I make custom QR codes for local businesses. The kind that don't look like something a parking enforcement officer slapped on your window. Real art. Real scannable. Printed on real materials. Delivered by a real person who shows up.
The QR code on every restaurant window, every coffee shop counter, every salon front desk: a generic black-and-white square that someone made on a free generator at 2pm on a Tuesday and never thought about again.
It looks bad. It often doesn't even scan because it's printed on glossy laminate that catches afternoon glare. It says nothing about your brand. It might as well say "we don't care."
You can do better than that.
Better Squares makes the artistic kind. AI-generated, designed to look like actual art, woven around a QR pattern that reliably scans every time. Each one custom-made for your specific business — your colors, your vibe, the thing your shop actually feels like inside.
Then I print it on matte vinyl (no glare, no failed scans). Then I scan-test it on three phones in four lighting conditions before it leaves my shop. Then I deliver it.
The boring square's days are numbered.
I walk into your shop. I'm wearing a QR code shirt because of course I am. Inside the briefcase: 15 sample pieces showing exactly what I can make. You hold them, you scan them, you decide what kind feels right for your business.
Custom-designed for your business. Your colors, your vibe, your aesthetic. Every code goes through a four-level scan test on multiple phones before it gets to you. I don't ship anything that fails to scan, ever.
I drop it off. Cash, card, whatever. One time. Done. No subscription, no monthly fee, no "growth plan." If anything doesn't scan in the first 30 days, I replace it free. That's the whole deal.
$49 once. Ever. See where, when, and how often it gets scanned. Hosted on my server, yours to use as long as I'm running. No monthly anything.
Free with any order. I print a credit-card-sized version right at your counter so you can scan-test it yourself before I make the real thing.
Most "AI QR codes" online look amazing in screenshots and fail under real-world conditions — afternoon sun, store lighting, bad camera angles. You don't see the failures because nobody tests them.
I do. Every single piece, every single time. It's tedious and it's the entire point.
Local businesses get a walk-in visit with the briefcase. Everyone else, I'll reach out and we'll figure it out from there.