Stormborn

Startup built to carry a defence-grade product without sounding like a pitch.

Industry

Maritime Defence / Autonomous Systems

Service

Website Development

Website Builder

Webflow

Overview

Stormborn builds autonomous surface vessels that stay on station in open water for up to 365 days, giving offshore infrastructure and coastal waters round-the-clock surveillance without a crew.

We built their site from the ground up in Webflow — a platform that needed to hold two very different products (X-WAVE and SEAFENCE), speak to investors, defence buyers and maritime operators without diluting the message for any of them, and look as engineered as the hardware it's describing.

Webflow Build: built from zero — hero video, product configurator sections and mission-briefing CTA designed and shipped as one system.

Dual-Product Architecture: X-WAVE and SEAFENCE structured as distinct sections with their own logic, without splitting the site's authority in two.

Technical Credibility Design: dark, radar-inspired visual language that reads as engineering, not marketing.

Conversion Path: "Request mission briefing" replacing the usual "get a quote" — because that's how this audience actually buys.

The Challenge

For a company raising investment in autonomous defence technology, a good website is a must — investors, partners and procurement contacts had nowhere to send people, and no way to check the company out before a call.

The site needed to do more than exist. It had to look as engineered and credible as the hardware itself, explain a genuinely technical product to non-specialist investors in minutes.

Our Approach & Result

We started with research, not design — understanding how a defence and investment audience actually evaluates a company like Stormborn before deciding what the site needed to say.

Kick-off & Workshop: a structured session to pin down the audience, the proof points that matter to them, and what "credible" looks like in maritime defence — before any design work began.

Product Clarity at Scale: gave X-WAVE and SEAFENCE their own full sections — capability tiles, plain-English explanations of sensor fusion — so an investor doing five minutes of due diligence and a technical evaluator both leave understanding what the systems do.

Trust Signal Placement: backer logos, class-approval and sovereignty language, and deployment claims surfaced early — this audience checks credibility before capability.

Performance Score: “30 days post-launch”