Meridian Press
Identity + digital publication
“The Digital Masthead.” Translating a legacy newspaper masthead into a living digital identity — an editorial grid, variable type, and a front page that recomposes itself around the day’s lead.
The world's fastest agency-grade site
95+ on every Lighthouse category. 7 days. Or it's free.
Three pages or five, your call. One fixed price either way. Delivered in a week — or you pay nothing. No other agency on earth makes this offer because no other agency has an autonomous build pipeline that can clear every audit gate at this speed. We built the instruments first. This is what they're for.
95+
Performance guaranteed
95+
Accessibility
95+
Best Practices
95+
SEO
Why no other agency makes this offer
You can't verify what agencies claim.
Every agency's website is a curated highlight reel — cherry-picked screenshots, hand-waved metrics, testimonials from people you can't reach. There is no receipt. There is no way to check. And the agencies that win awards? Most of them fail their own performance and accessibility audits on the very sites that won. We published the numbers. They're not flattering.
Curated portfolios
Hand-picked screenshots tell you nothing about how a site actually performs under real conditions. Every agency looks perfect in a Dribbble shot.
Unverifiable metrics
"We build fast sites." Prove it. Most can't. The ones that try cherry-pick their best Lighthouse run — not the worst of four, the way we publish.
Awards without audits
The Awwwards Studio of the Year scores 60/100 on mobile performance — 6.7 seconds to largest paint. Measured 31 Aug 2026, worst of four runs, published in full. An award tells you how it looks; it says nothing about whether it works.
Our differentiators
Five things no other agency can match.
01
We built the audit instrument first.
Before we took a single client, we built the X‑Ray — a live Google Lighthouse engine that runs against any URL and publishes the full diagnostic: scores, filmstrip, Core Web Vitals, every failing check, and a ranked fix list. This is what we hold our own work to. No other agency built the measurement tool before building sites. We did.
02
We publish the worst run, not the best.
Anyone can re-run Lighthouse until they get a lucky score. We run it four times in a row against a live production build, discard the best, and publish the worst. That's the number you see on our site. Performance fluctuates — honesty shouldn't.
03
A gate at every door.
Nothing ships until Lighthouse and axe-core come back clean — performance, accessibility, best-practices, and SEO all at 95 or above. This isn't aspiration. It's a gate. Sections are audited individually, then the whole thing is audited again. If a gate fails, the build stops until it passes. Guaranteeing 100 is marketing — guaranteeing 95+ is engineering. We do what's measurable.
04
OmniSphere: the whole machine.
Lighthouse grades one page. OmniSphere — our whole-site integrity engine — walks every page, clicks every button, submits every form, and follows every link across four breakpoints. One honest number: the Site Health Index. Every client site runs on it, continuously. No other agency has anything close.
05
You get the receipts. Permanently.
Every client receives a live, re-runnable audit report — not a PDF snapshot that goes stale the day after launch. Your site's performance, accessibility, and SEO scores are always one click away. If something drifts, you'll know. This is the kind of accountability most agencies actively avoid.
We measured the best. Then we measured ourselves.
The Awwwards Studio of the Year scored 60/100.
Real Google Lighthouse scores against the most celebrated design studios on the planet — mobile, throttled, four consecutive runs each, worst run published. Measured 31 August 2026. One of them beats us and we left them at the top. Don't take our word for any of it — the full method and the raw run data are published, and you can re-run every row yourself.
100
aristidebenoist.com
Awwwards winner · LCP 1.06s
Beat us. Shown anyway.
98
Saffron Designs
Our own site · LCP 2.34s
Fix shipping · re-measured 15 Sep
88
unseen.co
Awwwards winner · LCP 3.36s
Re-runnable
60
obys.agency
Awwwards SOTY 2023 · LCP 6.71s
Re-runnable
51
basement.studio
FWA / Awwwards · LCP 7.51s
Re-runnable
Investment
We charge for proof, not promises.
Every project includes the X‑Ray, OmniSphere monitoring, and a live audit report your IT team can run at any time. You're not paying for a website — you're paying for a measurable asset that ships with receipts. Projects typically fall into four tiers, depending on scope, pages, and the level of interactive engineering required.
| Scope | What it includes | Investment |
|---|---|---|
| 95/7 Fast-Track — Launch | 3-page site (Home, About, Contact). 95+ across all four Lighthouse categories or it's free. 7-day delivery. Includes six months of hosting + maintenance. Requires existing brand assets and content within 48 hours. | $9K flat |
| 95/7 Fast-Track — Studio Recommended |
5-page premium site (Home, About, Services, Contact, Blog). 95+ across all four Lighthouse categories or it's free. 7-day delivery. Includes one year of hosting + maintenance. Requires existing brand assets and content within 48 hours. | $18K flat |
| Brand identity + single-page | Typography system, palette, voice, one polished page with the X‑Ray and OmniSphere monitoring. | $12K–$18K |
| Multi-page brand site | Up to 12 pages, CMS integration, OmniSphere monitoring, full audit report, Brand Soul configurator. | $25K–$55K |
| Full platform / interactive | Custom engineering, dashboards, 3D, real-time data, Shopify, Concierge ops, Sentinel revenue recovery. | $75K–$250K+ |
Every tier ships with the same standard: 95+ across all four Lighthouse categories before we hand it over. The audit gate is non-negotiable. For the 95/7 Fast-Track, the clock starts when we receive your brand assets and content. Two revision rounds are included; additional rounds are scoped separately. If we miss the 7-day window, your site is free — zero cost, zero questions. We'd rather lose money on a deadline than ship something that doesn't clear every gate.
The Ledger · 31 August 2026
Everything above is an argument
This is the part you can check. Five studios, one machine, one configuration, four consecutive runs each — and the worst run is the one printed. Including ours.
| Site | Perf | A11y | SEO | LCP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| aristidebenoist.comAwwwards, multiple | 100 | 91 | 100 | 1.06 s |
| saffrondesigns.ioOur own site · re-measured 1 Sep | 98 | 100 | 100 | 2.34 s |
| unseen.coAwwwards-winning studio | 88 | 93 | 100 | 3.36 s |
| obys.agencyAwwwards Studio of the Year 2023 | 60 | 94 | 92 | 6.71 s |
| basement.studioFWA / Awwwards | 51 | 100 | 100 | 7.51 s |
One of those studios beats us, and we left it at the top of the table. Our site is at 98 on this profile, up from 93 — two render-blocking stylesheets inlined, after two other fixes were tried, measured and thrown away. The remaining gap is LCP and it is still ours. Re-measured and republished on 15 September, whatever it says.
Selected Work
Concept pieces
Where we pressure-test ideas before they meet a client — each held to the same standard we ship: 95+ on every Lighthouse gate.
Umbra Hotels
Brand system + booking site
A boutique-hospitality brand system and booking flow built light-first — a sub-second path from arrival to reserved, and 0 axe violations at launch.
Field & Frame
Portfolio + editorial
A photographer’s portfolio where the frame is the interface — sequenced galleries, expressive captions, and a reading experience stripped to image and intent.
Full case write-ups are in production. Want proof beyond these three? Talk to a real client under NDA ↗
You've read the receipts. Now let's talk.
Every project begins the same way — a conversation about where the brand is headed. No pitch deck, no pressure. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right fit, and if we are, what the first step looks like. We reply within seven working hours.