Relish Studio

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m a therapist and I own a private practice.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Relish Studio?

I wanted to get my name out there and have a profile that looks like me and be very personal.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

Stu (Co-Founder) came in and spent a lot of time interviewing me about what I was looking for and clarifying what those areas were. We looked at different examples of websites to determine what I liked and didn’t like. We worked directly on content including photography, the layout, forms, and graphics.

What is the team composition?

I mostly worked with Stu and then every once in a while I interfaced with the other partner, particularly on copy.

How did you come to work with Relish Studio?

I looked at a lot of reviews and then picked about 10 companies. Then I interviewed those companies either on the phone or in-person and chose Relish Studio. I was detailed in my search this time because I hired someone a couple of years back and it didn’t work out.

How much have you invested with them?

I invested between $10,000–$15,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We worked together from May 2018–March 2019. The length of the time was due to me.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement? 

They did a really good job with getting my name out there and showcasing what I do best. It was a very positive experience and I’m very pleased. I get a lot of call from people who see the website. I think it took a while to get some traction because I didn’t understand how to put something out there.

How did Relish Studio perform from a project management standpoint?

They were great; every time I asked for something, I got it. They quickly got done anything I needed and then just sent me an invoice. Relish Studio was very reasonable and very responsive. We communicated either over email or in person.

What did you find most impressive about them?

Stu, as a person, was just really impressive because he really listened and did his research on the psychology profession. I just wanted to do something different and he did that. He understood what I was looking for and he seemed to get the language.

Are there any areas they could improve?

No, there is nothing.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Try to give them as much as you can on what kind of website characteristics you’re looking for.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the director of project development and operations at an education accessibility nonprofit. We’re creating an education system where the learning that happens both in and beyond school is accessible to all young people.

Our organization co-creates solutions for education and learning with families. Then we pilot those ideas. Once we pilot those ideas to a certain extent, I help grow the different initiatives to reach more families.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Relish Studio?

We needed a web presence when our organization was an infinitive. We had that engagement with another company that eventually turned over. The team at Relish Studio came from there, and we continued working with them. Since then, they’ve been tasked to help us keep our web presence up to date with our work, which has been rapidly evolving.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

We’ve done two website overhauls with Relish Studio. They were changing things within the existing website to better reflect the work that was going on currently. Our website is hosted on Webflow. Every time I come to them with needed updates, I explain what we need from a programmatic standpoint. They then meet us from the technical angle and tell us what Webflow is capable of doing and how their designers can meet those programmatic needs.

What is the team composition?

I work with Bret (Co-Founder & CTO) and Stuart (Co-Founder & CMO).

How did you come to work with Relish Studio?

As I mentioned earlier, when our original partner dissolved their company, we were still in contact with some of the individuals who worked at that original company. We really liked our experience with those individuals so when they started Relish Studio, we wanted to continue partnering with them.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve invested between $5,000–$8,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

Our ongoing engagement started around October 2017. Now, they’re handling maintenance efforts.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

As we’ve done the mini overhauls over the years, we’ve received feedback that people are able to navigate our site better and that it’s more intuitive.

How did Relish Studio perform from a project management standpoint?

We’ve communicated mostly by phone and email. Our teams have also had a handful of in-person meetings.

What did you find most impressive about them?

The people on the Relish Studio team are absolutely amazing to work with. I’m always amazed at how they meet us where we are. They could’ve easily told us they don’t take clients on Webflow because they primarily work with WordPress. Their team knew we didn’t have $10,000 to spend on a new WordPress site and continued to work with us to provide the technical support.

They allow us to make tweaks to the site within our budget. Relish Studio is flexible in their ability to meet us where we are. What’s more, they’re very fair from a price standpoint. As a nonprofit, that’s always important to us.

Are there any areas they could improve?

They listen to what their clients need and reverberate what technical capabilities are needed to make that happen. Sometimes, we’ve looked for a strategy partner in what exactly we’re putting on our website and if that’s a good idea. I know some web developers provide that kind of feedback.

In our experience with Relish Studio, whatever we say we want on the site, they do it. My only feedback is if the client wants it, they should get more feedback from them about the type of information that is out there or not.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

They’re so easy to work with and responsive. Have a conversation with them; it’s the easiest way to get them going with your project.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the co-founder of a digital agency called CenterTable that does digital marketing communications.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Relish Studio?

We hired Relish Studio for website development.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

Relish Studio is developing our website on WordPress. They’re implementing a number of capabilities including user profiles, maps, and geography capabilities.

What is the team composition?

We work with Stu (Co-Founder) and one other person.

How did you come to work with Relish Studio?

We’ve worked with them for a number of years and continue to do so because we’re very happy with their work.

How much have you invested with them?

On this project, we’ve invested between $15,000–$25,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We began working together in January 2011 and the collaboration is still ongoing. We wrapped up about four different projects within the last year.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement? 

We measure the success with them on a number of different levels. Number one is the timeliness and ability to meet deadlines. Number two is quality and completeness. Number three is the measure of success by our client's satisfaction and happiness. We’re very happy with their work and they make our lives easier.

How did Relish Studio perform from a project management standpoint?

They’re great at meeting deadlines.

What did you find most impressive about them?

They deliver quality products above our expectations, which is really all we can ask for.

Are there any areas they could improve?

No, there's nothing.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Bring them in early and in the planning stages so that they can truly help shape the development and the project itself. They’re great at being task-oriented and delivering what was asked for, but they really excel when you bring them into the planning stages and allow them to share their expertise and knowledge from the beginning as opposed to just being delivered a set of requirements.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m one of the co-founders as well as the COO of Carrier App Traffic, a mobile advertising agency. We promote and market apps on our platform and our customers’ phones, usually in collaboration with mobile phone carriers and other agencies. We’ve been in the mobile space for about 18 years.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Relish Studio?

At that time, we had zero web presence. We wanted to create a brand identity in order to improve our marketing and recruit better advertising partners. We also wanted to have tools for updating all kinds of online messaging, including social media, in a simple and efficient fashion.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

They’ve taken a coordinated approach to creating a successful online presence for our company. They’ve helped us with brand strategy, web design, inbound marketing, and SEO [search engine optimization]. Together, we defined the scope, identified our goals, and built client personas, which set the tone for the brand identity and the resulting marketing collateral. Afterward, they gave us options that ranged from the conservative and middle-of-the-road to the more creative. It was great that they gave us a few different tracks since it helped us see the possibilities. In the end, we felt that the middle ground would best represent our company.

What is the team dynamic?

We dealt mostly with Stu [Co-founder and CMO, Relish Studio], Brett [Co-founder and CTO, Relish Studio], and 1 other person.

How did you come to work with Relish Studio?

We’ve worked with some interesting partners, and Stu was one of them. He reached out to us when he formed Relish. It was an easy decision to work with him again considering our past history. We had created some successful business ventures together, and we were appreciative of his efforts. We also respected his ability to solve problems and achieve objectives.

How much have you invested with them?

So far, we’ve spent $21,000 on their services.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working together in October 2015, and the engagement is ongoing.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

I must admit I haven’t spent much time measuring their impact. However, I can tell you that having a presence in our space is important, and they’ve helped us achieve that. We now have cohesion and consistency in our messaging. Having a clean, professional, and positive message helps us establish credibility and gives our partners the confidence that we can get the job done. We’ve received compliments on the work Relish has done, which is a good indicator of success.

Since they’ve provided us with effective tools, we can now do things on our own in a nimble fashion. We don’t need a marketing team to manage these tools since they can be handled by account managers, which is an advantage for a small company like us. Even people who don’t typically engage in this part of the business can give input. While I can’t equate it to dollars and cents, their work has put us in a spot to make money.

Initially, I volunteered to take this project on and work directly with Relish. SEO was new to me, so I required a certain level of orientation and simpler tools, which I had to teach to others. I came in with no knowledge of the category, and now I feel like I know enough to accomplish things that are important to the company. They did a great job with that.

How did Relish Studio perform from a project management standpoint?

They’re very collaborative. They communicate clearly when setting objectives and meeting deadlines—they couldn’t have made it easier for us. Our team uses a variety of project management tools while they use Basecamp, which is very easy to work with. We have regular weekly meetings. They respond quickly to our questions, so they aren’t handling everything during our meetings.

What did you find most impressive about them?

Trust is the biggest thing, and I trust them—they’ve put themselves in a position where we would defer to them on anything if we had doubts. I don’t feel the need to negotiate with or question Stu if he wants to go in a direction that I’m not quite sure of. So far, he always tells us when something’s right or wrong, and we’ve done the same. If there is any gap, he’s reasonable and meets us in the middle. You don’t always get that with similar companies, where you feel like you need to cover your exposure. In the future, if Stu finds himself in a different industry, we’d probably work with him if we needed those services as well.

Are there any areas they could improve?

Since they’re a small company, I wondered if we could get enough time and effort from their team. We didn’t want to be outsourced to vendors or assigned to junior staff. Despite my initial concerns, they are doing great. Any mild trepidation I had around their capacity was unfounded.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

Valen Analytics is an advanced data and predictive analytics firm, serving the property and casualty insurance industry. We are known for building underwriting risk models that help insurers price and assess risk. I am the chief marketing officer.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Relish Studio?

Our website was out of date and we had done a pretty big pivot in terms of our market and product’s positioning. We’re moving from a packaged-up solution to more of solution selling. We’re breaking apart our individual capabilities so that we can communicate to our prospects all the many ways in which we can solve their problems. It required us to overhaul all our messaging and positioning and the way we talk about our products and solutions and capabilities. We set out to find a web development firm that could produce a great looking modern website, but would also want to partner with us to think through how to make that message come to life on our website.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

We started out by outlining the way Valen was messaging and positioning at that time and what the evolution would look like. It was a great collaboration between ourselves and the Relish team. They were passionate and inquisitive about our business and our market, the problems we were trying to achieve, and understanding our customers with us.

They understood that their job is not just to code a website, but to help us win in the market and having a website be our central hub for accomplishing that. We spent a good amount of time making sure they had a very solid understanding of where we were, and where we were headed and why before we created a graphic or a copy for web pages. This was the first phase.

During the second phase, we started to create the website architecture and made sure we had something that was going to support what we needed. Relish’s process for this was thoughtful and organized, which I really appreciated. They stood out in their ability to really think this through with us and create something that was going to work for Valen.

Then there was the final execution. We used the website to do a brand refresh and to revamp our visual presence and professional image. We wanted the website to drive how we would execute our brand across all our other collateral presentations. The third phase was getting the brand look and feel right, making sure all the copy and content supported it, and then the production of the website.

How did you come to work with Relish Studio?

I was doing a broad search of firms. We are based in Denver, like they are, but we were open to Denver based firms or folks elsewhere. They were recommended to us. Given the complexity of our product solution, I needed someone who could understand enough about predictive analytics and insurance to be able to help us simplify that message. It’s a big challenge, and we needed someone who had enough professional background and business acumen. I chose them over the other firms because I felt as a web development company, they had the right level of business acumen, and I really liked the way in which they organized projects. They take the time to learn about you and then walk you through a good, organized project management timeline. We just clicked.

How much have you invested with them?

The website redesign cost between $40,000 and $50,000. We have used them on an ongoing basis for various projects.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working together in 2015.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

Website traffic has trended up. We have increased visitors who come to the site and submit a form. So, from the known to the unknown visitors. For all of the key metrics, we saw improvement. Organic traffic, time on site, people registering and filling out forms and creating leads for us to nurture; we saw meaningful progress for all of those metrics that we outlined with them at the beginning. 

​​​​​​How did Relish Studio perform from a project management standpoint?

They’re outstanding. I highly recommend them. We communicate by phone, email, and since we’re local, we do get together in person from time to time.

What did you find most impressive about them?

I’ve worked with many web development firms over the years. Relish stands out in their ability to be a business partner and not just a tech development firm. They rise to the top for me with their understanding of how important that is. When picking a website provider, not everybody rises to that level.

Are there any areas they could improve?

Nothing comes to mind.

BACKGROUND

I am the Owner of Elevation Pet Care LLC

Pet care: walks, care visits and boarding

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

• Build and launch website for dog daycare/walking company
• Present marketing recommendations

SOLUTION

Other

Other

1 Employee

Set up a website that accurately describes my services and delivers my tone

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

N/A

Very timely. Project was done expediently

In-Person Meeting

Professionalism, attention to detail, attention to my needs

N/A

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the founder of The Backcountry Business Coach. I coach high achievers, often in natural settings, to understand their relationship with thought so they can discover their true center and live in strength from that point.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Relish Studio to accomplish for your coaching business?

We needed to modernize our website and update it with our current service offerings and locations.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

Relish Studio migrated our website to a more appropriate platform and reconfigured it to better represent our business model. They also redesigned the website with updated content and a more appropriate flow.

What is the team composition?

We worked with 2–5 teammates from Relish Studio.

How did you come to work with Relish Studio?

They were a referral.

What is the status of this engagement?

We worked together from September 2025–January 2026.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

Relish Studio presented all modifications in draft form prior to the due dates, and they completed all changes timely and accurately. We received several comments about the increased beauty and usability of the site.

How did Relish Studio perform from a project management standpoint?

Stu was very open about the status and options throughout the project. They met each deliverable along the way, throughout the release of the new site. We communicated via virtual meetings, email, and a messaging app.

What did you find most impressive about them?

It felt like we had a dedicated team of web designers who could identify exactly what we needed.

Are there any areas they could improve?

No, there weren’t any.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Director, Strategic Communications of Calibre Engineering

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Civil, Structural, and Whitewater Engineering

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Relish Studio to accomplish?

• Create a new website that reflects who we are as a company

SOLUTION

How did you find Relish Studio?

Worked with them before

Why did you select Relish Studio over others?

• High ratings
• Good value for cost
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from Relish Studio were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Website redesign

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Refreshed website that reflected our brand

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Bret and Stu are great project managers. They were very responsive and patient with our slowness. 

What was your primary form of communication with Relish Studio?

Virtual Meeting

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Responsive, thoughtful, quick to communicate

Are there any areas for improvement or something Relish Studio could have done differently?

The original project manger seemed to bottleneck much of the momentum. Once we were working directly with Stu and Bret, things progressed much more smoothly.