Lillehammer, Norway

We work with businesses
worth believing in.

A husband and wife studio working with founders and small businesses.

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Selected work

Biboja menswear brand identity and website

Biboja

Visual identity · Website · Internal platform · Operations · Finance · Equity partner

A Norwegian menswear house with a showroom in Oslo. Made-to-order tailoring and curated vintage, built around the idea that a wardrobe should last. Rooted in classic menswear and a love for vintage. We worked on the visual identity, built the website, handled financial strategy and day-to-day operations, and built the internal platform the business is run from. We joined as partners and continue to grow the business together.

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Mariehuset coastal retreat website and booking platform

Mariehuset

Website · Booking platform · SEO · Business strategy

A restored farmhouse on Helligvær, a small island 45 minutes from Bodø. Old wooden floors, high ceilings, views of the sea. Run by Kjetil Borch, two-time Olympic rowing medalist. Freediving, fishing, and eagle safaris in summer. Northern lights visible from the house in winter. We built the website and a custom booking platform, helped to develop the business strategy, and continue working on their growth.

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Northstar investing platform overview, with portfolio total and chart

Northstar

Digital product · Design · Full build

A private investing platform: savings, funds and crypto in a single quiet view, priced against live market data, with the discipline written into the product. Discussed on Real Vision's live AI show in July 2026. The public demo runs on sample data.

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Sorting Hat overview on sample data: contact counts, groups and sourced findings

Sorting Hat

Digital product · AI · Full build

An intelligence layer over a LinkedIn network of 10,000 contacts: every contact sorted into groups, the people worth a conversation surfaced first, and live findings where every claim links to its source. Private by design in production, with a public demo on sample data.

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Kompass weekly brief on sample data: suggested contacts with sources and reasons

Kompass

Digital product · AI · Full build

An outreach engine: a weekly brief of who to contact next, matched to your written goals, with a source, a reason and a drafted first message for every name. The public demo runs on invented sample data.

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About

We care about
your business.

We're John and Emily Johannessen. We work with businesses we genuinely care about. The kind where we want to know the founders, understand what they're building, and still be involved two years from now.

We do the work: web, marketing, strategy, financial planning. But what we're really looking for is to grow with you. As partners, not consultants.

If that sounds like what you need, we'd like to hear from you.

Website

Fast, clean, built to last. From landing pages to full product builds.

Digital products

Custom booking systems, dashboards and internal tools, built around how your business actually runs.

Marketing

Being found where customers look: SEO, Google Ads, and analytics.

Finance & strategy

Pricing, forecasting, and the numbers behind growth.

Get in touch

Tell us what
you're building.

We read every message. If it's a good fit we'll get back to you quickly. If not, we'll tell you honestly.

info@johannessencreative.com