A working session with clients around the studio table
Nairobi serving businesses across Kenya
About Northline

A studio built to be the team we couldn't hire

Northline Studio started with a simple frustration: businesses here could buy a logo in one place, ads in another and advice in a third, and none of the three ever talked to each other.

So we built the studio we wished existed. Design and marketing at the same desk, strategy before spend, and reporting a business owner can read at 11pm on a phone. Founder-led, deliberately small, and picky about the work we take on, and built for growing businesses across Kenya.

The name is the promise: a north line is the line you check your bearings against. Design that points north: every choice measured against where your business is actually trying to go.

How we think

The compass we work by

Four commitments that shape every project, whether it is a logo or a full marketing engine.

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Precise

Work is measured twice before it ships. Type, pixels, budgets and reports all get the same care. Details are the product.

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Premium

We would rather do fewer things beautifully than everything adequately. Your brand should look like it charges what it charges.

iii.

Quietly confident

A navigator's calm, not a startup's noise. We show numbers instead of adjectives and let the results raise their voice.

iv.

Yours

Accounts, files and campaigns belong to you from day one. We keep clients by earning them, never by holding work hostage.

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Senior studio, from first sketch to launch
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Disciplines under one roof: brand, content, ads
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Senior-crafted work, no juniors, no outsourcing
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KSh for website, hosting and domain, in one price
Practice what we sell

Our own marketing runs on the same engine

  • This site is the portfolio

    Designed, written and built in-house, the same way we would build yours.

  • Our pipeline is automated

    Content production, QA and publishing run through the same systems we set up for clients, so we know they work at 3am, not just in the pitch deck.

  • Phone-first, always

    Everything we ship is tested on a 6-inch screen in dim light first, because that is where your customers actually are.

Reviewing live campaign dashboards in the studio
Founder-led independent and proud of it
Work with us

Let's point your brand north

A short chat on WhatsApp is the easiest way to find out if we fit. Bring the problem; we will bring an honest read on it.

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