Your design &
technology partners.
Yes we design, develop, and deliver, but only after we’ve figured out what’s really in the way of your next level.
Sometimes that begins with a blank page and an idea scribbled in the Notes app at 2am. Sometimes it begins with a successful business that has outgrown the brand, website or story carrying it.
Our four focus areas (a.k.a. The fixers)
Strategic Consulting
For when you need to zoom out, see the bigger picture, and move forward with confidence. Think: brand positioning, business clarity, pricing, offers, audience alignment.
Distinctive Design
For when you’re done playing small. This is distinct, elevated design that’s grounded in commercial sense. Logos, identity systems, guidelines, collateral, done properly.
Intelligent Websites
For when your site is outdated, underperforming, or invisible to AI. We build high-performance, headless websites designed for humans and machines.
This Isn’t a Package. It’s a Partnership.
Some clients just need a single solve. Others want a full brand and business transformation. We’re good at both, so long as we’re solving the right problems.
The question isn’t what we do. It’s what’s holding you back.
Naturally, you have questions.
More of your customers start by asking. Where they once searched "architect Wanaka" or "luxury lodge Queenstown", they now ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google's AI Overviews something like "who should design a passive house in Wanaka?" and get a short list of names with reasons attached. Search results are still there, but more of the shortlisting now happens before anyone clicks through to a website. Your site has to make the case to the AI as well as to the person reading it.
They can, if they can read your website and understand it. AI tools draw on public websites, so a site that loads fast, can be crawled and states clearly who you are, what you do, where you work and why you're credible gives them something to cite. Structured data spells those facts out in a format machines read reliably. A site that's vague about what the business does gives the AI nothing to quote, so it usually quotes someone else.
Yes. Google says the foundations that rank a page in search also feed its AI features: pages it can crawl, useful content and accurate structure. What has changed is what a good page needs to do. It still needs to rank, and it now also needs clear, specific answers an AI can lift and attribute to you.
Many older sites aren't, because they were built for people clicking through pages, and AI tools read them differently. The common gaps are missing structured data, content that only appears after scripts run, and pages that never say plainly what the business does or where. We can audit your current site and tell you whether it needs a refresh or a rebuild before you spend anything on either.
Analytics are built into the CMS on every site we build, so you can see traffic, enquiries and search performance in one place. You can also run a GEO check from the CMS: it asks the main AI tools about your business and reports whether you're mentioned and how. We recommend running it monthly, because AI answers change faster than search rankings.
There’s no useful one-size-fits-all number because a brand, a five-page website and a full business transformation are not the same purchase wearing different price tags. As a guide, smaller engagements start from $10K+ with full transformations ranging $20K–$50K. Strategy is always included, because without it, design and web work don’t perform. We fix-price projects upfront, based on what the business actually needs. No hourly meter secretly ticking in the corner.
Kim and Maranda. The same two people you meet at the beginning. Maranda leads brand, strategy and creative direction. Kim leads development, technology and the systems underneath it. There are no junior handoffs, rotating account managers or mysterious production team appearing once the contract is signed. We stay close to the work and the business because that’s where the good stuff tends to happen.
If you want a clearer picture of how we actually work, we unpack it in Demystifying Design Agencies
If you’re investing properly, a new build will usually create far more value than trying to stretch an old platform into a job it was never designed to do. Our websites are built on a modern proprietary tech stack designed for speed, flexibility, AI visibility and long-term growth, so the foundations are doing as much work as the design.
A refresh changes what people see. A rebuild changes what the website can actually do.
By doing more than looking expensive. A strong brand makes the business easier to recognise, trust and choose. A strong website turns that into action by improving discovery, engagement and the path to enquiry or purchase. Then we measure what happens next. Our client work has produced results including 49.6% more organic search traffic for Ben Hudson Architects, 23% higher engagement for Black, and a 20x increase in average engagement time for Coterra. Good design gets attention. Good strategy gives that attention somewhere useful to go.
Quite a lot in today’s climate. Not the fundamentals, but where the decision starts. People can now ask AI to research, compare and recommend businesses without working their way through a page of search results. That means your website needs to be technically accessible and clear about who you are, what you do and why you’re credible. OpenAI confirms public websites can appear in ChatGPT search, while Google says the same strong SEO foundations still matter in its AI experiences: crawlability, useful content, visible information and accurate structure.