ShepherdUX

Cookies and storage

Your choices.

What this site keeps in your browser so it works, a page count that keeps nothing there, and the one thing it asks you about.

Needed to run

Your day or night setting, the last few things you searched for, and the answer you give here. They stay in this browser and are never sent anywhere.

Always on

Page count

Ahrefs counts page views: the page, where you came from, your language and screen size. It sets no cookie, keeps nothing in your browser, and cannot tell one visit from the next. Ahrefs holds the count under their own privacy terms.

Always on

Analytics

PostHog counts visits: which pages and cards get read, how far along a world people travel, and where they leave. No account, no name, no adverts, and no tracking across other sites. One first-party cookie and a matching browser store mark a return visit as the same visitor. The count is held by PostHog Inc. on servers in the United States, under their own privacy terms.

Drawn by hand, built to be found.

ShepherdUX is a studio of five across two continents. We draw brands, interfaces and whole worlds, build them in code, and grow them in search and the answer engines. Every room behind this door is open.

Specimens: the services

Thirteen services, each drawn as the thing in nature that works the same way. Every plate opens its page.

Making

Design that holds: marks, worlds, pictures and screens.

Brand identity

Nautilus. One rule, repeated, builds the whole shell.

from USD 1,800

Building

Code that carries weight: sites, shops, tools and moves.

Websites

Honeycomb. Rooms built to the size of what they hold.

from USD 2,000

Ecommerce

Poppy capsule. It holds the seed and lets it out a little at a time.

from USD 6,500

Migrations

Hermit crab. It moves house and keeps everything it grew.

Starts with an audit

Growing

Being found, and staying found: search, answers, posts and press.

Search engines

Firefly. A signal made to be found in the dark.

from USD 900

The Speedline

Bamboo. Thirteen nodes, one for each week.

from USD 6,000

Answer engines

Mockingbird. It sings back what it heard.

Inside the search retainers

Press releases

Dandelion clock. One head, carried a long way.

from USD 500

Grown in the open

Three clients, measured in their own Search Console. Every figure below is read from the exports they handed over on 28 August 2026.

Orlux Rides

Luxury ground transport · Orlando

Average position, month by month coll. August 2025 to 26 August 2026 · det. Google Search Console

4,464 clicks from search in the year Average position 75 to 12.5

All 7 readings
  1. August 2025: average position 75.
  2. October 2025: average position 62.
  3. November 2025: average position 58.
  4. December 2025: average position 30.
  5. February 2026: average position 22.
  6. April 2026: average position 10.
  7. August 2026, to the 26th: average position 12.5.

ClearQuest Water

Water treatment · Tampa Bay

Impressions a day, by month coll. late May 2026 to August 2026 · det. Google Search Console

507 impressions a day From 15 a day in late May 2026

All 4 readings
  1. Late May 2026 · 15 impressions a day · virtually every attributable click is the brand name.
  2. June · 25 impressions a day · the audit lands: 25 money pages had never been crawled at all.
  3. July · 186 impressions a day, seven times June · the site starts being seen for more than its own name.
  4. August · 507 impressions a day · local water guides sit at positions 5 to 12 for Tampa-area searches.

La Soie

Fashion retail · Pakistan

Average position, week by week coll. 25 May to 23 August 2026 · det. Google Search Console

6.75 average position On page one in all 13 weeks of the run

All 13 readings
  1. Week of 25 May: average position 7.4.
  2. Week of 1 June: average position 6.9.
  3. Week of 8 June: average position 6.7.
  4. Week of 15 June: average position 7.6.
  5. Week of 22 June: average position 8.1.
  6. Week of 29 June: average position 7.4.
  7. Week of 6 July: average position 6.9.
  8. Week of 13 July: average position 6.3.
  9. Week of 20 July: average position 6.5.
  10. Week of 27 July: average position 7.4.
  11. Week of 3 August: average position 6.9.
  12. Week of 10 August: average position 6.8.
  13. Week of 17 August: average position 6.2.

Week by week

147 to 1,650 impressions a week

La Soie · Fashion retail · Pakistan

One pair of leaves for each of the 13 weeks from 25 May to 23 August 2026, read from La Soie's own Search Console. The vine sags where a week fell back and climbs again, and the last week was the best yet.

The work behind all three is in the portfolio.

1,650
Plate IV.1 Impressions a week, as a vine up its stake coll. 25 May to 23 August 2026 · det. Google Search Console

Under the floor: the prices

Every service grows from one colony, and every price is published. Each fruiting body is a service; each thread is work that often goes with it.

Plate V. The colony under the floor, every service on one network. Point at one, or tab to it, to light the work that often goes with it. Plate V. The colony under the floor, every service on one network. Each one opens its own page.

Price it before you ask.

Every price this studio charges is published. Tick what you are making and choose a size, and the rule reads the ladder: what it costs once, what it costs each month, and what you commit to at the start. No email address needed.

The rule needs JavaScript to add up. Every price is on the services page.

What are you making?

Make

Brand identity: which size?

A drawn mark, one typeface pairing, a palette, a two-page use guide, files in every format, the rights assigned to you.

A website: which size?

Wix or Squarespace, customised with drawn assets, the SEO basics done properly, and training so you can run it.

A shop: which size?

A custom theme, up to fifty products loaded, payments and shipping configured, the first month watched.

An illustrated world: which size?

An art-directed, side-scrolling or set-piece site drawn for you. This site is the sample.

Product design: which size?

One request at a time, back in 48 to 72 hours, pause whenever you like.

A custom tool: which size?

One week: a process map, a data model, a clickable prototype, and a fixed quote for the build.

Be found

Search and answer engines: which size?

Technical fixes, two posts, citation and listing work, a monthly Search Console read. Three months minimum, waived after a Speedline.

The Speedline: which size?

Up to fifty indexable pages. Every fault on the agreed fault list fixed by week six, three money pages rewritten, two new pages, six illustrated posts, the business profiles brought complete, and the day-ninety report.

Be heard

Posts and guides: which size?

1,200 to 1,800 words, one drawn illustration, schema, and tracking so you can see what it did.

Press releases: which size?

The angle found on one call, the release written to newswire standard with a drawn header, the distribution chosen for the story, and every placement checked and reported within three working days.

Nothing ticked yet. Tick what you are making and the rule reads the ladder.

Terms and timing

At the start USD 0

Nothing planted yet.

Write this into a brief

Prices from the published ladder, in US dollars. UAE dirhams at the 3.6725 peg, checked 5 September 2026, rounded to the nearest hundred. A fixed quote follows one short call.

The bench

Every look we draw is tried on this bench before it ships: a pairing of type, a palette and a treatment, set on the things a brand is used on. Take a tin, a face from the case and a tool from the rail, or shuffle. Whatever you choose, every word clears 7:1, the contrast we hold all reading text to.

Shepherd’s Journal

Five worlds, one camera

How this site is made

shepherdux.com

Poster, in House on Oxblood and Champagne, dark paper, engraved

Your Name

Your role

you@yourstudio.comyourstudio.com

Business card, in House on Oxblood and Champagne, dark paper, engraved

No. 07 · Brand and identity

A mark, a pairing, a palette.

A drawn mark, one typeface pairing, a palette, a two-page use guide, files in every format, the rights assigned to you.

Page header, in House on Oxblood and Champagne, dark paper, engraved

How this site is made

Five worlds, one camera

A walk through the drawn routes of this site - what each one is, why it scrolls sideways, and the small rule that keeps every one of them moving.

Shepherd’s JournalRead the entry

Journal card, in House on Oxblood and Champagne, dark paper, engraved

Bench colour

Oxblood and Champagne

No. 02 · stir well

Tin label, in House on Oxblood and Champagne, dark paper, engraved

The bench needs JavaScript to change; this is its first look.

From Shepherd's Journal

The journal keeps the working notes: what each build taught, what measured and what failed, shelved beside pieces on history, art and the sky. Read it before you hire anyone, us included.

Plate VII. The reading room, with the candle lit.

Newest on the shelf

  1. How this site is made

    Five worlds, one camera

    A walk through the drawn routes of this site - what each one is, why it scrolls sideways, and the small rule that keeps every one of them moving.

    12 min read

A postcard to the studio

A question, a correction or a hello goes on the card, and nowhere but the studio’s inbox. A person reads every one, and the answer usually comes within a day.

Leave a quick note.

A question, a correction or a hello. A sentence or two is plenty.

Only ever used to reply. No list, no newsletter, no forwarding.

The direct lines

Write the brief

A project goes on the brief, which has more room.

Let's write the brief.

My name is , and I am with .

I am here because

I would like to start , with a budget around .

You can reach me at .

Here is the shape of it: (optional)

What matters most

● Before you write

Asked and answered.

What does ShepherdUX actually do?

Design, build and growth, the whole stack: brand identity, interfaces, full websites and apps, editorial blogs, full-stack SEO (also sold as a three-month package at one fixed fee), press releases, Google and Meta ads, and custom CRMs with whatever integrations the work needs. You can hire one layer on its own. The studio exists because the layers work better when the same room holds all of them.

Does the SEO cover AI search as well as Google?

Yes, and it has for a while. Everything is written answer-first, with entities spelled out and facts a machine can lift whole, so it ranks in Google and gets quoted by AI assistants. On one client, AI assistants now deliver roughly one booking in twelve.

What does a project cost?

It depends on what the work is, which is why the brief above asks for a budget instead of quoting one blind. Small fixed pieces exist, and so do monthly programmes. Either way you get a written plan with a price on it before anyone commits to anything.

Can you take over a site somebody else built?

Yes - it is one of the most common ways in. The first step is an audit rather than a rebuild: on one recent client, the audit found Google had never crawled twenty-five of the site’s most important pages. What happens next follows from what the audit finds, rather than from a plan decided before anyone looked.

Where is the studio based?

The work is remote and always has been. Current and recent clients run from Orlando and Tampa Bay to Karachi, and every one of them is measured the same way, in their own Google Search Console. Distance has never once been the problem.

How will I know the work is working?

You watch it move in numbers you own: Google Search Console, your analytics, your inbox. The portfolio on this site draws its graphs from clients’ real Search Console exports - that is the standard of evidence the work is held to, here and everywhere.

Or write to pen@shepherdux.com, or send a message on WhatsApp. A person reads these, and answers most of them the same day.

Services

What this studio does

Thirteen services from one studio, and the floor under each of them published. Pick the one you came for.

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