Our story
Most digital agencies are too big to care and too slow to move. We built something different.
Based on the Sunshine Coast and Melbourne, we work with clients across Australia and internationally. There are five of us — design, digital marketing, development, WordPress and hosting, and an account manager who keeps everything moving — so you always get a specialist on your work, not a generalist stretched thin.
We're small enough that you deal directly with the people doing the work, and experienced enough to handle whatever you throw at us. No layers, no handoffs, no getting lost in a queue.
Whether you need a website, a marketing strategy, or custom software, the approach is the same: understand your business deeply, then build something that actually solves the problem.
25+
Years in business
500+
Clients served
4
Continents worked across
How we work
Principles we actually follow.
We've worked with enough clients to know what makes a project succeed — and what makes it fall apart. These aren't values we put on a wall. They're how we run every engagement.
01
Honest over comfortable
We'll tell you when something won't work, when a timeline is unrealistic, or when there's a simpler solution. You deserve a straight answer — not one designed to keep you happy in the short term.
02
Deep before fast
We spend more time upfront understanding your business than most agencies spend on an entire project. The work is faster and better when the brief is right.
03
Long relationships, not long contracts
We don't lock clients in. We earn continued business by doing good work and being easy to work with. Most of our clients have been with us for three years or more.
The team
The people behind the work.
Stuart Cox
Founder & Designer
Stuart has spent 25 years building brands and digital products for businesses across Australia and beyond. He started out as Stuart Cox Design — a one-man studio — and grew it into Northbase.
He still leads design across the work and stays hands-on with clients. After hundreds of projects, he knows what separates work that lands from work that quietly underperforms — and he's still obsessed with getting the details right.
Daniel Bilsborough
Digital Marketing Lead
Daniel leads digital marketing at Northbase — search, paid campaigns, and the strategy that ties them together. He turns marketing budgets into measurable results, not guesswork.
He's the bridge between strategy and execution, translating what a business actually needs into campaigns that earn their keep. Practical, data-led, and allergic to vanity metrics.
