Independent digital studio · Victoria / Seattle
Design on the surface.Infrastructure underneath.Design onthe surface.Infrastructureunderneath.
A digital studio on Canada’s west coast — we design it, build it, market it, and run the servers it lives on.
Services / 04
The whole stack, one studio.
Most studios hand you a design file and a goodbye. We design it, build it, market it, and run the servers it lives on — the same four hands from first sketch to third year.
Design & build
Sites drawn for the business behind them, not adapted from a theme. Hand-built, fast on a phone with two bars, accessible by default. We host what we build, so launch day is a beginning, not a handoff.
Marketing & search
Structure first: speed, crawlability, schema, the listing nobody claimed. Then the writing — for the searches your customers actually type, measured well enough to know what worked.
Applications
Booking engines, dashboards, internal tools, integrations with the software you already pay for. Built as small as the problem allows and documented so the next developer isn’t doing archaeology.
AI & data
Retrieval over your own documents, classification, forecasting, and the unglamorous plumbing underneath. When a spreadsheet and one clear rule would do it better, we say so. That answer is free.
Designed here. Built here. Run here.
Every engagement can continue onto managed infrastructure we operate ourselves.
Security-led work is delivered with Signal & Soil.
Selected work / 04
Everything here is live.
The Fernie Group
Cybersecurity consultants needed a site that practiced what they preach. Rebuilt from shared hosting to hardened infrastructure that sends its own mail — with security headers their own auditors would sign off on.
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RustyMedic
Paramedic training, sold and delivered online. Courses, checkout, clinical writing, and a production LMS — teaching medicine demands the same rigour as practicing it.
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Wave and Wander
Paddleboard rentals at the end of the road in Port Renfrew, with a booking engine of its own. Small business, real software.
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Boundary Condition
A venture accelerator’s public face and its application intake — the first impression a founder gets, taken seriously.
boundarycondition.ca(opens in a new tab)
Studio
Studio
Graphite & Moss is a small studio on Vancouver Island, working with clients across the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The name is the method: graphite is the pencil and the conductor — design and infrastructure in one material; moss is what thrives here when something is built to last. Hosting runs on Minservers, our own managed platform. Security work lives with our sister company, Signal & Soil.
Contact
Start something.
Tell us what you’re building — or what’s broken. A human reads this the same day.
Received.
You’ll hear from a person, not a pipeline.