Brand presence
01Flagship marketing site
A fast, cinematic brand presence with a CMS your team controls — built to make you look like the category leader.
01Core practice
Web Development
Websites & web apps engineered to outperform.
We design and build flagship websites and web applications that load instantly, rank, and convert — the kind of digital presence that makes a company look inevitable. Strategy, design, motion and engineering, under one roof.
Tools & platforms we build with
90+Lighthouse performance targets
<1sTime-to-interactive on key pages
100%Responsive, edge to edge
(Overview)
The work, in full.
Your website is the first — and often only — impression. We build sites that feel effortless to use and impossible to ignore: sub-second loads, motion that means something, and an architecture that search engines and customers both reward.
Everything is built on a modern, headless foundation. No bloated page-builders, no template you'll outgrow in a year. Just clean, owned code that scales from a marketing site today to a full product surface tomorrow.
And because design, motion and engineering happen in the same room, the seams disappear. What you see in the prototype is what ships — pixel for pixel, millisecond for millisecond.
(What you can achieve)
Where this takes you.
A few of the outcomes we build inside Web Development — each one a real, ownable asset for your business.
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(What's included)
Everything inside Web Development.
A complete, senior-led practice — expand each area to see exactly what we deliver.
High-craft brochure and campaign sites that carry the weight of your brand and turn attention into pipeline.
- Conversion-focused landing pages
- Editorial & content systems
- CMS your team can actually run
- Motion & interaction design
(How we work)
A timeline built to de-risk the outcome.
An illustrative engagement — every project gets a precise schedule after discovery.
Kick-offLaunch & beyond
01Discovery & strategy
Week 1
02Design & prototype
Weeks 1–3
03Engineering
Weeks 3–7
04Launch & optimise
Week 8+
01Week 1
Discovery & strategy
We map your audience, goals and competitors, then define the sitemap, messaging and success metrics before a pixel moves.
02Weeks 1–3
Design & prototype
Art direction, wireframes and interactive prototypes — you see and feel the experience before we build it.
03Weeks 3–7
Engineering
We build on Next.js with a headless CMS, component by component, with performance and accessibility baked in from line one.
04Week 8+
Launch & optimise
QA across devices, analytics and SEO instrumentation, a clean handover, and ongoing optimisation against real data.
(Deliverables)
What you walk away with.
- 01Fully responsive, production website or app
- 02Headless CMS & content training
- 03Design system & component library
- 04SEO & analytics instrumentation
- 05Performance budget & monitoring
- 06Documentation & handover
(Tools & stack)
Built on proven foundations.
Framework
Next.jsReactTypeScript
Styling & motion
Tailwind CSSFramer MotionGSAP
Content
SanityContentfulStoryblokHeadless WP
Infra
VercelCloudflareAWS
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(Why Blacktide)
Why ambitious companies choose us.
01
Senior people only
No juniors learning on your budget. The people who scope the work are the people who build it.
02
Owned, never rented
You keep the code, the IP and the infrastructure. No black boxes, no lock-in — ever.
03
Engineering is the brand
Speed, reliability and craft aren't technical details. They're how trust is felt.
04
One partner, end to end
Strategy, brand, web and software under one roof, moving at a single pace.
05
On call 24/7/365
An under-two-hour response SLA — and an average real response measured in minutes.
06
Radically transparent
Clear scope, clear pricing, clear reporting. No surprises and no theatre.
Always on — 24/7/365
Launch is the start. We stay on call.
When something needs us, a real person responds — fast. These are our actual support figures, not aspirations.
24/7/365On call, every day of the year
<0hGuaranteed SLA response time
≤0mAverage real response time
(Selected work)
Proof, on request.
Much of our strongest work sits behind NDAs — platforms, products and rebrands for clients who value discretion. We don't put their results on a public reel.
Instead, we share relevant web development case studies privately, matched to your sector and goals — including metrics, process and outcomes.
Shared under mutual NDA
Under NDAPrivate client work — request access
Under NDAPrivate client work — request access
(FAQ)
Questions, answered.
Still unsure? A quick inquiry gets you a straight answer from the people who'd do the work.
(Explore)
Related practices.
(Let's begin)
hello@blacktideinternational.comReady to build together?
Tell us about your web developmentproject and we'll reply within one business day — a real response from the people who'd do the work.