Chris Clay
Founder and CEO. Leads the agency and works directly with clients on strategy. Full bio
About us
About · The Clay Media
The Clay Media was founded in 2009 and has grown into a full-service web design and management agency. We build websites that look right and bring in business, and then we keep them working.
Who we are
We are a Southern California agency. Our clients include contractors, manufacturers, industrial suppliers, nonprofits, and local service businesses.
Every business is different, so we start by learning yours: what you sell, who buys it, and what those buyers need to see before they call. The site is designed around that.
When you hire us, you are not buying a website and a goodbye. You are getting a team that stays on it.
Meet our founder
Chris Clay, Founder and CEO. Born and raised in Oakland, California, Chris started as a batboy for the Oakland A’s, interned for the team’s general manager, and went on to work as a video coordinator with the Cleveland Indians. He built a video system that helped players work on their mechanics, then moved into IT management at a bond trading firm.
When he could not find a high-quality website for his own brand, he started building them for others. That became The Clay Media, founded in 2009, and he still runs it.
The team
The people you will deal with on a project.
Alex Konda
VP of Media Buying. Runs media campaigns for clients with a focus on return on ad spend. Profile
Ali Irfan
DevOps Manager. Leads development operations: deployment, infrastructure and keeping client systems fast and reliable. Profile
What we do
Web design and management
Websites built to convert, then kept secure and current. See website management.
SEO
Technical fixes and content that bring in search traffic. See SEO.
Paid advertising
Campaigns measured by leads and sales. See paid advertising.
Lead generation
Systems that find and deliver the right prospects. See lead generation.
Agentic websites
Sites that read their own data and improve every week. See agentic websites.
Custom systems
Portals and tools behind the website. See our case studies.
Our web design process
Discovery: your business, goals, and audience
Strategy: site structure, keywords, and user flow
Design: mockups and visual direction
Development: a fast, secure, responsive site
Launch and optimize: live, with ongoing improvements
Every project follows these five steps, so the site is working from the day it launches.
How we work with clients
Web design and digital marketing change quickly, and keeping up with them is part of the job. We bring what we learn to the sites we manage.
We care about whether the work produces results for you. If something is not the right fit for your business, we will tell you.
See your new homepage before you pay us anything
Send us your site and we will design a new homepage for it, free. If you like it, we talk about next steps.
No obligation.
The Clay Media has built and managed business websites since 2009. See our case studies, or watch the 6-minute overview.