About
Built properly.
Behaves badly.
Zexy is a digital production studio. We build bold websites, the systems behind them, and the brand and marketing around them.
At some point the whole web started looking the same. Same hero, same three columns, same soft grey. Everyone agreed to call that professional. We think it was mostly just cheaper.
So we build the other thing. Colour that commits. Sound. Interfaces that react when you touch them. And underneath all of it, code that would survive someone else reading it, because a website nobody can maintain is a bad website with good art.
We come from games and 3D. That is the part most web studios do not have, and it is why the ambitious version of an idea usually survives here instead of getting quietly cut down in week six.
Games taught us performance. Client work taught us that the boring system behind the pretty thing, and the marketing in front of it, decide whether the pretty thing ever pays for itself. So we do those too.
What we believe
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Fun is a feature
People remember how a thing felt to use. Motion and sound belong in the spec, next to the load time, not in a pile marked nice to have.
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Prototype the hard part first
The riskiest idea gets built in week one. If it does not work on a real phone, the idea changes. Not the budget.
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Polish is the job
The last ten percent is the whole difference. It gets scheduled like real work, because it is.
How we work
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Kickoff
One call. Goals, audience, budget, deadline. You leave it with a plan and a number, because nobody needs a slideshow about our values.
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Prototype the hard part
Whatever scares us most gets built first, in the browser or the engine, on a real mid-range phone. Week one is a cheap place to find out an idea does not work. Week nine is not.
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Build in small steps
You get a build you can click through every week. Break it, complain, send voice notes at midnight. It all goes into the next one.
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Polish and launch
Motion, sound, performance, accessibility. These get real days on the schedule, not whatever survives until Friday afternoon. Then we ship, and we stay reachable after.
The crew
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Sem Ashby
A Zexy Digital Builder
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Sem Ewouds
A Zexy Designer
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Shreejal Maharjan
A Zexy Developer
Our toolbox
Got something
worth building?
Rough is fine. Send us the idea before it is tidy, while there is still room to make it stranger.
- A reply within two working days
- A plan and a quote. No pitch deck
- A straight no if the budget and the idea do not match