for business

You're open.
The internet doesn't know yet.

We build the website, and we do the parts you'd dread — the domain, the hosting, the Google listing, the photos, the words. You answer some questions. We hand you the keys.

  • No templates
  • No monthly lock-in
  • From $1,450
  • Live in 7 days
RestaurantsRoofersSalonsDentistsAuto shopsGymsLandscapersCafésLaw officesBakeriesPlumbersPhotographersElectriciansFlorists
Until a design of your homepage lands
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Until a design of your homepage lands

Total time this asks of you, start to finish
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Total time this asks of you, start to finish

Jobs we take off your desk, none billed extra
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Jobs we take off your desk, none billed extra

To see your design before deciding
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To see your design before deciding

01
The difference

Right now, a customer searching for you finds this.

Drag the handle. Left is a business with no site — a half-filled directory listing someone else wrote. Right is the same business, twenty minutes after launch.

Harvest Table

Open until 10pm · Tonight

Wood fire.
Long tables.

Seasonal plates from growers within sixty miles. Walk-ins welcome at the bar.

Reserve a tableSee the menu
Own the bookingOwn the photosOwn the phone number
harvest table restaurant near me

Harvest Table

Restaurant · $$ · 2 reviews

Hours
Not confirmed by owner
Menu
No menu available
Website
WebsiteDirections

Photo uploaded by a stranger in 2019. Hours nobody has updated.
The next three results all have websites.

TodayWith a site
A website isn't a brochure anymore. It's the first room your customer walks into — and right now, for a lot of good businesses, the lights are off.

We started this studio because the businesses we like best — the ones with a line out the door and no website at all — are the ones losing customers to whoever spent a weekend on a template.

02
The hard part

You've got a business to run. We'll do the rest of it.

Most people who never get a website don't stop because of the design. They stop at the domain, or the hosting, or the third email about nameservers. So we took the whole list.

Buying the domain

Registered in your name, not ours. We just do the buying.

DNS and the nameservers

The part that breaks everything if one field is wrong.

Hosting and SSL

Set up, paid, renewed. The padlock in the address bar stays on.

Business email

you@yourshop.com instead of a Gmail address with numbers in it.

Google Business Profile

Claimed, verified, hours filled in, photos uploaded, linked.

Writing the words

We interview you for twenty minutes and write it from that.

Getting photos worth using

A shot list for your phone — or we come and shoot it.

Compressing every image

So the page loads on one bar of signal in a parking lot.

Making it work on phones

Tested on real handsets, not just resized in a browser.

Accessibility

Contrast, labels, keyboard navigation. It's also the law in most places.

Schema and metadata

The invisible markup that tells Google what you are and where.

The sitemap and search console

Submitted, indexed, monitored. You don't need to know what that means.

Form spam

Filtered, so your phone doesn't buzz at 3am for a fake enquiry.

Backups

Nightly. Restorable. You will never think about this.

Analytics

Set up to answer one question: is this thing bringing people in?

Privacy and cookie pages

Written, accurate, and matched to what your site actually does.

Sixteen jobs · All of them ours · None of them billed separately

And here is the entire list of what we need from you.

01

Twenty minutes on the phone

What you do, who walks in, what you wish the site would handle for you. That's the entire discovery process.

02

Whatever photos you already have

Phone photos are fine — often better than stock. Got none? Say so and we'll either art-direct a shot list or come and take them.

03

Your logo, if one exists

A napkin sketch, a sign photo, an old business card. If there's nothing at all, we'll design one and it's yours.

03
What you get

Everything a first website needs, and nothing it doesn't.

One build, one price, one point of contact. Here's what's inside every project.

Design that looks like your business

No stock template with your logo dropped in the corner. We start from your room, your product, your handwriting on the chalkboard — and build the type, color and rhythm out from there.

  • Custom layout
  • Real photography direction
  • Type & color system

Built to be found

Local business schema, clean metadata, a real sitemap, and the Google Business Profile linked up properly.

  • Local SEO
  • Schema markup

Fast on a bad connection

Your customer is in a parking lot on one bar of signal. The page still loads before they give up.

  • Sub-second loads
  • Image optimization

You can change it yourself

Change the hours, swap a price, post today's special. No ticket, no invoice, no waiting on us.

  • Owner editing
  • 15-min handoff call

The parts that actually make money

Booking, quote calculators, online ordering, menus that update, forms that reach your phone the second they're sent.

  • Reservations
  • Instant quotes
  • Lead alerts

We handle the boring parts

Domain, hosting, SSL, business email, backups. You get the logins in a document you own.

  • Domain & DNS
  • Hosting & SSL
  • You own everything
05
Honestly compared

There are three ways to do this. Two of them are fine.

A website builder genuinely works if you have the weekends to spare. An agency genuinely delivers if you have the budget. We built this for the gap in between — and the figures on either side are real market ranges, not straw men.

Comparison of doing it yourself, this studio, and a design agency
Do it yourselfThis studioA design agency
Upfront cost$0$1,450 – $5,900$6,000 – $35,000
Ongoing cost$15 – $50 / mo$89 / mo, optional$95 – $395 / mo
Your time30 – 60 hoursAbout 2 hours10 – 20 hours of meetings
Who writes the wordsYou doWe doThey do
Who sorts the photosYou doWe do, or direct youThey do
Domain, hosting, email, SSLYou figure it outDone for you, in your nameDone, often billed on
Google Business ProfileYou figure it outClaimed and linkedUsually extra
Design made for youA template thousands shareDrawn from scratchDrawn from scratch
When something breaksA help forumText us — same dayA support ticket
Time until it's liveWeeks, if you finish7 days – 3 weeks6 – 12 weeks

Ranges for the outer columns are drawn from published 2026 industry pricing surveys. If you've been quoted something well outside them, that's worth asking about — in either direction.

06
How it works

Fourteen days, and you never guess what happens next.

The whole process, start to finish. You see the design before any money changes hands.

  1. 01Day 0

    A twenty-minute call

    What you do, who walks in the door, and the one thing you wish the site would do for you. No deck, no discovery invoice. Just the call.

  2. 02Day 3

    A free mockup of your actual homepage

    Within 72 hours you get a real design — your name, your words, your photos — not a template with a placeholder logo. If you don't like it, you walk away and it costs you nothing.

  3. 03Day 4–12

    We build the whole thing

    Copy, photography direction, menus, booking, quote forms, the lot. You get a private preview link from day one and three rounds of revisions to push it where you want it.

  4. 04Day 14

    Launch, then hand you the keys

    Domain, hosting, SSL, business email, Google Business Profile. Then a screen-share where we show you how to change your own hours — and a document with every login, in your name.

07
Start here

Four questions, two minutes, and we know what to build.

This is the whole brief. Answer it and we'll have enough to send you a real design — no meeting, no forms to print, no jargon. Point at the look you want and we'll take it from there.

01

What kind of business is it?

Pick the closest — we'll get the detail on the call.

08
Pricing

One price, agreed before we start.

No hourly billing, no scope surprises, no invoice that lands bigger than the quote. Pay it once, or spread it across the year — same site either way.

Storefront

One page

For a business that needs to exist online, properly, this month.

$1,450once

Then $89/mo for hosting and care — optional, cancel any month.

Live in 7–10 days

  • One long-scroll page, designed for phones first
  • Contact form that reaches your phone
  • Google Business Profile claimed, filled in and linked
  • Domain, hosting, SSL and business email — set up for you
  • Local SEO groundwork and schema markup
  • 3 rounds of revisions
Most picked

Full Build

5–7 pages

What most businesses actually need — a real site, plus the one thing on it that earns.

$2,950once

Then $89/mo for hosting and care — optional, cancel any month.

Live in 2–3 weeks

  • Everything in Storefront
  • 5–7 pages, written with you — not filled with placeholder text
  • One revenue feature: booking, menu, ordering or instant quotes
  • Photo direction — a shot list telling you exactly what to point a phone at
  • Copywriting for every page
  • Analytics, so you can see what people actually do
  • Unlimited revisions until launch day

Growth

Unlimited

Multiple locations, a real store, or something nobody has built for your trade yet.

$5,900once

Then $129/mo for hosting and care — optional, cancel any month.

Live in 4–6 weeks

  • Everything in Full Build
  • Online ordering or full e-commerce
  • Multi-location pages, hours and service areas
  • Custom integrations — POS, CRM, scheduling, inventory
  • A half-day photo and content session, run by us
  • Priority support and quarterly reviews for the first year

Options, priced up front

Extra page

$180

Designed and written, not duplicated

Online ordering

$1,200

Up to 50 items, card payments live

Booking & scheduling

$650

Syncs to the calendar you already use

Copywriting

$220 / page

We interview you, you approve it

Logo & brand kit

$750

Logo, colours, type, and the files to use them

Photo session

$400

Half a day on site, edited and delivered

Extra location page

$350

Own hours, own map, own search listing

Rush delivery

+35%

Live inside 7 days, front of the queue

After launch

The care plan — $89 a month, and genuinely optional.

Cancel any month you like. Cancelling doesn't take your site down and doesn't hold your domain hostage — it's registered in your name either way. We'd rather you stay because it's worth it.

  • Hosting, SSL and domain renewals — handled
  • Backups nightly, restore on request
  • Uptime monitoring, and we notice before you do
  • Security patches and software updates
  • Small content changes — text us, it's done same day
  • A plain-English traffic report every month
09
Straight answers

Everything people ask before they say yes.

Eighteen questions we get on nearly every first call, answered the way we'd answer them on the phone. If yours isn't here, ask it — we'd rather answer than have you wonder.

  • The number on the pricing table is the number. A Full Build is $2,950 once, or $349 a month for a year — and that includes the domain, the hosting, the SSL certificate and your business email for the first year, which most quotes leave off and bill you for later. After launch the only ongoing cost is the $89 care plan, and that's optional. There is no setup fee, no discovery fee, and no charge for the revisions.

Start here

Tell us about the business. We'll send back a design.

Free, no obligation, and yours to keep either way. Most people spend four minutes on this form and have a mockup within three days.

  • No deposit, no contract to see the design
  • We reply to every message within one business day
  • If we're not the right fit, we'll say so and point you somewhere better
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