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Case 02 · Web · Community · CMS

Female Founders Suomi

A community site for women founders, built to activate, not just to inform.

Female Founders Suomi website hero
ClientFemale Founders Suomi
ScopeBrand · Web design & build · CMS
Year2025
01 The why

The vision was a place that feels professional and warm at once.

Female Founders Suomi calls itself Suomen inspiroivin naisyrittäjien yhteisö. It wanted the good feeling and the communal support that women founders give each other to come through, professional and full of ideas, with real care underneath. It runs for profit, but it carries the warmth of a non-profit: free events, stories and a blog all sit front and centre.

Our response let the bold brand colour do the heavy lifting. The design makes confident statements and brings founders' ideas into the light, so the page reads as ambitious and generous in the same breath.

  • 01Feel supportive and professional at once
  • 02Put founders' ideas in the light
  • 03Give free events, stories and blog real room
  • 04Turn visitors into attendees

What if the site's job wasn't to be read, but to get you into the room?

02 Brand in the design

The brand colour carries the page, and the page asks you in.

A

Bold by design

The bold brand colour and statement type set the tone instantly. The page speaks with confidence and gives founders' ideas a stage.

B

Generosity up front

Free events, founder stories and the blog sit at the top of the page. The warmth of the community shows before anything is asked for.

C

Built to activate

Clear paths run from the stories to the events and to joining. A visitor always has a next step into the room.

03 How visitors move through it

From first impression to “I want in.”

01A statement heroThe oversized headline sets the tone instantly. This is a community with ambition and a point of view.
02Stories that pull you inFounder features (Tarinat) lead with a face and a hook, turning visitors into readers and readers into members.
03Events to show up toUpcoming happenings are easy to find and join. They are the community's heartbeat, front and centre.
04A clear way to belongEvery path ends with a way in: follow, attend, or partner. The momentum keeps going.
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Stories: founder features (Tarinat)
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Events: upcoming happenings
Female Founders Suomi · partnershipsscreenshot · ffs/partners.jpg
Partnerships: collaboration (Yhteistyö)
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The hero: the editorial statement
04 Built to be owned

A community that publishes weekly can't wait on a developer. So it doesn't.

A bespoke admin, built for this site

  • Publish founder stories with images, in minutes.
  • Add and update the event calendar yourselves.
  • Manage partners and every word on the site.
  • Swap photography for each new feature.

Everything but the layout is yours to change. The design stays locked and on-brand; the content keeps up with the community. Publishing the next story takes no retainer and no wait.

05 What we delivered

Brand & identity

Editorial visual system, type and colour.

Multi-page site

Stories, events, partnerships and more.

Story & event CMS

Self-managed publishing the team runs alone.

Mobile & SEO

Fast, responsive, findable.

[ Client testimonial: a line or two from the Female Founders Suomi team about the site and running it themselves. ]

Female Founders Suomi Community team

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