Independent design studio

Design partner for brands that plan to grow.

  • Discover
  • Design
  • Develop

Brand identity, product design and websites for startups and category leaders.

Trusted by 180+
product teams
  • Ledgerly
  • Northfold
  • Pennant
  • Veyra
  • Brightpath
  • Quillstone
  • Tessera
  • Oakridge

Who we are

We build brands and products that earn attention — and keep it long after launch day.

About the studio

By the numbers

Launches shipped
140+

Launches shipped

Brands, products and sites taken from first sketch to live.

Years independent
11

Years independent

No holding company. Just senior people who still do the work.

Clients who return
94%

Clients who return

Most of our work comes from teams we have worked with before.

Median conversion lift
2.8×

Median conversion lift

Measured across redesigns we ran experiments on in 2025.

Services

Ourservices

Four ways to work with us. Most projects mix two or three — we staff them with the same senior team from kickoff to launch.

6–10 weeks

Naming, strategy and a visual system that holds up from favicon to billboard — with the guidelines to keep it that way.

  • Positioning & naming
  • Logo & type system
  • Motion principles
  • Brand guidelines
How we work

Kind words

“Kestrel treated our rebrand like their own company was on the line. Six months later our demo requests are up 3.4× and nobody on the team wants to go back.”

Priya Raman

CMO, Ledgerly

“They shipped a design system our engineers genuinely prefer to the one they built themselves. That has never happened before.”

Daniel Reyes

VP Engineering, Pennant