A web agency in Geneva,
one person at the controls.
Ermite came out of one simple conviction: a business deserves an online presence worth its actual value. Not a template — a website built for it.
Vahe Karaman
Designer and developer, I build every website end to end: strategy, art direction, development, launch. You speak to the person who builds, never to a middleman.
Geneva · Haute-Savoie · in person or by video
A web agency,
and nothing else.
Ermite Agency is an independent web agency based in Geneva, founded and run by Vahe Karaman. It designs bespoke websites for sole traders, shops and small businesses in Geneva, Haute-Savoie and French-speaking Switzerland: one-page sites, multi-page sites, bilingual institutional sites. Three sites are live — an events agency, a language school and a cosmetics brand — and five templates by trade are ready to be taken over.
The agency does no paid advertising, no social media and no print. It makes websites, and it makes all of them: structure, copy, design, development, hosting, local SEO and launch. What it can’t do, it says so.
Why that’s an advantage,
not a limit.
No one to repeat yourself to
What you explain on the first call isn’t relayed to a project manager, then a designer, then a developer. The person listening is the one who builds.
Short lead times
A page goes live in seven days because there is no kick-off meeting, no internal sign-off and no queue between two departments.
A price with no overheads to fund
400 CHF for a one-page website is possible because there are no offices, no sales team and no platform licences to pass on to your invoice.
A limit we own
Ermite doesn’t take ten projects at once. If the calendar is full, we say so and give you a date, rather than accept and deliver late.
A few principles,
kept without exception.
Clarity before effect
A website has to be understood in five seconds. The rest comes after.
Substance drives form
Aesthetics serve the message, never the other way round.
You stay the owner
Your site, your domain, your content. Yours, whatever happens.
We prove before we promise
A real demo rather than a sales pitch.
Where we work.
In person in the canton of Geneva — Geneva, Carouge, Lancy, Meyrin, Vernier, Plan-les-Ouates, Versoix — and in Haute-Savoie: Annemasse, Annecy, Thonon-les-Bains, Cluses, Bonneville, Saint-Julien-en-Genevois. The rest of French-speaking Switzerland — Nyon, Lausanne, Vaud, Valais, Fribourg — is handled by video, with exactly the same process and the same timings.
Prices are shown in Swiss francs, including for French businesses around Geneva. We work in French; English is available in writing and in person, and sites can be delivered in several languages.
Let’s talk
about your project.
From your very first message you’ll be talking to the person who will build your site. Tell us what you do.