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Arca symbol markArca Wealth Management: A standing seat on a Series A wealth manager's growth team.

Arca symbol markArca Wealth Management: A standing seat on a Series A wealth manager's growth team.

Arca symbol markArca Wealth Management: A standing seat on a Series A wealth manager's growth team.

Embedded on Arca's growth pod since August 2026, shipping the site work behind their paid acquisition.

Embedded on Arca's growth pod since August 2026, shipping the site work behind their paid acquisition.

Arca Wealth raised $64M and needed senior design and front-end capacity inside its own team, not an outside rebuild. We took a seat on the growth pod, working tickets from their board and shipping through their reviews: a production loading fix, a 248-to-17 type system, and the paid landing pages and inline lead form that feed their ad funnel.

Arca Wealth raised $64M and needed senior design and front-end capacity inside its own team, not an outside rebuild. We took a seat on the growth pod, working tickets from their board and shipping through their reviews: a production loading fix, a 248-to-17 type system, and the paid landing pages and inline lead form that feed their ad funnel.

Arca Wealth raised $64M and needed senior design and front-end capacity inside its own team, not an outside rebuild. We took a seat on the growth pod, working tickets from their board and shipping through their reviews: a production loading fix, a 248-to-17 type system, and the paid landing pages and inline lead form that feed their ad funnel.

Year

2026

Services

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Custom web app

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Web development

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Support

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CRO

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Professional Services

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Corporate

Duration

Since Aug 2026

Live Website ↗

Arca wordmark, dark navy
Arca wordmark, dark navy

Impact

Impact

typography permutations consolidated into 17 shared styles

typography permutations consolidated into 17 shared styles

typography permutations consolidated into 17 shared styles

text references moved onto the new type system

text references moved onto the new type system

text references moved onto the new type system

questions in the new lead form, replacing a nine-step intake

questions in the new lead form, replacing a nine-step intake

questions in the new lead form, replacing a nine-step intake

Arca Wealth homepage hero — the live site
Arca wordmark, off-white
Arca Wealth homepage hero — the live site
Arca wordmark, off-white

Background

Background

A $64M wealth manager whose site had outgrown the speed it was built at.

Arca Wealth is an AI-native fiduciary wealth manager: Series A, $64M raised from General Catalyst, Index and Venrock, with a team of about fifteen, eight of them engineers.

Its site runs on Framer and was built the way early sites are, in the team's own words quickly and through many iterations. Landing pages were forks of each other, type drifted from page to page, and a hero loading bug had survived several fixes.

Arca already had designers and engineers. What it needed was senior design and front-end capacity that works inside that team, on their board and to their standard. So this engagement is a seat, not a scope.

Work arrives as tickets on Arca's growth board, typed and prioritised by their team. Mid-August: two production tickets in flight, two landing-page tickets shipped.

Work arrives as tickets on Arca's growth board, typed and prioritised by their team. Mid-August: two production tickets in flight, two landing-page tickets shipped.

Arca's Growth Design Backlog in mid-August 2026, with the type audit and image-loading tickets in progress and two landing-page tickets shipped

Releases go through the pod's Slack. Here the hero fix goes out for review, a stakeholder spots a missing bullet in Framer, and it's fixed six minutes later.

Releases go through the pod's Slack. Here the hero fix goes out for review, a stakeholder spots a missing bullet in Framer, and it's fixed six minutes later.

The pod's Slack channel: the hero fix shared for review, a stakeholder flags a missing bullet in Framer, and it is fixed six minutes later
Beforefirst load, cold cache
Afterreveal gated on media + fonts

Execution overview

Execution overview

Shipping from their board, into a live paid-acquisition funnel.

First ticket: on a cold visit, the homepage hero showed its flat fallback fill before the image decoded, then snapped in. The cause was load order, five layers each appearing on their own schedule.

The fix holds every hero behind a veil that exists in the server-rendered page and lifts once the image and fonts are ready. Reduced-motion visitors skip it, and a 2.2-second fail-safe means it can never hang.

Second ticket: the type audit found 248 exact typography permutations, with about 0.3% of text layers on a shared style. We kept Arca's typefaces, Register and Telas, and consolidated behind them into 17 semantic styles that now carry 3,711 references.

Since then the work has moved toward acquisition. We build the paid landing pages and their test variants in Framer branches, and replaced a nine-step intake with a six-question inline form. Its investable-assets answer now tells the growth team which keywords bring in qualified leads.

Every change goes through Arca's review. On the type branch a stakeholder compared production and staging at 900 pixels and sent back nine corrections, each fixed before final QA.

The same cold load, before and after. Before, the image tears in over a flat navy fill with the headline already showing. After, the hero appears whole.

The same cold load, before and after. Before, the image tears in over a flat navy fill with the headline already showing. After, the hero appears whole.

Arca Wealth hero on a cold load, side by side at the same viewport: before, the image tears into a flat navy fill with the headline already showing; after, the hero appears complete

The 17 styles: twelve for the site, five for journal article headings. A future type change is now one edit instead of two hundred.

The 17 styles: twelve for the site, five for journal article headings. A future type change is now one edit instead of two hundred.

The 17 semantic text styles in Framer, applied to the live Arca homepage

Arca's review round on the type branch: production on the left, our branch on the right, each difference logged as a task.

Arca's review round on the type branch: production on the left, our branch on the right, each difference logged as a task.

Arca's review of the type branch, production on the left and staging on the right, with each difference logged as a task

The inline form on a paid retirement page: six questions in place of a nine-step intake, with investable assets as the qualifying field.

The inline form on a paid retirement page: six questions in place of a nine-step intake, with investable assets as the qualifying field.

Arca's paid retirement landing page with the six-question inline lead form beside the hero

Variants live or die on the numbers. This one was switched off after 22 days of paid traffic, with the pod's own read on why it lost.

Variants live or die on the numbers. This one was switched off after 22 days of paid traffic, with the pod's own read on why it lost.

A growth-pod Slack post switching off a landing-page test after 22 usable days, with the result and two hypotheses for why the variant lost

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