Kerne builds and looks after the online side of small businesses across Cornwall. Websites, branding, socials, email. Mostly for people who are good at what they do and whose website does not show it.
Being good at the job isn't enough if nobody can tell from your website.
Someone lands on your website and decides in about five seconds whether you are worth ringing. They haven't met you, they haven't seen your work, and they aren't being fair about it. Most owners put everything into the job itself and almost nothing into the thing that gets judged first, then wonder why the work went to a business they know they are better than. That's the whole problem, and it's a fixable one.
Kerne is run by David, with more than ten years of design behind it: graphics, motion, websites, and the marketing side too, social, email, the lot. We started Kerne because we kept seeing the same thing. Good businesses, run by capable people, losing work they should have won. Not because of the work. Because of what a stranger saw before they got close enough to judge it.
The fix is rarely more. More posts, more output, more reach. It is usually less, said better. That takes an outside eye, because if you could see it yourself you'd have fixed it years ago.
And if we think a new website isn't actually what you need, we'll say so rather than sell you one.
Fixed price. Fixed date.
A small studio, not a big agency. You deal with the people doing the work, there is no account manager in the middle, and the price we agree is the price you pay. Bespoke sites from £759, live in a week.
Most places quote weeks and take months. A Kerne site goes live seven working days after your content lands, because the scope is fixed and we have built a lot of these. The speed comes from doing it often, not from cutting corners.
Before anyone reads a word about you, they have already decided how seriously to take you. That is where we start.
Five pages that work beat twenty that nobody finishes reading. Taking things out is the harder half of the job.
We'll tell you what a stranger sees, even when it isn't flattering, and we'll tell you if you don't need what we sell.
The number you are quoted is the number you pay, and the date you are given is the date it goes live. Anything extra is priced up front.
The site, the domain, all of it. If you ever want to take it elsewhere you can, and we'll help you move it.
If your website is worse than your business: let us fix it.