— 03 Selected work

A small studio with real numbers.

One launched case study below — laid out as an example of what every case study on this page will look like. Three more projects are in production now.

  • 01Launched
  • 03In production
  • 100%Flat-fee
  • 2026Studio year

Case study · 01 Example layout

Smith Family Dental.

A 30-year-old practice in Irvine that had not updated their site since 2014. We rebuilt it as a Landing in 9 days — one page, calm visual language, real photography, and a booking flow that filed straight into their existing scheduler.

Engagement
Landing · $800
Turnaround
9 business days
Industry
Healthcare · Dental
Location
Irvine, CA
Built with
Astro · Cloudflare
Launched
March 2026
smithdental.com
— Family dentistry · Irvine, CA

A calmer kind of dental visit.

Same-day appointments, gentle care, and a team that actually remembers your name.

Book a visit →
Meet the team
Hours & location
Services we offer
smith family dental.

The brief

An old site that buried the booking flow.

Smith Family Dental had been running the same site since 2014 — Flash-era hero, four-column 90s footer, a contact form three clicks deep. They were getting walk-ins because of word of mouth, but almost no inbound bookings from the site itself.

What they actually needed was one page, fast on a phone, with a single clear path to "book a visit" — and a tone that matched how it feels to actually be in their practice (calm, family-run, no upsells).

The approach

A single page, three real decisions.

  • Strip the structure to one page so every booking is a single tap from any device.
  • Replace the stock photography with three portrait shots of the real team — the practice's strongest differentiator.
  • Move the booking widget into the hero so it never falls below the fold, then have it post directly into their existing scheduler so they did not have to change any internal workflow.

First 30 days, in real numbers.

Tracked against the same 30-day window from the year before. No paid promotion was added on either side.

Booking inquiries
3.2×
vs. the same 30-day window in 2025.
Mobile bounce rate
41%
From 62% down to 36% on phones.
Avg. session length
1:42min
2.4× the previous site's average.
PageSpeed score
98/100
Mobile, real-world LCP under 1.2s.
The site finally sounds like our practice. New patients show up already knowing what to expect, which has changed the first-visit conversation entirely.
Dr. Mei Smith · Owner, Smith Family Dental

Nine business days, start to launch.

  1. Day 1

    Intro call

    15-minute call with Dr. Smith. Reviewed the existing site and the booking flow.

  2. Day 2

    Proposal signed

    Flat $800 Landing, 9-day timeline, two revision rounds included.

  3. Day 3–5

    Draft live

    First draft delivered as a real URL on a staging domain. Team shoot scheduled.

  4. Day 6–8

    Two revision rounds

    Photos integrated, tone tightened, the booking widget moved to the hero.

  5. Day 9

    Live

    Domain pointed, SSL provisioned, handoff doc delivered. Final invoice sent same day.

Three more, landing soon.

We have kept the studio small on purpose — three to four projects a quarter, fully shipped, then written up like the one above. These are the next three in flight.

In build Launches June

North & Pine Books

Independent bookshop in Portland. Full Site — home, events, staff picks, online order.

Full Site · $1,800
In design Launches July

Lila Park Therapy

Therapist starting her own practice. Landing — one page, gentle voice, intake form.

Landing · $800
Kickoff Launches August

Roost Coffee

Two-location coffee shop. Full Site — menu, hours per location, ordering link.

Full Site · $1,800

A note on this page

One real site. Three more landing in months.

When we started fwd. we agreed we would never show work that was not ours, and we would never dress up a placeholder to look like a case study. So this page will fill up slowly — one careful project at a time — each laid out in the same depth as Smith Family Dental above.

If you would like to be case study 02, the services page has the scope and the prices, and the contact form takes a minute.