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Pawtions — real dog food made from real ingredients. A brand built from the bowl up.

Astro 5 + React islands · Near production-ready
Coming soon

Pawtions is a dog food brand with a clear point of view: real ingredients, honest labelling, no filler. The pet food market is full of brands that hide poor ingredients behind friendly packaging. Pawtions is the opposite — the brand is built on transparency, and the product reflects it. What’s in the bowl is what it says on the bag.

The website is built in Astro 5 with React islands for the interactive elements. It’s near production-ready from a code and design perspective — the product pages, ingredient breakdowns, and brand story are all there. What’s missing is the supplier relationship: a consistent, quality source for the ingredients at the scale needed to launch properly.

This project is a showcase of brand identity work as much as it is a code project. The design system, the tone of voice, the product positioning, the packaging concepts — all of it was worked through before a line of code was written. Building the site in Astro kept it fast and content-driven without the overhead of a full framework. React islands handle the bits that need interactivity — a product configurator, a store finder — without compromising the static-first architecture.

The project is waiting on the supply side. When that’s resolved, the site is ready to go.

Stack
Astro 5 + React islands
Status
Near production-ready
Brand
Pawtions
Type
Brand + e-commerce site
Market
NZ pet owners
Note
Showcase of brand + design work