About CVO Atlas
Personal service. Premium standards.
We help growing businesses look professional online, answer customers faster and become easier to find.
The founder
Matthew Michael Christiansen.
Matthew is a South African entrepreneur based in Johannesburg. He studied graphic design after school, then spent about fifteen years living in Taiwan, where he taught public speaking and theatre.
Along the way he started a translation company, a marketing agency and a teaching business, and wrote an English-language learning book. He speaks English, Mandarin Chinese and Afrikaans.
He founded CVO Atlas to bring those threads together: design, communication and the practical realities of running a business. When you work with CVO Atlas, you work with him directly.
What he believes
Beautiful and practical belong together.
Make a strong first impression
A website should look striking without overwhelming the people who visit it.
Be clear at a glance
Customers should understand straight away what a business does, how to find their way around and how to get in touch.
Design that travels
Years of working across languages taught him that good visual identity communicates where words can't, and that cultural differences still matter.
Help owners feel proud
A professional presence should help a business explain its value, and help its owner feel proud of the brand.
Working together
Personal, approachable and professional.
Matthew values creativity, clarity, trust, accessibility and long-term relationships. This is what that looks like for you.
You talk to the founder
From the first message to the months after launch, you deal with the person who designs and looks after your website.
Plain answers
We explain what we'll do, what it costs and what it won't do, in plain language and before you sign.
Support that stays
Your website is maintained and monitored every month, with business-hours support from Johannesburg.
Ambition. Amplified.
Your business already has the ambition. We give it the reach.
Our approach
Three things, done properly.
We focus on what makes the biggest difference online. A website that makes a strong first impression. A chatbot that answers questions quickly. And the Google foundations that help people find you.
We'd rather do three things well than ten things badly.
Let's talk about your business.
Tell us what you need. We'll reply personally with clear next steps.