Systems · Video · Websites · Ads · Sarasota, FL
Look like a million.Run like clockwork.
We build the system your business runs on, and the marketing that keeps it full. Leads, dashboards, data and the way the work gets done. Films, websites and ads on top. One team, and everything in your name.
- 5.0 on Google
- Featured in Architectural Digest
- 60+ films for one builder
- 10 years with our longest client
Free · No pitch · 48–72 hours
See your market the way your competitors already do.
Who gets your buyers' searches, what your assets do for you, and where demand leaks. In plain English, with what we'd fix first.
- A 3-minute personal video walkthrough of what we found
- Your market: who is capturing your buyers' searches, and where demand is leaking
- Your presence score, the 2–3 gaps costing you most, and the first thing we'd fix
What we do
We fix both, with one team. What a buyer sees and what you run become one system.
The look
Look like a million.
So the buyer who looks you up three times finds work that matches the price.
Films of your real jobs, and a job for every film.
A website built to be measured, in your name.
Meta and Google campaigns, with the spend and the result in one view.
Renders and presale films for buildings that don't exist yet.
The run
Run like clockwork.
So the business runs without you in the room, and answers in a sentence.
Every lead in one place, tagged with what produced it, followed up on time.
One dashboard: pipeline, spend, what sold and what's left.
Custom software where you need it: a CRM, a dashboard, the link between your tools.
AI on the night shift: follow-ups drafted, ad spend flagged, held for your OK.
What we find
Nobody can find you.
Your competitors get the searches your buyers type. You have the pages, but they don't use the words people search, or name the places you build.
The ones who do find you land in an inbox.
A serious buyer's form becomes an email, read once on a phone. No record of what brought them, no follow-up, no way to know which page paid off.
The work that would sell it sits on a hard drive.
Renders, films, floor plans, photos: paid for, finished, never published. Or published too big to play.
Nobody can answer the investor question.
How many have we sold, how did they find us, and what did each one cost? Across every property and market, pieced together from spreadsheets, days late.
It all lives in one person's head.
How a job gets quoted, scheduled and closed out lives only with the owner. Take a week off and it shows.
Your tools don't talk to each other.
The CRM, the ad account, the spreadsheet and the books each hold a piece, so every number takes an afternoon.
We can check each one on your business in an afternoon. That's the audit, and you keep the findings whether you hire us or not.
Why they choose someone else →How it works
Find it. Build it. Fill it. Run it.
Find it.
We audit your market like a competitor would: what buyers search, who gets it, what your assets say, where demand leaks. We walk you through it before you sign.
Build it.
The site and the system under it. Every inquiry in one place, tagged with its source, sent to the right person. Inventory, progress and spend on one screen, for every property.
Fill it.
Film the work, sharpen the message, run the campaigns. From you, it takes a shoot day on site.
Run it.
Processes written down, data connected, follow-ups drafted overnight and held for your OK. Each month ends with a report, last month beside it.
See everything we do →“Video is how people see our work, and our clients' work. The work itself is bigger: fixing the problems a business has been fighting for years, sometimes decades, so it gets simpler, lasts, and scales.”
The night shift
Follow-ups written overnight. Nothing sent without you.
While you sleep, a lead who went quiet gets a follow-up drafted from what they asked about. An ad set past the cap you agreed gets flagged to pause. On Monday, your week is written up. It all waits for your OK in the morning: approve, edit, or dismiss.
Built for your business, on a stack you own outright. Not a seat we rent you, or a login you lose if we part ways.
See the platform →Proof, not adjectives
Featured · Custom Homes & Renovations · Cape Cod, MA
Clancy Construction
40 videos across five divisions: flooring, renovations, excavation, and an in-house cabinetry shop.
See the case study →Custom Homes · Seattle → Guatapé, Colombia
Schenkar
Media partner since 2019: 60+ films, from Puget Sound customs to a cliffside build featured in Architectural Digest editions.
See the case study →Luxury Painting · Sarasota, FL
B&B Professional Painting
Where Stellar started: a 50-year family company on Sarasota's keys, filmed on cell phones until the work got the film crew it deserved.
See the case study →60+
Films for one builder
10 years
Our longest partnership
15+
Years behind the camera
5.0
Stars on Google
★★★★★
See the Schenkar story →“Over seven to eight years, I can attribute at least one to two custom home builds in the $2M–$4M range to our investment with Stellar.”
Who we work with
If you sell something big, in a place, to people who think about it first.
Developers selling across several properties or markets.
Commercial builders and construction companies.
Car-condo, storage and membership communities.
Commercial realtors with inventory to move.
Custom builders and premium trades doing work worth showing.
What they share isn't the trade. It's a considered sale, a buyer who looks you up three times before calling, and a business that still runs on somebody's phone.
We go deep with each client, not wide. If you're smaller and the problem is the same, say so. We still do that work.
We're not the cheapest way to get any of this done, and we're not trying to be. If the lowest price is what decides it, we're not your best call.
The team
Meet the team.
One person picks up, and it's John. Alongside him each part of the work has an owner, and all of it lands in the same place, so you're never chasing four people to get one answer.
We're a collective by design: four independent studios working as one team. You sign one agreement and you talk to one person. And because each of us runs our own shop, the person doing your work is the one answerable for it.
John Markadakis
Your contactStrategy, film, and the system underneath
Stellar Media Collective
A trade background, fifteen years of film, and the one who builds the system your business runs on. On every shoot, and the person you talk to.
Dinko Ibukic
Websites, search and the software
Dinko Design
Ten years building the site, the dashboards and the CRMs under it, on a stack you own outright and can take anywhere.
Jason McGouldrick
Paid media: Google and Meta
Spark Digital
Owner-operator. The person on your account is the person on the call, and your spend goes straight to the platforms.
Dijana Mihajlovic
3D visualization and presale campaigns
KNTXT Group
Renders and films a building before it exists, so units can be sold while the concrete is still being poured.
Our commitments
You own it. You can run it. We'll say when not to spend.
Everything is in your name.
Your website and its code. Your leads and every message you've sent them. Your ad accounts and the audiences inside them. We open all of it in your name and hand you the logins as we go. If you ever leave, nothing gets packed up. None of it was ours to take.
We teach you to run it.
We show you how to edit your site, read your numbers and work your ad account. Most people still hand it back to us. But the reason you stay should be that it's working, not that nobody else can log in.
We'll tell you to wait.
We won't take your ad money until there's a page worth sending it to. We once asked a client to hold their budget for two months while we fixed what sat underneath. And we charge a flat fee for the work, so we never earn more by telling you to spend more.
Where to start
Where to start. Every way in opens with the free audit.
Selling inventory across markets? Start with the system, scoped on the call. Otherwise we look first, then scope it. There's no menu to pick from before anyone has seen your market.
Nobody can price this off a menu, because nobody knows what you need until they've looked. So the first call is the scope: what's leaking, what to fix first, and one honest number to fix it. Most people start smaller than they expect. And the site, accounts and data we set up are in your name.
When we run your ads, there's a 90-day guarantee, in writing. Read it.
Start with the free audit →Before you ask
The questions everyone asks, answered.
- I don't want to be on camera.
- Most people say that. We don't hand you lines to read. We ask about your own work, and you answer in your own words. It sounds like you because it is you.
- I don't have time for this.
- We film on your job site while your crew works. We plan the day ahead, so your part is answering questions.
- What if I don't like it?
- You see a first cut, tell us what to fix, and we lock it. Two rounds of changes, every time.
- What if it doesn't work?
- When we run your ads, it's in writing. We agree what a qualified call is and how many you should get. Your 90 days start when your ads go live, no later than day 45 from signing. Short by day 90? We keep going free for another 90. Still short? We part ways clean, and you owe nothing more.
- How much is it?
- Scoped on the first call. A two-truck outfit and a fifteen-crew builder don't need the same thing. Most people start smaller than they expect.
- I already tried an agency.
- Most of them hand you videos. Every video we make has a job and a place to live: a page on your site, an ad, or an answer to a question that was costing you jobs.
- I don't really have a website.
- Then that's where we start. Dinko Design builds it, as part of the collective, and the films go straight into it.
Taking new clients now
If your business is better than the way it looks, or the way it runs, we should fix that.
One free audit, two halves. Your market: who gets your buyers' searches, and where demand leaks. Your presence: how you show up when they find you, scored across 8 categories. Back in 48–72 hours with what we'd fix first. No pitch.
Not ready to talk? Score your own presence in 2 minutes. No email required.