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Northbridge Consulting

Corporate Website

Northbridge Consulting is a corporate website for a strategy firm, built on the position that clarity is more persuasive than jargon. Every page works toward one event: the first meeting.

Designed & developed by Entrovix

Year
2024
Discipline
Professional ServicesContent DesignEngineering
Services
Content StrategyUX/UI DesignFront-end EngineeringCMS Architecture
Built with
Next.jsTypeScriptSanity CMSVercel

The Challenge

Credibility is not a vocabulary

Consulting websites are written to impress other consultants. Frameworks, capability matrices, an insights section stocked with abstraction — everything except a plain statement of what the firm would do about the problem a visitor actually has.

One event justifies the whole site: the first meeting. The brief treated every page as a step toward that meeting, which meant credibility had to come from clarity rather than from the sector's shared jargon.

The Approach

How we worked

  1. Write the site before designing it

    The headline, the practice descriptions and the sector strip were drafted as prose first. Writing is the design material on a site like this; the layout exists to give good sentences room.

  2. Structure by the question, not the org chart

    Practice pages open with the situation a reader is in — an operating model that no longer fits, growth that has stalled — and only then explain how the firm works on it.

  3. Insights as evidence

    The insights card exists to show how the firm thinks, not to fill a content calendar. One good piece of reasoning earns more trust than a feed of ten.

  4. Authority in the typography

    A serif wordmark, an oversized two-line headline and a disciplined ivory-and-navy palette carry the seniority. Nothing on the page raises its voice.

The Solution

Plain sentences, given room

The homepage opens with a serif wordmark and a two-line headline that states, in ordinary words, what the firm does and for whom. Below it, two practice cards — operating model, growth strategy — each framed as the question a reader brought with them.

An architectural photograph sets the register without decoration, an insights card shows the firm's reasoning in public, and a sector strip answers “do they know my industry” in a single quiet line.

Inside the product

What it actually does

The Outcome

What it settled

  • Every page works toward one event: the first meeting
  • Practice pages open from the reader's situation, not the firm's methodology
  • Writing treated as the primary design material
  • Ivory and navy held to a discipline the firm can maintain

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