The Collective Service
Partnership · 2026 · Complete rebuild, proposed identity and a Knowledge bank that answers from 279 documents. In testing before relaunch.
Read the case study →Websites and brands for NGOs and international organisations.
Research-led design, sites that load on 3G, and evidence intelligence that answers from your own documents with every source cited. Fixed fees, agreed before work starts.
- Formed 2018
- A registered company
- Fixed fees in Swiss francs
- Proposal within five working days
Selected work
Two projects shown in full, with every number measured and dated. What has not launched says so.
Global Girls Foundation
Foundation · 2026 · Website redesign and gifts in three currencies. Live since 9 October 2026.
Read the case study →The founder’s earlier work, with teams in Geneva since 2010, was done inside those teams and is not published here. References are available on request and are named in the proposal.
What we do
Five services from one team, each at a fixed fee and each with evidence you can file: a design system, test results, a benchmark, a monthly report.
Web design
Research-led design, prototyped early, delivered as a design system that holds in every language and script.
Scope and fees →Web development
Sites built to a performance budget and tested to WCAG before launch, on an editing layer your own team runs.
Scope and fees →Evidence intelligence
A knowledge layer built on everything your organisation holds, queried in natural language, every answer traced to its source. Hosted on our infrastructure or yours; accuracy benchmarked and published.
Scope and fees →Branding
Identity systems that work at 16 pixels and across languages, delivered as guidelines partners can apply without us.
Scope and fees →Web maintenance
Continuous operation on a retainer — monthly, quarterly or yearly: updates, security, backups verified by restore, a report every month.
Scope and fees →
About
The people you meet do the work.
Nestvested is a web design and development studio, formed in 2018 and registered in Kingston, Jamaica. Founder and project lead Matthew Bowman has worked with NGOs such as the IFRC since 2010, with teams in Geneva and on global operations.
Every project is run by the whole team rather than handed down a chain: design, engineering, content and delivery working on the same problem.
- Formed 2018
- Nestvested Limited, Kingston, Jamaica
- Fully remote
- Six working languages: English, French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese
- Matthew Bowman
- Founder and project lead. Humanitarian information management since 2010, with the IFRC and teams in Geneva. Writes every proposal and leads every project from the first call to launch.
Working with us
Ready for your procurement team, with the fees up front.
- A registered company
- Contracts and invoices from Nestvested Limited, Kingston, Jamaica. Company documents and references ready to send with the proposal.
- Fixed fees in Swiss francs
- Agreed before work starts and fixed to scope, not hours. Invoiced on signing, at design sign-off and at launch.
- Care plans
- Four plans for sites we build or take on, from CHF 1,200 a month, sized to the site at discovery. Monthly, quarterly or yearly.
- Evidence, published
- An accessibility statement with its test method, performance measured against a budget, and a security note for every site we run. For knowledge systems, the accuracy benchmark.
- Senior people only
- The people in the first meeting do the work. Any partner is named in the proposal, with their part of the work.
Download the procurement pack (PDF, in English)
Fees
Typical fees, so you can shortlist us before the first call. Every site is different: the fixed fee is set at proposal, from your brief.
A website
from CHF 35,000
Research, design, build, testing and launch, on an editing layer your team runs.
A website and brand
from CHF 60,000
The website above, with an identity system and guidelines partners can apply.
A knowledge system
from CHF 75,000
Evidence intelligence built on your material, benchmarked and published, on our infrastructure or yours.
A discovery engagement
from CHF 8,000
When the brief cannot be priced yet: questionnaires, a site audit and a project plan you can put out to tender.
Every fee is fixed to the scope in the proposal, not to hours, and invoiced in Swiss francs in three parts: on signing, at design sign-off and at launch. No hourly rates.
Care plans
A one-page site and a thousand-page library are not the same job. Four plans, from CHF 1,200 a month, sized at discovery from page count, languages, integrations, traffic and editors.
- Essential, Standard, Extended, Platform
- Updates on staging first, daily backups, monitoring, a named person
- Monthly, quarterly at 5% less or yearly at 10% less
- Three-month minimum, then rolling
How a project runs
Three stages and four approval points. Nothing is built before you have clicked through a prototype.
Proposal
Send the brief or terms of reference. Within five working days you have a fixed-fee proposal with the timeline and the team named. If it cannot be priced yet, we propose a short discovery instead.
Discovery
Stakeholder and audience questionnaires, a site audit when there is a site, and a discovery document that ends in the project plan: scope, timeline and who approves what.
Delivery
Design, then a clickable prototype before anything is built, then build, launch and care. A weekly 30-minute call, with notes the same day.
- Four approval points: proposal, design, demo, go-live
- A named team from the first call
- Weekly 30-minute call, notes the same day
- Accessibility and performance tested before launch and written up for your records
- Typical timeline 14 weeks
Can we have references?
Yes. References from client teams are sent with the proposal or on request, and you may contact them directly. Two projects are shown in full in the work →
How do you handle our data?
Your material stays yours. We sign your data-protection terms, hold only what the work needs, host where your rules require, and hand back or delete everything at the end of the project.
Which documents can you send for vendor registration?
Company registration, bank and tax details, references, the accessibility statement and a security note, as one pack with the proposal or on request.
Who will actually do the work?
Matthew Bowman leads every project. Specialists in design, engineering, content and accessibility are named in the proposal with their part of the work, and no one joins without being named to you first.
What happens after launch?
The first 30 days of fixes are covered by the project fee. Then a care plan, or a clean handover: documentation, every account in your name, and training for your team.
Which time zone do you work in?
Kingston, Jamaica, UTC−5. Our mornings are Geneva’s afternoons and New York’s mornings, and the weekly call is set in your hours.
Contact
Send us the brief.
A rough brief or a terms of reference is enough. Matthew Bowman replies the same business day, and you have a fixed-fee proposal within five working days.