Founders keep getting handed the same two bad options: pay enterprise rates for enterprise bureaucracy, or go cheap and become the project manager for five freelancers who've never spoken to each other. Sakura is what we built instead — one accountable team, priced for a startup, run like an agency.
Sakura — cherry blossom — blooms on a schedule nature doesn't negotiate with. We liked the discipline in that: launching a product isn't about moving fast for its own sake, it's about being genuinely ready when the moment comes.
Founders building a real product — not a placeholder site — and established teams whose processes have outgrown spreadsheets and manual work. If you need a single vendor who can take an idea through design and development, or automate the busywork an existing team is stuck doing by hand, that's the project we're built for.
Track record
We've never had an office to route a project through, so where a client sits has never been the deciding factor — the map below is simply where the work has gone. Hover a country, or pick one from the list, to see how many clients we've worked with there.
Since 2020, across every service we offer.
Most of them came back for a second project.
Five continents, one distributed team.
Sakura runs as a focused core team of 24 plus specialists brought in per discipline, distributed across time zones — you get senior attention on your project, not a junior assigned after the sales call.
We're not one office in one city. Our designers, engineers, and strategists are based in different parts of the world — so the team already knows how to hand off work across time zones and keep a project moving instead of stalling overnight. That's how the work has reached 30 countries so far: wherever you're building from, no country is too far for a remote-first team.
The team
Big enough to cover design, engineering, SEO, marketing, and automation without subcontracting the hard parts — small enough that the people below are the same people who work on your project. These are the leads you'll actually talk to.
Anya Volkova
Founder & Product Lead
Lisbon
Marcus Reid
Design Director
Toronto
Yusuf Demir
Engineering Lead
Istanbul
Sofia Lindqvist
Brand & Motion
Stockholm
Rahul Mehta
SEO & Growth
Bengaluru
Nour Haddad
Digital Marketing
Dubai
Kenji Watanabe
AI & Automation
Osaka
Elena Costa
Delivery & Client Partner
Warsaw
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Sakura has been running since 2020 — long enough that the process on this page is what we actually do, not what we plan to do once we've hired for it.
2020
Sakura starts as a design-and-build duo plus a developer, with a single rule: one accountable team per project, never a relay of freelancers.
2021
Engineering moves in-house so design hand-offs stop being someone else's problem. First clients outside Europe sign on.
2022
The team goes fully distributed across time zones — async updates and weekly checkpoints become the standard process, not an exception.
2023
Launch stops being the finish line. Retainers for SEO and marketing turn one-off builds into multi-year client relationships.
2024
A dedicated practice for custom agents and workflow automation, built for teams drowning in work that shouldn't be manual.
2026
Six years in: 100+ projects shipped, clients on five continents, and the same rule the first three people started with.
| Corporate Agency | Freelancers | Sakura | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accountability | Diffused across account layers | None — you're the project manager | One team, one contact |
| Speed | Slow, bureaucratic | Fast, but fragile | Fast, structured |
| Pricing | High, rigid | Low, unpredictable | Scoped, fixed |
| Process | Opaque | Improvised | Documented, weekly |
Freelancers improvise as they go. Big agencies hide the process behind account managers who relay everything third-hand. Here's exactly what happens, in order, before you sign anything.
You tell us what you're building, for whom, and why. 15–30 minutes, async or on a call — whatever's faster for you.
You provide: Goals, rough scope, any existing materials.
You get: A same-week response with initial questions or a proposal date.
We turn your brief into a fixed scope, timeline, and quote. No hourly-rate ambiguity — you know the number before work starts.
You provide: Answers to any scoping questions.
You get: A written proposal with deliverables, milestones, and price.
Work happens in weekly cycles you can see — not a single reveal at the end. Design and development run in parallel once the direction is approved.
You provide: Feedback at each checkpoint (usually weekly).
You get: A live staging link updated as we build, not static decks.
Pre-launch QA, performance checks, and a go-live checklist — technical SEO, analytics, and monitoring are in place before, not after, you're live.
You provide: Final sign-off.
You get: A launched product, plus a handoff doc covering everything we built.
Launch is the start of the data, not the end of the project. SEO and marketing continue based on real user behavior, not launch-day assumptions.
You provide: Ongoing goals as they evolve.
You get: Monthly reporting and a standing plan for what's next.
There's no pricing table on this page, and that's intentional. A landing page and a two-sided marketplace shouldn't cost the same — and any agency quoting you a flat number before understanding your project is guessing.
The number comes from the same Brief → Proposal steps covered in the process above — most proposals go out within 2–3 business days of a completed brief.
We re-scope the affected piece and tell you the cost and timeline impact before proceeding — never a surprise on the final invoice.
Async updates by default, with overlapping-hours calls scheduled around your time zone, not just ours — our own team is distributed across time zones too, so this isn't new for us.
Revisions are built into every stage — we'd rather adjust early than have you discover it at delivery.
We're set up for early-stage builds, not enterprise minimums — tell us your scope and we'll tell you honestly if we're the right fit.
Yes, a portion upfront to begin, with the remainder tied to milestones — never 100% before work starts.
Yes — this is the default structure, not an exception.
Tell us the number. We'll either scope a version that fits it or tell you directly if it's not enough for what you're describing — no false promises either way.
Yes, for SEO, marketing, and continued development — scoped separately once you know what post-launch support you need.
