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Web design & development

Websites and web apps built to perform, not just to launch

Design and engineering under one roof — from a marketing site that converts to a product platform that scales.

Next.jsWordPressShopifyWeb appsE-commerce

A design is a promise the code has to keep. We build what sits behind the interface so the page you approved in Figma is the page that ships, and it still loads quickly a year later.

We build on proven foundations: Next.js and React for custom sites and products, WordPress, Shopify or BigCommerce when a platform suits the team better, and hosting that scales without a phone call. Performance budgets are set at the start and checked on every build, not discovered after launch.

Every build is yours: source in your repositories, deployments under your accounts, documentation a new developer can pick up. No proprietary lock-in, and nothing that needs us to keep the lights on.

What you get with us

A small senior team that has designed, built and shipped products together since 2024, and stays with the project to the end.


  • One team, start to launch

    Strategy, design, build and launch sit with the same people, so a decision made in week one is still understood in week ten.


  • Full stack

    Front-end, back-end, CMS and integrations under one roof — designers and engineers who ship together every week.


  • Technology-neutral

    The best stack is the one that fits the problem. We recommend what will work for your team, not what we feel like using.


  • Fast, secure, integrated

    Performance budgets, accessibility and security are part of the definition of done — and your site sits at the heart of your other systems via clean APIs.

Sites, apps and stores, built by one team

  • Corporate
  • Marketing
  • Landing pages
  • CMS

Corporate and marketing sites that are fast, editable and measurable: a CMS your team can publish from — headless or WordPress, whichever suits how you work — a front end built to pass Core Web Vitals, and analytics wired in from day one.

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Websites

  • SaaS
  • Dashboards
  • Portals
  • Fintech

Products with real users and real data: authentication, roles, billing and reporting on a typed, tested codebase. Multi-tenant SaaS platforms included — built to grow with the roadmap instead of fighting it.

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Web apps & SaaS

  • Shopify
  • BigCommerce
  • WooCommerce
  • Headless

Stores where the checkout is the product. We design and build the whole path — catalogue, search, cart and payment — on Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce or a headless build, then tune it against the numbers after launch.

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E-commerce

  • Rebuilds
  • Migrations
  • Re-platforming

For a site or product that has fallen behind. We keep what still works — content, rankings, integrations — and rebuild the rest on current foundations, with redirects and data migrations planned so nothing is lost on the day it switches over.

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Redesigns

From sitemap to launch, in two-week cycles

You see a working build early and often, and the launch is a non-event because everything was already live somewhere.

Discovery
Architecture
UX/UI design
Content model

What good still looks like a year later

Performance is a feature

A budget is set before the first line of code — page weight, Largest Contentful Paint, interaction latency — and every build is measured against it. Slow is a bug, not a phase.

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Editable by the people who own it

The CMS is designed like a product: the fields your team needs, in the order they think, with previews. If your marketing lead can’t change the homepage in an afternoon, we haven’t finished.

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Built to be run without us

Typed code, tests where they earn their keep, documented decisions and deployments under your accounts. Most of our clients stay on — but none of them have to.

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Who ships with us

Marketing teams

Who need a site they can change every week without opening a ticket.

Product teams

Who need a platform that keeps up with the roadmap instead of blocking it.

Founders

Who need version one live, measurable, and ready to grow.

Testimonials

Stephen Fullington
“Working with Axtra Studios was fantastic! They were very communicative & flexible. We will definitely be hiring them for future projects!”
Stephen Fullington
CEO, CoreTrex

Questions, answered

Next.js and React on the front end, TypeScript throughout, and Node.js or Python (Django, FastAPI) on the back end depending on the workload. For content, a headless CMS — Sanity, Payload or Contentful — or WordPress; for stores, Shopify, BigCommerce or WooCommerce. We will happily work in your existing stack if there is a good reason to.

We set up hosting under your own accounts — Vercel, AWS or your cloud — with monitoring and backups, and hand you the keys. If you want us on hand for updates and new work after launch we stay on, as most clients choose to, but the build never depends on it.

In milestones, against a written scope: you see the whole estimate before anything starts, and you pay as each part is delivered and approved. We would rather shape the scope to fit your budget than lose a good project over price — so if the number is the obstacle, tell us, and we will find the version of the work that fits it.

The co-founders lead every project — Zafar on strategy and the client relationship, Shahzaib on engineering, Subhan on delivery — with our designers, developers and QA doing the work alongside them. There is no account layer between you and the people building it.

Yes — that is the point of working in two-week cycles. Every sprint ends with a review, and what you see there shapes the next one. Changes inside the agreed scope are part of the work; changes to the scope are re-estimated, in the open, before anyone builds them.

You do, always. The code sits in your repositories, the designs in your Figma, the deployments and accounts in your name, with documentation and a recorded walkthrough. Nothing is locked to us — and most of our clients stay on for the next phase anyway.

Let’s build the versionthat lasts.

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