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Case study · 01

CostaLocal

SectorLocal discovery
PlatformWeb + iOS + Android
ScopeProduct, brand, apps, web, dashboards
StatusLive on the App Store and Google Play
CostaLocal web platform homepage
CostaLocal mobile app screens showing offers, map and offer detail

The problem

The Costa del Sol is full of residents and visitors deciding where to eat, drink and spend an afternoon, yet local businesses still rely on passing trade to be found. Offers sit on chalkboards and events sit on posters. Nothing connected what's happening nearby with the people standing nearby.

The thinking

This was never a website brief. Connecting businesses with locals in real time takes a complete product. A consumer app worth opening, business tools simple enough to use every day, and one database keeping the two in sync. Every offer in the app had to come from a dashboard the business controls, and every view, save and redemption had to flow back to that business as a real signal.

The solution

A full-stack platform designed and built end to end. A native mobile app on iOS and Android where people browse nearby offers, events, food, drinks and activities by category or on a live map, then show and redeem offers in person with no account needed. Behind it, a database-driven web application handles the other side of the marketplace. Businesses and accommodation partners apply online, manage their profile, offers and events from a partner dashboard, and watch views, opens, saves and redemptions update as they happen. Accommodation partners share a personalised QR code or link that puts the whole platform in front of arriving guests, and an admin console oversees everything. Content a partner publishes appears in the app in real time.

CostaLocal partner dashboard sign in with live engagement stats
CostaLocal accommodation partner QR sharing on the web platform

What it shows

CostaLocal is what full product development looks like at this studio. Product design, brand, native mobile apps, a custom web application, database architecture, partner and admin dashboards, and the hosting underneath it all. One team carried every layer from first sketch to public release, and the same team keeps it running.

Outcome

A scalable consumer platform live on the App Store and Google Play, backed by a web platform that signs up businesses and accommodation partners and gives them real control of their presence. Proof the studio builds complete digital products, not just websites.

Visit costalocal.es →

Case study · 02

Save & Insure

SectorInsurance (FCA regulated)
PlatformWeb
ScopeDesign, copy, build, hosting
StatusLive
Save and Insure homepage
Save and Insure on mobile

The problem

An insurance broker lives or dies on trust, and a regulated firm can't say whatever it likes to earn it. Save & Insure needed a website that felt established and credible while staying precisely within what an FCA regulated business is allowed to claim.

The thinking

In a sector full of aggressive comparison sites, restraint reads as credibility. The design leans on clear structure, plain language and generous space rather than urgency tactics. It's the website of a firm you'd trust with your home, your car and your income.

The solution

A complete website designed and written for the realities of a regulated broker. Product pages structured around real insurance lines, copy drafted with compliance in mind, and fast, secure hosting.

What it shows

Working in regulated sectors changes how you design and what you write. Brokers, advisers and consultancies never need to explain the constraints to us twice.

Outcome

A regulated financial services firm with a website that matches the standard of its advice. Clear, compliant and quick on every device.

Visit saveandinsure.com →

Case study · 03

Ferreira Plastering

SectorTrades
PlatformWeb
ScopeDesign, copy, build, hosting
StatusLive · delivered in under a week
Ferreira Plastering homepage
Ferreira Plastering on mobile

The problem

A skilled plastering firm in Dorset was winning work on reputation alone while looking no different online from anyone with a van and a Facebook page. Customers searching locally had no way to see the quality of the work before picking up the phone.

The thinking

For a trade business a website has one job. It has to make the next customer comfortable enough to get in touch. That means real photographs of real work, genuine reviews given room to breathe, and pages that load instantly on a phone at the side of the road.

The solution

A focused, fast website structured around the two things local customers check. Evidence of the work and evidence of the reviews. Clear service areas, prominent contact routes and a mobile experience treated as the main one, because that's where the enquiries come from.

What it shows

Speed and quality aren't a trade off when the process is right. Scoped, designed, written, built and live in under a week at exactly the price quoted.

Outcome

A local trade with a website that finally matches its workmanship. Live in under a week, on budget and turning local searches into direct enquiries.

Visit ferreiraplastering.co.uk →

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