We work with established small businesses whose sites have quietly fallen behind the work itself. A careful rebuild. A clearer voice. Pages that finally do their job.
Most of the businesses we work with don't have a website problem. They have a seasons-have-changed problem. The team grew. The services shifted. The original designer moved on. The site, however, stayed exactly where it was — frozen in 2019, still talking about a promotion that ended four winters ago.
We don't believe in rebrand theatre. We don't push you into a stack you'll resent in six months. We don't replace a competent site with a slower, prettier one that nobody on your team can update. The work is patient, opinionated, and aimed squarely at what your business actually does now — not what a pitch deck says it does.
Every project we take leaves with the keys handed back. Your domain. Your hosting. Your CMS. Your decisions. If we've done it right, you'll forget we were ever involved within about a year — except for the part where the phone keeps ringing.
We've narrowed the studio's offer to the work we actually enjoy and the work that consistently moves the needle for established small businesses. Everything is fixed-scope and fixed-fee, with the deposit explained on the call.
The studio's flagship. We tear down a tired 15–40 page site and rebuild it on a CMS your team can actually maintain. Includes content strategy, copy edits, design system, build, accessibility pass, and a calm launch.
For businesses whose visual language stopped matching the business. A focused engagement covering wordmark refinement, palette, typography, and a small set of templates your team can extend without us hovering.
A two-week, evidence-led review of the pages doing the heaviest lifting on your site. You get a written report, twelve to twenty specific recommendations, and a 60-minute walkthrough call. No upsell at the end.
A modest retainer for businesses who've stopped enjoying the maintenance bit. Updates, uptime monitoring, one round of small content edits per month, and a standing 30-minute call to plan the next quarter properly.
For owners who've outgrown the all-in-one and want to stop renting their own website. We move you onto a stack you actually own — usually a static build or a lean WordPress install — preserve SEO, redirect every URL that matters, and leave you with documentation a successor can read.
Every engagement, regardless of size, moves through the same five phases. We don't hide the process or speak in ceremonies. You'll know what's happening, who's responsible, and roughly when the next thing lands in your inbox.
We sit with the business before we sit with the site. Two structured conversations, a review of your analytics, and a careful read of what your customers actually search for. You leave the week with a written brief we both sign — not a hopeful Notion doc.
Structure before surface. We sketch the page hierarchy, draft a copy spine, and put the navigation through a quiet stress-test. This is the cheapest week to disagree, and we encourage you to spend it disagreeing with us in detail.
Visual design, front-end build, and CMS modelling happen in parallel on a single staging URL. You see the site grow weekly, not as a slide deck. Performance budgets and accessibility rules are set on day one, not retro-fitted on day forty.
A boring launch is a good launch. We move DNS at a quiet hour, watch the redirects for forty-eight hours, and keep a rollback ready that we will, almost certainly, not need. You get a launch report and a short Loom walking your team through their new CMS.
Most clients move onto Quarterly Care after launch — not because the site needs fixing, but because the business will keep changing and the site should keep up. If you'd rather take it in-house, we'll spend a final call making sure your team is genuinely set up to do that.
A small sample of rebuilds from the past year. Industries change; the pattern doesn't — every one of these businesses was thriving offline and quietly losing ground online before we started.
Replaced an aging WordPress site that was costing the practice 30% of its new-patient enquiries. We rebuilt on a lean static stack, restructured the service pages by procedure rather than by clinician, and rewrote the booking flow.
The firm wanted to stop competing with billboard-style legal sites. We slowed the visual language down, reorganised practice areas around real client questions, and gave the senior partner a writing template she now uses monthly.
Migrated a clunky Squarespace store onto a self-hosted Shopify build, separated wholesale from retail properly, and built a roast-date filter the founders had wanted since 2022. Café partners can now reorder in under a minute.
A twelve-room hotel that was losing 18% of every booking to commission. We rebuilt the site around the rooms themselves, integrated a direct booking engine the owners trusted, and rewrote the long-stay page to do real work.
We don't ask for testimonials at launch when the dopamine is high. We ask six months later, once the site has had a chance to either earn its keep or quietly disappoint. These came back.
We'd been told for years our site needed redoing and had been quoted increasingly silly numbers to do it. Revive were the first studio who asked what the practice actually did before quoting anything. The rebuild took six weeks, came in on budget, and the front desk has stopped apologising for the website to new patients. That, frankly, is the bit I notice.
I am a deeply impatient client and I expected to hate this process. I did not. Charles pushed back on three of our worst instincts in the first week, which was uncomfortable and entirely correct. The site reads now like the firm sounds in a consultation — measured, specific, not trying to win you over in the first paragraph. Consults are up and they're better consults.
What I appreciated most was being told no, gently, about a few things we'd been convinced we needed. The new wholesale flow is the single biggest operational improvement we made last year, and we made a lot of them. Our café partners reorder in a minute, our roast schedule isn't a spreadsheet anymore, and our customer service inbox has gone unusually quiet.
Six things prospective clients ask us before we've even said hello properly. Worth answering before you spend fifteen minutes on a call asking them.
Most rebuilds land between five and seven weeks from kickoff to launch. We block the calendar in advance so the work isn't competing with three other projects. If you need it faster, we'll tell you honestly whether that's wise — and it usually isn't.
Calls happen between 9 and 5 in your local time, four days a week. We don't answer Slack at midnight, and we'd quietly worry about a studio that does. Urgent launch windows get covered on weekends when they've been planned ahead, which is almost always.
Bring them. About a third of our rebuilds start with a designer the client already trusts and a developer they don't. We handle build, performance, CMS, and launch; your designer keeps owning the look and feel. No territory wars — we've watched studios fight that one and it doesn't end well.
Yes to all three, with a strong preference for whichever your team can genuinely maintain after we leave. We've migrated sites both into and out of WordPress, Webflow, Craft, Sanity, and a couple of CMSs no one should still be using in 2026. The stack should fit the team, not the other way around.
The 50% deposit is non-refundable once Discovery begins, because Discovery is the work we've already done. After that, you can stop the project at any phase boundary and we refund anything unbilled. We've only had to do it twice in two years, and both times we parted on good terms.
We set hosting up under your account, never ours — usually Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, or a managed WordPress host depending on the stack. You own the keys from day one, including the DNS. Quarterly Care clients get uptime monitoring and a quarterly performance check thrown in.
No discovery sprint, no questionnaire, no twelve-tab proposal. Fifteen minutes on a call, an honest read on whether we're the right studio for what you're trying to do, and a written follow-up either way. Fixed price, no surprises — figured out on the intro call.