About Ad Astra
Built on strategy. Driven by curiosity. More than 20 years of combined experience — from big-picture marketing to the bits and bytes.
The Team
Meet Amber & Stephen
Marketing Strategist
Amber Apple
Amber Apple is a digital marketing strategist with over 15 years of experience spanning corporate marketing, agency partnerships, and consulting roles.
- •15+ years in corporate marketing, agency partnerships, and consulting
- •Specializes in corporations, non-profits, and faith-based ministries
- •Philosophy: clarity over jargon, intentional strategy, and results that actually matter
- •“Pretty but confusing” is still confusing — no smoke, no mirrors, marketing that pulls its weight
Website Design & Engineering
Stephen Apple
Stephen Apple has spent more than 20 years as a consultant and occasional employee helping small to medium-sized businesses and startups build technology that actually works.
His career began as a video editor and graphic designer, then evolved into motion graphics for video and later as a motion graphic designer and animator for the web. From there he moved into website design, website development, frontend web engineering, and eventually hardware and firmware-level C coding engineering. He works fluently in Python, C, PHP, TypeScript, JavaScript, and multiple frameworks. Along the way, he transitioned from project consultant roles to brief employee stints working on specialized projects, to serving as tech lead on side startup ventures with multiple founders, to co-founder of his own startup for three years and co-founder and CEO of another for five years.
- •20+ years as a consultant and occasional employee for small to medium-sized businesses and startups
- •Progressed from project consultant and specialized employee roles to tech lead on startup ventures with multiple founders
- •Co-founder of his own startup (3 years) and co-founder & CEO of another (5 years)
- •Proficient in Python, C, PHP, TypeScript, JavaScript, and multiple frameworks, with extensive system architecture experience across server, cloud hosting, and microservices (from large complex systems to small lightweight services)
- •Focuses on choosing the right tool for the job to deliver fast turnarounds and build the right way the first time with seamless integrations
He now works as a startup consultant and partners closely with Amber at Ad Astra, handling website design, development, and custom code projects that bring marketing strategies to life with reliable technical execution.
Who We Are
Our Approach
Strategy and execution should feel intentional, transparent, and connected to real business growth.
Analytical Strategy
We dig into data, but we explain it in plain language.
Creative Problem-Solving
We find the approaches others overlook — on both the marketing and technical side.
Right Tool, Built Right
Deep architecture experience means we choose the right tech and ship fast, the correct way the first time.