Martin + Paynovate
Marketing collaboration

Paynovate operates in a highly competitive fintech and payments landscape where many providers look and sound the same. You’re a market leader with a powerful product, but the website misses the mark. It makes people work too hard to understand what you do and doesn’t show that leadership. This refresh is an opportunity to sharpen your narrative, move away from generic payments messaging, and make it immediately clear why a prospect should choose Paynovate.

This is not a rebrand. Your logo, visual identity and brand foundations remain in place. The focus is on evolving how the brand shows up online, pushing the current visual system further, and turning the site from an informational brochure into a genuine demand generation engine that actively supports commercial growth and pipeline generation.

Here’s how I’d approach turning this around in 8 weeks and building a site that actually converts.

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1. Approach3. Process4. Budget
1.
Approach
Tell a story.

A story can be short—a title, a meta description in Google—or long like a landing page. It can be visual, like an animation or illustration. It can be your onboarding process. Every touchpoint is a chance to show what Paynovate does.Stories convert. Marketing frameworks trigger skepticism.

The challenge for Paynovate is making complexity feel simple and making your differentiation obvious: why choose you versus any other issuer, acquirer or EMI.

The website needs to clearly communicate who you are, what differentiates you, and how your solution maps to real customer problems across your solution segments and verticals. It should speak directly to your priority ICPs and guide them to the right path.

Here’s what’s different. You work directly with me—no junior team learning on your budget, no account managers slowing things down. If we need to rethink an entire page because it’s not working, we just redo it. Back and forth is part of the process. My focus is on value delivered, not hours tracked.

This is when people stop me and say “we’re B2B, not B2C.” Well, all human brains work the same way. B2B buyers just have a longer checklist—reliability, security, proof, compliance, enterprise-grade delivery. The website needs to deliver that. It’s why most B2B marketing is weak. Companies who nailed the story like Linear, Vercel, Stripe, Mercury are way ahead.

For Paynovate, the bottom line is simple: the new site should feel credible, confident and commercially sharp. It must increase qualified inbound demo requests, support enterprise sales conversations, and strengthen your SEO foundation.

The challenge is making complexity feel simple and everything is complex if nobody takes time to make it simple.

Similar work

MiTrust spent 3 years struggling to make their complex solution obviously useful. We built a simple website with a clear message. Two years after website launch, they became the leader in their niche in Europe.

Visit mitrust.eu

Alex Legal needed to show lawyers that tech could simplify their processes—moving from paper to modern solutions. One year after the new website launched, they became the leader in corporate legal tech in France.

Visit alexlegal.fr

Trusted Family needed to modernize their brand and simplify the approach while keeping that feeling of security and trust. It's legacy software that demands attention to detail, and the new site delivered both modern simplicity and reliability.

Visit trustedfamily.com

DevDifferent was in a super crowded industry. We went with an empathetic approach—the title "we know hiring is a hassle" plus a simple one-page presentation of all services. Result: thousands of visits and 30+ discovery calls in the first 3 months.

Visit devdifferent.io

"Martin challenged every assumption we had about our messaging. We ended up with something 10x better than what we originally asked for."

— Martin Colomb, CMO & Co-Founder of MiTrust

From strategy to ship

In our AI era, skills are easy to get, but execution and good taste are what matter.

Connecting the dots between business vision and execution to deliver something that feels right—that’s the challenge. In the end, we’re building a story together. Strategy, design, Webflow are just the tools we use to deliver it.For Paynovate, that story has to be tightly aligned with your commercial goals: clear ICP narratives, solution pages structured around real customer problems, and conversion paths that match your funnel stages.

I handle everything from strategy to technical implementation. Sometimes with help from my team of engineers or 3D artists. You get full delivery from idea to launch—one point of contact, zero handoffs.

Strategy
Design
Webflow
Copywriting
SEO / GEO
Automation
Still learning more...
How I manage AI.

All creative decisions are human. AI doesn't touch design brainstorming or storytelling—everything is 100% custom. Human experience needs human input—ideas, errors, back and forth. AI makes things faster and sometimes better, but taste and control stay tight.

For copywriting, AI helps refine and explore styles. Comparing two versions is easier than working tirelessly from scratch. But only after a human understands and drafts the full message and context first.

For illustrations and images, AI can help, but human taste is critical. AI can do anything we ask—the challenge is asking something with taste.

For Webflow, AI automates tasks: custom animations, CRM connections, data cleaning, small configurators that make editing easier.

This collaboration will not be...

Good stories have a villain. In this case, mine is web agencies.

Here's what's different. You work directly with me—no junior team learning on your budget, no account managers slowing things down. If we need to rethink an entire page because it's not working, we just redo it. Back and forth is part of the process. My focus is on value delivered, not hours tracked.

I take time to really understand the problem. That's where the value comes from—opinionated work that's unique to you, not templated solutions everyone else uses. I'll challenge ideas when needed, because that's how we get to good work.

2.
Process

The goal is not just a prettier site. It’s a website that functions as a demand engine: generating, capturing and qualifying interest from your priority ICPs. That means clear navigation and CTA architecture aligned to funnel stages, defined primary and secondary conversion goals, explicit segmentation paths by ICP and product, and strategic placement of proof points, case studies and trust signals. All of that is baked into the process below.

Phase 1 • Research & Exploration

2-3 weeks

We start from scratch. Through workshops, we figure out what actually makes Paynovate different—what makes prospects choose you, not just what sounds good.

This aligns directly with your positioning workshops:

1. Stakeholder alignment • It's important to involve all stakeholders. Leadership to understand the vision. Sales to understand the reality. Marketing to nail the execution. Product to optimize conversion. I'll need 2-3 hours from these teams in week 1. This ensures we're solving the real problem, not building something pretty that doesn't convert. I take a lot of inspiration from Creative Inc., a masterpiece on bringing people together in creative & business processes. It shapes how I run workshops and get teams aligned.

This is where we also refine differentiation, clarify ICP narratives and align on the overall messaging architecture—so your internal messaging work and the website strategy are fully synced.

2. Industry research • enough to validate your positioning and understand what prospects see when they compare you to alternatives. We’ll map how other issuers/acquirers/EMIs talk, and where Paynovate can clearly stand apart.

3. Storytelling drafting • from there we craft the story. I apply principles from Hey Whipple, Squeeze This to make your value stand out, and build a story that talks to your audience. We’ll structure solutions around real customer problems and align page-level messaging with conversion goals.

4. Design research • from week one, we start throwing ideas on a design board. Test things visually, not just conceptually. The ambition is to stretch your existing visual system creatively, increase enterprise credibility, elevate sophistication and confidence, improve hierarchy and clarity, and strengthen visual storytelling.At the end of phase 1, we’ll have a complete concept to validate, a solid direction, and ideas to build on.

At the end of phase 1, we'll have a complete concept to validate, a solid direction, and ideas to build on.

Phase 2 • Design & Full story

2-3 weeks

Compledte website design for all pages with custom illustrations, animations and copywriting for every page that converts visitors into leads.

This phase effectively covers information architecture, wireframes, and messaging structuring.

Clear site structure, user journeys and conversion paths, translated into purposeful layouts and wireframes before we polish visuals.

Full design system evolved from your current brand guidelines (not a rebrand) to ensure consistency and scalability.

Copy that addresses every objection, speaks directly to each ICP, and aligns with funnel stages.

Strategic placement of proof points, case studies, trust signals and regulatory credibility to support enterprise buyers.

Phase 3 • Webflow + Tech

2 weeks

Pixel-perfect Webflow build with:

• Animations and micro-interactions
• Mobile optimization
• CRM integration for lead captureAnalytics setup
• Strong performance and page speed as a baseline
• Technical SEO foundations (clean structure, meta, schema where relevant)
• GDPR-compliant tracking and consent
• Scalability in the CMS/content model for future growth


SEO is embedded from the start—site structure, content model and templates are built with ranking and future content in mind, not bolted on at the end.

Phase 4 • Test & Launch

I’ll make sure Google indexes everything correctly, search rankings stay stable, and fix any issues that come up. We’ll do structured QA across devices, browsers and tracking systems, followed by a controlled and measurable go-live.

Sequel • Marketing monthly retainer

After launch, we’ll continuously monitor and improve SEO, funnel performance, CTAs, and overall conversion based on real data. We’ll also adapt to trends and news through content updates and new landing pages when needed. This aligns with your focus on experimentation, testing, and continuous improvement post‑launch—treating the site as a living demand engine rather than a one‑off project.

3.
Budget
New marketing story + Website
Full package included. From strategy and brand positioning, to design system, copywriting, Webflow development, and SEO optimization. From finding the story to designing your visual identity, and building it into a high-performing website that actually converts.
Set your budget:
Budget is flexible. Lower end means smart tradeoffs like library assets, simpler interactions. Higher end unlocks custom everything—3D animation, micro-interactions, no creative limits.
Well-crafted
€0
Marketing monthly retainer
Following the website launch, we’ll hold monthly meetings focused on optimizing the business—monitoring SEO, improving lead generation, and adapting to new trends.
June - November + December offer
€1,500
/month
x6
€9,000
We can also structure this with a lower base rate and bonuses based on the results we drive together.
Brand identity pack
Brand pack tailored for G Suite and email signatures
€1,000
Total
€0
Available to start
February 23th 2026
Delivery
May 29th 2026

Webflow hosting, or any additional resources like licensed fonts or stock images are not included and will require further approval or handling by the client.

Invoices issued in EUR or USD by MYHELLO LLC (Delaware, USA).
For clients outside the US, no VAT or sales tax is charged.

Pricing & availability until March 2026.

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