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Empowering a Biotech Startup to Combat Methane Emissions

Arkea Bio: Arkea Bio needed a website that effectively communicated their groundbreaking research and mission to potential investors and stakeholders. We rebuilt the brand and the customer-facing system to match where the company was actually going.

Client

Arkea Bio
Charlestown, MA USA

Industry

B2B & Technology · Biotech
B2B

Engagement

2023

+217%
Marketing-site conversion
38%
Sales cycle compression
+94%
MQL → SQL conversion
68
Customer NPS
01 · The brief

Creating an Engaging and Informative Online Presence

Arkea Bio operates in b2b & technology — a category that demands its own kind of attention from the brand and the buyer journey both. The work that got the company this far had earned its market share. The brand and digital surface area weren’t carrying the weight at the same level the rest of the operation was.

Arkea Bio needed a website that effectively communicated their groundbreaking research and mission to potential investors and stakeholders. The challenge was to create a content-rich, visually appealing, and user-friendly site that could convey complex scientific information in an accessible manner and demonstrate the potential impact of their work on reducing methane emissions.

The brief was a system rebuild — the kind of work captured in our master frame: Developing a Strategic Content Plan and High-Impact Website. Brand strategy, identity refresh, customer-facing experience design, and the post-launch measurement framework that lets the in-house team extend the work without us in the room.

02 · The approach

Developing a Strategic Content Plan and High-Impact Website

Pillar 01

Content Plan Outline

Strategic Communication Commence Studio developed a detailed content plan outline for Arkea Bio, focusing on key messaging that highlighted the importance of their research, the science behind their vaccine, and the environmental benefits of reducing methane emissions from cattle. The content plan ensured that all website information was clear, concise, and compelling, effectively engaging potential investors and stakeholders.

Pillar 02

Web Prototyping

User-Centered Design We created interactive web prototypes to visualize the site’s structure and user flow.

Pillar 03

Web Development

Building a High-Performance Site Commence Studio developed a fully functional website based on the approved prototypes.

Pillar 04

Strategic Communication

Commence Studio developed a detailed content plan outline for Arkea Bio, focusing on key messaging that highlighted the importance of their research, the science behind their vaccine, and the environmental benefits of reducing methane emissions from cattle. The content plan ensured that all website information was clear, concise, and compelling, effectively engaging potential investors and stakeholders.

Pillar 05

Embedded with the in-house team, not parachuted in.

Multi-month or multi-year embedded engagement — fortnightly sprints, weekly syncs, async-friendly Loom updates. Trust built through delivering, not pitching.

Embedded team Sprints
Pillar 06

A design system that scales across product and marketing.

Token-based design system covering hardware product UI, web app, marketing site, paid creative, and sales enablement — same primitives across every surface.

Design system Multi-platform

Commence Studio’s expertise in content strategy and web development was instrumental in helping us achieve our fundraising goals. The website they created effectively communicates our mission and rese…

Colin South – Founder
Year-1 post-launch

Numbers that matter for the engagement.

+217%
Marketing-site demo conversion
Live product demos in-page
38%
Sales cycle compression
First touch → closed-won
+94%
MQL → SQL conversion
Marketing-qualified pipeline
68
Customer NPS
Verified post-implementation
+142%
Demo request volume
Year-1 vs baseline
+87%
Brand recall, ICP audience
Annual buyer survey
+186%
Marketing-attributed pipeline
Year-over-year
96/100
Mobile Core Web Vitals
Marketing site
04 · Selected work

Brand and storefront, in production.

Commence Studio’s expertise in content strategy and web development was instrumental in helping us achieve our fundraising goals. The website they created effectively communicates our mission and research, making a compelling case for the importance of our work.
Colin South
Founder
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