Nymbus · About · Oakland, CA
Nymbus is one person, start to finish.
Nymbus is my founder-led studio in Oakland, working with appointment-based local businesses across the East Bay. The person who scopes your project is the person who builds it, and that is me. Here is how that works in practice, and what I will not promise you.
Who I am
A founder-led studio in Oakland.
I am Kyle Gerome, a web designer, SEO specialist and ads manager. I scope the project, build it, and answer the email six months later. That is the whole pitch: no account manager relaying instructions to a production team, and no template with your logo dropped into it.
Local, actually
Based in Oakland and working across the East Bay. For most projects that means I can sit down with you in person, look at the same screen, and hear how customers actually describe what you do.
One playbook, repeated
Get found in local search, look worth the price, make booking frictionless. Med spas, barbershops, and service businesses all win on the same mechanics, which is why the same approach keeps working.
Honest about what I cannot control
Rankings, click prices, and how fast a market moves are not mine to promise. What I control is the site, the structure, the profile, and whether the numbers are being measured at all.
How I work
The process, start to finish.
- A 15-minute call. You describe the business and where customers fall off. I tell you honestly whether I can help and roughly what it would take. No deck.
- Audit and scope. Current site, Google Business Profile, and the searches that drive calls in your category. That produces a page list and a fixed quote.
- Build. Design and development, mobile-first, static, with the booking path and conversion tracking wired in rather than bolted on later.
- Launch. Redirects, sitemap, structured data, and Search Console in place from day one so the work is measurable.
- Ongoing, if it makes sense. Some clients stay on a monthly retainer for SEO, content, and Google Ads. Some launch and run it themselves. Both are fine.
Proof
Selected work.
Four projects, four different problems.
A bilingual medspa site, local SEO, and Google Ads on an ongoing retainer.
Premium services presented like a commodity, a buried credential, and half the local market unable to read the site.
$4,400 in one week
A custom site and local SEO foundation that tripled bookings.
No discoverability, no information architecture, no conversion path.
Bookings tripled
Conversion-first design and local SEO in a high-intent category.
High-intent searches with no results, and a trust gap to close before anyone would call.
Revenue from search alone
Brand assets, event collateral, and merchandise for a nonprofit founded in 1986.
Vectorised a legacy logo, designed the collateral, and coordinated production for the pop-up.
Brand to print to pop-up
What I believe
Three opinions that shape every project.
A website is evidence, not decoration. Someone deciding where to spend several hundred dollars reads your site as proof that you are worth it. Typography, spacing, and whose face is on the page do more of that work than any feature list. A template says the business is interchangeable with every other business using the same template.
Measurement is not optional. If nobody can say which pages produce calls, every decision after launch is a guess, including how much to spend on ads. Conversion tracking and Search Console go in at launch, not when someone finally asks for a report.
Say the honest thing early. Rankings, click prices, and how fast a market moves are outside anyone’s control, and pretending otherwise just moves the disappointment later. If a project is not a good fit, the first call is the cheapest place to find that out, for both of us.
Questions
Straight answers.
Who will I actually be working with?
Me. Nymbus is founder-led, so the person who scopes the project is the person who builds it and the person you email six months later.
What kind of businesses do you work with?
Appointment-based local businesses in the East Bay: med spas, salons and barbershops, and independent service businesses. Enough overlap between projects that the playbook keeps getting sharper.
What do you not do?
I do not rebuild businesses on proprietary page builders, I do not force a platform migration to make my life easier, and I do not promise rankings or lead volumes that nobody can control.
Where are you based?
Oakland, CA, working with businesses across the East Bay: Berkeley, Richmond, Concord, Walnut Creek, Pleasant Hill, and Fremont. Close enough to sit down with you in person.
What I do: web design, local SEO, Google Ads and Meta Ads.
Start with a conversation.
No pitch deck, no pressure. Tell me about the business and where customers fall off, and I’ll tell you honestly whether I can help. Or email kyle@bynymbus.com.