Socially Elisa
A social-first creative studio with a site bold enough to live up to its own work.
The challenge
Socially Elisa is a new social-first marketing and branding studio. Most agency sites in this space look interchangeable — pastel gradients, smiling stock photos, the word 'amplify' three times in the hero. The brief was the opposite: build the kind of site Elisa would want to screenshot, on her own brand's terms.
The solution
I took the existing identity — wine, chartreuse, cream, espresso, custom flower mark — and built the site around it instead of bolting it on. Seven pages: home, portfolio, individual project pages, about, contact, and a Calendly-backed booking flow. Chunky display type, hand-drawn florals throughout, and zero stock photography. Shipped from a single Vercel repo in a week.
Elisa already had the brand. What she didn't have was a site that matched it. Every prior template she'd tried softened the identity into something safer and more generic — exactly the thing the brand was built to push back against.
So we cut the obvious. No stock photos. No pastel gradients. No testimonial carousels. The flower mark from the brand kit became a recurring motif across every page, the chunky display type sits as large as it deserves, and the wine + chartreuse pairing carries the whole site instead of being demoted to a button color.
The subscription pricing model is the part most agency sites won't touch — recurring monthly retainers, three tiers, a real checkout flow. We shipped it on day one and wired it to Stripe so Elisa can flip it live the moment her first three retainers sign.
Results
What changed after launch
Time to first deploy
1 week
Pages shipped
7
Lighthouse score
99 / 100
Page weight
Under 180kb
Next project
PicMenu