Web Development
Marketing sites and content platforms that load fast, rank well and stay editable by your own team.
- Core Web Vitals budgets enforced in CI
- WCAG 2.2 AA as a contract term
- Editor training and written handover
Berlin product studio
Digital work that survives contact with your customers
We design and build websites, platforms and brand systems for mid-sized companies. Nine senior specialists, no account managers, and a written scope before anyone writes code.
Currently taking on two projects for Q2 2026.
- 11 yrs In business
- 64 Projects delivered
- 92% Clients return
Trusted by operators in energy, health, logistics and manufacturing
- Northwind Energy
- Meridian Health
- Atlas Logistics
- Lumen Retail
- Vero Bank
- Halden Manufacturing
Services
Six disciplines, one delivery team
Most engagements combine two or three of these. You get one team and one lead rather than a handover between departments.
Software Development
Customer portals, internal tools and integrations built on boring, well-supported technology.
- Typed end to end, tests where they earn their keep
- Runs on your infrastructure, not ours
- Written architecture decisions
UI/UX Design
Interface design and design systems for dense, regulated products with demanding users.
- Prototype the three journeys that carry the business case
- Component library your engineers can implement
- Tested with keyboard and screen reader
Digital Strategy
Evidence-led planning that ends with a prioritised roadmap and a defensible business case.
- Analytics, interviews and a technical audit
- Prioritised roadmap with effort ranges
- Written business case you can present
Branding
Identity systems built for B2B credibility and delivered as working, documented assets.
- Verbal and visual identity together
- Delivered as production-ready assets
- Guidelines short enough to be followed
Consulting
Technical due diligence, architecture review and fractional leadership, by the day.
- Written findings, ranked by risk
- No recommendation that requires hiring us
- Available within two weeks
Selected work
Case studies with numbers in them
Every project below includes what changed, measured before and after launch.
A self-service portal that cut call volume by a third
Replacing a decade-old customer area with a self-service portal for 240,000 household accounts.
34% fewer inbound calls in the first quarter
Dispatch software that replaced eleven spreadsheets
A planning platform for four depots, replacing a spreadsheet process that only two people fully understood.
Shift planning down from 90 to 25 minutes
A booking flow that clinics could finally recommend
Rebuilding an appointment booking flow used by 90 clinics, with accessibility as a procurement requirement.
Booking completion up from 52% to 84%
The studio
A small team that stays on the project
Northstar Digital has been independent since 2014. We deliberately stay small so the people you meet in the first call are the ones writing the code.
- One team from discovery to launch No handover to a delivery unit halfway through. The lead who scoped the work signs off the release.
- Fixed scope, visible progress Two-week increments on a staging URL, so you always know what exists rather than what is planned.
- Performance and accessibility as requirements Core Web Vitals and WCAG 2.2 AA are written into the contract and enforced in continuous integration.
- 11 years Building digital products from Berlin
- 64 Projects delivered end to end
- 9 Senior specialists, no juniors billed as seniors
- 92% Of clients return within eighteen months
Process
How a project actually runs
Four phases, each ending with something you can review. Nothing is invoiced against a milestone you cannot see.
Discovery
Two weeks of interviews, analytics review and a technical audit. You leave with a written problem statement and a prioritised scope.
1–2 weeksDesign
Wireframes, then a component-level design system. We prototype the three journeys that carry the business case before anything is built.
2–4 weeksBuild
Two-week increments on a staging URL you can use from day one. Accessibility and performance budgets are checked in CI, not at the end.
6–14 weeksLaunch and iterate
Migration, monitoring and a four-week hardening window. Then a quarterly review of what the data says to change next.
Ongoing
Clients
What people say once the invoices are settled
They rebuilt the customer portal in four months and it has not needed a rescue since. The handover documentation was better than our internal standard, which was mildly embarrassing for us.
What stood out was how early we saw something real. There was a working staging environment in week three, and every decision after that was argued with data instead of slides.
Our booking flow went from a liability to the thing sales demos first. Accessibility was treated as a requirement rather than an add-on, which mattered a great deal for our public sector clients.
Engagement
Three ways to work with us
Ranges are indicative and exist to disqualify poor fits early. After a discovery sprint you get a fixed price.
Discovery sprint
€9,500 fixed fee
Two weeks to establish whether the thing you want to build is the thing you need. Ends with a written scope you can take to any studio.
- Stakeholder and user interviews
- Analytics and technical audit
- Prioritised scope with effort ranges
- Written recommendation and risks
Project delivery
Most common€45k–€160k typical range
Design and build of a website, platform or product, delivered in two-week increments with a fixed team and a named lead.
- Dedicated senior team
- Design system and documented code
- Performance and accessibility budgets in CI
- Staging environment from week one
- Four-week hardening window after launch
Retained partnership
€7,200 per month
A standing allocation of design and engineering time for teams that ship continuously. Cancel with 30 days notice.
- Fixed monthly capacity
- Quarterly roadmap review
- Monitoring and dependency upkeep
- Priority response within one working day
Questions
Before you get in touch
How quickly can you start?
Discovery work usually starts within two to three weeks. Full delivery teams are planned a quarter ahead, so a summer start is typically agreed in spring.
Do you work with in-house teams?
Often. Roughly half of our engagements are mixed teams where we provide design and frontend while your engineers own the backend. We work in your repository, your review process and your tracker.
Which industries do you know well?
Energy, healthcare, logistics and industrial manufacturing, plus a long tail of professional services. If your domain is regulated or your users are not consumers, we have probably worked next to it.
Are you a website studio or a software studio?
Both, and the distinction matters less every year. Roughly half our revenue is marketing sites and half is internal tooling and customer platforms.
Next step
Tell us what you are building
A 30 minute call is usually enough to tell whether we are the right studio for the problem. No pitch deck, no obligation.