About the studio
A studio of three,
shipping like a team of fifteen.
Stride Development was founded in 2025 on a stubborn premise: most marketing sites are over-staffed, over-meeting'd, and underdesigned. We work the opposite way.
We're a small studio — a small team of collaborators we trust with our names attached. Each engagement is led by a principal from week one through ship. No account-manager telephone game, no handoff between designer and engineer, no slide deck where a working prototype should be.
We work best with founders, marketing leads, and product teams who can make decisions in the room. We're not the right studio if you need a layer of stakeholders to weigh in on every kerning decision — those engagements exist, they just don't end well for either side.
Most of what we ship is built on the open web with whichever framework actually fits the problem. Astro, Next, vanilla — picked per project, not per fashion cycle.
How we work
Five principles,
not negotiable.
- 01
Build, don't mock.
We design in code from week one. Static comps lie about layout, responsiveness, motion, and load — three of the four things that actually matter.
- 02
One principal, end to end.
The person at kickoff is the person at ship. No account layer, no handoffs, no surprises in week three.
- 03
Performance is a design constraint.
If the site doesn't load in under a second on a flaky LTE connection, it isn't done — no matter how the screenshot looks.
- 04
Your repo, your domain, your future.
We leave when we leave. Open source where possible, documented in plain language, designed for the engineer who inherits it.
- 05
Honest scope.
We say no a lot. The work we say yes to gets done well, on time, and in the time we said it would.