The name is Marquis. I build websites that earn their keep.
I build websites that show up when people search for what you offer, then turn those visitors into paying clients. Design and SEO are planned together from day one.
In practice, it looks like this: you open your inbox and find a new lead who found you on Google. You didn't pay for an ad to get them. That's the kind of website worth building.
Marquis Mendoza
Founder, BraneBox
Why “BraneBox”?
In string theory, a brane is an object that exists across several dimensions at once. Most people hear “BrainBox,” which is fine too. But the spelling is on purpose.
Website problems rarely have one cause. A slow site looks like a design issue, until you find the hosting, the server settings, the heavy scripts, or the way the content is organized.
A site that doesn't rank usually isn't just “missing SEO” either. It's missing structure, depth, internal links, and schema.
BraneBox is built to look at every layer at once, then fix it in one place. No passing your project between departments. You work with one person who sees the whole problem and owns the result. The “box” is what you get at the end: simple and clean on the outside, carefully engineered on the inside.
I know what it costs to start a business.
I have started several. Not all of them made it.
Cafe PaManna · Quezon City
Cafe PaManna was a restaurant I opened in Quezon City. Within eight months it passed one million pesos in gross sales. I ran all of it: the concept, design, menu, staff, and marketing.
It taught me that business is hard, even with capital and momentum. Most owners I've talked to say it took them four or five years just to get out of the red.
BraneBox came next. I registered it in Nagoya, Japan, on 27 February 2019, with almost no capital, and soon worked with clients like AXA Singapore and Hexagon Metrology Japan.
Then COVID hit. Contracts stopped renewing, one after another, and BraneBox became a side project. I didn't choose that. It just happened.
I moved my family back to the Philippines. In Japan, we had no relatives nearby, and when you have kids, a few emergencies will reorder your priorities fast.
Today, BraneBox is my main focus again, run from the Philippines. That history shapes how I work. I treat every project like it belongs to someone who can't afford for it to fail. Most of my clients can't, and I know how that feels.
If your website isn't doing anything for you right now, with no rankings, no leads, just an online brochure nobody visits, I know what that silence costs. I also know how to fix it.
I build my own products too. The latest one is Tavita.
Tavita is a nutrition and supplement tracker for iOS and Android, coming soon to both app stores. Snap a photo of your meal and it works out the calories, macros, and micronutrients.
It also schedules your supplements around when you actually wake, eat, and sleep, and warns you about combinations that cancel out or carry risk. Your data stays on your phone. No account, no ads, no trackers.
I made all of it: the concept, the product design, the app, the marketing site, and the SEO. I used the same process I use for clients, except this time I was the client too. That's the most honest test a method can get. Any shortcut I won't take on your project, I didn't take on mine.
Building a product from start to finish teaches things client work doesn't: speed on real phones, offline data, app store rules, and getting a brand nobody has heard of to show up in search. All of that goes straight back into the sites I build for you. See it for yourself at tavita.app.
Tavita: nutrition tracking with a supplement brain
Japanese precision. Filipino resourcefulness. And 15+ years of SEO that works.
I'm 75% Japanese. My father is half Filipino, half Japanese, and my mother is from Yokohama. Growing up between two cultures gave me two habits I use every day.
From Japan: do it right or don't do it at all. From the Philippines: find a way, even when resources are thin and conditions aren't ideal. Filipinos call that madiskarte.
I hold a degree in Computer Science. So I'm not a designer who picked up some code. I'm a technologist who learned to make things people enjoy looking at and using. That matters when your site has to be fast, secure, easy for Google to read, and good at turning visitors into clients.
My approach to SEO comes down to one rule: write for people first, then make sure Google understands the page.
I started doing SEO in 2007. My own website reached the top three on Google and stayed on page one for more than 15 years, through Panda, Penguin, Hummingbird, BERT, and Helpful Content. All white hat, no shortcuts. The tactics changed over the years. The rule never did.
At GoWithGuide, the number one private tour company in Japan, I built the marketing team from scratch. I created a content system that put new articles on page one of Google within weeks, and earned backlinks from sites with Domain Authority 90+.
I also lifted conversions by removing bottlenecks and adding well-placed scarcity. Our newsletters hit 45% open rates and 4% click-through, several times the industry average.
A well-built site pays you back every month it ranks. Every month without it, your competitors pull a little further ahead.
That's the record, and you can check it.
PageSpeed Insights · GDV Holdings desktop score
What most web designers get wrong.
Most web designers build the site first and add SEO later. By then, it's already a compromise, because technical SEO lives in how the pages are built.
I build SEO-first. Your site starts working toward page one on launch day, instead of six months later when a consultant finds the structural problems.
A website without SEO is a store in the middle of the desert. The inside can be beautiful, but nobody will find it. If Google can't see you, neither can your future clients.
Keywords are only a small part of the job. Google rewards pages it can crawl, understand, and trust, which means speed, schema, site structure, and real depth. Keyword placement is the last 10%.
Get the foundation right and your rankings hold up when Google changes its algorithm. No tricks needed.
On animation, more isn't better. A website's job is to communicate clearly and help visitors make a decision. Excessive animation shifts attention from your message to the motion. Clear, fast pages convert better. So I use motion only where it helps the message, never as decoration.
It's rare to find a web designer who cares whether your business grows. Most get paid to deliver a site, and what happens after launch isn't their problem. I care what happens next. To me, a site only counts as a success if your business grows.
The record, in brief.
SEO since
2000
Through every major Google update, from Panda to Helpful Content
Page 1 on Google for
0+ yrs
The same method, year after year. No lucky break.
Newsletter open rate
0%
Industry average is about 21%. Useful content gets opened.
Click-through rate
4%
Roughly 4× the industry average. Good copy gets clicked.
Founded
27 February 2019 · Sole proprietorship
Enterprise clients
AXA Singapore · Hexagon Metrology Japan
Backlinks earned
Domain Authority 90+ sources
Stack
Next.js · Vercel · TypeScript
Education
B.S. Computer Science, AMA University
Everything is included.
No add-ons, no upsells, and no “SEO package sold separately.” Every project comes with all of this from day one.
- Custom Next.js build: No themes or page builders. Clean, fast code written for your business.
- Technical SEO from day one: Site structure, crawlability, schema markup, and clean HTML, all part of the build.
- Core Web Vitals optimized: A 90+ PageSpeed score, guaranteed. Fast sites rank higher and sell more.
- On-page SEO: Titles, meta descriptions, headings, internal links, and keywords. All handled.
- 30-day post-launch support: Questions, tweaks, and fixes for a month after launch. You won't be left on your own.
A note on payments.
Payments are processed via PayPal or bank transfer under my name, Marquis Mendoza. Questions? Use the contact form.
Every month your site doesn't rank, a competitor gets the client instead.
Choose a plan, pay the deposit, and I start. No proposals, no drawn-out discovery. Because I build every site myself, I only take a few projects at a time. When the slots are gone, the next client waits.
Have questions first? Send me a message through the contact page. I reply within 24 hours.