About the studio
A studio with long memory.
We've been doing this for over a decade, and most of our work continues for years after the launch. Independent, small, and deliberately not in a hurry to grow.
Where we're going
The next decade is the interesting one.
We've been at this since 2015. Long enough to know what works, short enough to keep wanting to make it better. The studio is building toward a body of work it'll be judged by in ten years — not a long roster, but a small set of projects we'd point to first.
Our own products (Structura, more on the way) fund and pressure-test every client engagement; client work feeds what we build for ourselves. Both make the other better. That's the practice we're after.
How we think
Five things we believe.
Outcomes over outputs.
Shipping isn't the goal. The thing we ship has to do something — sell, recruit, retain, explain. Every project starts with the outcome and works backward from there.
Small team, direct line.
You talk to the people doing the work. There is no project manager between you and the keyboard, and there are no account handlers translating your brief through a layer of abstraction.
Slow ideas, fast cycles.
We think carefully about what to make, then make it in short cycles so you see the work sooner and we can correct earlier. Surprises late in a project are the most expensive kind of surprise.
Maintainable by design.
If a website needs an annual rewrite, it was built wrong. Most of our work continues for years; we design and engineer for that horizon, not the launch alone.
Quiet by default.
We don't believe in motion for motion's sake, gradients for gradients' sake, or features for features' sake. Every choice has to earn its place. The rest gets cut.
By the numbers
- 12+
- Years of practice
- 40+
- Projects shipped
- 9
- Industries
- 4
- Languages
The team
Small studio.
A handful of people. Designers and engineers who've worked together for years. Everyone you talk to is someone whose hands will be on the work.
Yurii
Founder, lead engineer
Started Xerx in 2015. Over a decade of full-stack engineering — most of it on WordPress, Next.js, and headless CMS systems. Based in Innsbruck.
Yuliia
Sales & client lead
First point of contact for new projects. Helps shape briefs into something we can quote, scope, and ship.
Pauline
UX / UI designer
Visual systems, brand identity, and product UI. Pulls projects together with a strong, calm hand.
Yaroslav
Senior engineer
Backend, infra, and the trickier corners of WordPress + Next.js integration. The person we call when something stops behaving.
Working together
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