Why we exist
The world did not need another web-design agency.
It did need serious, owner-controlled technology for small businesses that have been underserved, overcharged, and asked to tolerate too much unnecessary machinery.
Paper Monkey
We built the kind of help we wanted to find.
Running Paper Monkey Legal meant being squeezed from every direction: another subscription, another login, another database, another disconnected provider, and another rising bill—often while the actual service got worse. We were over it.
Small businesses should have access to cutting-edge capability without enterprise-sized machinery, perpetual software rental, or surrendering control of their own information. They should be able to look and operate like serious competitors in a regional or global marketplace without pretending to be something they are not.
We do not love websites for their own sake. We care what they let a business do.
Small should describe the size of a business—not the quality of its tools or the confidence of its presentation.
Greg Taylor
Founder & Systems Builder
An involuntary entrepreneur.Greg started his first business at twelve. Over the following 33 years, he built several ventures of his own and spent much of his working life helping other owners build theirs.
A serious car accident in the early 2000s forced a change in trajectory and led him into web design. He founded Parrot Studios, one of Central Oregon’s early regional web-design providers, and ran it until 2007. The work never really disappeared; it became part of a broader habit of studying systems, learning unfamiliar subjects, and finding connections other people miss.
Greg later built Paper Monkey Legal from nothing into a stable operating business. Living with its real constraints—clients, deadlines, evidence, field work, technology, and cost—made the problem behind Paper Monkey Small Business Systems impossible to ignore. This is not theory about what owners need. It comes from being one.
Education
A deliberately broad foundation.
- Master of Environmental Studies
- The Evergreen State College
- Bachelor of Arts in General Studies
- The Evergreen State College
- Associate in General Studies
- Grays Harbor College
- Associate in Arts – Direct Transfer Agreement
- Grays Harbor College · psychology focus
What we stand for
The machinery should serve the business.
Direct responsibility
The person who learns the business owns the decisions and the result. You are not passed through a sales team and a chain of strangers.
Individual where it shows
We reuse proven machinery, not somebody else’s identity. The public result should belong unmistakably to the business it represents.
Quality without waste
Complexity must earn its place. We use only the technology, data, and attention the problem genuinely requires—without sacrificing capability or experience.
Owner control without owner busywork
You should control your business, information, and choices without having to become a system administrator to keep them working.
The test
Sometimes the correct answer is that you do not need what somebody else was prepared to sell you.
Have a stubborn problem? Let us start with what the business actually needs.
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