A web development company that ships
Slides do not launch products. Design, engineering, and launch need to sit with the same team on the same schedule.
Projects run on milestones rather than an open-ended discovery phase. Every phase ends with something you can click, test, or release.
Most people who reach this page are businesses comparing web development companies. Custom websites and web apps built by a senior engineering studio, with SEO, performance, and conversion in mind.
What you get
- Marketing and product sites
- SEO-ready builds
- Fast Core Web Vitals
- CMS and analytics setup
- One studio accountable for the result
- Design and engineering on the same schedule
- Support available after launch
How engagement works
As your web development company, we run a shared backlog, design reviews, and engineering sprints, and you keep one point of contact throughout.
- 01
Discover
Goals, constraints, data sources, and success metrics, all settled before we touch architecture or prompts. The work for teams in Vancouver stays tied to the outcome you asked for.
- 02
Design
System design, AI/tool boundaries, interface direction, and interaction prototypes. You see progress on the critical path every week.
- 03
Build
Modern stack, clean architecture, evaluated AI behavior, and iterative demos you can react to. Nothing here waits on a handover between separate teams.
- 04
Launch
Ship, monitor, harden, and keep improving models, tools, and product after go-live. On web development projects we favour practical architecture over trendy defaults.
How we build it, and why
The stack is chosen per project, not applied from a template. For web development company work these are the defaults, and the reason each one is on the list.
- Next.js
- server rendering and static generation in one framework, so marketing pages stay fast and app routes stay dynamic
- React
- the component model most teams can already hire for and maintain
- Tailwind
- design decisions stay in the markup, so the CSS does not grow faster than the product
- CMS
- editable content, so routine copy changes never queue behind engineering
- Analytics
- instrumentation from day one, because you cannot improve what nobody measured
What the first weeks look like
- Week 1
Scope and architecture
Users, data, integrations, and constraints, ending in a written plan for the web development that you approve before anyone opens an editor.
- Weeks 2-3
Design the critical path
The screens that carry the product, prototyped and clickable. Design and engineering review together, so nothing gets drawn that cannot ship.
- Weeks 4-8
Build in weekly slices
Every week ends with something on a real URL. marketing and product sites lands early, because the rest of the plan depends on it working.
- Launch
Ship, measure, hand over
Release, monitoring, analytics, and a documented handover, so your team can carry it without calling us.
Weighing up your options
There are three realistic ways to get this built. Each is the right answer for someone.
A solo freelancer
Cheapest per hour and fine for a contained task. The risk on web development is breadth — one person covering design, backend, infrastructure, and launch usually means one of them is weak, and there is no cover when they are unavailable.
A local agency in Vancouver
Same timezone and a face to meet, which genuinely matters for some teams. You are also paying Vancouver product companies prioritizing clean UX and engineering. rates for the whole team including the layers that never touch your web development, and a local shortlist is a small shortlist.
Arcode
A small senior team. The people who scope the web development write the code, you get weekly demos instead of status decks, and the engagement ends when the thing is live and handed over.
Work we have shipped
Dumbiez
Frontend · NFT product
NFT comics platform for exploring and interacting with digital comic collectibles.
Independent Next.js product for browsing and engaging with NFT comics, styled with Tailwind and shipped on Vercel.
- · NFT comics browsing
- · Interactive collectible UX
- · Responsive Next.js UI
- · Vercel deployment
Next.js · React · Tailwind · Vercel
StudioX Localization
Frontend · i18n
UI polish and language translation pages for the StudioX product experience.
Contract contribution implementing UI fixes and localization pages with Next.js, React, and Tailwind to improve accessibility and multi-language use.
- · Language translation pages
- · UI accessibility fixes
- · Next.js page delivery
- · Clearer multi-language UX
Next.js · React · Tailwind
React Email Templates
Email systems · Resend
Reusable React Email templates sent through Resend for production transactional mail.
Freelance email kit using React Email, Resend, TypeScript, and Tailwind to create and send branded emails from a React app.
- · Reusable email templates
- · Resend delivery integration
- · TypeScript-safe composition
- · Tailwind-styled layouts
React Email · Resend · TypeScript · Tailwind
Working with teams in Vancouver
Vancouver product companies prioritizing clean UX and engineering. We work with clients in Vancouver remotely and keep overlapping hours in PST/PDT. We usually collaborate in English.
How we work with Vancouver teams
Vancouver is twelve to thirteen hours behind us, so the shared window is your morning and our evening. One scheduled call plus written updates covers it without either side keeping strange hours.
What Vancouver clients usually need
Vancouver briefs lean product and design-led — SaaS platforms, health and wellness products, and mobile apps where the interface is the product rather than a wrapper over an API.
Contracts, data, and compliance
We invoice in CAD or USD. PIPEDA and British Columbia's provincial privacy rules apply, so data residency gets decided before the build rather than during a security review at the end.
