Pollen Startup Website
Client
Pollen Energy
Industry
Startup, Energy, Batteries
Headquarters
Lisbon, Portugal
Services
Product Design, UX Research, Content Strategy, UX/UI Design
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About the Project
Pollen Energy is a Lisbon-based cleantech startup building a cleaner future for energy in Portugal and beyond. With a bold mission and a product that challenges how energy is thought about and consumed, they needed a digital presence strong enough to carry the weight of that ambition — one that could speak to investors, partners, and end users simultaneously, in more than one language.
GG Studio took on a complete strategic redesign of Pollen Energy's website inside Framer. Not a template refresh. A full rebuild — engineered from scratch with a dynamic CMS, a multilingual system, advanced custom components, and micro-interactions designed to create a genuine wow-effect at every scroll. The goal was a site that felt as disruptive as the company behind it. That's exactly what we delivered.
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GG Studio Methodology®
Redesigning a startup's website is never just a design project. It's a trust project. Pollen Energy needed a partner who could understand their vision, translate it into a world-class digital experience, and hand it back in a way that empowered their team to operate independently — without ever needing to call an agency again.
GG Studio structured the engagement with weekly check-ins to keep every sprint aligned, a rigorous QA process to guarantee flawless performance across devices and browsers, and personalised video training sessions so the internal team could manage, update, and scale the site with full confidence. The methodology wasn't just about the deliverable. It was about leaving the client stronger than we found them.
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Most agencies said impossible. We said: let's go!
Problem
A powerful product. A digital presence that didn't match.
Pollen Energy entered the market with a genuinely disruptive vision — but their website told a different story. The existing digital presence lacked the visual credibility, technical performance, and multilingual infrastructure needed to convert investors, partners, and customers across European markets. In a sector where trust is everything, first impressions were falling short. The site needed to stop being a liability and start being an asset.
Solution
A complete rebuild. Premium, multilingual, and team-ready.
GG Studio executed a full strategic redesign inside Framer — building a new information architecture, a multilingual content system, a dynamic CMS, and a custom component library with micro-interactions that created a wow-effect at every scroll. Weekly check-ins ensured the team stayed aligned throughout the project. Rigorous QA testing guaranteed flawless performance across all devices. And personalized video training sessions ensured Pollen's internal team could manage and grow the site independently from day one.
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Project Challenges
Early-stage cleantech startups face a specific kind of credibility gap. The technology is real, the mission is urgent, but the digital presence often doesn't reflect either. For Pollen Energy, the challenges were layered:
Build a complete, premium website from the ground up with no existing design system or visual identity to work from
Implement a multilingual architecture that would allow the team to reach international markets without technical limitations
Create a dynamic CMS flexible enough to manage evolving content as the product and company scaled
Design micro-interactions and animations that elevated the experience without sacrificing load performance
Deliver full team autonomy post-launch — no dependency on external developers for day-to-day operations
Every one of these challenges required both design craft and strategic thinking. GG Studio brought both.
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Results
Pollen Energy launched with a digital presence that finally matched the ambition of their mission. The site is fast, multilingual, and built on a component system designed to scale alongside the company — with zero performance compromise.
The internal team walked away from the project fully trained, fully autonomous, and equipped with a Framer CMS they could operate without external support from day one. Within the first weeks post-launch, engagement metrics climbed sharply: bounce rate dropped by an estimated 35%, average session duration increased significantly, and inbound interest from potential partners and investors grew in direct correlation with the new site's credibility and polish.
For a startup in its growth phase, a website that converts attention into trust isn't a nice-to-have. It's infrastructure. GG Studio built that infrastructure — and built it to last.
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Performance uplift across site speed, Core Web Vitals, and overall technical scores after launch
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Improvement in visual consistency through a unified design system and multilingual templates
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Bounce rate reduction as visitors engaged more with the redesigned information architecture
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Team autonomy achieved — the internal team can now manage and scale the site independently
