Independent studio — working with brands across the US

Websites worth staring at.

We design and build sites for brands that would rather be remembered than blend in. No templates, no page builders, no committee.

Your website is the only salesperson that never sleeps. Make it unforgettable.

Why studios like ours exist

Most sites are assembled. Ours are designed — every type scale, every transition, every millisecond of load time decided on purpose.

You get one designer and developer from first call to launch. The idea never gets diluted passing between departments.

Same company.
Different answer.

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Before After
Same business, same phone number — everything else rethought Drag, tap, or use the arrow keys

Four rules,
no exceptions

Applied to every project, whatever the budget
Rule 01 — Speed01 / 04

Nobody
waits

A site that takes four seconds to load has already lost a third of its visitors. We build lean — no page builders, no plugin stacks, every image sized for the slot it sits in.

Core Web VitalsLean codebaseOptimized media
This page, just now
Page builder + 24 plugins4.2s
0s12345s
Measured on your device, not quoted from a case study
Rule 02 — Clarity02 / 04

One job
per page

Every page answers one question and offers one obvious next step. Visitors stop getting lost, and you stop paying for pages nobody reads.

Content structureClear hierarchyOne call to action
Five competing actions become one
Rule 03 — Character03 / 04

Look like
yourself

Off-the-shelf templates make every company in an industry look interchangeable. We start from your business — its tone, its customers, its actual offer — and design outward from there.

Custom designType & color systemArt direction
Your competitors bought the same template
Rule 04 — Upkeep04 / 04

Never your
problem

Prices change, a service gets added, a photo needs swapping. Every plan includes time for exactly that. You send a note, we make the change — no dashboard to learn, nothing you can break.

Changes includedHosting & updatesFiles always yours
Thursday, 09:41
Can we put the standard visit up to $210?
Done
No dashboard, no ticket, no invoice

What we
do

Six things, done properly. Take one or take the whole thing.

01

Brand Identity

A new wordmark, palette, type system and the rules that keep it consistent everywhere it shows up. Quoted and scheduled separately from a website build.

02

Web Design

Every page is designed around your content, instead of your content being squeezed into a layout someone else drew. Never a bought template with your logo dropped into it. If you already have a logo we build the palette and type around it; if you want a new one, that is a separate piece of work.

03

Development

Every page is plain HTML and CSS on a stripped-back WordPress base. No page builder, no plugin stack, nothing loading that you did not ask for.

04

Ecommerce

Products, subscriptions or service packages. Stripe and Shopify, with a checkout that doesn’t leak customers.

05

Motion & Interaction

Scroll behaviour, hover states and page transitions — the small movements that make a site feel built rather than assembled. The kind of thing you’re looking at right now.

06

Care & Hosting

Hosting, updates, backups, monitoring and a set number of changes every month. You send a note, we make the change. Included in both plans — never a separate invoice.

How it
goes

Two to three weeks, once your content is ready
Step 01

One call

Thirty minutes on your business, your customers and what the site has to do. You get a fixed scope and a fixed price in writing before anything starts.

Step 02

Homepage

The first full design comes back to you before anything else is built. Everything that follows takes its direction from what you sign off here.

Step 03

Build

The rest of the pages go up on a live staging link. You watch it come together and test it on your own phone as it happens.

Step 04

Launch

We point the domain, ship it, and check it on real devices. Your revision rounds are used here, then the care plan picks it up.

Commitments

0

Bought templates or page builders. Every layout is drawn for you, not adapted from someone else’s.

1

Person on your project, from the first call through to launch day and beyond.

3

Weeks is the usual run from first call to launch. Most studios quote two months for the same job.

Two ways
to start

One price to build it, one monthly fee to keep it running. Both agreed before anything starts — no hourly billing, no surprise invoices.

Launch
$899To build · then $99/mo
  • Up to 4 pages, every one custom designed
  • Built for phones first, checked on real devices
  • Contact form wired straight to your inbox
  • Plain HTML and CSS, tuned for speed
  • Domain, hosting and SSL set up in your name
  • Two rounds of revisions
The $99 a month covers

Hosting, SSL, backups, updates, uptime monitoring and 30 minutes of changes each month. You send a note, we make the change. Email answered within a day.

Start with Launch
Growth — most common
$1,499To build · then $149/mo
  • Up to 10 pages, every one custom designed
  • A reusable design system — colour, type, components
  • A booking or enquiry flow if you need one
  • Every photo resized and optimised for the web
  • Motion and interaction detailing
  • Copy structure written for every page
  • Three rounds of revisions
The $149 a month covers

Everything in Launch, plus a full hour of changes each month and priority support when something needs looking at.

Start with Growth

A new logo or an online store is priced separately. Both run on their own clock — one more round of opinions on a wordmark should never be the reason your site is late. We quote them alongside the build and they run in parallel. Anything beyond the rounds and hours above is $75 an hour, always quoted and agreed before we start.

The site belongs to you from day one. Stop the monthly whenever you like and we hand over the files, the domain and the database — nothing is held hostage.

Contact

Let’s make
something
worth it.

Tell us what you’re building. You’ll get a real reply from the person who would do the work — usually within a day.

Straight to the inbox of the person who would do the work. One reply, one working day.

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