Field notes for owners.
Essays, deep dives, and the reasoning behind our engagements — written for the people who'll actually be hiring a studio like ours.

Why we build on Next.js instead of WordPress
WordPress still runs 40% of the web. But for the work our clients actually hire us to do, it’s usually the wrong tool — here’s why.
Suhaib Chaudhry · April 23, 2026 · 7 min readRead the guide
A realistic SEO playbook for small teams
Most SEO advice online is written for companies with a content team of twelve. This is what actually works when it’s you, a designer, and one marketer.
April 12, 2026 · 9 minRead
Managed hosting is a boring superpower
Your site going down at 2am on a Saturday is a human problem, not a technical one. Managed hosting is mostly about making sure a human is actually on call.
March 29, 2026 · 5 minRead
The Core Web Vitals playbook
LCP, CLS, INP. Three numbers Google uses to rank you. Here’s the actual order of operations we use to get them into the green — in about a week, for most sites.
March 16, 2026 · 8 minRead