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No agency layer.
No project managers, no juniors, no account handlers. You speak to the person designing and building your site, from the brief through to launch day. Nothing gets translated, nothing gets diluted.
The studio
Geo Studio is one person. Me.
A solo design and build practice based in Essex, England, working with UK small businesses and personal brands. One project at a time. Two to four weeks per build. Direct handoff — no agency layer between you and the work.
- Founded
- 2024
- Based
- Essex, England
- Clients
- UK only
- Headcount
- One
02The founder
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George Barnes
Founder · Designer · Engineer
I spent years in agencies watching the work get worse the further it travelled from the person who cared about it.
Brief from the client. Translated by a producer. Wireframed by a strategist. Designed by a junior. Built by a contractor offshore. Reviewed by a lead. Approved by a director. Shipped by someone who'd never spoken to the client at all.
Every step lost a little of what the work was supposed to be. By the time the site went live, the original intent had been smoothed into something safe, generic, and slightly worse than the agency's previous project.
Geo Studio is the version where it doesn't. Brief from the client. Designed by me. Built by me. Shipped by me. Handed over by me. The clarity that's in your head at the brief is what ends up in the browser at launch.
Philosophy
Four things the studio refuses to do — even when the money says yes.
Constraints are the work. These are the four that I won't trade away — because once you do, the practice stops being the thing that made it work.
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No templates wrapped and shipped.
Every site is designed and built for the business it's for. I don't run a five-template offering with three colour options. If you wanted that, you'd already have it.
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No parallel projects.
One client at a time, two to four weeks per project. Your work is the work for the duration — not one of six things on a Monday standup.
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No retainer trap.
I build, hand over, and step back. Code, accounts, domain — all yours from day one. Come back if you need an update, but you'll never be locked into one.
04Tools
Boring, durable, well-maintained — on purpose.
The stack is chosen to ship in two to four weeks and hand over something a client can keep running for years. Nothing here is novel for the sake of it. Each tool is here because it's the one I trust to still work in 2030.
Stack
What every site I build is made of.
- Framework
- Next.js + React
- Language
- TypeScript
- Styling
- Tailwind CSS
- Motion
- Framer Motion
- Hosting
- Vercel
- Email & forms
- Resend
Working tools
How I run the studio day-to-day.
- Design
- Figma
- Code
- VS Code · GitHub
- Planning
- Linear · Notion
- Calls & async
- Google Meet · Loom
- Analytics
- Plausible
- Files
- Dropbox
Talk to George
Got a project in mind? Let's talk.
One client at a time means I'm sometimes booked out by a month or two. Send a line either way — I'll come back within one working day with whether the timing works and what the next slot looks like.