Every project starts with a blank canvas.
We design and build your website from scratch, around your business and the people you want to reach. It loads quickly, and you own it outright.
What we do
One studio for strategy, design and development.
The priorities we agree with you at the start guide both the design and how the finished site works.
Design
Layouts planned around what your visitors come to do, with type, spacing and colour chosen for your business.
- Brand-led
- Bespoke layout
- Typography
Build
Built with Next.js and React and designed to load quickly. The code is not tied to a template or platform, so you can move it to another host or developer.
- Next.js
- React
- Core Web Vitals
Own & grow
The code is yours, on hosting in your name. We can set up a content editor so you can update content yourself, or you can leave updates and upkeep to us with the optional care plan.
- You own it
- Optional CMS
- Optional care
How we build
What a custom build gives you over a platform.
Many designers build on a platform such as Squarespace or Wix. Here's what a custom build gives you instead.
Design and features made for your business.
Layout, motion and interaction are designed for your site rather than adapted from a theme. If your business needs a feature a platform does not offer, we can build it.
Control over what each page loads.
A platform-built website can load code for features it does not use, adding to what visitors have to download. With a custom build, we can control what each page loads and remove unnecessary code to help it load faster.
Pages built to load quickly.
Many visitors leave a site that is slow to load, including the ones your advertising paid to bring there. We build pages in advance and serve them from servers close to your visitors.
Built to be understood by search engines and AI tools.
We build pages with clear headings, readable text and structured information about your business. This helps search engines and AI tools understand what you offer, though it does not guarantee that they will recommend or quote your site.
You own the code and the hosting account.
You can move to another host or developer whenever you like and take the whole site with you. A platform site can usually only be rebuilt, not moved.
Process
From first call to live site.
The project runs in four stages. You see the site take shape as we go, and approve each stage before the next one starts.
Tools we build with
We choose from these for each project, and not every site uses all of them.
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Vercel
- GitHub
- Sanity
- Supabase
- Resend
- Stripe
- Framer Motion
- GSAP
- Cloudflare
- shadcn/ui
- Prisma
- Storybook
- Claude
Selected work
Recent websites we've designed and built.
- karolinakuc.com
Karolina Kuc
A website for a freelance designer offering graphic design, illustration and photo retouching worldwide, and photography in Mallorca. It includes a draggable before-and-after slider.
- olivovillas.com
Olivo Villas
A boutique villa rental website with property pages and live availability calendars that sync with Google and Airbnb.
- tagly-app.com
Tagly
An iCloud-synced productivity app for iOS, iPadOS and macOS. The site has dark and light modes and an interactive walkthrough of the app.
- jamescstevenson.com
James Stevenson
A personal website for a founder and advisor moving on from twenty-eight years running one company, with serif typography and a flight-path motif.
- heading-ai.com
Heading AI™
A marketing site and a multi-tenant software platform, with AI document processing and Google sign-in.
Pricing
A fixed quote to build, and an optional care plan.
You pay once for the website and own it outright. The care plan is optional, for owners who would rather not manage the site themselves.
The build
Starting project fee, depending on project size and complexity, to be scoped and agreed upfront.
Everything from first call to live: design, build, content setup and launch on hosting that belongs to you.
- Custom design, drawn from scratch for your business
- Built with Next.js, without a template
- Tested for speed and accessibility with Google's Lighthouse
- A content editor, if you want to update pages yourself
- Yours to keep, on hosting in your name
Larger scope, like visitor sign-in, multiple languages or a migration? We'll give you a fixed quote after the brief.
The care plan
OptionalOngoing monthly fee, depending on the size of the site and how much cover you want.
We look after hosting, monitoring and updates, and send you regular reports.
- Hosting, domain and monitoring handled
- Performance, security and uptime monitored
- Regular reports, in plain English
- Optional block of content edits each month
Starts the month your site goes live, and you can cancel any time.
Adding content edit blocks increases the monthly fee.
- Priced in euros
- Sterling is converted at a fixed rate. If you'd rather contract in your own currency, ask us.
- Spain and EU consumers
- Spanish IVA - the Spanish name for VAT - is added.
- EU businesses
- With a valid VAT number you account for it yourself, under the reverse charge.
- Outside the EU
- Including the UK. No VAT is added.
If you're paying a designer either way, you can afford a site built entirely for you, with code you own.
FAQ
Questions about working with us.
If you're building the site yourself on a budget, a platform is a sensible choice, and we'll say so. Once you're paying a professional either way, the comparison changes. The same fee buys either a template arranged within a platform's limits, or a site designed and built around your business that you then own. You're paying for the site itself rather than permission to use it.
Start with a blank canvas.
Tell us a little about your project, and we'll come back within one working day.