Prepared for Kara O'Briant · Zin Yoga & Wine
Your New Website Is Going to Feel Like Zin
Not a template. Not a "small business website." A space that opens the same way your front door does — warm, welcoming, and completely itself.
We've been inside your Squarespace site. We've built the Phase 1 mockups. We know what Zin actually is. Now we're ready to build the site that shows it.
Two Directions We've Designed for You
Both rooted in what's already true about Zin.
They diverge in how that story is told.
Eleven years. Real photography. Kara's voice. Every version of this site starts there.
Direction A
Warm & Kinetic
The feel: your current site, but alive.
The homepage opens with a full-screen video — a gentle morning yoga flow, natural light, the studio at its most itself. Sound optional. The video loops slowly, just enough movement to say this place is real and it's happening right now.
Below the video, the site splits the way Zin actually works: three doors, one building. Yoga. Wine. Events. Each section has its own warmth, its own color signature — a soft sage for the studio, a deep garnet for the lounge, champagne gold for private events. As visitors move through, they feel the transitions.
Kara's story gets a real home — not a wall of text on an About page. A full editorial section: founder portrait, story in her words, the quote that's already on your site and deserves to be massive: "A watering hole — a place where ALL can come."
Classes are bookable in context. YTT gets its own spotlight. Built to attract the right candidates.
See Direction A →
Direction B
Editorial & Bold
The feel: the brand grown up.
Direction B takes Zin's warmth and turns up the confidence. The hero is cinematic — full bleed video, large Cormorant Garamond type over the image: practice. pour. gather. One word. All the intention.
Sections are asymmetric. Text is big. Whitespace works hard. A full espresso-dark section for the wine lounge glows with amber warmth. The scroll itself tells a story — content reveals as you move through, like walking through a well-designed space.
This direction isn't cold or corporate. It's Zin for someone who's been going for five years and knows exactly what it is. It's also the design that makes a YTT candidate think "I want to be part of this."
The base design system — brand colors, fonts, photography — is the same in both directions. The difference is editorial scale and pacing.
See Direction B →What's Included
Both Directions. Your Choice.
Everything you need — nothing you don't.
Delivery
Full website design + build (custom, not a template — ever)
Video background hero — implemented and optimized for all devices
Migration of all your Squarespace content (classes, events, about, team, contact, pricing, YTT)
Scheduling integration — your existing Acuity/MindBody booking stays, we wire it in cleanly
Mobile-first — everything works perfectly on phones
Private Event inquiry form (real form, real email delivery)
"What's On" section — no code for Kara to keep it current
Ongoing — Operate Plan (monthly)
Hosting — faster than Squarespace, global CDN, never goes down
Domain management — we handle it so you never have to think about it
Unlimited content updates — send a text, email, or voice note. We update within 24 hours.
Photo adds, event announcements, schedule changes — all handled
Security monitoring, backups, uptime alerts
Your AI-operated web team — available daily, not on retainer pricing
Recommended Plan — Operate
$149
per month · no contract · cancel anytime
The complete managed solution.
Design, build, hosting, and ongoing maintenance — for $149/month. No lock-in. Month-to-month. Your entire web presence, handled.
| What you're comparing | Squarespace (~$40/mo) | Mahiri ($149/mo) |
|---|---|---|
| Site design | Template you customize | Custom, no templates, ever |
| Updates | You do them yourself | We handle everything, 24hr turnaround |
| Video hero | Limited / extra cost | Included, optimized |
| Human/AI support | Chat bot | AI team that knows Zin |
| Comparable agency | $200–400/month for a freelancer who still doesn't do video heroes | |
Month-to-month. No lock-in. Cancel anytime.
The August Window
Your Squarespace renewal is coming up.
That's the natural moment to switch.
You don't pay for two sites in parallel. You transition cleanly — and your August renewal doesn't happen.
Week 1
You pick a direction
A or B — or tell us what you want to borrow from each. We finalize content. You send the video clip (or we help source one).
Weeks 2–3
Full build
You see the working site before anything goes live. Your feedback, not a designer's interpretation of it.
Week 4
Review + refinements
Final polish. Any changes from your review round, applied.
End of Week 4
Launch. Squarespace cancels.
August renewal doesn't happen. You have a better website for less than what agencies charge for a consultation.
Why Mahiri
The world's first fully agent-operated
web agency for small businesses.
"Mahiri is the world's first fully agent-operated web agency for small businesses — where AI agents, not a human team, design, build, host, and maintain your complete web presence, starting at $49/month."
That's not a pitch. That's what makes it possible to give a yoga studio in Garner, NC the same website quality that a funded startup in NYC would get from a $50,000 agency engagement.
We know Zin. We've built three rounds of mockups. We have your photography. We know Kara's voice. This isn't starting from scratch — it's finishing something we've already begun.
Look at both directions.
Tell us which one feels like Zin.
No commitment required to see the full mockups. Or tell us what you want to borrow from each. Just reply.