Frances Naty Go
I build website masterpieces for museums, cultural institutions, and creative leaders doing work worth remembering. Founder of Goldlilys Media. 15+ years as a website systems architect.
Hello! I'm Frances Naty Go, founder of Goldlilys Media and a website systems architect building website masterpieces for organizations and creative leaders doing work worth remembering.
My journey began in the Philippines and continued in San Diego, where I grew up learning a new language and a new culture, and often feeling like I didn't quite fit in either.
It was in technology, especially video games, that I first found a world where I felt I mattered. That early sense of contribution in digital spaces is what eventually led me to build them for a living.
Likes
I like the discipline of balancing creativity with logic, building websites that are beautiful because they're built well, not the other way around. I like working with mission-driven teams who care about clarity, stewardship, and the long view. And I like the moment a client realizes their website is no longer something they apologize for.
Dislikes
I steer clear of cookie-cutter templates and trend-chasing design. A website should reflect who an organization is and who it serves, not what happened to be popular the year it was built.
My Why
Powerful missions are too often hidden behind outdated, overwhelming websites. The work deserves better. My driving force is making sure organizations doing meaningful work are seen, trusted, and remembered by the people they serve, not just today, but for the generations who'll encounter their work later.
Vision
I envision a world where every mission-driven organization and creative leader has a website masterpiece that carries their legacy forward, long after the work itself speaks for them. Museums, cultural institutions, nonprofits, universities, healthcare and life science innovators, and the artists, authors, and thought leaders whose work shapes what comes next.
My Story
My path hasn't been a straight line. From the quiet girl who barely spoke English, to a Computer Science degree from UC San Diego, to founding a consultancy serving mission-driven organizations, I've learned that being different isn't a flaw. It's a point of view.
I named the company Goldlilys Media in honor of Claude Monet's Water Lilies: a body of work he painted late in life, in a garden he built himself, that still moves people who never knew him more than a century later. That's the belief at the heart of everything we build. A website, like a painting, can be a masterpiece. And a masterpiece, done well, outlives its maker.
I'm here to help organizations and creative leaders build websites worthy of the work they're doing where websites are built as durable trust systems, not campaigns.
Let’s build your digital masterpiece, together.
