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Cornwall's independent
businesses have built more
than the world gets to see.
businesses have built more
than the world gets to see.
We're here to
change that.
change that.
Cornwall·Research-first creative work·Est. 2026·
SEE THE RESEARCH
The Research
The map grows every week.
The gap it shows has been there for years.
The Cornwall Independent Business Index
The index grows every week.
New businesses, new towns, new findings — sent directly as the research happens. One email per week. No marketing.
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Research subscription, not a marketing list. Unsubscribe any time.
The difference research makes.
Work with us.
One service.
Start where the gap is biggest.
Website, social, copy, or strategy — whichever discipline needs addressing first. Research-first approach applied to a single service, scoped around your specific situation.
Most businesses start here.
Pricing on conversation.
Where would your business sit on that map?
Critical Gap
Your digital presence significantly understates what you've built.
Underutilised
You have presence but it isn't working hard enough.
Benchmark
You're doing it well and want to maintain or extend it.
All four services.
The complete picture.
Website, social, copy, and strategy built as one integrated approach. Research done once, applied across everything. No silos, no inconsistency, nothing missed.
Research done once, used everywhere.
Priced around your specific situation.
What do your best customers say about you that doesn't appear anywhere online?
FOUNDING PARTNERS
Everything,
from the start.
Three slots available
Priced around your specific situation.
Conversation first. No obligation.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Website design & copy
Social media content
Marketing materials
Advisory & strategy
3 months ongoing support
Research-first throughout
HOW IT WORKS
01
We have a conversation. Understand your business, your situation, what needs to change.
02
We do the research. Your customers, your competitors, your market. What's missing and why.
03
We build everything around what we find — and show you the research before a single thing gets built. You know exactly why every decision was made.
Before our first client, we spent 8 weeks documenting 50 businesses across Cornwall. That's the standard we hold ourselves to.
WHY BE A FOUNDING PARTNER?
You shape the work.
As one of the first three clients, you have direct influence over how we work together. Not fitting a template — building it.
Founding rate locked permanently.
The rate you join at doesn't change for ongoing work. Early clients get the best pricing we'll ever offer.
Three months, fully supported.
Not handed off after delivery. Three months of refinement, adjustments, and strategic input — included as standard, not an add-on.
Our reputation depends on you.
A new studio has everything to prove. That means more focus, more care, and more investment in making your project undeniable.
You've seen what we found. The question now is what we'd find for you.
Not first-come-first-served. We'll have a conversation first to make sure it's the right fit for both sides.
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We'll be in touch within 24 hours to arrange a conversation.
Verne Studio
We started by researching Cornwall's independent businesses before we had a single client. We'll bring the same approach — the same questions, the same weeks, the same rigour — to yours.
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Verne Studio is Rory Wathern, based in Truro, Cornwall.
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