What Tinloof does

Tinloof is a privately held design and development agency founded in 2020 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany. The company operates as a fully remote studio with 25+ team members distributed across 10+ countries, organized into multi-disciplinary pods that combine type designers, illustrators, motion designers, design engineers, and backend engineers. Tinloof is managed by two managing directors, Seif Eddine Ghezala and Omar Benseddik, and operates without dedicated project managers, with team members owning client relationships and delivery end-to-end.

The agency's service offering spans three integrated disciplines: Branding (strategy, visual identity, motion identity, brand systems), Design (web, mobile app, and user interface design via Figma with strong typography and motion emphasis), and Engineering (Next.js frontend, Sanity CMS implementation, headless Shopify and Medusa commerce, Cloudflare Workers edge rendering, and performance optimization). Notable technical assets include a Zero-Downtime Migration Framework for Webflow-to-Next.js/Sanity migrations, a Smart Prefetching Strategy based on viewport and cursor proximity, a Custom Visual Editing Layer for headless Shopify storefronts, and the Munchies open-source reference B2C storefront. The agency has authored official Sanity plugins (Sanity Amplitude Plugin, Sanity Mux Input) and is listed in Vercel's Solution Partners Directory.

Tinloof generates revenue through professional services engagements billed on a freelance or project basis, with no disclosed retainer or productized subscription offerings. Pricing signals indicate senior freelance rates of $6,000-6,500/month for full-time-equivalent roles. The client base spans enterprise brands across fashion (Pritch, Jennifer Fisher, Enroute, Mario Testino), sportswear and sports organizations (Helly Hansen, FC Basel), finance and fintech (Ramp, Brex, Wayflyer, Zego, Brevo, Vivenu), and technology (Vercel, Sanity, Mux, Ableton, Watershed, Tessl, Optro, Pika, ARC Prize, Omnist, FastHTML, Flying Blue, Zuru). Go-to-market relies on portfolio case studies, organic social presence on Instagram, LinkedIn, and X, and inbound initiated through demonstrated work rather than paid marketing or dedicated sales staff.

Name

Tinloof

Legal name

Tinloof

Website

https://tinloof.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Tinloof is a Berlin-headquartered, fully remote design and development agency building brands, websites, and headless commerce platforms for enterprise clients across fashion, fintech, sports, and technology using Next.js, Sanity, and Cloudflare Workers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Berlin

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Design and Development Services: Professional services engagements including branding, visual identity, motion design, web design, frontend engineering, and full-stack development. Projects billed on a freelance or project basis.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Tinloof is a design and development agency that builds brand identities and high-performance websites for businesses. The firm's core work spans branding and visual identity, UX/UI design, and full-stack web engineering using Next.js, React, Sanity CMS, and headless commerce platforms such as Shopify. Engagements typically cover strategy, design, development, and launch of content-driven websites and storefronts.

Product overview

Tinloof is a design and development agency offering three core service lines: Branding, Design, and Engineering. The agency specializes in creating visual identities, websites, mobile apps, and e-commerce experiences for clients across fashion, sportswear, finance, and technology sectors. Their engineering practice includes web performance optimization, headless commerce implementations, and infrastructure scaling. As an open-source reference project, they developed Munchies — a reusable B2C storefront demonstrating dynamic, globally fast e-commerce without traditional Shopify dependencies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Branding Services Brand strategy and visual identity services for companies that need to define or refresh how they present themselves in digital and physical channels. Deliverables typically include logo, typography, color, and a design system that downstream marketing and product work can build on.
• Web Design Services UX and UI design for marketing websites and commerce storefronts, intended for brand and product teams that want a high-quality, performance-driven digital presence.
• Web Engineering Services Full-stack development of websites and headless storefronts on the Next.js, React, Sanity, and Shopify stack, including deployment to Cloudflare and AWS infrastructure.
• Munchies Reference Storefront An open-source Next.js starter that demonstrates how to build a headless commerce storefront with Sanity CMS, Shopify, and modern tooling, used to showcase Tinloof's technical approach to prospects.

Quantifiable outcome

• Helly Hansen INP reduced by 60% (from 500ms to below 200ms) site-wide
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Locomotive: Montreal-based boutique web agency specializing in custom web platforms and headless commerce for brands, with a similar Next.js/headless stack focus and comparable boutique scale to Tinloof.
• Webstacks: Headless commerce and web development agency serving B2B SaaS and e-commerce brands with platform migrations and performance work, overlapping directly with Tinloof's engineering offerings.
• De Voorhoede: Amsterdam-based frontend development agency specializing in performant, accessible web platforms, comparable to Tinloof's frontend craft focus and similar boutique European positioning.
• Studio Freight: Brooklyn-based design and development studio producing brand identities, websites, and digital products with a similar hybrid team model and premium clientele to Tinloof.
• Resn: New Zealand creative technology agency building interactive digital experiences and high-craft brand sites, with a similar boutique studio model combining design and engineering talent.

Broad incumbents

• Instrument: Portland-based independent creative agency providing branding, design, and digital product work at greater scale; overlaps with Tinloof's brand-to-build capability but operates with a much larger headcount.
• Work & Co: Global product design and engineering firm delivering digital products and commerce platforms for major brands; competes for similar enterprise engagements but at significantly larger scale.
• Ustwo: Global digital design studio with product, brand, and engineering practices serving enterprise clients; broader geographic footprint and service portfolio overlap with Tinloof's design-engineering hybrid model.
• Active Theory: Los Angeles-based digital experience studio building immersive web platforms and interactive brand experiences with strong technical engineering, comparable craft positioning to Tinloof but at larger scale.
• Pentagram: Largest independent design consultancy with partners leading identity and digital work for global brands; overlaps with Tinloof's branding and visual identity practice but operating at the high end of the design market.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/tinloof
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tinloof
• Instagraminstagram.com/tinloof

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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