Admission by selection · Twelve houses a year

We do not deliver websites.
We sign works.

Made to measure in an art direction created for you, found on Google, maintained every month, your social media included. No setup fee. The finish of the great houses, within reach of a shop, a practice or a craftsman.

Latest piece on show: Happy’z Pizza, a pizzeria at the edge of Brocéliande, with a great house’s website. See the study

Enter
The House

The art of mending in gold what others would discard

In Japan, kintsugi means repairing broken ceramics with golden lacquer. The crack is not concealed, it is underlined. The piece comes out more precious than before the accident, because its history has become visible.

That is exactly our trade. A brand that comes to us almost always carries a crack: a reputation that has faded, a website nobody finds, an identity that no longer resembles it. We do not hide it under a cosmetic redesign. We mend it in gold, until it becomes the most remarkable feature of the house.

Working this way takes time, and time cannot be divided indefinitely. That is why we take on only twelve brands a year, chosen for their ambition as much as for the quality of the relationship we sense ahead.

Tony Alastrue
Founder and director
Kū · air, emptiness, possibility
40+
Houses guided
72 %
Return with another project
9
Years in the workshop, since 2017
5.0
Out of five, average rating
The Collection

Six disciplines, a single hand

In Japan, gold leaf is laid by hand, square after square, until an ordinary object becomes a piece. Our six disciplines receive the same care: separate to the eye, inseparable in practice.

一

Email

Campaigns that engage, retain and convert: the right message, at the right time, to the right person.

Campaigns that engage, retain and convert: the right message, at the right time, to the right person.

  • Campaign design and automation
  • Personalised sequences and retention
  • Behavioural segmentation
  • GDPR compliance guaranteed
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二

Search

Lasting visibility built on data: technique, content and authority worked together.

Lasting visibility built on data: technique, content and authority worked together.

  • Technical, semantic and structural audits
  • High-potential keyword strategy
  • Optimisation and authority
  • Monitoring and transparent reporting
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三

Social Media

A magnetic social presence: exceptional content, an engaged community, targeted campaigns.

A magnetic social presence: exceptional content, an engaged community, targeted campaigns.

  • Editorial line aligned with your identity
  • Content creation: visuals, video, copy
  • Community management and influence
  • Instagram · Facebook · LinkedIn · TikTok · X · YouTube
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四

Advertising

Google Ads, Meta Ads and programmatic: precise campaigns that turn attention into revenue.

Google Ads, Meta Ads and programmatic: precise campaigns that turn attention into revenue.

  • Search, display and social ads
  • Programmatic advertising
  • Conversion rate optimisation
  • Return on investment steering
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五

Web Creation

Showcase sites, shops and bespoke platforms: aesthetics, performance and search from the foundation up.

Showcase sites, shops and bespoke platforms: aesthetics, performance and search from the foundation up.

  • Bespoke, experience-driven design
  • Showcase, shop and complex solutions
  • Responsive and performance-optimised
  • Maintenance and continuous support
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六

Identity

Visual identities, art direction and content production that give your brand a singular presence.

Visual identities, art direction and content production that give your brand a singular presence.

  • Visual identity and redesign
  • Art direction
  • Video production and photography
  • Writing and brand narrative
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Scarcity is not a sales posture.
It is the only known condition of excellence.

Admission

Why we turn down most projects

A house that accepts everything can excel at nothing. Here are the six rules that decide who we work with, and what that changes for those we accept.

一

Twelve a year, not one more

That number is not an argument, it is a workshop constraint. Beyond it, the quality of attention we owe each brand thins out, and we stop doing the very thing we are chosen for.

二

Ambition before budget

We have guided brand new houses and declined established groups. What decides is the genuine will to see it through, and the freedom we are given to get there.

三

One hand on the work

Strategy, creative, technique and distribution live under the same roof. No middlemen, no invisible subcontracting, no weakened version of the original intent.

四

Everything shown, nothing promised

You see the raw numbers, the trade-offs and the failures as well as the wins. We prefer an uncomfortable truth to a flattering report that serves nobody.

五

The workshop stays open

A delivered project is not a finished project. We remain reachable, we correct, we adjust. Seven years of studio habits are not forgotten.

六

Your name before ours

We sign our works, but discreetly. The brand that must shine is yours. Our success is measured by your reputation, never by our own.

The Works

Three pieces from the collection

Each work is presented as it would hang on a wall: with its label, its technique, its year and what it actually produced.

The Way

Four movements, never fewer

In Japan, shuhari describes learning in three movements: respect the form, break it, transcend it. Our method follows the same patience, applied to your brand.

Movement 一Week 01

Observe

We write nothing before we understand. Market, competitors, audience, the words actually typed into Google, the dormant strengths of your brand: everything is surveyed before a single proposal.

  • 一Immersion and interviews
  • 二Audit of existing assets
  • 三Competitor analysis
Movement 二Week 02

Draw

Then comes the plan: what we will build, in what order, against which measures of success. You approve a full trajectory, not a list of deliverables.

  • 四Action plan and milestones
  • 五Channel selection
  • 六Shared metrics
Movement 三Weeks 03 to 04

Shape

The workshop works. Design, development, content, campaigns: each element is reworked until it stands on its own, with no excuse and no shortcut.

  • 七Creation and production
  • 八Going live
  • 九Fine tuning
Movement 四Ongoing

Tend

A work lives on. We measure, we correct, we evolve it month after month. That is the time that separates a fine launch from a lasting success.

  • 十Reports and readings
  • 十一Iterations
  • 十二Continuous availability
The Voices

The visitors' book

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We worked together for several months [...] I benefited from complete follow-up and outstanding availability. [...] he is very skilled and I highly recommend him!
Hugo Daemon5 stars on Google · 2021
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I highly recommend Digital Shade. Dare to take the leap with complete confidence. Thank you again for your professionalism. And all this at a more than reasonable price, for a final result that meets all your expectations!
Léa Fray5 stars on Google · 2021
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I now better understand why you were recommended to us. Nothing to add. It is professional work, and at that price, it is rare! Thank you very much!
Lyne Martin5 stars on Google · 2021

Excerpts from reviews left on our Google listing, from the days of Digital Shade, the house's original studio. Written in French, translated here. Read all the reviews on Google →

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Start with a complimentary audit

Leave us your website and a word about your project. A director studies it and replies to you personally within twenty-four hours: what holds your visitors back, what we would do, and whether your house can join us. It is the first door of admission, and it commits you to nothing.

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