Custom digital products · California
The DMS approach
Who we are
DMS — Distribution Media Services is a family-run company that started in the 1980s working in film, television and media. Today it covers a much wider range of services for film and business — distribution, media strategy, and the tools both increasingly rely on.
DMS Apps is DMS's software subsidiary. We build custom digital products — websites, internal tools and business apps — designed around how a company actually works, not forced into an off-the-shelf template.
Our security partner is Aksan Labs. Founder Patrick Aksan brings 25 years of IT infrastructure experience and active Microsoft Azure security certifications to every review.
The DMS Apps Standard
Every product—small internal tool or customer-facing platform—is held to the same practical standard.
Every app runs on an up-to-date, modern codebase (Next.js, TypeScript). We run regular security scans to check for common weak points — exposed keys, unsafe input handling, outdated dependencies — before an app reaches customers, and re-scan after significant changes, not just once at launch.
Your logo, your colors and your brand. Your team and customers see your business — not a template.
Clear page titles and descriptions, a sitemap, explicit permission for AI crawlers to read the site, and structured data that spells out who you are and what you offer — for both search engines (SEO) and AI answer engines (AEO).
Uptime monitoring helps us know when something goes down — and act — before your customers notice.
Contract reading, document processing and workflow automation where they genuinely save time, handling the boring part so people get faster service from you.
We remain available for bug fixes, small updates and questions once your product is live.
Your data and your customers' data are handled with care — not shared, not sold and stored securely.
How it works
We ask about your ideas and the problems you’re facing.
We find what’s slow, repetitive or not working.
A clear plan built around the needs you showed us.
You review, test and refine it with us as it comes to life.
Good to know
DMS Apps builds custom digital tools for any business — customer-facing apps, internal systems, custom front ends for platforms you already use (including Shopify), and modern websites. Every solution is tailored to your workflow.
Every app is custom-built and carries your logo, your colors and your brand — not DMS Apps'. Your team and customers see your business, not a generic template.
Every app runs on an up-to-date, modern codebase (Next.js, TypeScript). DMS Apps runs regular security scans to check for common weak points before an app reaches customers, and re-scans after significant changes.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is what makes a site show up when someone searches on Google. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is the same idea for AI — it's what lets tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity understand what a business does and recommend it. DMS Apps builds both into every project from the start.
Yes. DMS Apps and DMS Films (dms-films.com) are both part of the same DMS — Distribution Media Services family, a California-based company.
Email contact@dms-apps.com, call +1 310 921 0240, or use the contact form at dms-apps.com/contact. DMS Apps is based in Hermosa Beach, California.
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