William Bastian
William is a tradcoder based in the Pacific Northwest who builds brands, websites, apps, and systems with traditional Catholic faith and the person of Christ at the center of every project.
He designs and ships ordered, durable work—Shopify stores, tactical Catholic branding, video systems, and custom tools—for ministry, private hospitality, and small-business clients.
Core strengths: high-contrast black-and-white tactical Catholic design, Shopify architecture and merch flows, Final Cut/Compressor video loops, AI-assisted image and motion work, web design with SEO, and practical automation.
Portfolio Highlights
- Order of the Rosary — Founded and built the full stack as a tradcoder: branding (black-and-white line-art tactical Catholic aesthetic), Shopify store, TikTok Shop integration, prayer-card and apparel lines, video chant loops, and a custom mobile-app vision with prayer and membership features, all ordered toward Christ and the Rosary.
- Ember & Elixer — Launched and operates a private bartending service drawing on 25 years of hospitality experience; handles outreach, vendor materials, licensing, and booking systems for Portland/Vancouver events.
- Cascadia Digital Partners — Designs and delivers fixed-fee websites, SEO, and lead-generation systems for local small businesses; clean technical builds ordered under a Catholic sense of honest craft and usefulness.
- Vibe Guardrails — Drop-in rules and prompts that keep AI coding tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Lovable, Bolt, v0, and Replit from leaking keys, skipping auth, breaking payments, and deleting code.
- ParishDesk — A friendly assistant for a parish website that answers parishioners’ questions any hour of the day, using only what’s already on the parish website, and drafts weekly bulletin blurbs.
- App & Automation Work — Custom OOTR mobile features (prayer coach, merch integration), X growth automation, and voice-agent experiments—each infused with the purpose of drawing souls and minds toward Christ.
- Supporting Craft — Video editing and compression pipelines, AI image-to-video for saints and branding, trademark and LLC setup, and consistent execution sprints that produce measurable results.
Approach
As a tradcoder he treats every line of code, design, and system as ordered under a traditional pre-Vatican II Catholic frame: clear hierarchy, honest craft, and the conviction that Christ is present in the work.
Based in the Pacific Northwest and available for brand systems, web builds, video, and ministry-adjacent projects.
William builds so that the work itself points beyond itself—to the One who is Truth, Beauty, and the ordered end of all labor.
Ora et labora.