Who we are

We got too good at websites to keep it to ourselves.

A small Auckland crew of builders who think most websites are a waste of money, and are here to fix that.

We are web-focused builders with marketing chops. We are not a do-everything agency shooting content, snapping photos, and knocking out a website on the side. We build for the web, full stop. We got good at it making our own apps, the kind of work where if it does not convert, it does not survive. When it comes to our apps, price is not the proxy for quality, and the people charging a fortune could not keep up.

So we started building for other businesses instead. We have also been the client on the other side of an agency, stuck in endless emails and meetings while something simple dragged on for months. We do the opposite: you talk straight to the people building your site, and it gets done fast.

We are a partnership, not a pyramid. Our close knit crew is primarily based in Auckland, with a few more kiwis living abroad, bringing local instincts sharpened by international perspective.

We think most websites are a waste of money. Every page should be pointed at one thing: turning visitors into customers who pay you. Looking sharp is the baseline, not the point, and most of the sites we build pay for themselves within a few months. That is what we are here to fix, one business at a time.

WEB GRENADE · Web design studio
8 Commerce Street, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010
Aotearoa New Zealand
The WEB GRENADE crew, Auckland
Built right · WG · no agency tax ·
The anti-agency stance

Everything that makes an agency a pain, we refuse to do.

No jargon

We talk like humans. You will always know what we are doing, why, and what it does for your business. No buzzwords, no smoke.

No ghosting

One real person, start to finish. We do not vanish for a month and reappear with an invoice. You get answers fast.

No agency bill

Senior-level craft at a small-business price. You get the quality without the markup that pays for someone else's fancy office.

Where we are

A real crew, in Auckland.

Our base is Auckland CBD, and the crew runs a bit wider than the city. A few of our people are Kiwis who moved overseas after Covid and stayed on with us remotely. Wherever they are sitting, you still talk to the person actually building your site, not an account manager three time zones away. That is on purpose.

8 Commerce Street, Auckland CBD
Auckland 1010, Aotearoa NZ
-36.8485, 174.7633
Ready when you are

Like how we think? Let us build you the proof.

One quick conversation and we will come back fast with a plan and a price. Real people, real fast.

Work with us