01About the studio

For teams at a turning point.

Alterra Studio is a senior design and development team for tech, SaaS, AI and Web3 companies. We help founders whose product has moved faster than their brand, website and launch creative catch the story up. The people who set the strategy are the people who ship it.

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Why we started Alterra.

Most of the teams we work with have done the hard part. They raised, shipped, found customers or repositioned. But the logo, the website, the deck and the launch video still tell the story of an earlier company, and buyers, investors and hires judge them by it.

The usual fixes add to the problem: a freelancer for the logo, another for the site, an agency for the launch video, an in-house hire who covers one of the three. Nothing matches, and the founder ends up as the project manager.

So we built Alterra the other way round. We learn the business first, then the same senior designers make every surface it needs, and the company finally tells one story.

From Ryan

People judge the company before they understand the product.

A startup gets a handful of moments that decide how the market sees it: the raise, the launch, the first big customer, the hire who could work anywhere. In each one, someone who has never used your product decides what they think of you.

A partner skims your site before the first meeting.

The feed gives you about three seconds.

Procurement asks whether you'll still be around next year.

A senior candidate compares you with the offer they already have.

I started Alterra to make those moments land. Our launch motion design for Watt2Trade helped drive 260,000+ wallet connections, and TICKIZ got a complete brand identity in four weeks. When the brand, site and launch tell one story, you stop explaining the company on every call.

So we work backwards from your moment. The people who scope the work are the people who make it, and after launch we check what moved.

Ryan HofmannFounder, Alterra Studio · Seattle

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Ryan Hofmann, Founder & CEO, Alterra Studio

Proof

What the work did.

Each number comes from the client's own words, a verified Clutch review or the project record.

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A funded product, $13M+ raised and 700k+ users, with a launch to announce.
1.9M+views from one launch video for iAgent
A client's rewards program had to explain its utility in seconds and get people to connect a wallet.
260k+wallet connections from our launch motion design, per OMNI's CMO
A $5M+ ticketing platform needed one identity that event-goers and organizers would both trust.
4 weeksfrom kickoff to a complete identity system for TICKIZ
Three clients, interviewed independently by Clutch about how the work went.
5.0rating from verified reviews on Clutch

What we believe4 beliefs

How we work, and why.

Business first, pixels second

Every project starts with what the company needs to achieve. Most of our first call is about your business, not your color palette.

Clear beats clever

Spectacle that doesn't explain anything is decoration. We design so the right people understand you faster, then make it beautiful.

Proof over promises

We document where you start and measure what changes. If we can't show it, we don't claim it.

Senior people, small team

The people you meet are the people who do the work. You won't be handed to a junior team or an account manager after the first call.

The people doing the work.

A senior core team across brand, motion, product and delivery. The people on your first call do the work, and specialists join when a project needs them.

Ryan HofmannFounder & CEO
Leads your first call, strategy and client relationships.
Koen Van VlietHead of Branding
Koen leads our brand identity work: positioning, logo, type and color systems, and the guidelines teams use afterwards.
@koendesigns on X, 16.5K followers
Ramy RaafatMotion Designer
Ramy animates our launch films and product motion, from style frames to the final cut.
Max Van den BergProject Manager
Max runs project schedules, so milestones, feedback and handover land on the dates we agreed.
Samuel JutrasMotion Designer
Samuel designs and animates motion for launch films, product UI and social cutdowns.
Adrian DanilukUI/UX Designer
Adrian designs product interfaces and websites, from wireframes to the final UI.

We're hiring senior people who care about craft and outcomes.See open roles

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Ryan HofmannFounder, leads every first call

30 minutes, free, with the people who'd do the work. You leave with a recommended scope and price range, even if we're not the fit.

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