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The Studio · Est. 2026

It started with a website we hated. NearBlack exists because we lived the exact problem we're now trying to solve.

Here's the short version, in four paragraphs.

An American ridgeline at last light

One bad website.
Then a good one.
Then a studio.

A few years ago our company paid an agency tens of thousands of dollars and waited six months for a new website.

When it finally launched, we hated it. So we rebuilt the whole thing ourselves, in about a week, for roughly $5,000. And liked it much more.

A few weeks later, on a Sunday afternoon, we rebuilt our mother's small-business website in a single day.

Her reaction when she saw it is the entire reason this studio exists. NearBlack is for every business owner out there who already has a site · and knows it deserves better.

Who we work with

Only refreshes.
No first-time sites.

We only work with businesses that already have a website. Our entire studio is built around one very specific job: taking a site that exists and is holding you back, and turning it into one that doesn't.

If you don't have a site yet, we're not the right studio · but we'll happily point you to one that is.

How we work

Fast, affordable,
and worth
looking at.

Three words we say on every call. Most of our refreshes ship in 72 hours and start at $1,000. You don't pay until you love what we built. You own everything the moment we hand it over.

Quality, at volume, for every business owner who ever thought "my site is embarrassing me" and didn't know who to ask.

A few facts.

27
Sites Shipped
72hr
Avg. Delivery
5.0
Client Rating
0
Refunds Issued

Eight quiet convictions.

· 01

The best brief is a short email.

A few honest sentences about what you do and what's bugging you. We read every one and reply the same day.

· 02

Mockups are a waste of time.

A real working site is cheaper to build and infinitely more useful than a Figma file.

· 03

Deposits are rude.

If our work is good, you'll pay us at the end. If it's not, you shouldn't have to.

· 04

Templates are a lie.

A $79 theme and a $8,000 theme look exactly alike on Google Images.

· 05

Speed is a design decision.

If your site takes three seconds to load, no one will ever see how pretty it is.

· 06

Copy is design.

The words on the page matter more than the font they're set in. We help you find them.

· 07

Humans, not tickets.

Your emails go to real people who built the thing. Your project gets full attention, not a queue slot.

· 08

Quiet wins.

The loudest websites usually have the least to say.

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