Mabold — a small web studio. Booking from July 2026

Let us build
what you’ve been
meaning to.

We’re a small studio that designs and builds the websites, apps and tools you keep meaning to ship — and the SEO and content that quietly bring people to them.

Studio
Mabold
Founded
2021
Based
Cape Town
Projects
42 shipped
Booking
July onwards
Email
hello@mabold.studio
01 — Services

What we do.

Six things we’re genuinely good at — picked deliberately. Anything else, we’ll point you to someone better.

01
Web applications
Full-stack apps with auth, dashboards, payments and the workflows your team actually uses.
2–8 weeks
02
API design & integration
Clean, documented APIs. Or stitching the half-dozen tools you already pay for into one workflow.
2–8 weeks
03
Marketing & content sites
Fast, considered sites for product launches, agencies, and people whose work deserves a real home.
2–8 weeks
04
AI integration
Embeddings, agents, RAG. Less hype, more shipping. We pick the model, you keep the data.
2–8 weeks
05
SEO & outreach
Technical SEO, content scaffolding, and outreach that doesn’t make you cringe to send.
2–8 weeks
06
Product & web design
Interface design that respects the user and the engineer who has to build it next week.
2–8 weeks
02 — Tools

The kit.

Boring on purpose. Mature tools we’ve shipped with for years — easy to hire for later, easy to hand over, easy to live with.

Languages3

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • PHP

Frameworks4

  • Node.js
  • WordPress
  • Tailwind
  • Bootstrap

Databases2

  • Postgres
  • phpMyAdmin

Hosting1

  • Docker
03 — Work

Selected work.

A handful from the last twenty-four months. Full case studies and references available on request.

Let’s Talk
Interior Design Studio Interiors that
speak volumes.
Award-winning residential & commercial interiors. London & New York. View our work →
Selected Projects View all →
River House Residential
The Loft Commercial
Studio 4B Residential
“Working with Bluetail transformed our space entirely. Every detail considered.” — Jane Cooper, River House
Bluetail Studio
Brand site + CMS
2026

Editorial portfolio for an interiors studio. WordPress, custom theme, sub-second loads.

Dashboard
Analytics
Customers
Billing
Settings
JD
Dashboard / Overview
JD
Active Users 2,847 ↑ 12.3%
Uptime 99.2% ↑ 0.3%
MRR $12.4k ↑ 18%
Open Tickets 23 ↓ 5
Revenue
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec
Activity
Deploy v2.4.13m ago
DB backup complete12m ago
SSL cert renewed1h ago
High CPU alert2h ago
Name Status Plan Revenue
Acme Corp Active Pro $4,200
Globex Inc Active Starter $3,100
Initech LLC Pending Pro $1,800
Wayne Enterprises Active Enterprise $8,400
12312
Forge HQ
Ops dashboard
2025

Internal tool replacing five spreadsheets and a Slack thread. TypeScript + Postgres.

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Stillwater Co.
E-commerce + SEO
2025

Headless storefront, organic traffic up 3.4× in eight months.

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Understanding Vector Search in Production How semantic search is replacing keyword matching and what it means for content discovery at scale. 8 min read · Sarah Chen · AI & ML
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Maple Field
Content + AI search
2024

12,000-article library with vector search and an editor-friendly CMS.

04 — Process

How we work.

Predictable shape — the same rhythm whether it’s a small website or a full application. Weekly demos, no surprise reveals at the end.

01
Step 01

Listen.

A call, then a written brief back to you. If we’re not the right fit we say so.

02
Step 02

Sketch.

Two or three directions, low fidelity first. We agree the shape before we build it.

03
Step 03

Build.

Weekly demos. You see the work in progress, not a reveal at the end.

04
Step 04

Hand off.

Documentation, a loom walkthrough, and 30 days of support. Then it’s yours.

05 — Words

Kind words.

Three people whose week we’ve made easier. More references available on request.

They shipped in six weeks what our previous agency couldn’t scope in six months. Quiet, fast, no drama.

Naledi Okafor
COO, Forge HQ

Mabold treated our SEO like an engineering problem, not a content one. Traffic followed.

James Pereira
Founder, Stillwater Co.

The kind of team you forget you hired because everything just keeps working.

Anya Voss
Director, Bluetail Studio

Tell us what
you’ve been
putting off.

Email hello@mabold.studio
Next opening July 2026