Design Studio · São Paulo & Boston
We build sites for firms and small businesses in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Made deliberately, by two people, for one client at a time.
What we do
We are not a full-service agency and have no interest in becoming one. This is what we are good at.
Marketing sites for firms and small businesses. Written, designed and built for your business specifically — not adapted from a template someone else is also using.
English, Spanish and Portuguese, written by people who speak them. Your clients can tell the difference between a translation and a sentence written for them — and so can you.
Sites that load in under two seconds on a phone and meet accessibility standards. Both matter more than they look: one wins you visitors, the other keeps you out of trouble.
The name
A deckle is the frame that gives handmade paper its soft, uneven edge — the part a machine would have cut off. It is the proof someone was there.
Anyone can generate a website now. That is genuinely true, and pretending otherwise would be silly. What has become rare is a site where someone actually thought about who would be reading it — whether they arrive in English or Spanish or Portuguese, whether they are on a good phone or an old one, whether they are calm or frightened.
We use the same tools everyone else has. The difference is that we read every line afterwards, in every language, and take out the parts that sound like nobody wrote them.
That is the edge we leave on.
Selected work
How we work
Twenty minutes. You tell us about the business and who you are trying to reach. We tell you honestly whether we are the right studio for it.
You get a real first version, in your browser, not a slideshow of ideas. Every word already written, in every language the site will speak.
You tell us what is wrong and we fix it. Two rounds are included, and we would rather you say the uncomfortable thing now than think it quietly later.
The site goes live and it is yours — domain, files, accounts, all in your name. No monthly lock-in, and nothing held hostage if you ever leave.
Pricing
No hourly billing, no surprises at the end, no monthly contract you have to remember to cancel.
One page, doing one job well.
The whole business, properly presented.
Prices adjust by market — tell us where you are and we will quote fairly. Half to begin, half at launch. No monthly retainer, and no charge for the first conversation.
Twenty minutes, no charge, no pitch deck. If we are not right for the project we will say so and suggest someone who is.
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