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About us

Small team, sharp focus

We’re designers and engineers who got tired of watching beautiful brands ship clumsy websites. So we built a studio — and a system — that makes craft the default.

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Our story

It started with a rebrand that took four months to reach the website. The brand book was beautiful; the site was a patchwork of hardcoded pages nobody dared to touch. We rebuilt it as a system of blocks and tokens instead — and the next rebrand shipped in a day.

Since then we’ve refined that system across dozens of launches. Content lives with editors, design lives in tokens, and engineering effort goes where it matters: performance, accessibility, and the details people feel but never name.

Track record

A decade of shipping, measured

120+

Sites launched

9

Years in business

98%

Clients who return

14

People on the team

The people

Meet the team

Senior people only — everyone here designs, builds, or writes every day.

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Alex Kim

Founder & CEO

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Maria Santos

Head of Design

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Jonas Weber

Lead Engineer

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Priya Nair

Customer Success

Why clients stay

Judged by the work

They didn’t just deliver a website — they delivered a system our whole marketing team can drive. Two years in, it still feels new.
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Lena Brandt

CMO, Halcyon

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Every deadline met, every detail considered. Rare.
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Tom Dietrich

COO, Quantica

The most maintainable site we’ve ever owned.
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Sara Roth

Head of Growth, Orbit

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