Brand identity
A name, a mark, a voice and the system that keeps them in step, built for screens first.
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We design and build the sites companies ship on.
Brands, websites and products for teams that have a launch date. Four people, one studio, from the first call to the day it goes live.
Selected work
Six projects, one studio.
Brands, sites and products that shipped on the day we said. Move down the list.
Services
Four things we do. All of them well.
Fixed price, a launch date, and a system your team runs afterwards.
Websites
Designed and built by the same four people, on a system your team can edit without breaking it.
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Product design
Interfaces for software that people use all day: research, flows, a component library, the hard screens.
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Motion and film
Launch films, product motion and the small moves that make an interface feel finished.
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How we work
The people who design your site are the people who build it. What you approve is what ships.
Why Kestrel
Three promises on every project.
The studio in numbers
- 6
Years, one team
- 68
Projects shipped
- 31
Days, median brief to launch
- 9 in 10
Clients who come back
How a project runs
Eight weeks, four moves.
Week 1
Listen
A day with your team and your customers. We leave with the brief written in your words, and a fixed price.
Weeks 2 to 3
Shape
Direction before pages: type, colour, motion and the three screens that define the product, reviewed live.
Weeks 4 to 7
Build
The real thing, on the real system, with your content. You see it every Thursday and can edit it from week five.
Week 8
Launch and look after
Launch day with us in the room. Then a care plan, if you want one, from the people who built it.
Clients
Cronos · Vesper · Kroma · Pulse
Vanguard · Northline · Halden · Marrow
Kroma · Pulse · Vanguard · Northline
Clients
What they say a year later.
They shipped in three weeks and it still feels finished.
Every studio we spoke to quoted four months. Kestrel asked what the launch date was and worked back from it. The brand holds up a year later.
Maya Lindqvist, co-founder, Cronos Systems, Client since 2025 The first agency that let our team own the site.
We have changed every page ourselves since launch. Nothing has broken. That was the brief, and they took it seriously.
Daniel Osei, head of marketing, Pulse Architecture, Client since 2025 Honest about what we did not need.
Half the first call was them talking us out of work. What we did build paid for itself on the first drop.
Sofia Marin, founder, Vesper Studio, Client since 2026