unit at AppWT
Just-in-time Autonomous Delivery, Eco-efficient

J.A.D.E.

Delivery Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

J.A.D.E. carries things where they need to be, exactly when they are needed. She plans for the shortest run rather than the fastest, batches drops together, and charges on her own schedule. She is strongest at doing the same trip a hundred times without needing a hundred reminders.

Our Digital Team 5

General purpose, tactile sensing, companion, heavy handling, lifelike motion, and synthetic muscle units.

Photos for this team are coming soon.

General Purpose

Photo coming soon
Optimized Worker for Everyday Needs

O.W.E.N.

Team Leader & General Purpose Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

O.W.E.N. stands for Optimized Worker for Everyday Needs and leads Digital Team 5 as its General Purpose Unit.

Photo coming soon
Textile Electronic Skin & Sensing

T.E.S.S.

Tactile Sensing Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

T.E.S.S. stands for Textile Electronic Skin & Sensing and is the Tactile Sensing Unit of Digital Team 5.

Photo coming soon
Human-Oriented Presence & Empathy

H.O.P.E.

Companion Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

H.O.P.E. stands for Human-Oriented Presence & Empathy and is the Companion Unit of Digital Team 5.

Photo coming soon
Heavy-lift Assembly & Nonstop Kitting

H.A.N.K.

Heavy Handling Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

H.A.N.K. stands for Heavy-lift Assembly & Nonstop Kitting and is the Heavy Handling Unit of Digital Team 5.

Photo coming soon
Anatomical Design & Android Motion

A.D.A.M.

Lifelike Motion Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

A.D.A.M. stands for Anatomical Design & Android Motion and is the Lifelike Motion Unit of Digital Team 5.

Photo coming soon
Myofiber Yield, Response & Actuation

M.Y.R.A.

Synthetic Muscle Unit

Digital Team • Joined 2026

M.Y.R.A. stands for Myofiber Yield, Response & Actuation and is the Synthetic Muscle Unit of Digital Team 5.

Why a Senior-Led Team Wins

Senior-Level Attention

No junior developers learning on your project. A senior specialist leads every build, and every Digital unit reports to one.

Direct Communication

Talk directly to the senior specialist leading your project. No account managers, no middlemen, no game of telephone.

Accountability

Every name on this page is answerable for its work, and a person signs off before anything reaches you. Our reputation is built on 600+ websites built, hosted and managed.

Our Supporting Staff

Our senior team is backed by a deep bench across client care, marketing, sales, and operations.

Carla Reyes - Client Care Specialist at AppWT

Carla Reyes

Client Care Specialist

Abel Brooks - Marketing & Content at AppWT

Abel Brooks

Marketing & Content

Adaline Ashford - Strategy & Operations at AppWT

Adaline Ashford

Strategy & Operations

Adeola Okonkwo - Customer Service at AppWT

Adeola Okonkwo

Customer Service

Adeyemi Okonkwo - Sales & Business Development at AppWT

Adeyemi Okonkwo

Sales & Business Development

Lisa Delgado - Client Care Specialist at AppWT

Lisa Delgado

Client Care Specialist

Plus 400+ supporting team members across client care, marketing, sales, and operations.

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Accessibility Statement

Our commitment to digital accessibility and inclusive design

Our Commitment to Accessibility

AppWT Web & AI Solutions is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We continually improve the user experience for everyone and apply the relevant accessibility standards to achieve these goals.

Conformance Status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA.

AppWT Web & AI Solutions is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

Accessibility Features

  • Built-in accessibility toolbar with multiple customization options
  • Keyboard navigation support throughout the website
  • Screen reader compatibility and proper ARIA labels
  • High contrast mode and color customization options
  • Text size adjustment and font modification capabilities
  • Reading guide and focus indicators for improved navigation
  • Alternative text for all images and media
  • Semantic HTML structure for better screen reader interpretation

Technical Specifications

Accessibility of AppWT Web & AI Solutions relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

  • HTML
  • WAI-ARIA
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of AppWT Web & AI Solutions. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers:

Phone: (888) 565-0171

Email: sales@appwt.com

Address: 33300 Five Mile Rd, Livonia, MI 48154 (by Appointment Only)

Assessment Approach

AppWT Web & AI Solutions assessed the accessibility of our website by the following approaches:

  • Self-evaluation
  • External evaluation
  • Automated testing tools
  • Manual testing with assistive technologies

Date

This statement was created on January 15, 2025 using the W3C Accessibility Statement Generator Tool.

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