About
A small studio, deliberately.
Xaevora is a senior team taking on one or two projects at a time. That is a commercial constraint and a quality decision: it is the only way the people you meet are the people doing the work.
- Founded
- 2025
- Model
- Small senior team
- Engagements
- One to two projects at a time
- Reach
- Clients worldwide, priced locally
The short version
We design and build websites for businesses that have something specific to say and have been let down by sites that say it badly.
Most of the work is not decorative. It is working out what a business actually sells, who decides, what they need to believe, and in what order — then making that argument in a way that looks like it was made by people who care.
The rest is engineering discipline: a site that loads immediately, works on a keyboard, reads correctly to a screen reader, and can be handed to another developer without an apology.
What we think
Four opinions we are willing to be wrong about.
A website is an argument, not a brochure
Every page is trying to move someone from not knowing you to being willing to talk. If the structure does not serve that, no amount of visual polish will.
Speed is part of the design
A page that takes four seconds has already lost a share of the people it was made for. We treat load and interaction cost as design constraints, the same as colour and type.
Most sites are too complicated
A CMS nobody uses, a component library nobody maintains, an animation library for one dropdown. Complexity should have to justify itself every time.
Taste is a skill, not an opinion
We will give you a reasoned direction rather than a menu of options. You are paying for judgement, and judgement that refuses to commit is not worth much.
03Why Xaevora
Six commitments, not six adjectives.
Every studio says it is premium, detail-obsessed and client-focused. These are the things you could actually hold us to.
Structure before surface
We resolve what a page has to say, and in what order, before anything gets styled. A beautiful site built on a weak argument is an expensive way to be ignored.
Performance is a design decision
Every dependency, image and animation is weighed against what it costs to load. This site ships almost no JavaScript, and the ones we build for clients hold to the same budget.
One direction, taken all the way
We do not present three options designed for two of them to be rejected. You get one considered direction, argued for, and refined with you.
You own everything
Design files, code, domain, accounts. No proprietary builder, no licence, no leverage held over you after launch.
We will talk you out of work
If an audit says three targeted fixes beat a rebuild, that is what we will tell you. Selling an unnecessary project is a bad way to earn a referral.
Accessible because it is correct
Keyboard paths, visible focus, honest contrast and reduced-motion support are in the build from the start. It is not a compliance exercise, it is just doing the job properly.
Capabilities
What we do.
Strategy
- Positioning and messaging
- Audience and intent mapping
- Information architecture
- Content structure and outlines
- Site and search audits
Design
- Interface and interaction design
- Design systems and tokens
- Responsive and mobile-first layout
- Typography and visual identity for web
- Prototyping
Engineering
- Next.js and TypeScript front-end
- Performance and Core Web Vitals
- Accessibility to WCAG AA
- Technical SEO and structured data
- Integrations, analytics and deployment
Honestly
What we do not do.
Knowing where a studio stops is more useful than a longer list of services.
Ongoing marketing or SEO retainers
We build sites that are technically sound for search. Running content and campaign programmes is a different discipline and a different team.
Large web applications
Dashboards, portals and products with real application state need a different engagement shape than the one we are set up for.
Brand identity from scratch
We design how a brand behaves on the web, and will work within an existing identity. Naming and full identity programmes are not our craft.
Rescue jobs on platforms we do not rate
If the platform is the constraint, we will say so and price the alternative rather than quietly working around it.
Work with Xaevora.
We take on one or two projects at a time, so the schedule matters. If you have a timeline in mind, tell us early.
Say hello
The first conversation costs nothing.
Thirty minutes working out whether the project makes sense — including whether you need one at all.