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Websites that ship on time, audited, and owned by you.

A flagship website built for speed, designed for craft, and handed back to you with the keys. No vendor lock-in, no platform mystery, no quietly-orphaned Figma files. Live in weeks, not months.

A UX designer’s setup with code on screen and a landscape display
Duration 2–10 weeks
Investment from $1.5k
Engagement fixed price · fixed scope
What's hurting

Sound familiar?

Three patterns we see in nearly every website design engagement — and what we actually do about them.

Our current site loads like a 2014 dial-up modem.

What we do. We rebuild on a modern static or hybrid stack — Lighthouse 95+, sub-second LCP on mobile, no compromise on craft.

We can't update the homepage without calling our agency.

What we do. You get a real CMS — WordPress, Astro Content Collections, or Sanity — that your team can actually use. Training included.

Our designer left and we're stuck with their files.

What we do. You own every asset, repo, credential and Figma file. Always. We work with what you have, hand back what we make.

What you get

Deliverables, not "scope of work".

Specific outputs you can point at when you ask "is this done?" — not vague verbs that leave both sides guessing.

01

Strategy & sitemap

  • Audience + goals workshop
  • Information architecture
  • Page-by-page brief
  • Content gap analysis
02

Design system

  • Wordmark application
  • Type & colour ramp
  • Component library
  • Motion guidelines
03

Build & launch

  • Astro · WordPress · Shopify
  • WCAG 2.2 AA accessible
  • Sub-second LCP target
  • 30 days post-launch support
Stack

What we build with.

Astro
WordPress
Shopify
Sanity
Cloudflare
Vercel
Hostinger
Figma
GitHub
GA4
Plausible
The promises

What you'll never hear from us.

Industry stock phrases we cross out — and what we actually say instead.

  • "We use AI to slash your timeline" — we use AI, we don't cosplay it as a moat.
  • "Pixel-perfect" — we ship typographically-perfect, AA-accessible, fast.
  • "Best-in-class" — we benchmark against your competitors, by name.
  • "Award-winning design" — we have awards. They don't pay your bills. You will.
Questions

The four questions every client asks first.

How long does a full website take?

A 5-page Essentials build ships in 2–3 weeks. A scoped Studio build with custom design, copy, and on-page SEO is 6–10 weeks depending on rounds.

What if we already have a designer?

Great — we can build to their Figma. We'll just ask for an annotated component-level handoff and one revision round before dev.

Do you do migrations from old platforms?

Yes. Squarespace, Wix, old WordPress, Webflow — most migrations take 1–2 weeks on top of build time. We script the content transfer where we can.

Who owns the code after launch?

You. Every repo is yours, transferred to your GitHub. Every asset, every credential. We keep zero leverage.

Ready to ship a site you actually like? Let's start the brief.

Send us three sentences about where you are and what you need. Within one working day we'll tell you whether this is a fit — and a rough cost and timeline.