About the studio
Stave is me, Matt Stvartak.
I design and engineer websites and software for craft beverage producers: wineries, breweries, cideries and meaderies. I'm the one on the first call, the one who designs the site, writes the code, and answers the email after launch.
The specialty runs in two directions. Toward the visitor: fast, accessible sites that put the pour and the drive on the first screen. Toward the machines: your wines, batches, hours and region structured so Google ranks you and AI assistants cite you by name.
Fifteen years of design and engineering, fourteen of them in North Carolina. My family has had a place in the Yadkin Valley since 2011, which is how the first client came to be a vineyard. A few builds a year, taken on because they're worth doing properly.
How I work
One set of hands
No account managers and no handoffs. The person who hears the problem solves it, and is still there when the next vintage drops.
Working pages, not mockups
You review the real site early, on your phone, on your porch, on the tasting-room wifi, and we shape it from there.
Enterprise habits, small-studio attention
Fifteen years building for some of the country's largest brands taught me what holds up under real traffic: accessibility, performance budgets, and clean data. Your tasting room gets the same standards without the agency overhead.
Fluent in the trade
Vintages, allocations, pressings, hop bills, honey varietals. The vocabulary is the point, and your site should speak it as naturally as your customers do.
FAQ About Stave and Matt
Who is Matt Stvartak?
A designer and engineer with fifteen years of experience, including work for some of the country’s largest brands. He runs Stave as a one-person studio building websites and software for wineries, breweries, cideries, and meaderies.
Where is Stave based?
Stave is based in North Carolina, where Matt has lived for fourteen years, and works with producers anywhere remotely.
What does working with a one-person studio mean in practice?
The person on the first call does the design, the engineering, and the support after launch. There are no account managers or handoffs, and only a few builds are taken on each year.
What does Stave not do?
No print branding, no paid media management, and no work outside craft beverage. The specialty is the point.
Tell me about your place.
Every cellar, taproom and orchard runs differently, so the number comes after the conversation rather than before it.
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