A small studio,
built to stay small.
Dreamwoven is a Brooklyn-based design and engineering studio making interactive websites, brand systems, custom motion, and digital campaigns for US small businesses. We've been doing this since 2019, on Eastern time, with our own hands — not a template library, not a subcontractor rotation.
The roster stays lean. The client list stays short. The team who scopes your project is the team who builds it. That's the shape — and it's the reason a few of our answers will be "no."
Four disciplines.
One studio.
We work across web, brand, apps, and advertising — and they overlap more than they don't. Most projects touch at least two. When services overlap, we run them as one engagement, not three.
Web development
Custom websites and web applications on modern stacks: Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind. Deployed to Vercel. Performance, accessibility, and search are part of the build — not a phase we tack on at the end.
Logo and brand identity
Marks, type systems, color languages, and brand guidelines tailored for small businesses that need their identity to carry across a site, a storefront, and a social feed without falling apart.
App development
Web applications and cross-platform mobile apps, usually for small businesses solving a specific internal workflow or external customer touchpoint. We scope, design, and build — we don't hand off.
Advertisements
Creative direction and production for digital ad campaigns: landing pages, static creative, motion assets, and the analytics to measure what actually worked.
How we think
about the work.
Studios drift. Over enough years they end up doing whatever pays. We have a small set of principles that keep us from drifting — and they explain the shape of the engagements we take on.
Small on purpose
We keep the roster lean and the client list short. If we're scoping your project, we're also building it. Handoffs between a pitch team and a delivery team are how good work becomes mediocre.
Custom before clever
Most web work starts with a template and adds flourishes. We start with the content, the audience, and the brand — and write the components we need from scratch. It takes longer. The result is a site nobody else on the internet has.
Motion with intent
Animation isn't a garnish. If it doesn't help the reader understand the page, support the brand, or reward attention, it shouldn't be there. Every interaction we build is written by hand — not pulled from a template library.
Performance is a design constraint
A site that looks perfect and loads in four seconds is a site that loses half its traffic before anyone sees it. Every choice — fonts, images, animation, analytics — gets weighed against its cost.
We build what we'd link to
If we wouldn't put the finished project in our own work section, we won't take it on. That filter decides more of our scope than pricing does.
Clients are partners, not tickets
Every engagement starts with a conversation — not a scoping form. Scope changes get discussed, not silently invoiced. When a project ships, we stand by it.
One rhythm,
every project.
Every project follows the same rhythm — whether it's a two-week logo engagement or a twelve-week web app. The phases get shorter or longer. The order doesn't change. Nothing black-boxed, nothing "wait until the reveal."
We run on shared Figma, shared Linear, and a staging deploy that updates every Friday so you see the work as we make it.
Positioning
by negation.
The cleanest way to describe what a studio does is often to name what it refuses. Here's what's off the table, so there's no surprise on a kickoff call.
No resold templates
If you want a ThemeForest theme reskinned, we're not the studio for you. There are people who do that well and charge less than we do.
No freelanced-out engineering
Every line of code that ships to your site is written in the studio. No offshore handoffs, no "we'll find a developer."
No work we can't be proud of
If the project would embarrass us in our own portfolio, we pass — regardless of budget.
No vanity metrics
We don't pitch engagement scores or interaction counts that don't tie to real business outcomes. The numbers that matter are the ones you already track.
No quiet scope creep
If a request falls outside what we scoped, we raise it — we don't absorb it silently and we don't invoice for it without a conversation.
Where we do
our best work.
Most of our clients are small and mid-sized US businesses — the kind where the founder is still answering the email. We're especially useful for the shapes below. We're a poor fit for enterprise work, projects with a hundred stakeholders, or clients who want a vendor they can manage. We do our best work as a partner.
Brooklyn and greater-NYC businesses — restaurants, boutiques, professional services, and creative firms who want a site that reflects the neighborhood, not a strip-mall template.
Service businesses nationwide who need a marketing site that actually converts — lead generation, scheduling, and quoting built in.
Small e-commerce — Shopify, custom, or a hybrid — where the brand needs more craft than the default storefront allows.
Creative and cultural organizations — galleries, studios, nonprofits — whose identity is their most important asset.
Stack we build with: Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind, Vercel, Resend, Cal.com. Transactional email, analytics, schema, and Core Web Vitals tuning are part of every web project by default — not an upsell.
Reach us at hello@dreamwoven.studio, call (551) 242-0990, or start with the project brief form.
About the studio
specifically.
Different from the homepage FAQ, which covers pricing, timeline, and stack. These are the questions we most often hear about how the studio actually runs.
Is Dreamwoven a solo studio, a collective, or an agency?
We're a small studio — that's the closest term. Deliberately too small to run like a traditional agency (no account executives, no deck-driven pitches, no junior handoffs) and deliberately too consistent to feel like a rotating collective. The team you meet is the team that ships the work.
Where are you based, and does it matter?
We're based in Brooklyn, NY, and we work on Eastern time. Most of our clients are on the East Coast, but we work with businesses across the US. For local clients we do in-person kickoffs and site visits when it helps. For remote clients, we run everything through shared Figma, Linear, and a Friday staging link.
Who owns the work after launch?
You do. Full source code, full design files, full brand assets — all yours. No licensing fees, no hosted-only traps. If you ever want to move the site to a different developer, we make that handoff painless.
Do you take on rush projects?
Sometimes. A rush generally means a shorter scope, a firmer brief, and a higher rate. We'd rather turn down a rush than deliver work we aren't proud of.
Can you take over an existing site?
Yes — a lot of our work starts that way. We'll audit the current site (performance, SEO, accessibility, design debt), give you a direct read on what's worth keeping, and propose a path forward. Sometimes the honest answer is: don't rebuild yet, fix these three things.
What if we already have an in-house designer or developer?
Even better. Most of our best engagements involve working alongside an internal team. We can take on the piece you don't have bandwidth for, or lead while your team contributes.
Do you work with other agencies or studios?
Occasionally, as a white-label engineering partner. If you're a design agency that needs a development partner that won't embarrass you, reach out.
Have a project
in mind?
Tell us the shape of what you're building. Scope, budget, timeline — or just the idea. We'll write back within four business hours.