Meet the Founder

The person behind your website.

Zenith Elevation Group is not a faceless agency or an overseas content mill. It is owner operated, run out of Broken Arrow, and built around a simple idea: a local business deserves a partner with 20+ years of technical expertise who actually answers the phone, knows their site inside out, and treats their growth like his own.

Owner operated Broken Arrow, OK No contracts, ever $1M insured (E&O + Cyber)
Chris Herrington, founder of Zenith Elevation Group
Chris Herrington
Founder & Lead Builder
Tulsa Metro
The story

Why I started Zenith Elevation Group.

I kept meeting local business owners who had been burned. They paid an agency thousands for a website, waited months, and ended up with something slow, generic, and already out of date. Or they signed a long contract, then could not get anyone on the phone when something broke. Or they were quoted a heavy deposit before anyone had shown them a single thing worth paying for. Good businesses, treated like ticket numbers.

Zenith Elevation Group is my answer to all of that.

I build the site, I run the hosting, I handle the updates, and I am the person you reach when you need something. No call centers, no handoffs, no contracts. Before I build a single pixel I study your competitors and your local market, so the site is built to win customers, not just to look nice in a portfolio.

I am based right here in Broken Arrow and I work with businesses across the Tulsa metro and beyond. You see your full website before you pay a cent for it. The pricing is flat and posted in plain sight, with no surprise invoices. And when your business grows, the work I do grows with it. That is the entire point. Elevating local businesses to where they should be.

Away from the keyboard, I am a husband and a dad to two kids, ages six and eight. I bring that up because it is tied to how I work. I finish what I start, I show up when I say I will, and the people who know me have learned they can count on that. Those are not lines on a sales page. They are the reputation I have built over the years, and it is exactly what you get when you bring me onto your project. When something matters to your business, it matters to mine.

Where I come from

20+ years of technical expertise.

Before ZEG, I spent more than two decades as a network architect and engineer, designing, building, and running enterprise networks and infrastructure. The kind of systems where downtime costs real money and "it mostly works" is not an acceptable answer. That background shapes everything ZEG delivers: your website sits on infrastructure chosen and configured by someone who has done this at enterprise scale, your email is set up to actually land in inboxes, and your hosting is monitored the way production systems should be.

It also means ZEG can help with more than the website. Office networking and Wi-Fi, security reviews, workflow automation, honest second opinions on vendor quotes. If it plugs in, connects, or runs your business, it is territory I have covered. Most agencies outsource that conversation. Here, it is the same person who built your site.

The Full-Stack Difference

Most web guys know a layer. I've run the whole stack.

I did not learn websites from a course. I learned them from underneath: routing, DNS, servers, security, and the infrastructure everything else sits on. Here is what that buys you.

SEO that isn't guesswork

Most SEO reports tell you what your scores are. I can tell you why. Core Web Vitals, crawl behavior, and page speed are infrastructure problems wearing a marketing name, and I have spent two decades on the infrastructure side of that data.

DNS treated like it matters

To most web designers, DNS is a checkbox in a registrar panel. I have designed and run enterprise DNS. When your email lands in spam or your migration breaks, I fix the actual cause instead of opening a ticket with someone else.

AI that's engineered, not bolted on

I know what every piece of an AI conversation does under the hood: the model, the context, the data it draws from, and the architecture carrying it. My AI builds produce results because the backend is designed to get the most out of the model.

One owner, every layer

When a problem spans design, hosting, DNS, and search, it usually bounces between vendors for weeks. Here it gets solved in one conversation, because every layer has the same owner, and you work with me directly, always.

What I stand for

The standards behind every build.

No buzzwords. Just the way I have decided to run this company, on every project, for every client.

Integrity

I tell you what your business actually needs, not what pads an invoice. If something is not worth your money, I will say so before you spend it.

Focus on solutions

Every decision comes back to one question: does this help you win more customers? If it does not move that needle, it does not make the cut.

Commitment to excellence

Fast, modern, and built to rank. I keep your site current long after launch, because a website is only as good as it is the day a customer lands on it.

Local and accountable

I live and work in the Tulsa metro. You are not a queue position. You are a neighbor whose business I genuinely want to see grow.

Fully insured, which most small shops are not.

ZEG carries $1 million in Professional Liability (E&O) and Cyber Liability coverage through a Berkshire Hathaway insurer. That protection is built for exactly the work I do: websites, hosting, and the customer data that runs through them. You are hiring someone who stands behind the build and carries real coverage for it.

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We also publish Green Country Guide.

Green Country Guide is a local directory covering businesses across Tulsa, Broken Arrow, Owasso, Bixby, and the rest of northeastern Oklahoma. ZEG publishes it, and it says so on its own disclosure page. A handful of ZEG clients appear in its guides, held to the same standard as everyone else: real, operating, locally run, with their own website.

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When you hire ZEG, you are hiring me. I put my name on every site I build, and I plan on being the one you call for a long time to come.

Chris Herrington
Founder, Zenith Elevation Group

Let's elevate your business.

Tell me about your business and I will show you a modern, fully managed website, before you pay anything. Same day reply, in most cases.