ortha.studio
Design & engineering studio — New Mexico, USA

Most agencies sell you a process. We'd rather just build the thing.

Ortha is a small studio. We design and build websites, web apps, and the WordPress sites nobody else wants to touch. You talk to the people writing the code — there's no account manager in the middle.

Services

What we actually do

Three things, done properly, rather than twelve done adequately.

Websites

Typically 3–6 weeks

Marketing sites, portfolios, landing pages. Designed and built by the same hands, so nothing gets lost in a handoff between a designer and a developer who have never spoken.

  • Designed in the browser, not signed off as a flat mockup
  • Built on Next.js — fast by default, not after an optimization phase
  • A CMS you can actually use, so you're not emailing us to fix a typo

Web apps & products

Scoped per project

Dashboards, booking systems, internal tools, the front end of your SaaS. Typed end to end, because “it worked on my machine” has never once been a deployment strategy.

  • React, Next.js and TypeScript
  • Auth, payments and the boring parts that decide whether it ships
  • Handover includes the repo, the accounts and written docs

WordPress & CMS

Fixed price, from an audit

Custom themes, migrations, and rescuing sites that have quietly collected fourteen plugins and a lot of regret. When WordPress is the wrong answer, we'll say so.

  • Custom themes, without the page-builder sprawl
  • Migrations that keep your URLs and your rankings
  • Headless WordPress or Payload when you've outgrown the admin

Work

Selected work

A few of the projects we're happiest with. Every engagement starts with the same call.

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Booking platform

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Sports venues · 2025

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Brand site rebuild

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Professional services · 2025

Replace this with a real project. Say what was wrong with the old site before you describe the new one — it makes the result land harder.

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WordPress rescue

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Retail · 2024

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Process

How a project runs

Four steps. You always know which one you're in.

A call

Thirty minutes, no deck. You tell us what's broken or missing. If we're not the right studio for it, we'll say so and point you at someone who is.

Scope and a price

A fixed price and a delivery date, in writing, before anything starts. No hourly billing, so no surprises at the end of the month.

The build

You see it every week on a staging URL. Feedback goes in one shared document instead of a forty-message thread nobody can search.

Launch and handover

You get the code, the accounts and written documentation. If you want us gone after launch, you can leave cleanly. Most clients don't, but the option matters.

About

Why Ortha exists

Ortha started because too many good businesses were paying agency prices for template work, a project manager who forwarded emails, and a site that took nine seconds to load on a phone.

We stay small on purpose. That means we turn work down. It also means the person who scoped your project is the person building it, and they'll still be there when you email in six months.

New Mexico

US LLC, working worldwide

3–6 weeks

Typical website timeline

One

Person you deal with, start to finish

Journal

Notes on the work

What we build, and why we build it that way.

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Got something you want built?

Tell us what it is and roughly when you need it. You'll get a real reply from a person, usually within a day.