About Ctrl Shift Run
Building the technology and running the campaigns that move ambitious brands forward.
Ctrl Shift Run is a technology and advertising agency. We engineer custom websites with Next.js and TypeScript, configure end-to-end analytics with GTM and GA4, and run high-performance Google and Meta ad campaigns.
Our process is built on transparency. Fixed scope. Fixed pricing. Code you own. Ad accounts you own. No markup on ad spend, no surprise add-ons, no proprietary lock-in. The work speaks for itself, and so does the invoice.
The name comes from a keyboard shortcut. Holding Ctrl+Shift while opening a taskbar-pinned application launches it in administrative mode — overriding the default permissions. It's a fitting metaphor for what we do: helping ambitious brands move past the limitations of templated tools and generic marketing, and building the kind of infrastructure that lets them scale without permission.
What we believe
Custom code wins
Every site we ship is custom-built in Next.js.
You own everything
Your code lives in your GitHub. Your ad accounts are in your name. Your data, your domain, your brand — always yours, never ours.
Honest pricing or none at all
Every tier and every add-on is published. Every revision count is published. The price you see is the price you pay — even on the ad spend, which we never mark up.
About the founder
Founder & Lead Engineer
Nikki Quinn Baker, raised in Florida, has always embraced adventure and thought beyond conventional boundaries. When faced with a 'no,' he consistently found alternative paths to the desired outcome. As social media platforms grew over the years, he mastered the nuances of each channel and built a track record of helping brands grow across them. That expertise evolved into Ctrl Shift Run.