Formwork is an independent studio of designers and engineers. We plan, design and build websites, storefronts and software products — then stay to keep them fast, secure and easy to change.
Booking new builds from February
Northbound Retail Ltd.
Shipments
01Selected work
Three recent builds from different corners of the web: a SaaS product, a headless storefront and a booking platform. Each one shipped with a design system, tests and documentation its owners can run without us.
Orbitry · B2B SaaS
Pallet & Pine · E-commerce
Every piece is configurable, so the old theme couldn't show real prices or lead times. They needed a storefront that could.
3 engineers · 1 designer · 10 weeks
Tidewater Physio · Healthcare booking
Front desks were booking by phone across eleven calendars. Patients wanted to pick a time themselves.
3 engineers · 12 weeks
02What we build
The same people plan, design and write the code, so nothing gets lost between a mockup and production.
Fast, well-structured sites on a headless CMS your team can edit without filing a ticket.
Custom storefronts, configurators and checkout flows on top of the platform you already run.
From clickable prototype to a multi-tenant product with billing, onboarding and an admin.
Customer portals, dashboards and back-office tools that replace the spreadsheet everyone is afraid of.
Services, webhooks and data pipelines that connect your product to CRMs, ERPs and payment providers.
Monitoring, upgrades and performance budgets for products that are already live — ours or yours.
03How a build runs
Every project is different, but most product builds follow this shape. You get a live preview from week four and a demo every second Friday — no big reveal at the end.
Workshops, technical audit, a written scope and a fixed estimate.
Data model, hosting plan and a clickable prototype of the riskiest flow.
Tokens and components built in code, not just in a design file.
Two-week sprints with a working preview link and a demo at the end of each.
Automated tests from day one; a full WCAG audit before launch.
Staged rollout, documentation and a recorded walkthrough for your team.
Optional monthly retainer for upgrades, monitoring and new features.
Dashed line: first working preview, week 4 · Teal line: follows your scroll · Ticks inside “Build sprints” mark sprint demos
04Standards
These aren't extras you have to ask for. Every release runs through the same checklist, and the results go into the handover so your next team can keep the bar where we left it.
$ npm run verify
Frontend
Backend
Commerce & content
Infrastructure
05FAQ
Something else on your mind? Email us — a person reads every message.
Discovery is a short fixed-fee engagement. It ends with a written scope and a fixed estimate for the build, so you know the number before you commit to it. Ongoing work is billed as a monthly retainer.
Yes, and we often do. We work in your repository, follow your review process and pair with your engineers so the knowledge stays with your team after we leave.
You do, from the first commit. Repositories, hosting, domains and third-party services are created under your organisation; we are added as collaborators.
No. We have strong defaults, but if your team already runs on a different framework or platform, we will build on it rather than add a second one.
Every build includes a 30-day warranty period for fixes. After that you can take over completely, or keep us on a care plan for upgrades, monitoring and new features.
06Start a project
Fill in the brief, or just write to us. Either way you'll hear back from one of the people who would work on your project — not a sales team.