nscl // 2024 ─ ∞ a two-person engineering studio
building sites with the rigor of software
london, uk · ↘ remote 51.5074° n   0.1278° w

Engineered  websites  that  compound.

We design and ship websites the way good engineers build software ─ versioned, tested, measurably fast, and obsessed with detail. No drag-and-drop.

98
// lighthouse perf, average
12
// projects shipped, 2024 ─ 26
Custom front-end engineering
Performance-first architecture
Editorial-grade design
CMS & commerce systems
Motion & interaction design
Custom front-end engineering
Performance-first architecture
Editorial-grade design
CMS & commerce systems
Motion & interaction design
01 / craft

We build the small handful of websites we'd be proud to show our peers.

// 01↗

Marketing & brand sites

Editorial layouts, considered typography, and motion that actually means something. Built fresh, never templated, optimized to within a millisecond.

Astro Next.js Sanity GSAP
// 02↗

Web applications

Internal tools, dashboards, and customer portals. Real auth, real data, real-time where it counts. Type-safe end to end.

React tRPC Postgres Drizzle
// 03↗

Commerce & CMS

Headless commerce that loads instantly and converts hard. Editor experiences that don't make your team hate Mondays.

Shopify Hydrogen Payload Stripe Algolia
02 / selected work

Three recent projects, picked carefully.

Meridian Capital · 2025 · Financial Services

A 30-year fund's
first digital chapter.

Meridian needed a marketing surface that could speak to institutional LPs without looking like a 2008 PowerPoint. We built a quietly typographic site with live fund telemetry, a streaming insights system, and a portal handoff signed in under 600ms.

Next.js · App Router tRPC Sanity Recharts Vercel Edge
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●meridiancapital.com
Meridian
MarketsStrategyPortfolioInsights
Investor login
Q4 2025 letter · Now reading

Wealth, considered
across decades.

A multi-strategy fund built around long-horizon conviction and quiet rigor. £2.4Bn under management since 1994.

Net IRR · since inception
14.6%
▲ +218 bps  vs benchmark
Fund vs MSCI · 10ynav
AUM
£2.41B
+8.4% YoY
Vintages
14
since 1994
Sharpe
1.42
Max DD
−9.1%
Vol
11.3%
LPs
38
●plume.studio
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● Live  ·  v3.0 just launched

All your channels.
One canvas.

Schedule, draft and analyze across 9 networks from a single, ridiculously beautiful workspace.

@northstar
+412%
scheduled
14 posts
this week
14
reels
2.1m
replies
avg time
3m 12s
98%
@launch
going live
thursday 9am
live
drafts
7 ready
to review
07
followers
+6.4k
engagement
trending
upward
8.9%
Plume · 2025 · Social media SaaS

A workspace that
behaves like good design feels.

Plume came to us with a serious product and a tired website. We delivered a marketing site, app shell, and design system that move in lockstep. Animations are gesture-driven, data is streamed, and the whole thing weighs less than a single hero image on the old site.

React Motion Tailwind Supabase Cloudflare Workers
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Loam Coffee · 2024 · Specialty coffee

A neighbourhood roaster, scaled gently.

Two cafés in East London, a small subscription, and a quiet ambition to do this properly. We built a Shopify-headless storefront with grind-ready PDPs, a story-led origins map, and an in-store iPad ordering surface ─ all sharing one design system.

Astro Shopify Hydrogen Sanity View Transitions
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●loamcoffee.co
Loam.
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Bag · 2
Spring lot · Just landed

Origin matters.
So does the
roast.

Single-origin lots, traceable down to the wet mill, roasted in small batches every Tuesday in Hackney Wick.

Shop beans
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Yirgacheffe
£18.50
250g · light roast
floral · bergamot · honey
Kenya
Kirinyaga
£17
blackcurrant, brown sugar
Colombia
Huila
£16
cocoa, plum, walnut
Brazil
Daterra
£15
caramel, almond, milk choc
House
Loam Blend
£14
balanced everyday espresso
03 / studio

Two people, effective tools ─ you'll work with the people who know the code.

// founder 01 design + front-end
$ deploy ─ production › bundle 84.2kb gzip › lcp 0.92s · cls 0.00 ✓ shipped 18:42 GMT M.C / 01

Max Covington

Max leads design and front-end. Three years building interfaces ─ award winning junior computer scientist.

DisciplineDesign ↘ FE
Years coding5+
SpecialismEditorial · motion · perf
Quote"Make it boring to maintain."
// founder 02 systems + back-end
$ db query → idx scan › returned 1,204 rows › p95 8.4ms · cache hit ✓ migration 014 ok N.M / 02

Nathan Meyohas

Nathan owns the systems side. Started writing software at 8, 8 years building back-ends and infra. Type-safe, observability-obsessed, never flaky.

DisciplineSystems ↘ BE
Years coding8+
SpecialismAPIs · infra · data
Quote"Slow is a bug."
04 / process

One to Five weeks.your standard.

phase 01 · w1
Discovery & strategy

We learn the business, the audience, and the constraints. We surface the one thing the website actually has to do.

phase 02 · w1─2
Design prototypes

No mood boards. We design directly in the browser, in code. You see real motion, real type, real performance from day three.

phase 03 · w2─3
Engineering build

Type-safe end to end, version-controlled, automatically tested. Reviewed in a staging environment you can poke at any time.

phase 04 · w4
Launch & aftercare

Go-live with monitoring, real-user metrics, and a 30-day window of free polish. Then a clean handover or an ongoing retainer.

05 / contact

Let's build
something good.

Email
sales@northscale.dev
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Phone
+44 7752 126 859
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Web
northscale.dev
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availability
Booking projects from June 2026
We take on two projects a month, no more. If you'd like one of those slots, send us an email.
based
London, UK ─ working with founders and teams across Europe and North America.