About the studio

A small studio for brands that won't ship generic.

Softglimmer Services is a four-person studio of senior designers and engineers. We work with founders, marketing leads and product teams who care about how their digital presence actually feels — not just how it looks in a deck.

Our story

Founded in 2019, in a single Notion doc.

Softglimmer started as a Friday-night side project — a written manifesto about what a modern web studio should be. Senior-only. Honest pricing. No retainers we couldn't deliver against.

Six years and 120+ launches later, the manifesto hasn't changed. We're still small, still senior, still allergic to fluff. We just ship better work than we did last year.

Today we partner with founders shipping their first site, scale-ups rebuilding a flagship product surface, and brands that need a visual system to survive the next decade.

120+
Launches
6yr
In business
4
Senior team
0.9s
Median LCP
What we believe

Four values that shape every project.

01

Senior by default

Every line of code and every pixel is touched by a senior. No junior handoffs, ever.

02

Honest scope

We tell you what's worth building — and what isn't. Even when it loses us hours.

03

Performance is design

A site that loads in 0.9s is a better design than one that doesn't. We don't separate them.

04

Long after launch

We stay for 30 days post-launch to tune real-world conversion and content.

The team

The four people on every project.

AH
Ari Hollister
Founder · Design Director

12 years designing for fintech and developer-tools.

MV
Mira Volkov
Engineering Lead

TypeScript everywhere. Loves a Lighthouse score that ends in 100.

TR
Theo Renard
Brand & Identity

Builds brand systems that survive the first re-brand attempt.

SL
Sasha Lin
Webflow & CMS

Makes editor experiences clients actually use weekly.

Work with the whole studio.

Every project gets all four of us. No silos, no handoffs.

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