A senior, founder-led studio for brands that take their website seriously.
Haxtiv was founded in 2019 on a simple idea: most agencies sell projects, not outcomes. We chose to build a small, senior team that ships fewer projects, with more care, for clients who notice the difference.
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Why we exist
Most websites are shipped to be done. We ship websites to be lived in.
We started Haxtiv after a decade of working inside larger agencies and in-house teams. We saw the same pattern over and over: a brand pays for a redesign every two or three years because the previous one was not really a system — it was a sequence of templates with a logo glued on top.
We wanted to build the alternative: a small, senior studio that designs websites as systems and codes them as long-term assets. Sites that the in-house team can grow into for three or four years, not throw away after eighteen months.
That ambition shapes the way we hire, scope, design, build, and write. It is why we say no to projects we cannot ship well, why our care plans get longer every year, and why we resist growing past the size where the founders can still know every project.
What we ship
Three platforms. One standard of craft.
Haxtiv ships premium WordPress, Shopify, and page-builder websites — custom themes, ACF content models, headless WordPress on Next.js, Shopify Plus, WooCommerce, Elementor, Bricks, Gutenberg. The platforms differ. The standard does not. Every project is treated as an editorial system with technical SEO, real-user Core Web Vitals, and post-launch care planned from week one.
We are platform-honest in discovery. WordPress and Shopify both ship serious websites in 2026, and the right answer depends on the team that has to run the site. We tell brands which platform we would build on after a 30-minute call — even when the answer is the one we did not pitch.
The work spans editorial brand sites for legal, healthcare, and hospitality; DTC stores at every scale from small-batch beauty to Shopify Plus B2B; service businesses migrating off Squarespace, Wix, and Webflow; and white-label engagements for agencies that need senior WordPress or Shopify hands without the holding-company invoice.
Who we work with
Brands at the point where the website has to count.
The brands we serve well are at the moment when the next site is not optional — for revenue, for reputation, for the team's daily sanity. Funded startups preparing to scale, established service businesses replacing a tired site built on a free theme, ecommerce brands hitting a ceiling on a stock Shopify template, in-house teams that need a senior partner who will not disappear after launch.
We work across 27 countries and time zones. Most engagements run remote, with clients in the US, UK, EU, Australia, Canada, and the Middle East. The process is the same wherever the brand is — weekly written updates, fixed quotes after discovery, milestone billing, and a partner on the call who has shipped the work before.
How we work
Six principles we'd write on the wall.
These aren't values posters. They are the operating constraints that shape the way we scope, design, build, and stay involved after launch.
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Senior-only delivery
Every Haxtiv project is led by a senior designer and senior engineer. We don't run a junior bench. The people you meet on the call are the people who ship.
- 02
Editorial design as a default
Design isn't decoration. Every project is treated as an editorial system — type, grid, motion, photography, empty states — built so the brand reads consistently from the homepage to the unloved corners.
- 03
SEO is a constraint
We design and build with technical SEO from day one. Architecture, internal linking, schema, performance — not a panic step before launch.
- 04
Honest scope
If a project would be better served elsewhere, we say so. We pass leads to friends in the industry every week. The work we take on is work we believe we can ship well.
- 05
Care plans that compound
Most of our clients stay with us into year two. Maintenance, CRO, SEO retainers — quiet, monthly, calm. The site gets better the longer we run it.
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Calm, written down
We document decisions, share weekly updates, and over-communicate. We don't ghost. We respond same-day during a project. We earn the retainer.
Studio at a glance
Numbers we earn, not numbers we round up.
Sites shipped
across 27 countries
Studio hours
delivered since 2019
Avg conversion lift
post-redesign clients
Client retention
into year two
The team
Independent, on purpose.
18 senior designers, engineers, SEO and CRO specialists. 62,000+ studio hours delivered since 2019. We're proudly independent — no holding company, no investor pressure to grow headcount, no bench to feed.
- Design partners2
- Senior engineers6
- SEO specialists2
- CRO + analytics2
- Project leads3
- Trusted contractorsOn call · vetted · long-tenured
In their words
Clients who stayed past launch.
Haxtiv replatformed our marketing site without losing a single ranking. We saw organic leads up 38% inside the first quarter and the editorial team finally has a layout system they don't fight.
Mara Iglesias
VP Marketing · Lumenwave Health
Headless WordPress redesign
Our previous Shopify build was a Frankenstein of apps. The Haxtiv team simplified the stack, rebuilt the PDP and CRO patterns, and our store is faster and more profitable than it has ever been.
Daniel Korver
Founder · Northbound Goods
Shopify Plus rebuild
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