Black Hart Consulting
Websites, SEO, and hosting for businesses that care how their work shows up online.
We design the site. We make it rank. We keep it online. One team, one bill, one line of accountability.
Recent work
A few projects we’re proud of.
The short version is below. Each case study goes into the why behind the framework choices, what we shipped, and what actually changed for the client.
Northlake Consulting
A 12-year-old Drupal site, rebuilt on Next.js. Load time dropped from 8s to 0.9s. Organic traffic up 140% in six months.
Cairn Analytics dashboard
An internal data dashboard rebuilt from scratch. React + server-side rendering cut initial load from 12 seconds to under 1.
Edgewater Law SEO engagement
Six months of technical SEO work for a mid-sized law firm. Organic traffic up 140%. Ranked for their target practice area in-region.
Pricing
Transparent engagement tiers.
Custom quotes exist — but most engagements fit one of these. All prices exclude hosting, which is billed separately.
Landing page
A single polished page for a product launch, event, or campaign.
- 1 custom-designed landing page
- CMS-ready — edit copy & images yourself
- Analytics & form integration
- Deployed on your hosting or ours
- Ongoing content updates
Marketing site
Multi-page marketing site with full CMS, blog, and case studies. Our most common engagement.
- Up to 12 bespoke pages
- Full block-based CMS
- Case study and blog systems
- Technical SEO foundation
- Performance budget guarantee
- First 30 days of SEO work included
Managed retainer
Ongoing development, SEO, and hosting — for when you don’t want to think about any of this again.
- Hosting + monitoring + backups
- 8–16 hours of dev/SEO per month
- Same-day turnaround on small changes
- Monthly performance report
- Direct Slack channel
Clients
What they said after launch.
“Six weeks from brief to production. The site loads faster than our old one even loaded its splash screen. Our bounce rate dropped 34% in the first month.”
“They actually explained the trade-offs in plain language. We understood why we were picking Next.js over WordPress, not just that we were.”
“Best SEO engagement we’ve run. Everything was measurable. Organic traffic is up 140% six months in, and we can point to the exact changes that moved it.”
Signal, not noise
Across every site we’ve shipped in the last 18 months.
After a full audit + rebuild engagement.
From first brief to production for a standard site.
Redundant hosting across two regions.
Let’s talk about what you’re building.
No hard sell. A 30-minute call where we understand what you’re trying to do, and figure out whether we’re a fit.
What we do
Four disciplines, one team.
Most agencies hand you off to a different vendor for each service. We don’t. You get one engagement manager and one bill.
Website design & build
Bespoke marketing sites and web apps built on Next.js, shipped with a CMS your team actually uses.
- ›Design system from scratch or on top of your brand
- ›CMS-driven content, every section editable
- ›Performance budget — loads under 1s on 3G
Hosting & infrastructure
Managed hosting with actual humans answering when something breaks.
- ›Deploys to DigitalOcean, AWS, or Vercel
- ›Monitoring, backups, CDN, TLS
- ›One flat monthly fee, no surprise bills
SEO & search
Technical SEO audits, content strategy, and month-over-month optimization that actually moves rankings.
- ›Full technical audit with prioritized action plan
- ›Structured data, Core Web Vitals, crawl budget
- ›Content architecture and internal linking
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Performance
Make your existing site fast — often the highest-ROI engagement we run.
- ›Lighthouse + real-user-monitoring
- ›Image, font, and bundle optimization
- ›Measurable before/after in 2 weeks
App design & development
iOS, Android, and web app UX for teams who need more than a marketing site.
- ›Product discovery and wireframes
- ›Design system tailored to your product
- ›React Native or native iOS/Android
Strategy & consulting
Not ready to build? Hire us for a strategic sprint.
- ›Architecture review for existing systems
- ›CMS + stack recommendations
- ›Vendor selection and contract review
Questions
Common questions we get.
Yes. Most of our clients are remote. We’ve shipped projects across North America, the UK, and Australia. Time zones are rarely an issue.
Scoped fixed-price for anything that fits a clear brief. Hourly retainers for ongoing work. We’ll give you a quote within 48 hours of our initial call.
Both. You can host with us (managed DigitalOcean or AWS, monthly fee) or we’ll deploy to your existing host. We document the deployment regardless, so you’re never stuck.
Default is Next.js + Payload CMS + Postgres, deployed to DigitalOcean. We’ll use a different stack if your situation calls for it — for example, Shopify for a commerce-first site. We pick the right tool, not the fashionable one.
Yes. Every site ships with a full CMS — you can add, remove, and reorder sections, change copy, swap images, publish blog posts, and edit pricing without touching code.