About
We read your proposals before we write a word.
Sageland is Leo Cooperband, a designer and Webflow developer, and a small team. We've built websites for newsrooms, tech companies and science startups, and now we build them for engineering firms, starting in Colorado.
Why engineering firms
Everyone uses the roads, water systems and buildings you design, and hardly anyone knows your name. We think it's some of the most important work there is.
Results
See the workYour next client finds you in search, often on a phone. Here's what we've done about speed and search for newsrooms and tech companies.
3×
faster loads on the slowest pages after our performance work
Notable Health
+25%
more traffic after the redesign
The San Francisco Standard
+40%
clicks from searches that didn't name the company, the month of our SEO fixes
Solace Health
Why “Sageland”
Sageland is sagebrush country, the open ground of the West that most people drive through without noticing what's there. A firm's best work is often like that, and the website is where people finally see it.
We fix the price up front
You know the cost before we start. It moves only if the scope does.
We're useful before you hire us
The teardown is free, and its fixes are yours either way.
We get your words right
We interview your engineers, and each one approves what we write about their work.
We hand over a site you can run
Your team can update it without calling us. On a care plan, we do it for you.
Who you'll work with
From 2022 to 2024 Leo was the designer at The San Francisco Standard, where the homepage redesign took first place for layout and design at the California Journalism Awards.
Before that came motion and graphic design at Collier.Simon. Since 2024, Leo has designed and built brands and websites for tech and science companies, including Codegen and Pasture Biosciences.
Leo studied Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts, with a minor in Design, at UC San Diego.
Recognition
- Webflow Awards 2025Web Experience of the Year, finalist
- California Journalism Awards1st place, Homepage Layout & Design (The San Francisco Standard)
- California Journalism Awards2nd place, Story Page Layout & Design (The San Francisco Standard)
Our team has built for
Work by Leo and the Akimbo team
Questions about Sageland
Who do you work with?
Engineering firms of 20 to 250 people, in any discipline. We're starting on Colorado's Front Range and work with firms anywhere.
Why only engineering firms?
Because we like the work and think it matters. And the website's job is specific: backing up your qualifications and competing for engineers. We'd rather be very good at that one job.
Will we have to explain engineering to you?
Less than you'd think. We study your SOQs and project sheets first, then interview your team for the details.
Do we need to be a certain size?
We're built for firms of 20 to 250 people. Without a marketing lead, we work with a principal directly.
How is an engineering firm's website different?
Public work is awarded on qualifications, so the site doesn't close the deal. It backs up your SOQ when clients look you up, and it recruits. We design for both.
What do you do, and what don't you?
We do websites: strategy, copy, design, build and upkeep, plus brand refreshes and project drawings when you need them. We don't do ads, leads or proposal writing.
Send us your website.
We'll read it as your next client would, and as the engineer you're trying to hire. Then we send three fixes within two business days. No pitch.
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