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All work/Growth · 2024
06A boutique hospitality brand with 14 properties
Live · Hospitality

Driftwood Co.From 12% direct to 41% direct in nine months.

Year2024TrackGrowthSprint10 weeks + retainerShapeLead + growth + designIndustryHospitality
Driftwood Co.
DW · GrowthNext 16 · Sanity · Klaviyo
41%direct bookings
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The case study

From a 90-day windowto a body of work.

A complete booking funnel, lifecycle, and SEO rebuild that cut OTA dependence in half. Same revenue, half the commissions, healthier margins across the chain. Below is the long version — the brief, the approach, and the numbers we put on the wall after launch.

Driftwood's 14 properties were 88% dependent on OTAs, and the OTA commission was quietly eating the renovation budget. SEO was an afterthought and CRM was a spreadsheet.

We rebuilt the booking funnel, the lifecycle, and the SEO foundation in a single sprint. Editorial became a system, the brand campaign a cadence, and direct a habit.

From 12% to 41% direct in nine months. Same revenue, half the commissions, and a brand people can actually name.

The build

Inside the product.A clickable tour.

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The receipts

Numbers, not adjectives.

Four metrics the client agreed to put on the wall. Verified internally before the launch, verified again at the 90-day mark.

010%direct bookings
020momonths shipped
030%OTA commissions
040properties live
The stack

Tools, chosen on purpose.

Every technology on the list earned its place in the build — chosen for the constraint, not the trend.

01Next 16
02Sanity
03Klaviyo
04Stripe
05Algolia
How we ran it

Four pillars,one crew.

Strategy

We sat with their team, walked every existing flow, and wrote the brief on day three.

Design system

A small, opinionated component set the whole team could ship from on day one.

Engineering

Senior crew, weekly demos, real test coverage, and a deploy pipeline the team kept after handoff.

Launch + handoff

Monitored for two weeks post-launch, then handed the keys over with a runbook the team could read in a coffee.

Awwwards · SOTD × 4CSS Design Awards · Best UIClutch · Top 1% GlobalDribbble · Featured StudioFWA · Site of the Day

The new funnel pays the design team's salary. Twice.

Sasha Lin · COO, Driftwood Co.— on the launch, in their own words
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