Strategy & positioning
We start with the business question, not the homepage. Research, positioning, information architecture and a content plan the whole team can execute.
Strategy, design and engineering under one roof, for companies that want a web presence they can measure.
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- Brand identity
- Web design
- Front-end engineering
- Headless commerce
- Design systems
- Content & SEO
- Motion
- Accessibility
01 / What we do
Four disciplines.
One team.
We do not hand a design file to a separate build team. The people who draw the interface write the code that ships it.
Brand & interface design
Identity systems, design tokens and interfaces designed in the browser, so what you approve is exactly what ships.
Engineering
Static-first sites and web apps on Astro, Next.js and a headless CMS. Fast by default, accessible by contract, owned by you.
Growth & care
After launch we keep measuring: search performance, speed budgets, editorial support and a quarterly review with your team.
One contract, one board, one team. The four disciplines are the same eleven people, not four departments passing files.
What each one includes02 / Selected work
Three recent
launches.
Every project ships with a performance budget, a written accessibility statement and a number we agreed to move.
Case studies are written with the client, published with their numbers, and kept online after the contract ends.
Read the case studies03 / How we work
A method
you can
hold us to.
Four phases, each with a fixed scope, a fixed price and a demo at the end. You can stop after any of them and keep everything produced so far.
- 01
Discover
2 weeksInterviews, analytics review, competitive read and a written brief. We leave with one sentence about what the site is for.
- 02
Design
3 to 5 weeksIdentity, type, tokens, then real pages in the browser. Content is written alongside layout, never poured in afterwards.
- 03
Build
4 to 8 weeksStatic-first stack, headless content, a shared board and a weekly demo. Your editors are trained before launch, not after.
- 04
Launch & learn
OngoingLaunch on the date written in the proposal. Then 90 days of measurement against the number we agreed to move.
One contact
A senior designer or engineer runs your project from kickoff to launch. No account layer in between.
One board
A shared board you can open any day. Every decision, every file, every demo recording lives there.
One price
Each phase is quoted before it starts. If we get the estimate wrong, that is our problem, not yours.
0 Launches since 2016
0/10 Median client score after launch
0 Median Lighthouse performance
04 / The people
The talent.
Eleven people, no juniors on client work, and everyone here writes for the Journal. The person you meet is the person who does the work.
Lead
Julien Tanaka
Lead engineer, co-founder
Data
Clara Vidal
Head of analytics
Cloud
Priya Raman
Cloud architect
Design
Maxime Laurent
Product designer, co-founder
We write down what we learn. Notes on performance budgets, accessibility audits and the occasional launch post-mortem, published in the Journal every other week.
Read the Journal Client retention
0%
of clients come back for a second engagement.
“They asked better questions than our own board did. The site launched on the date written in the first proposal, which I had not believed.”
“Our engineers stopped complaining about the marketing site. In nine years, that has never happened.”
05 / Engagements
Investment.
Three ways to work with us. Every figure below is a floor, quoted phase by phase, and never revised upwards mid-project.
Launch
A focused site for a company that needs to exist online properly.
From €12,000
- Five to eight pages, written with you
- Identity refresh and design tokens
- Astro build, headless CMS, WebP pipeline
- Six weeks from kickoff to launch
Platform
A design system and a multi-market site or product front-end, built to grow.
From €38,000
- Design system, tokens and documentation
- Headless commerce or app front-end
- Multilingual, with a performance budget
- Ten to fourteen weeks, four demos
- Editors trained before launch
Partnership
A senior team on retainer for design, engineering and growth.
From €4,500/ month
- Six-month minimum, monthly roadmap
- Search and analytics review each quarter
- Priority support, two-day turnaround
- Editorial support for the Journal
Every engagement includes one contact, one board, one price per phase and ninety days of measurement.
How each price is set06 / Journal
Notes from
the studio.
Performance numbers, accessibility audits and the occasional post-mortem. Written by the people who did the work.
A performance budget is a contract, not a wish
Every Synora proposal names the weight, the request count and the Largest Contentful Paint the site must respect. Here is how we set those numbers and what happens when a client wants a video in the hero.
We stopped delivering design files in 2021
Every Synora interface is designed in the browser, in the real typeface, with the real content, on the real grid. What that changed for clients, for engineers and for the work.
Every launch ships with a written accessibility statement
Not a badge, not a plugin. A page that says what was tested, what passed, what did not, and who to write to. Here is the template and the reasoning.
Questions Before you
Before you
write to us.
Six things almost every prospect asks in the first call. If yours is not here, ask anyway.
01 How long does a project take?
A Launch project takes six weeks. A Platform project takes ten to fourteen. The date is written into the proposal, and in 140 launches we have moved it four times, each time at the client's request.
02 Is the price really fixed?
Per phase, yes. Discovery is quoted first. At the end of it we quote Design, and so on. If a phase costs us more than estimated, we absorb it. If you change the scope, we re-quote the next phase, never the current one.
03 Do you work with an in-house team?
Often. Your designers and engineers join the shared board from day one. We document tokens, components and content models so the hand-over is a formality, not a project of its own.
04 Which technology do you use?
Static-first. Astro for content sites, Next.js when there is an application to run, a headless CMS your editors can actually use, and images served as WebP with responsive sizes. No page builder, no plugin stack to babysit.
05 Who owns the code and the design?
You do, from the first invoice. The repository is created in your organisation, the design files are in your workspace, and there is no licence to renew. If we part ways, nothing breaks.
06 What happens after launch?
Ninety days of measurement are included in every project. After that, most clients move to a Partnership retainer, or simply call when they need something. Both are fine with us.
Start
building.
Tell us what the site is for and what number it should move. We reply within two working days, with questions.
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