Services

One senior team. End-to-end.

Websites, business systems and the brand around them — designed, built and shipped by the same small team. No handoffs to a junior offshore squad. No surprises in the invoice.

Disciplines

Where we go deep.

The capabilities we actively staff and ship from. Each is a full studio practice, not a side line.

01 · Discipline

Websites & web design

Marketing sites and product surfaces that earn the click.

From a one-page launch site to a full marketing system, we design and build sites that load fast, look unmistakable and convert. Headless CMS so your team can edit without engineering tickets, and Lighthouse 100s as the baseline.

  • Brand & identity systems
  • Marketing sites & landing pages
  • Headless CMS (Sanity, Payload, Contentful)
  • Lighthouse 100 / Core Web Vitals tuning

02 · Discipline

Digital marketing

Growth without the agency theatre.

Performance campaigns, SEO that compounds, content that ranks and lifecycle email that opens. We measure what matters, kill what doesn't, and report in a single dashboard you actually open.

  • Paid acquisition (Google, Meta, LinkedIn)
  • SEO & content programs
  • Lifecycle & transactional email
  • Analytics, attribution & weekly reporting
Process

How a project actually flows.

Six steps from first call to handover. Weekly cadence, monthly invoices, no surprises.

  1. 0130 min

    Discovery call

    We figure out what you actually need vs what someone tried to sell you. Free, no pitch deck.

    • Goals + constraints
    • Scope sketch
    • Rough budget range
  2. 02Week 0

    Scope & price

    We write down what's in scope, what's not, and what it costs. You sign one page, not 27.

    • Fixed-price quote
    • Milestone schedule
    • Statement of work
  3. 03Week 1

    Design & data

    Flows, layouts and data shapes on paper before any production code. You see the system before it exists.

    • Wireframes
    • DB schema
    • API contract
  4. 04Weeks 2–N

    Build sprints

    Working software at the end of week one, then weekly demos. You're never more than 7 days from the next milestone.

    • Weekly demo
    • Staging URL
    • Async progress notes
  5. 05Final week

    Launch & handover

    We ship, hand over keys + repo + infra. You own the code from day one — handover is just paperwork.

    • Production launch
    • Docs & runbook
    • Owner training
  6. 06Ongoing

    Optional support

    Stay on for the next month of small features and fixes, or hand the codebase to another team — your call.

    • Monthly hours
    • Direct line
    • Cancel anytime
Deliverables

What you actually own.

At handover, every artefact below is yours. Codebase, infrastructure, design files, the lot. No vendor lock-in.

Figma file

Full design source — screens, components, tokens.

Source code

Private GitHub repo with clean commit history.

Database

Postgres schema, seed data, migrations.

Deployment

Vercel / Cloudflare set up under your account.

Auth

Sign-in, roles, password resets — secure by default.

Payments

Stripe / PayFast wired and tested end-to-end.

Docs

Written runbook + onboarding for the next dev.

30-day warranty

Bug fixes free for 30 days post-launch.

Open for engagements

Let's build something better.

Book a 30-minute call and tell us what you're trying to ship. We'll come back with a fixed price and a one-week plan to get you a working demo.

support@octava.co.za

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