Genuinely excellent local businesses — full rooms, loyal regulars, years of hard work — that were almost completely invisible online. Not because they weren't good enough. Because nobody had ever sat down and looked properly at what customers actually saw when they searched for them.
I'm Robyn Thompson, founder of Steady Drift Studio, and you work with me directly. Steady Drift Studio helps small businesses with websites, online visibility and useful automation.

It started with conversations. People told me they'd wanted to visit a local business, searched for it online, and couldn't find what they needed: opening hours, what the place actually offered, how to get in touch. So they decided not to go. That's when it clicked for me: being good at what you do isn't always enough. If people can't find you, understand you or work out how to visit, you can lose the opportunity before you've had a chance to earn their business.
Steady Drift Studio grew from that. I wanted to show business owners exactly what I was seeing, competitor by competitor and platform by platform, rather than just telling them things were broken. I'm not trying to build the biggest agency. I'm trying to be the most useful one: the person who actually looks at your business, works out what's going on, and helps you fix it. You aren't passed between a salesperson, an account manager and a developer. You get me.
The name is deliberate: no manufactured urgency, no hype, no pressure to close. I work with a small number of clients so that each project gets proper attention.
More enquiries, bookings and sales are the goals this work is designed to support. I don't promise specific results.
I use AI tools to support research, drafting, design and development. I review and refine the output against the project brief and available evidence, and I remain responsible for the work I deliver.
AI tools can get things wrong, which is why that review matters. For how this applies to the audits, see how each audit review is produced.
Ewan Crosbie Photography is a client I've worked with on two projects: an expedition landing page, then a full website rebuild.
I'm really impressed with what Robyn's done with my expedition landing page. I gave her a fairly in-depth brief, quite a tight timeline, and she very quickly understood what I was trying to achieve and turned it into something that feels clear, professional and genuinely reflects the quality of the experience I'm offering. Robyn was also incredibly responsive throughout and turned everything around faster than we'd originally discussed. I've been so impressed that I've also requested Steady Drift to update my whole website to match the quality of the expedition landing page.
I'm genuinely proud to send people to the page, which is probably the best testimonial I can give.
The website rebuild. A from-scratch rebuild of Ewan's main website, replacing an ageing template with an original design system and a content layer built to outlast its first CMS.
No pitch, no pressure — just an honest conversation about where you are, where you want to be, and what that might actually be worth to your business.