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Slate Forge is a web design and development studio. We craft fast, accessible, and intuitive websites for SaaS, fintech, and creative teams — from first wireframe to production deploy.
# -- project bootstrap: slate_forge --
$ npm run build
> Compiling UI components...
> Optimizing assets: 12.4MB → 892KB
> Lighthouse score: performance 98 / a11y 100
✓ Build complete in 2.4s
# -- ready for production --
// approach
We're a tight team of designers and developers who’ve shipped 120+ projects together. No handoffs, no vague timelines — just direct collaboration and measurable outcomes.
We dig into your user data, markets and competitors. The goal: find the highest-leverage problem to solve first.
Design sprints with clickable wireframes. We test with real users to validate the flow before a line of frontend code is written.
Clean, semantic, accessible code. We build with modern standards — HTML5, CSS, vanilla JS — and ship fast, below 1MB page weight.
CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, and performance budgets. We don't walk away — we monitor and iterate with you.
// philosophy
Great design is invisible. It doesn't demand attention — it earns it by solving a problem with zero friction. At Slate Forge, that means every button, color and animation has a purpose, and every page loads in under a second. We obsess over accessibility because a product that excludes users isn't finished.
Our craft is combining visual elegance with structural integrity: we design in the browser, prototype with real data, and write code that looks as good in a terminal as the interface does in a browser. This is how we've helped clients increase conversion by an average of 38% within 90 days of launch.
// selected_work
Revitalized the online retail experience for an outdoor equipment brand. Saw a 52% increase in mobile checkout completions.
Built a visually immersive portfolio site for a 12-person creative agency. Result: 2.4x more inbound project inquiries.
Designed a clean data-dense dashboard for a fintech SaaS. Reduced time-to-insight by 34% in user testing.
"Slate Forge rebuilt our entire web presence in 8 weeks. Conversion jumped 41% and our dev team finally has a codebase they're actually proud of."
// faq
Most site builds run 6–10 weeks, from discovery to deploy. Wedesign in the browser and test with real users throughout. For ongoing work, we offer monthly retainer agreements post-launch.
Startups and smaller sites typically start at $8,000. Complex product builds for SaaS or e-commerce usually land between $15,000 and $35,000. We'll scope it precisely in a free 30-minute consultation.
We prefer hand-coded frontends — they're faster and more secure. For content-heavy sites we'll set up a headless CMS so you get the best of both: a blazing-fast frontend and an easy editor.
Every build includes semantic HTML, structured data, and a page-weight budget under 1MB. Core Web Vitals are part of our acceptance criteria, and we'll show you the Lighthouse report at handoff.
// contact
Have a project in mind, a product to launch, or just want to talk shop? We reply to every inquiry within 24 hours.