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Terraria, a cafe-stay tucked away in South Goa, did something that would make most small hospitality founders blink: they cut out Airbnb and Booking.com — and still managed to get 98% of their bookings directly through their website. No deep tech stack. No ad spend. Just sharp strategy and fast design, executed in weeks by Clean Design Company (CDC). So how exactly did they do it? And what can other founder-led hospitality brands learn from the playbook?

Most startups trust agencies to bring in critical expertise to help them leapfrog through the early stages of the company. Agencies are not used to the fast pace of startups and seldom lack the speed or expertise to actually translate work into outcome, after all they are good at being agencies not startups. The team at Clean Design Company have built, scaled and exited startups of all kinds, we're now building the agency we always wanted.