Every number, and every catch
A website built for a fixed price, then operated for a fixed price.
Ask us any time and we hand over the complete source code, free, the same week. It runs on any host without us. There is no exit fee anywhere in the contract.
Two prices, and one of them is temporary
The build price depends on one objective thing: whether the site has to handle more than one location, a second language, events, or online ordering.
Founding Ten
$2,500
- ✓ The first ten clients we sign
- ✓ Ends at ten clients or 31 March 2027, whichever comes first
- ✓ Your $350 is fixed for 24 months
- ✓ Everything in Standard
Standard
$5,000
- ✓ One location, one language
- ✓ Hosting, domain and SSL managed
- ✓ Security patches across every site we run
- ✓ Uptime and contact-form delivery checks
- ✓ Content changes, live next business day
- ✓ One structural change a year
- ✓ Twelve-month minimum
Complex
$7,500
- ✓ Two or more locations, a second language, events, or online ordering
- ✓ Everything in Standard
- ✓ Twelve-month minimum
What the $350 does not cover
New integrations, a redesign, copywriting, photography, and any structural work beyond the one change a year. Every one of them has a published number, so nothing here needs a quote: a custom section outside the published 18 is $750, a booking or payment flow added after launch is $2,500, copywriting is $350 a page, an extra page beyond the three in your annual change is $500, and photography is arranged at cost plus $250 coordination. We do not bill by the hour, so there is no meter running when you email us.
For scale: $350 a month is roughly what one Yelp ad slot costs — except this covers the whole site, and somebody answers.
- ✓ The monthly rises once a year by CPI, capped at 4 percent, written into the contract before you sign
- ✓ Twelve-month minimum, then month to month
- ✓ No exit fee, ever — the minimum is a payment commitment, not a lock on the code
There is no CMS
No login, no dashboard, no page builder. Nobody at your shop can change this site. There is no admin panel to break, no plugin to patch, nothing for anyone to log into and get wrong at 11pm. It is plain files on a server — which is why it loads fast, and why we can hand you the whole thing and it runs anywhere without us.
You email us the change and it is live the next business day, included. If you take the source code, a developer can change it. You cannot, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
The questions people actually ask
- Why is there no way for me to edit my own site?
- Because the thing that makes it fast, cheap to change and portable is that it is plain files rather than a database and an admin panel. You get the trade in both directions: you cannot log in, and there is nothing to break, patch or get hacked. If editing it yourself matters more than that, Squarespace is genuinely a better fit and we will say so on the call.
- What happens if you two get hit by a bus?
- You own the domain, registered in your name from the start. Ask us any time — including now, before you sign — and we hand over the complete source code plus a build that runs on any host without us or any of our packages. Free, same week. That is the answer to this question and it is why we can charge a monthly at all.
- What does it cost to leave?
- Nothing. There is no exit fee in the contract. The twelve-month minimum is a payment obligation, so if you leave in month four you still owe the remaining months — but the code is yours whenever you ask for it, including during the minimum.
- Why is this cheaper than the agency that quoted me?
- Because we are not designing the machinery from scratch each time. One engine runs every site we build, so the part an agency bills as project management and front-end development is largely already done. What you are paying for is the decisions and the operating, not the plumbing. It is also why we are more expensive than a $400 freelance site: that price buys the plumbing and nothing after it.
- Can you do online ordering?
- Yes, and it moves you to the $7,500 build. Same for a second location, a second language, or ticketed events. If you are not sure which side of the line you are on, tell us on the call and we will tell you before you commit.
- How long does it take?
- Weeks, not months. The clock starts when your text and photos reach us, which is the single biggest thing you control. You get a firm launch date once we have them.
Now that you know the number.
Twenty minutes on what the business does and what the site has to make happen.