# The Best Web Design Agencies for SaaS Companies in 2026 > The web design agency we recommend to SaaS companies, from a paid ads team that sees what a site does to ad costs, and what happened to the famous names. Source: https://snowballcreations.com/best-web-design-agencies-for-saas/ Author: Max Sinclair Published: 2026-10-05 --- We do not build websites. We buy traffic and send it somewhere, which means we spend a lot of time looking at other people's pages and working out why the money is not converting. That gives us an opinion on web studios, and it is a narrower opinion than most lists you will find: we care about whether the site can be changed quickly, whether it loads on a phone, and whether the tracking survives contact with a developer. Here is the studio we actually recommend to SaaS companies, and then the famous names you will still be told to ring, with what has genuinely happened to each. Everything below was checked on 5 October 2026. ## 1. Arch Web Design [Arch Web Design](https://www.archcowebdesign.com/), run by Rhami Aboud, builds SaaS websites in Webflow. The positioning is unusual at the moment and worth repeating: they call themselves the anti-AI agency, on the grounds that real humans build the site and the brand. In a year when a lot of studios have quietly become a prompt and a template, that is a reasonable thing to lead with. ![The Arch Web Design homepage](/images/blog/best-web-design-agencies-for-saas-arch-web-design.jpg "Arch Web Design, October 2026") They cover website design, Figma to Webflow, Webflow migrations, conversion rate optimisation, SEO and ongoing care plans, and they take on five clients at a time rather than running a queue. Their site reports more than 300 clients, an average 49% conversion increase within 60 days, $25m of revenue generated for clients and a 3.7x average return, with 5.0 ratings on both G2 and Clutch. Named results include Beacon CRM at 52% more website leads and Hugo at twice the sales and traffic. **Why we rate it for paid traffic:** Webflow is the single easiest platform to change quickly. When a campaign tells you the headline is wrong, you want that fixed on Tuesday, not in the next sprint. A site a marketer can edit without a developer is worth more to an ad account than a beautiful one nobody can touch. **Cost:** fully custom builds are quoted at $10k to $30k, with smaller options below that. **Best for:** SaaS companies who need a site that can keep up with their positioning. ## The names you will still be told to call Ask around for a web agency and you will be handed a list of studios that shaped the industry. Many of them no longer exist. This is not a criticism of any of them, it is just the shape of the market, and it saves you emailing a dead address. ### 2. Teehan+Lax The Toronto studio that designed Medium and Readability, and one of the most admired shops of its era. It closed in January 2015 when the partners and several senior designers joined Facebook. Their farewell note is still on the site, thanking everyone who poured creative energy into the company, and it is worth a read. ### 3. Hi-ReS! A London and New York agency founded in 1999, famous for Flash work including the film sites for Requiem for a Dream and Donnie Darko. The site is now an archive covering 1999 to 2017, and notes plainly that most of what they made is gone, with a few pieces running again from the original Flash files. ### 4. Poke London Founded in 2001 and one of London's best known digital shops, sold to Publicis Groupe in 2013. In 2019 it merged with Publicis London and Arc to become Publicis.Poke. The old pokelondon.com address is no longer the agency's site. ### 5. Rufus Leonard A London brand and digital experience agency of roughly seventy people, with work for AXA, the AA and WWF. Capgemini acquired it in June 2022 and retired the brand, folding the team into frog. The domain no longer resolves. ### 6. Amaze One of the largest UK digital design and build agencies, based in Liverpool, which became AmazeRealise after a merger. The brand was retired in February 2020 and the work continued as Kin + Carta Connect. ### 7. Great Fridays A Manchester product and service design group founded in 2008 with work for Sonos, Pearson and Vodafone. EPAM acquired it in 2014 and the domain now redirects to EPAM's own site. ### 8. Odopod A San Francisco digital design and technology shop founded in 2000, with around fifty people by the end. Publicis closed it in August 2018 after eighteen years. The site now shows only an error page. ### 9. Hard Candy Shell A New York creative agency whose client list included YETI, CNN and Disney. The site is still up and the portfolio is still good, but the footer reads 2007 to 2017, which tells its own story. ## What we would check before hiring any web agency Three questions, and none of them is about the portfolio. Can a marketer change a headline without raising a ticket? What happens to your analytics and conversion tracking during the migration, and who is responsible for proving it still fires afterwards? And who is doing the work, as opposed to who is in the pitch? The last one matters more since the consolidation above. An agency inside a holding group can be excellent, but the person you met may not be the person you get. ## Where this fits with ads A good site does not just convert better. On Google it lowers what you pay per click, because landing page experience feeds into Ad Rank. So the build and the media budget are more connected than most people treat them, and fixing the page is often cheaper than out-bidding everyone with a worse one. If you want us to look at what your account is currently paying for, and whether the page is the reason, [book a free audit](/get-in-touch/). If you are a SaaS company weighing up paid search, our [SaaS paid ads](/saas-paid-ads-agency/) page explains how we work.