About Launch ForgeAmsterdam · 1999
ABOUT
Since 1999. Still answering the phone.
We started building websites when most companies were still deciding whether they needed one. Twenty-seven years later we are 62 people in Amsterdam doing branding, webdesign, SEO and ads under one roof.
27+Years on the web
62People in the team
04Disciplines under one roof
01Project lead per client
The studio01
Big enough to do it all. Small enough to know your name.
Most agencies sell you one discipline and pass you on for the rest. We built the opposite: brand, web, search and ads in one building, planned together, with one project lead you can call.
We have watched the web go from dial-up to AI search. We have kept what works, dropped what does not, and stayed in Amsterdam the whole time.
Our story02
Twenty-seven years in six chapters.
From a three-person studio and a dial-up modem to a team of 62 working across four disciplines.
1999 · Chapter 1 of 6
Founded in Amsterdam
A small studio building websites for companies that were still deciding whether they needed one.
2006 · Chapter 2 of 6
Brand joins the web
Clients kept asking who should design their logo. We hired the people who could.
2011 · Chapter 3 of 6
Mobile changes everything
We rebuilt our process around small screens before most of our clients had asked.
2016 · Chapter 4 of 6
Search and ads in-house
Beautiful sites that nobody visited were not good enough. SEO and paid media joined the team.
2021 · Chapter 5 of 6
One team, four disciplines
Branding, webdesign, SEO and ads, planned together under one project lead.
2026 · Chapter 6 of 6
62 people and counting
Same city, same habit of picking up the phone. A lot more experience behind it.
The team03
62 people. Each one a specialist.
Big enough to cover brand, build, search and ads in-house. Small enough that your project lead knows everyone who touches your work.
06StrategyPositioning, research and the brief behind every brand.
16DesignIdentity, interface and motion, all designed in-house.
20DevelopmentFast, accessible builds on platforms your team can run.
08SEOTechnical, content and authority work that compounds.
07AdsPaid search and social, tuned every week.
05Project leadsOne name, one inbox, one phone number for your project.
How we communicate04
Four rules we do not break.
Most agency problems are communication problems. So we made communication the one thing we never compromise on.
01
One point of contact
Your project lead runs the whole project. One name, one inbox, one phone number.
02
A written update every Friday
What we did, what is next, what we need from you. Five minutes to read.
03
Plain language
If we cannot explain a decision without jargon, we have not thought it through.
04
Bad news early
Delays and risks are flagged the day we see them, with a plan attached.
Culture05
We hire people who explain things well.
Senior people who like teaching, juniors who ask good questions, and a habit of eating lunch together. Clients feel the difference, because everyone on your project can tell you what they are doing and why.
How we think
“We would rather lose a pitch than promise a result we cannot measure.”
Launch Forge studio, Amsterdam
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