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Design + build studioSCALE 1:1

Most studioshand you a picture.We hand youthe thing.

We make brands work — with design, code, motion & the discipline to ship. One team draws it and the same team builds it, so nothing is lost in translation. You get working software and the repo that runs it — not a folder of screens for someone else to interpret.

See the work
First draft, every time
48h
Team, end to end
1
Handoff documents
0
Typical site, live
14d
  • Product interfaces
  • Brand systems
  • Marketing sites
  • Design engineering
  • Motion
  • Pitch decks
  • Design systems
  • App store assets
  • AI automation
  • Consultancy
  • Product interfaces
  • Brand systems
  • Marketing sites
  • Design engineering
  • Motion
  • Pitch decks
  • Design systems
  • App store assets
  • AI automation
  • Consultancy
01

What we make

Six disciplines, one team. Most projects use three or four of them at once — which is the point of not splitting them across a different freelancer each.

Product design

SV-01

End-to-end interface design for apps and dashboards. Flows, states, edge cases and the empty screens everyone forgets — drawn as a system, not a set of pretty frames.

  • Mobile + web app UI
  • Design systems
  • Prototypes
  • Handoff-free builds

Brand identity

SV-02

Wordmark, palette, type scale and the rules that hold them together. Delivered as tokens your engineers can install, not a PDF nobody opens twice.

  • Logo + wordmark
  • Type + colour system
  • Guidelines
  • Token export

Marketing sites

SV-03

Fast, accessible sites that rank and convert. Built in Next.js and deployed on Vercel — you own the repo the day it ships.

  • Landing pages
  • Full sites
  • CMS integration
  • Analytics + SEO

Design engineering

SV-04

The gap between Figma and production, closed by the people who drew it. Real components, real states, real performance budgets.

  • React + Next.js
  • Tailwind systems
  • Motion + interaction
  • Performance work

AI automation

SV-05

The repetitive parts of running your business, handed to software. We map where the hours actually go, then build the agents and workflows that take them back.

  • Workflow audit
  • Custom AI agents
  • Tool + API integration
  • Internal dashboards

Business consultancy

SV-06

An outside read on positioning, pricing and what to build next. Delivered as decisions you can act on this quarter, not a deck of frameworks.

  • Positioning
  • Pricing strategy
  • Product roadmap
  • Design ops
02

Fourteen days, drawn out

A fixed sequence with dates attached. You always know what is happening and what happens next — which is most of what people mean when they say an agency was easy to work with.

  1. 01

    BriefDay 0

    A 45-minute call and a short written brief. We tell you the scope, the price and the date before any money moves. No discovery phase invoice.

  2. 02

    DraftDay 2

    You see the first real draft inside 48 hours — laid out, in your content, on the actual grid. Early enough that changing direction is cheap.

  3. 03

    DrawDay 3–9

    Daily updates in a shared thread. You comment directly on the work; we revise until the drawing is right. Unlimited revisions, one task at a time.

  4. 04

    BuildDay 9–13

    The same team writes the code. Components, responsive behaviour, motion and accessibility — built against the drawing, not interpreted from it.

  5. 05

    ShipDay 14

    Deployed, measured and handed over. You get the repo, the tokens and a walkthrough. Two weeks of fixes included, no charge.

03

Selected work

Three recent projects, with the number that mattered to the client attached to each.

WK-01NorthwindFintech · 2026

A payments dashboard that reads like a statement

Rebuilt the reconciliation view around a single scannable ledger. Support tickets about 'where did this payment go' fell by two thirds.

  • Product design
  • Design system
  • Build
−68%Support tickets
WK-02HaldenConsumer app · 2026

Brand and app store presence for a sleep tracker

Identity, motion language and 32 store screens. Shipped in eleven days ahead of a funding announcement.

  • Brand identity
  • Motion
  • Store assets
11dBrief to launch
WK-03TessellateDeveloper tools · 2025

Docs and marketing site for an infrastructure API

One design system across marketing and documentation, so the pricing page and the API reference finally felt like the same company.

  • Marketing site
  • Docs
  • Next.js build
98Lighthouse, all pages
04

Projects

Everything we have shipped, by discipline. Most clients arrive for one of these and stay for two.

  • Fluent — project cover
    AppPJ-06 · 2026

    Fluent

    A language-learning app with a gamified lesson path, fill-in-the-blank drills and illustrated audio dialogues. Streaks and gems carry progress between sessions.

    • iOS
    • Product design
    • Illustration
    • Gamification
    • Preview ⤢
  • Nutrition AI — project cover
    AppPJ-05 · 2026

    Nutrition AI

    Meal planning driven by a conversational assistant. A seven-day plan with a nutrition score, macro breakdown and a shopping list that tracks spend against a budget.

    • iOS
    • Product design
    • AI assistant
    • Data viz
    • Preview ⤢
  • Pop Off — project cover
    AppPJ-04 · 2026

    Pop Off

    A social app built around reacting to friends’ posts. Dark interface with a single hot accent, emoji reaction overlays, contact matching on onboarding, and a soft paywall after ten free posts.

    • iOS
    • Product design
    • Dark UI
    • Onboarding
    • Preview ⤢
  • Steakhouse — project cover
    WebsitePJ-03 · 2026

    Steakhouse

    Steakhouse

    A dark, photography-led site for a premium steakhouse. Palette and motion were reverse-engineered by measuring frames from a reference clip: inertial scroll at the source’s own easing, and parallax at the exact 1.15 ratio measured between a drifting garnish and the card behind it.

    • Next.js
    • Art direction
    • Motion
    • Photography
    • Visit site ↗
  • Run Londoner — project cover
    WebsitePJ-02 · 2026

    Run Londoner

    Run Londoner

    A full rebrand and site for a London running club that meets before sunrise. Editorial poster layout, oversized condensed type interrupted by the photography, and one hi-vis accent taken from the kit runners actually wear at 6am.

    • Next.js
    • Brand
    • Art direction
    • Motion
    • Visit site ↗
05

Prices, in public

Public prices, fixed before we start. If a project needs more than the scope below, we say so in the brief — never in an invoice.

Landing Page

PL-01
£100fixed
3–5 days

One page, designed and built. The fastest way to work with us.

  • Single page design
  • Responsive build
  • Copy direction
  • Deployed live

Mobile Apps

Most taken
£500from
3–4 weeks

A full app interface, drawn as a system rather than a set of screens.

  • Up to 20 screens
  • iOS + Android layouts
  • Design system
  • Clickable prototype
  • Developer handoff

Business Automation

PL-03
£300from
1–2 weeks

Your repetitive work, handed to software that does it for you.

  • Workflow audit
  • Custom AI agent
  • Tool + API integration
  • Setup and training

Brand Designs

PL-04
£300fixed
1–2 weeks

A complete identity, delivered as assets you can install.

  • Logo + wordmark
  • Colour + type system
  • Brand guidelines
  • Launch assets
06

Before you ask

Who actually does the work?

The people you meet on the first call. We are deliberately small — there is no account manager relaying notes to a designer you never speak to.

What does 'one active task' mean on the retainer?

You can queue as much as you like, and we work one item at a time so it gets full attention. Most clients see two to four items completed a month depending on size.

Do you write the code, or hand off to our engineers?

Either. We build in React and Next.js by default, and you own the repo. If your team prefers to build, you get components and tokens rather than a flat file.

What if I do not like the first draft?

You see it on day two precisely so that is cheap to fix. Revisions are unlimited on every plan. If the direction is wrong after the first round, we redraw it.

Can you work with our existing design system?

Yes, and we prefer it. We will extend what you have and tell you honestly where it is fighting you.

Start here

Tell us what you need made.

A short message is enough. You will get a scope, a price and a date back within one working day — from someone who will actually be doing the work.