About Planeteria

Since 1999, Planeteria has been designing, developing, and supporting community-focused websites for municipalities, public agencies, and private enterprise organizations around the country. We’ve built over 500 sites serving millions of customers. We pride ourselves in offering modular solutions for organizations who want the ability to make adjustments to their website without needing technical support. Additionally, we build our sites with the ability to be comprehensively re-designed without requiring a full re-development effort. This helps save our clients money while keeping your website flexible as the needs of your community and organization change.

We’re also highly focused on providing content support. Our content specialists personally work with you to understand, organize, edit, refine and migrate your content and its structure.

We believe in flexible websites. That means that as your organization grows and changes, the website can evolve easily with you. Utilizing WordPress or Drupal CMS not only allows control of all content by non-technical staff but also allows global design and functionality changes without re-building the entire site. A flexible website keeps your brand fresh and your audience engaged without great expense or difficulty.

Organizationally, Planeteria values positive and collaborative relationships with our clients. The most successful relationships are when we become an extension of your team working towards a common goal. Since 1999, we have designed and developed hundreds of high-quality and feature-rich websites for clients across the country. Our specialty is building custom websites for content-heavy private and public organizations with diverse stakeholder groups.

For Planeteria to create positive and productive digital experiences, we uphold three core values: service, diversity, and equity. We consider those values when proposing solutions for our clients, and we have considered those values as we’ve built our team. We have 25 employees distributed around the country with our main office in Santa Rosa, California. Using a distributed workforce allows us broader access to talent with diverse life experiences. It also provides our team with experience working in a wider variety of communities.

Programming Languages: PHP, ASP, .Net, C#, Javascript, SQL

Content Management Systems: WordPress, Kentico & Drupal

Business Details: CA Micro Small Business 079196688, Minority-Owned Business, Woman-Owned Business

WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT

There are a lot of digital agencies on the planet for you to choose from. You should work with Planeteria because of our unique combination of Our Team, Our Designs, and Our Process. We call it the Planeteria Difference, broken down below:

  • Our Team
  • Our Designs
  • Website Usability
  • Our Process
  • Technology
  • Customer Service Excellence

OUR MISSION

To design digital experiences that support communities in having positive and productive interactions with their local government.

OUR VISION

All local governments provide convenient, modern and valuable digital resources for every community member.

OUR VALUES

Service

– We seek out opportunities to help others.
– We are good listeners and are attentive to client needs.
– We actively research new technologies to support our clients’ goals.
– We volunteer our time and talents within our own communities.
– We respond thoughtfully and punctually in our communications.

Diversity

– We embrace and celebrate people different from ourselves and ideas unlike our own.
– We work to understand other perspectives.
– We believe great solutions are born from gathering a wide variety of ideas.
– We understand our own experience is not the only experience.
– We seek feedback and input from all stakeholders in our projects.

Equity

– We keep in mind that not all people have the same opportunities and resources.
– We actively remove barriers to using our products.
– We believe equity is a basic human right.
– We strive to understand the cultural components of inequity and fight against those components.

OUR TEAM

Sandeep Mehta

Technology Director, CTO

Renu Chadda

Managing Director

Wyatt Benoit

Operations Director

Heidi Peyser

Product Manager

Keegan Ortiz-DeKramer

Development Manager

Tyler Coffin

Sales Manager

Bill Olson

Technical Support Lead

Victoria Kovatch

Sales Associate

Kevin Vasquez

QA Specialist

Ryan Ginsberg

Support and Maintenance Manager

Bryon Deisher

Project Manager

Natalia Ariza

UX/UI Designer

Laura Ali

Project Manager Lead

Crystal Menard

Content Lead

Jym Donovan

Content Specialist

Chris Baxter Dameron

Technical Project Manager

Lori-Ann Fretwell

QA Manager

Nyamekye Annor

QA Specialist

Sam Balino

Content Specialist

What People are Saying

The upgraded site is a huge improvement both for internal and external users. We really appreciated not only the result but the fact that you and your team were so flexible and responsive along the way. Your team provided significant functionality improvements to simplify navigation, integrate Google maps, offer interactive charts, improve the search function and create a mobile-friendly platform.

− Mike Lee, SAN DIEGO COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY

My organization recently worked with Planeteria on a complete website redesign. The project was successful and easy from start to finish. Planeteria reps were extremely responsive and delivered a great product to match my organization's unique needs. Would highly recommend.

− Austin Hughes, LEXTRAN

You have done a phenomenal job with all the twists and turns of this project! I know it was tough with the timeline.

− Craig Yetsko, TOWNSHIP OF NORTHBRUNSWICK, NJ

At every step of the process, Planeteria added value to our website redesign and development project. From the design phase to content organization, from development to terrific customer service and follow-up, the team was a pleasure to work with.

− Justine Kadziel, BASIN RECREATION