What we build

Three shapes of build

Scope decides the stack. The methodology: copy first, real content, tested before shipped stays the same.

Landing pages

Persona, market, campaign.

One offer, one audience, one job. Built to be the page Ads can finally point at, and SEO can earn position with.

Brand · Product · Corporate

Full builds, end-to-end.

Showcase, lead-generation or transactional. Strategy, copy, design, build, ship.

Capability

One discipline. Five shapes the work takes.

The build follows the brief and our agreed direction, not a template. Whether the outcome is credibility, leads, transactions, campaign agility or a motion-led experience, the strategy spine is the same.

“A site is a piece of infrastructure. We build it like one and not like a brochure.”
Lean Search

Showcase sites

For brands whose credibility is the asset. Editorial pace, premium feel, conversion logic underneath.

Lead-generation sites

Built around the form. Page architecture, copy and CTA logic tuned to qualify and route.

Transactional & commerce

Custom built fully coded, Shopify, WooCommerce or headless. Catalog depth, checkout speed, post-purchase loop.

Campaign & landing systems

Modular pages your media team can spin up per persona, per market, per offer without an engineering ticket.

Motion-first, mobile-first

Scalable animation, performant on mid-tier devices, tied to the same search-and-conversion strategy as the rest of the work.

Start an enquiry

Tell us what needs building.

Three quick steps. We come back within 24 working hours with a first read on scope, stack and timeline.

Step 1 of 3

Step 1 of 3: What type of website do you need?

What type of website do you need?

Pick the closest shape. We refine the scope together.

Senior specialist reply within 24 working hours. No junior account manager.
How we proceed

Five steps. No skipped ones.

Strategy → copy → design → build → ship. Same shape on a one-page landing or a multi-market platform. The volume changes; the order doesn't.

  1. 01
    Week 1

    Scope & strategy

    Persona work, offer mapping, business-model interrogation, tech-stack scoping. Before a single component is sketched, the answers exist on paper.

  2. 02
    Weeks 1–3

    Copy before design

    Full website copy written first, signed off, then handed to design. Real headlines drive real layouts — placeholder Lorem produces placeholder pages.

  3. 03
    Weeks 3–5

    Design with real content

    Pages composed with the actual copy, the actual imagery, the actual data. Visual decisions defended against the page they have to serve, not a mood board.

  4. 04
    Weeks 4–8

    Stack chosen by need

    WordPress & WooCommerce when content velocity matters. Shopify when ecommerce is the engine. Next.js, React and Claude Code when the build is custom or performance-critical. The stack follows the brief, not the other way around.

  5. 05
    Final week

    Test, debug, ship

    Cross-device QA, performance budgets, schema validation, conversion-tracking smoke tests. We ship when the page passes, not when the calendar runs out.

Stack capability

The right tools. For the right reasons.

Stack choice follows business need: growth model, content velocity, ecommerce requirement, integration depth, flexibility of the editorial workflow. We're fluent across the set.

WordPress

Content velocity, editorial workflows, marketing teams that ship daily.

WooCommerce

WordPress-native ecommerce with deep plugin ecosystem and total layout control.

Shopify

When ecommerce is the business. Fast PDPs, payments breadth, scaled fulfilment.

Next.js

Custom builds, marketing sites that have to be fast and SEO-clean by default.

React

Component libraries, motion-heavy interfaces, embedded tools and dashboards.

Claude Code

AI-paired development. Faster from brief to ship, with senior judgement on every commit.

Lean Tech · our engineering venture

Web Developer Mauritius

Strategy and design get a website started. Code decides what it can actually do. Lean Tech is the engineering side of Lean Search, led by a veteran Director of Technology and lead coder with over ten years of website development behind them.

10+ years
Website development, hands on the keyboard
Template to bespoke
Themed builds through to coded design systems
Full stack
Custom backends and complex business workflows
Ten years of range

From templated builds to fully coded systems.

Most agencies can only recommend the one thing they know how to build. Lean Tech has shipped across the whole arc, which is why the recommendation you get is a judgement call rather than a default.

01

Templated builds

Theme-based WordPress and Shopify work, pushed past what the theme was designed to do. Rebuilt templates, custom blocks, and an editor the marketing team can actually run without a ticket.

02

Custom design, custom front end

Bespoke design systems coded from scratch. No page builder, no plugin sprawl, no 4MB of unused CSS. Components that still hold their frame rate on a mid-tier phone.

03

Custom backends and workflows

Data models, admin panels, integrations and multi-step business logic. Quote engines, booking and routing portals, dashboards wired straight into the CRM.

Why this approach works

Purposeful digital assets — not just pages.

The reason we put strategy and copy ahead of design isn't tidiness. It's that pages built any other way leak — in conversion, in search, in maintenance cost.

01

Strategy before design

Who is it for. What it has to do. How it earns its keep.

02

Copy before UI

Real words shape real layouts. Lorem produces filler.

03

Real content before polish

Imagery, data, social proof in. Then we make it sing.

04

Stack chosen by purpose

Tech serves the business model. Not the other way round.

05

Tested before shipped

Performance, accessibility, tracking, schema — all green at launch.

Tell us what to build.We'll tell you how.

30-minute scoping call. Bring the offer, the audience, the business model. We'll come back with a recommended stack, an outline scope, and a frank read on whether we're the right team for the build.