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A boutique studio that builds websites - and the brands and motion that go with them. We build for HVAC dispatchers, DTC skincare lines, neighborhood bakeries, and Series-A SaaS teams. Tell us the brief; we’ll do the rest.

HVAC dispatchers
Coastal apparel
Neighborhood bakeries
Boutique brokerages
B2B SaaS launches
Skincare drops
Dental practices
Dropshipping storefronts
Restaurant reservations
Plumbing & electrical
Law firm refreshes
Creator portfolios
Membership platforms
Yoga studios
HVAC dispatchers
Coastal apparel
Neighborhood bakeries
Boutique brokerages
B2B SaaS launches
Skincare drops
Dental practices
Dropshipping storefronts
Restaurant reservations
Plumbing & electrical
Law firm refreshes
Creator portfolios
Membership platforms
Yoga studios
HVAC dispatchers
Coastal apparel
Neighborhood bakeries
Boutique brokerages
B2B SaaS launches
Skincare drops
Dental practices
Dropshipping storefronts
Restaurant reservations
Plumbing & electrical
Law firm refreshes
Creator portfolios
Membership platforms
Yoga studios
Why Swash

Three things we
do differently.

Most studios start with a template, then bend the brand to fit. We start with the brief, build the brand, then design a site that could only belong to it.

  • 01

    Brand built into the site, not bolted on.

    Every site we ship starts with a brand foundation - voice, palette, type, motion. The site is the brand expressed, not a wrapper around it.

  • 02

    Budget-aware, not budget-bound.

    Tell us what you can spend. We scope the work to fit - a starter site, a full studio build, or somewhere in between. The brief drives the price, not a tier sheet.

  • 03

    Motion as a language, not a layer.

    Animation is part of how the brand reads. We design it like type or color - restrained where it should be, expressive where it has to be.

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A brand that
responds.

Press a chip. Move your mouse over the canvas. The mark rewrites itself. This is what we mean by “motion as a language” - the brand is alive in every state, not frozen on a style guide.

Voice
Drift
Palette
live · sculpt · ship
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What we do

Six services.
One studio.

Bundle them or pick one. Most engagements pair a brand with a site; some are audits, some are launch pages, some are pure motion work. The proposal makes the shape clear.

Read every service
  • 01 · Brand2 - 3 weeks

    Brand identity

    A mark, a voice, and the system around them.

    Read the spec
  • 02 · Site3 - 6 weeks

    Website design & build

    The page customers actually land on.

    Read the spec
  • 03 · Site4 - 8 weeks

    Ecommerce storefronts

    Designed to sell, not just to look good.

    Read the spec
  • 04 · Motion1 - 2 weeks

    Motion + interaction

    The way the site feels alive.

    Read the spec
  • 05 · Growth1 - 2 weeks

    Campaign + launch pages

    For the moments that matter most.

    Read the spec
  • 06 · Growth1 week (audit) + scope

    Audit + redesign

    When you have a site, but it stopped working.

    Read the spec

- Swash Editions · Summer '26

Four brands.
One studio.

Two full rebuilds of real South African businesses - a Pretoria dealership and a Randburg GP practice - plus two fictional demo brands. Each lives at its own URL. Click in to walk through.

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Stage 01

Brief- Five minutes. No call required.

A structured form on industry, goals, features, timeline, budget, and references you love. Open notes for the things that do not fit into chips. Submit and forget - we read every line the same day.

Step 1 / 5 · Business~5 min

What kind of business?

Home servicesRestaurantSaaSReal estateDTC
your-business.com
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- Every site we ship

Twelve things,
without asking.

Not add-ons. Not tiered. Not contingent on the contract size. Every Swash site ships with the list below - from the starter to the flagship.

  • 01

    Headless CMS

    Edit copy and imagery without touching code.

  • 02

    Live preview URL

    Real link from day one - watch us ship.

  • 03

    Performance budget

    LCP under 2s, hand-tuned.

  • 04

    WCAG AA accessibility

    Keyboard, screen-reader, color-contrast tested.

  • 05

    SEO foundation

    Sitemap, schema, OG, redirects - wired.

  • 06

    Analytics wired

    Plausible, GA4, or your warehouse of choice.

  • 07

    Motion system

    Choreographed transitions, documented in code.

  • 08

    Component library

    Type-safe, themed, ready to extend.

  • 09

    Form integrations

    Resend, Postmark, your CRM - wired and tested.

  • 10

    Editorial sourcing

    Licensed photography or commissioned shoots.

  • 11

    30 days of polish

    Bug fixes, tweaks, second-guesses - included.

  • 12

    Source code yours

    Git history, design files, brand book - handed over.

Who we build for

Every industry.
No favorites.

We start every brief category-blind. Same care for the bakery and the SaaS team. Same engineering rigor for the HVAC dispatch site and the luxury skincare drop.

None of the above? - Tell us in the brief.

A note on price

We don’t publish prices.
Here’s why.

A fixed price tag forces every brief into the same box. We’d rather hear yours, scope the work honestly, and give you a fee that reflects the project, not a tier sheet.

That said - here’s a rough map of the shapes a Swash project tends to take.

  • Starter

    01

    For one-person shops, side projects, soft launches.

    • Single-page or short site
    • Light brand polish
    • One round of revisions
    • Two-week turnaround

  • Core

    02

    For most small-to-mid businesses ready to grow.

    • Multi-page site
    • Brand mark + system
    • CMS for self-updates
    • Lead-capture or booking
    • Four-week build

  • Studio

    03

    For brands that need the site to do real lifting.

    • Full custom build
    • Brand identity (logo, system, motion)
    • Ecommerce / integrations
    • Animation system
    • Six-to-eight-week build

  • Flagship

    04

    For launches, rebrands, and ambitious projects.

    • Open scope
    • Brand + site + print + motion
    • Photography direction
    • Ongoing retainer option
    • Bespoke timeline

Tell us your budget. We’ll tell you what it builds.

The brief asks once. We don’t push you up a tier.

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Questions, asked

The five
we hear most.

More on the full FAQ - grouped by pricing, process, after-launch, and fit.

Read every question

  • We read your brief the same day. Within 48 hours we send a recorded video walkthrough of a real, working preview of your site - designed, coded, hosted on a private link. Watch it, click through, send back any changes.

Add a swash

Tell us the brief.
We’ll do the rest.

Five minutes of writing on your end. A video demo of your site in your inbox within 48 hours - the actual page, built and hosted. Watch it, request changes. Pay nothing until you sign off.

  • Recorded video demo of your site in 48 hours
  • Request changes - we revise until you sign off
  • Brand, site, and motion in one engagement
  • Pay nothing until you approve the build
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