Web design and SEO, from one team

One team from the first line of code to the monthly ranking report, working for owner run businesses in New Zealand, Australia and beyond: trades, clinics, professional services and hospitality.

We build websites for small and medium businesses and do the search work alongside them. They are built on Astro, which means the page is mostly finished before it reaches the phone and loads in a blink, and on Sanity, which means editing your site feels like editing a document.

The sites are built open and easy to see inside, so a person, Google and the AI that writes the answer can all read the same facts about your business. The company is New Zealand owned, the team that builds and looks after your site is in the Philippines, and Ben, who runs UBE, is based in Dunedin. We have written that out properly, because it explains most of how we work.

Two places, one team

Balanga The team, in the Philippines
Dunedin Ben and the ownership, in New Zealand

The same team the whole way through, from the first line of code to the monthly report, and that is most of the reason the price and the work both make sense.

What we are, in short

Studio, not agency

We build and migrate sites for people who already know what they want, rather than running discovery workshops to find out. The approach page sets out how that works in practice, including who we are not for.

One team for build and SEO

We do the SEO with the same people who built the site. Splitting the build and the search work across two companies usually costs more and works worse, and we have explained why.

We publish our numbers

Every build in the portfolio has its Lighthouse scores next to it. Lighthouse 100 across Performance, SEO and Best Practices is the bar we hold ourselves to.

Family first locations

Managed in Dunedin, New Zealand, with the team in Balanga, in the Philippines. Proven systems, AI for the heavy lifting, and a Filipino team that keeps the whole thing human. AI does the first draft, a person signs it off.

New Zealand owned, and part of the Yoonet group, which has been building for the web since 2003.

Start your project

Tell us what you need and we will come back with a clear proposal.

Prefer email? Reach us at hi@ube.ph.