Website / Brand
Sakē — Hospitality
Editorial site · 2026
9.4PERF
We build the web, refined. Software & systems.
A three-person senior studio designing & engineering websites, SaaS products and automations for modern businesses — with the eye of a design studio and the rigour of a product team.
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01 / The Problem
Most software looks
the same.
And ships late.
Agencies dilute craft across bloated teams. Freelancers vanish mid-build. Templates get dressed up as “custom”. The result is generic, slow and forgettable.
A.
Bloated teams, diluted craft
Five hand-offs between the strategist and the person actually building it. Vision leaks at every seam.
→
B.
Templates dressed as custom
The same hero, the same three cards, the same gradient. Recognisably generic the moment it loads.
→
C.
Slow sites that bleed conversion
Heavy builds, layout shift, sluggish interactions — quietly costing you customers every single day.
→
D.
Built once, then abandoned
No system, no automation, no one to call. The thing that launched is the thing that slowly rots.
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02 / What We Do
Three things,
done properly.
We stay deliberately narrow. Websites, SaaS products, automations — and the design systems that hold them together.
(01)
Websites
Conversion-focused marketing sites, editorial portfolios and landing pages — fast, responsive and unmistakably yours.
(02)
SaaS Products
From MVP to production: dashboards, auth, billing and the product design that makes complex software feel obvious.
(03)
Automations
Internal tools, AI workflows and integrations that remove the manual work your team shouldn’t be doing by hand.
03 / Featured Work & Demos
Selected output.
A sample of recent builds and live demos. Each shipped by the same three people who designed it.
SaaS / Demo
Vellum Analytics
Dashboard · Live demo
8.9UX
Product
Northbound
Onboarding · 2025
9.1CVR
AUTO
MATE
AutomationMATE
Loop Ops
AI workflow · 2025
7.8HRS/WK
Web App
Atelier CMS
Internal tool · 2026
9.0DX
SaaS / Brand
Meridian
Design system · 2025
9.3SCORE
Website
Forma Studio
Portfolio · Live
9.6PERF
Demos available on request — including live, code, and Figma source.
Request the demos04 / How We Work
A short, sharp
process.
No drawn-out discovery theatre. Four phases, weekly demos, and you talk to the people building it the whole way.
PHASE 01
01
Discover
We pin down the goal, the audience and the one metric that matters. No fluff.
≈ 1 week
PHASE 02
02
Design
Direction, system and high-fidelity screens. You see the real thing, early.
1–2 weeks
PHASE 03
03
Build
Production engineering with weekly demos. Fast, accessible, responsive.
2–5 weeks
PHASE 04
04
Automate
Launch, measure and wire up the systems that keep it running without you.
Ongoing
05 / Packages
Clear scope,
clear price.
Fixed-scope engagements with transparent pricing. Bespoke retainers available for ongoing product work.
Launch
Marketing site
From$6k+
- +Up to 6 sections, fully bespoke
- +Custom design — no templates
- +CMS + responsive build
- +Motion & performance pass
- +2–3 weeks delivery
Most chosen
Product
SaaS / Web app
From$18k+
- +Everything in Launch
- +Product design + design system
- +Auth, billing & dashboard
- +API & database architecture
- +4–8 weeks to production MVP
Systems
Automation / Retainer
From$3k/mo
- +Dedicated senior capacity
- +Automations & AI workflows
- +Integrations & internal tools
- +Ongoing iteration & support
- +Cancel anytime
06 / Why A Small Senior Team
No juniors.
No hand-offs.
Three senior people who design and build everything themselves. The person you brief is the person who ships.
Senior by default, small on purpose.
Direct access
Talk to the makers, not an account manager. Decisions happen in one conversation, not five.
Owned, end-to-end
Design, engineering and automation under one roof — so nothing gets lost in translation.
Senior-only craft
Every pixel and line of code is shipped by someone who has done it a hundred times before.
A.
Leads art direction and product design. Ten years across studios and startups.
B.
Owns frontend & product engineering. Ships fast, accessible, maintainable code.
C.
Builds the backends, automations and AI workflows that keep things running.
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Projects shipped
0
Senior people
0%
Client retention
2wk
Avg. to first launch
07 / Tech Stack
Modern tools,
chosen on merit.
A focused stack we know deeply — fast to build with, fast to run, and easy to hand over.
Frontend
Next.jsReactTypeScriptTailwindFramer MotionGSAP
Backend & Data
NodePostgresSupabasePrismaRedistRPC
Design
FigmaDesign SystemsWebflowSpline
Infra & AI
VercelStripeOpenAIAnthropicCloudflaren8n
08 / FAQ
Questions,
answered.
The things clients usually ask before we start. Anything else — just email us.
Marketing sites usually run 2–3 weeks. SaaS products and web apps land in 4–8 weeks to a production MVP. We give you a fixed timeline up front and demo progress every week, so there are no surprises.
The same three senior people, start to finish. There are no juniors, no outsourcing and no account managers in the middle. The person you brief is the person who designs and ships your work.
Yes. We can extend an existing brand and design system, or build a new one. On engineering, we adapt to your stack where it makes sense — and we’ll be honest if we think a different tool will serve you better.
You own everything — code, design files and accounts. From there you can take it in-house, or keep us on a Systems retainer for iteration, automations and support. No lock-in either way.
Fixed-scope projects are split into milestones — typically a deposit to begin, a payment at design sign-off and the balance at launch. Retainers are billed monthly and can be cancelled anytime.
Absolutely. We’ll walk you through live builds, code and Figma sources relevant to your project on a short call — so you know exactly what level of craft you’re buying before anything is signed.