Northbound Studio
We area full-service design studio
Design-led landing pages & websites, Prague & Europe

High-performance websites designed & engineered for search and AI.

We design and build websites that look exceptional, load instantly, and get found by Google and AI, so your business wins the customers your competitors are losing.

Takes 2 minutes. No technical knowledge needed.

Limited projects each month.

What we do

Sites engineered to be found and built to convert

A design and development studio with a sharp niche: high-performance websites optimised for Google, AI, and conversion. Everything we ship is designed, built, and engineered in-house.

01

Design that earns trust

Bespoke design craft, no templates. Every page is built to make your business look as good as it actually is.

02

Speed Google rewards

Sub-second load times and perfect Core Web Vitals. Performance is a ranking signal, we treat it like one.

03

Built for AI discovery

Structured for how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI surface businesses. Visibility tomorrow starts with what you build today.

Two ways to work with us

New builds. Rebuilds. AI strategy.

Studio work

Websites & Landing Pages

Whether you're launching something new or replacing a legacy site that's leaving revenue on the table, we design, build, and ship sites engineered to perform.

  • · New landing pages and full website builds
  • · Rebuilds and redesigns of underperforming sites
  • · SEO and AI discoverability built in from day one
  • · Launch in 2–6 weeks, not months
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Consulting

AI Readiness Audit

For teams who want to get their site, content, and structured data ready for the AI era, but don't know where to start. A fixed-scope audit with a clear action plan.

  • · Full review of how AI tools see your business today
  • · Structured-data and content gaps mapped out
  • · Prioritised, actionable roadmap your team can execute
  • · Fixed scope, fixed price, no long retainers
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Selected work

Selected Work

Driftly, European Road Trip Planner
Product design & engineering

Driftly, European Road Trip Planner

Full custom product — design and build — for road trippers crossing Europe. Concept, interface, and engineering, end-to-end.

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Cobra
Art direction, identity & logo

Cobra

Minimalist identity for a Prague bar — black, layered history, and simple white accents.

Bistro Monk
Identity & art direction

Bistro Monk

Identity for a bistro inside a former Old Town monastery, built around the lily of its monastic order.

GASK
Art direction & exhibition design

GASK

A bespoke typeface at the centre of the Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region's visual identity.

The Northbound Method

01

Discovery & Strategy

We audit your current presence, map your competitive landscape, and define exactly what needs to change.

02

Design & Build

We design and develop your product with obsessive attention to performance, conversion, and AI-readiness.

03

Launch & Grow

Your product goes live optimised for discovery. Then we measure, iterate, and scale what works.

Unlock growth.

Questions, answered

We scope every project to its actual needs, no templates, no bloat. Because we're a lean senior team without agency overhead, we typically deliver at a fraction of what traditional agencies charge. After a short discovery call you'll get a fixed proposal. No hourly billing, no surprises.

Landing pages typically launch in 2–4 weeks. Full marketing websites take 4–8 weeks depending on scope and content readiness. Design-only projects (brand, UI, web design handoff) usually run 2–5 weeks. We move faster than traditional agencies because we work as a small senior team, no layers, no handoffs.

Yes. We regularly partner with in-house dev teams or external engineers on design-only engagements, web design, product UI, brand systems, and landing page concepts ready for handoff in Figma. If you already have the build side covered, we're a clean fit.

Often, yes. Most of our work is rebuilding underperforming sites where the design feels dated, the page is slow, or conversions have plateaued. We start with an audit, then redesign for clarity, speed, and conversion, keeping what works and rebuilding what doesn't.

Yes. Technical SEO, semantic structure, Core Web Vitals, metadata, and schema are built into every site from day one, not added later. For content strategy or ongoing SEO work we partner with specialists we trust.

We're a small senior team of designers and engineers, no account managers, no junior handoffs. Every site is bespoke, built from scratch for performance, and obsessed over at the pixel level. We work with a handful of clients at a time so the craft stays high.