Cortland.

Cortland gives established recruiters what they need to start their own firm: capital, infrastructure, a sales playbook and founders with a stake in the outcome. The people it is talking to already bill well, so the site could not read like a sales pitch.

We kept the design quiet on purpose. Cream and navy, mountain and mist imagery, a compass mark, and type set in Instrument Sans. The copy makes the argument and the design stays out of its way.

The Path to Freedom, The Model, Who We Back and About each answer one question a recruiter asks before leaving a salaried seat, and Get in Touch ends every one of them.

Barba.js swaps pages without a reload, behind a curtain transition, and Lenis keeps the scroll smooth from the first screen to the footer.

Every animation is a module that mounts with its page and tears itself down before the next one arrives. Nothing doubles up or drifts after a few clicks around the site.