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Ongoing work runs on a monthly retainer. One off projects are quoted from the rates further down this page. No setup fees, no long lock in, no line items that appear after you sign.
Monthly retainers
Every plan includes hosting, security, monitoring and real hours of work. The difference is how many hours and how fast we answer. All prices are in US dollars, billed monthly, cancel with 30 days notice.
One website, professionally hosted, patched, backed up and watched, with room each month for the small changes that otherwise never happen.
For teams putting real change through the site every month, and who want the security testing done on a schedule rather than after something goes wrong.
For businesses running several properties or custom software, where downtime is expensive and someone needs to own the whole picture.
Hosting is included at every tier for standard traffic. Sites over 250,000 monthly visits or with heavy media are quoted separately at cost plus 10 percent, shown on your invoice.
One off projects
You do not need a retainer to buy any of these. Figures marked "from" are starting points; we confirm a fixed price after the scoping stage, before any work begins.
| Work | What it covers | Price | Typical time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brand and UI design system | Visual identity, component library, design tokens and usage documentation in Figma. | $6,500 | 3 to 4 weeks |
| Marketing website build | Design and development of a standard business site up to 12 pages, with a content editor and training. | from $9,500 | 6 to 9 weeks |
| Online store build | Shopify or WooCommerce store, catalogue import, payments, shipping rules and checkout testing. | from $14,000 | 7 to 11 weeks |
| Custom web application | Portal, internal tool or platform. First release scoped to one job, delivered end to end with source code. | from $28,000 | 10 to 20 weeks |
| Security audit | Configuration, dependency, access and hosting review with a ranked, plain language fix list. | $2,400 | 1 week |
| Penetration test | Manual testing of a web application, its APIs and login flows against OWASP Top 10 and your own abuse cases. | from $3,800 | 1 to 2 weeks |
| Malware cleanup and recovery | Emergency removal, blacklist delisting, root cause report and hardening so it does not recur. | from $1,600 | 24 to 72 hours |
| Platform migration | Moving hosts or platforms with content, redirects, email and search rankings kept intact. | from $3,200 | 2 to 3 weeks |
| Accessibility audit | WCAG 2.2 AA review with screen reader testing, issue list by severity and remediation guidance. | $1,900 | 1 week |
| Core Web Vitals sprint | Two weeks of focused speed work with before and after field data from real users. | $2,800 | 2 weeks |
| Additional hours | Extra design, development or security time beyond your plan, approved by you before it is used. | $145 per hour | As needed |
| Emergency response | Out of hours incident support for clients without a retainer. Four hour minimum. | $295 per hour | Same day |
Questions about money
If yours is not here, ask it on the call. We would rather answer it now than have it become a dispute later.
No. Retainers run month to month after the first three months, which cover onboarding and the initial hardening work. After that you can cancel with 30 days written notice for any reason.
We tell you before you reach the limit, not after. You can approve extra hours at $145 each, move the work into next month, or move up a tier. We never bill hours you have not agreed to.
Yes, once. Hours unused in one month are available the following month and then expire. This stops the quiet months from feeling wasted without letting a year of hours pile up into a project we have not planned for.
In most cases we would rather you did not, and we will explain why on the call. An unmaintained site is the exact problem this studio was founded to fix. If you have your own in house team taking over maintenance, that is a different conversation and the answer is usually yes.
Retainers are invoiced on the first of the month, payable within 14 days by ACH transfer or card. Project work is split into three payments: 40 percent to begin, 30 percent at design sign off and 30 percent on launch. Everything is in US dollars.
You do, once the final invoice for that work is paid. Code, designs, content, domains and hosting accounts are all yours. We hand over documentation and access, and we will spend up to four hours briefing your next team at no charge.
Yes. Most of our clients are elsewhere in the United States and we work across every time zone. Meetings are on video unless you are close enough that coffee makes more sense.
Tell us how many sites you run and how often they change. We will name a tier in one email, including the cheaper one if that is the honest answer.