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Sector:
Pilates & Wellness
Type:
Web app
Year:
2025
Aligné Studio · Pilates & Wellness

Aligné Studio

Aligné Studio is a boutique Pilates and wellness studio on Great Portland Street in London, and the first in the UK to offer infrared light therapy mat classes. Opening a brand new studio, the founders needed a brand, a website and a way to take class bookings, recovery appointments and memberships in one place rather than across five separate tools. We designed the brand identity, built the website and the iOS and Android apps, and ran the pre-launch campaigns that filled a member waitlist before the doors opened.

Aligné Studio, Pilates & Wellness project by Glasgow GFX
The Challenge

Aligné Studio was launching a first-of-its-kind concept, a boutique Pilates and wellness space combining reformer, tower, mat, and infrared light therapy classes with a full recovery treatment room offering massage, breathwork, reiki, energy healing, and more. As a brand-new studio at 59 Great Portland Street in London's Regent Square, they needed everything from scratch: a brand identity that communicated premium positioning, a pre-launch awareness campaign to build a member base before doors opened, and a digital platform capable of handling class bookings, recovery appointments, membership packages, private sessions, corporate wellness, and retreat bookings, all in one place.

The Solution

We delivered the full journey from concept to launch and beyond. Starting with brand identity, logo, colour palette, typography, and brand guidelines, we rolled out signage, business cards, tote bags, social media templates, and ad creatives. Pre-launch awareness campaigns across social media and email built anticipation before the studio opened. The custom Next.js website integrates with the Momence API via OAuth2 for real-time class scheduling across all four Pilates disciplines (reformer, tower, mat, and infrared mat), recovery treatment bookings, membership management, and credit-based payments. Native iOS and Android apps via Capacitor put booking in clients' pockets. Ongoing email campaigns, social media content, and SEO keep the studio visible and growing.

01 · Phase 1

Brand Identity & Launch Campaigns

We built the Aligné brand from the ground up, a clean, elegant identity that reflects the studio's premium positioning in central London. Beyond the logo, we designed the full suite of brand applications and ran pre-launch awareness campaigns across social media and email to build a waitlist before the doors even opened.

  • →Logo design with geometric construction, light and dark variations
  • →Complete colour palette, typography system, and brand guidelines
  • →Physical applications, storefront signage, business cards, branded tote bags
  • →Social media templates and ad creatives for Instagram and Facebook
  • →Email campaign templates for launch announcements and ongoing marketing
  • →Pre-launch awareness campaigns that built a member waitlist before opening
Logo construction: the Aligné double A on its geometric grid
02 · Phase 2

The Website

We built a custom website that brings together everything Aligné offers, reformer, tower, mat, and infrared mat Pilates classes, a full recovery treatment room with massage, breathwork, reiki, and energy healing, private sessions, packages, memberships, corporate wellness, and retreats. Clients browse, book, and manage everything in one place.

  • →Real-time timetable with live availability across all four Pilates disciplines
  • →Recovery treatment booking, massage, breathwork, reiki, energy healing, and more
  • →Full account dashboard, bookings, memberships, credits, payment methods
  • →Packages and pricing pages with intro offers, class packs, and monthly memberships
  • →Dark and light mode with smooth transitions
Aligné Studio website, Home page
Live: the real site from its own code, on sample data. Scroll and click.
Aligné Studio on a laptop
03 · Phase 3

Mobile App

We put Aligné in their clients' pockets, a native app for iPhone and Android that makes booking a reformer class or a recovery treatment as easy as ordering a coffee.

  • →Native iOS and Android apps via Capacitor
  • →Book classes and recovery treatments on the go
  • →In-app payment method and membership management
  • →Push-ready architecture for future notifications
Aligné Studio iPhone app, running live
Aligné Studio on iPhone
Live: the real app from its own code, on sample data. Tap the tabs.
04 · Phase 4

SEO & Ongoing Marketing

We made sure people searching for Pilates, infrared therapy, and wellness in central London find Aligné first. Structured data, optimised content, and strong Core Web Vitals from day one, paired with ongoing social media and email campaigns to keep the studio growing.

  • →SEO-optimised pages with structured data and sitemap
  • →Strong Core Web Vitals scores across all devices
  • →Organic search visibility for competitive London Pilates terms
  • →Ongoing social media content and email marketing campaigns
05 · Coming Soon

Custom Booking System

Next up: their very own booking engine, removing the last dependency on third-party tools. Full control over class scheduling, recovery appointments, and payments, end to end.

  • →Complete independence from third-party booking platforms
  • →Custom booking flows for classes, treatments, private sessions, and retreats
  • →Full payment processing ownership
Results
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Tools replaced
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Platforms launched
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Pilates disciplines
  • 01Launched a complete brand identity from logo to physical signage, merchandise, and social media presence, ready for day one
  • 02Pre-launch awareness campaigns built a member waitlist before the studio doors opened
  • 03Replaced five separate tools with a single platform, class bookings, recovery appointments, memberships, payments, and accounts
  • 04Native iOS and Android apps put booking in clients' pockets, no browser needed
  • 05Real-time timetable spanning reformer, tower, mat, and infrared mat classes with live availability
  • 06SEO-optimised pages with structured data drove organic visibility for competitive London Pilates search terms from launch
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Spec Sheet

From brand identity to native mobile apps, a full-service launch for London's first infrared light therapy Pilates studio.

Architecture
Framework
Next.js 15 with React 19, SSR + React Server Components
Deployment
Vercel edge network with automatic CI/CD
Mobile
Capacitor for iOS/Android hybrid native apps
Authentication
Momence OAuth2 with refresh token rotation + mobile deep-linking
State Management
Zustand with localStorage persistence
Styling
Tailwind CSS 3.4 with CSS custom properties for theming
Integrations
Momence API
v1 and v2, classes, recovery appointments, memberships, payments, waitlist, webhooks
Payment Methods
In-app card management via Momence hosted iframe bridge
Email Marketing
Campaign templates and transactional email delivery
Monitoring
Sentry for error tracking and performance monitoring
Performance
Page Load
Sub-1 second with multi-level caching and stale-while-revalidate
Resilience
Circuit breakers and retry logic for third-party API stability
Payments
Idempotency safeguards, zero duplicate charges, even during outages
Build
Static generation with ISR for optimal performance
Code Quality
  • →TypeScript strict mode throughout
  • →CSP security headers in production
  • →Mobile-first responsive design
  • →Accessibility (a11y) compliant markup
  • →Structured data (JSON-LD) for SEO
  • →70% test coverage
Technologies
  • Next.js 15
  • TypeScript
  • React 19
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Zustand
  • Capacitor
  • Momence API
  • Sentry
  • Vercel
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