About Rankrix

Built for the operators who hate agency theatre.

We are a small, senior team of designers, engineers and marketers who got tired of watching budgets disappear into discovery decks and revision cycles. So we built a studio that ships.

What we believe.

The agency model is broken. Six-month strategy phases, monthly retainers that bill regardless of output, deliverables that look like progress but don't move the business. We have lived inside all of it and decided not to participate.

Rankrix exists for the founder, marketer or product lead who already knows what is wrong and just wants someone to fix it — properly, on a clock, with the receipts to prove the fix worked.

That means short engagements where we can. Outcome-priced work where we can't. A staging URL on day three of every build. A scoped roadmap before any retainer starts. And the honesty to tell you when something isn't working, even when it costs us the next month of revenue.

Operating principles

Six rules we run on.

Borrowed from engineering, not advertising. Each one is a decision we have already made so we don't have to re-litigate it every Tuesday.

  • 01

    Ship weekly or surface why.

    Every Friday: a staging URL, a metric, or a written explanation of what is blocking it. No exceptions, no monthly status calls.

  • 02

    Outcomes, not outputs.

    We measure ourselves on what moved — revenue, sessions, retention, time-to-payback — not on tickets closed or pages shipped.

  • 03

    One accountable lead per engagement.

    You speak to the person doing the work. Not an account manager. Not a project manager hiding the team behind a Notion page.

  • 04

    Staging from day three.

    You see real progress on a real URL before any meaningful invoice clears. Slips visible, blockers visible, scope changes visible.

  • 05

    Tools the in-house team can own.

    No bespoke CMS lock-in, no proprietary trackers, no exit fees. When the engagement ends, you walk away with everything.

  • 06

    No buzzword-driven roadmaps.

    We do not pitch you AI agents, Web3 strategy or omnichannel synergy until they actually solve a problem you have today.

The team

Senior people only.

Every engagement is led by a generalist who has built or marketed at least three businesses end-to-end. Specialist sub-pods plug in for narrow problems. Junior staff exist — they shadow, not lead.

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Founder & CEO

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Head of Engineering

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Head of Growth

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Lead Designer

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Senior Developer

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Growth Strategist

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People

The senior team.

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Founder · Lead

Founder name TBC

Sets strategy and runs every engagement end-to-end. Believes hours are the wrong unit.

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JS
Head of Engineering

Senior engineer TBC

Owns the build phase. Performance budgets enforced from commit one, runbooks on day ten.

Next.jsWPiOS
MK
Head of Growth

Growth lead TBC

Built and torn down enough paid programmes to know when paid is the wrong answer.

SEOPPCEmail
LD
Lead Designer

Designer TBC

Identity systems that survive your marketing team. Figma libraries beat 60-page PDFs.

BrandUI/UXMotion
PD
Senior Developer

Senior dev TBC

Code review that improves both the code and the reviewee. Documents everything.

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SS
Growth Strategist

Strategist TBC

Content programmes that compound. Refuses to publish slop, no matter what the brief says.

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Live activity

What we shipped this week.

Studio · LiveLast 7 days
  • AR
    Audit requested by fintech.cojust now
  • JS
    Build milestone shipped to nimble.app14m
  • MK
    Paid account rebuilt for nordstack.io2h
  • LD
    Brand system delivered to orbit.studio5h
  • PD
    SEO brief signed off · verdant.coYesterday
  • SS
    Newsletter issue #14 sent to 2,148 readersYesterday
  • AR
    Discovery call booked · haven.health2d
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