Why brands pick us — and stay with us.
We are not the cheapest agency. We are not the largest. We are the one teams come back to when the project has to land. Senior-only delivery, editorial design, performance discipline, SEO continuity, and a partnership that doesn't ghost after launch.
Team
Approach
Continuity
Honesty
What we believe
Most agencies optimize for sales velocity. We optimize for shipped work.
Most agencies hire junior teams and price them out as senior. Most agencies write proposals faster than they write production code. Most agencies disappear in week ten of a 12-week project. We do the opposite of all three: senior-only teams, slower proposal cadence, more time on production, and a partnership that holds through stabilization and care plan.
What we hear most
What separates us.
Senior-only
No junior pyramid. No 'lead' who quietly hands off to a contractor. The names you meet at proposal are the people on production calls.
Editorial design
Not template aesthetics. Not 'brutalist' as a workaround for indecision. Real editorial design — type, grid, motion, photography — applied with restraint.
Technical depth
Senior engineering, modern stacks, performance budgets, SEO continuity, observability. The technical part of the work earns its name.
Continuity beyond launch
We don't ghost. Most clients keep us on retainer past launch. Care plans, CRO, SEO, new templates — work that compounds.
Honesty
We say no to projects we cannot do well. We tell you when a brief is wrong. We share what didn't work in past projects. The relationship is the work, not the upsell.
What we deliver
How this shows up in the work.
Concrete patterns that distinguish a Haxtiv engagement.
Discovery
- 30-minute discovery call with a partner, not a sales rep
- Honest scope conversation with a fixed quote at the end
- We turn down projects we don't fit (size, sector, budget, brief)
- Risk register agreed before kickoff
- References from past clients in similar shapes
Build
- Senior-only team — names on the kickoff are names on the calls
- Weekly cadence with shipped progress, not slide demos
- Real-user CWV monitoring during build
- Performance budgets enforced per template
- SEO continuity treated as design problem from week one
Launch
- Staging-to-production cutover with rollback plan
- Search Console submission and indexation watch
- Real-user CWV monitoring for 30 days post-launch
- Top-50 keyword ranking watch with weekly reporting
- Editorial team training on the new system
After
- 30 days of post-launch support included
- Optional retainer for new templates and growth surfaces
- Care plans for sites that need them
- CRO and SEO retainer for sites that earn it
- A studio you can keep on speed dial — no ghosting
Process
How this service runs end to end
The same six-step shape we use across every Haxtiv project — adapted to the specifics of this scope.
01
Discover
Audit, intent, and the part nobody is saying out loud
We open with a working session — not a deck. We pull analytics, crawl the existing site, audit the brand, and interview the people closest to revenue. We surface the friction inside the team, not just the friction on the screen.
02
Define
Sitemap, story, and the metrics that actually matter
We define the audience journeys, the commercial pages we are willing to defend, the SEO architecture, and the measurable outcomes. You get a shape of the project that survives feedback because it was built on evidence.
03
Design
Editorial system, art-directed, never templated
Type, grid, motion, and tone built as a system. We design the hero, the long pages, the unloved corners, and the empty states. Every screen looks like it belongs to the same studio. Nothing is parked for later.
04
Build
Production code your team can keep
WordPress, Shopify, or page builder — we build clean, accessible, performant, and documented. Component-led, naming you'll recognize next year, and a changelog your in-house team can read.
05
Launch
Migration without losing rankings or sleep
Pre-launch crawl, redirect map, schema and metadata cutover, performance baseline, and a launch playbook. We run the deploy with you, not at you.
06
Grow
Care plan, CRO sprints, and quiet improvements
We stay involved. Monthly performance reports, security and core updates, and CRO sprints that compound. The site gets better the longer you keep us.
What this looks like in production
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
In their words
Senior teams who chose us.
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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