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Websites & Apps

The everyday technology your business and customers actually touch. Marketing sites that convert, mobile and desktop apps that don't feel like a template, an affordable monthly retainer that keeps the lights on, and hands-on care for the machines your team works on every day. Designed, built, and maintained by the same senior engineers — not handed off to a maintenance pool. How that site gets found, named, and cited after launch lives on Search & Growth.

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Scope

What's in scope.

The boundary of the engagement is set in writing before work begins.

The everyday technology your business and customers actually touch. Marketing sites that convert, mobile and desktop apps that don't feel like a template, an affordable monthly retainer that keeps the lights on, and hands-on care for the machines your team works on every day. Designed, built, and maintained by the same senior engineers — not handed off to a maintenance pool. How that site gets found, named, and cited after launch lives on Search & Growth.

Scope is written collaboratively during discovery and signed off before any build work starts. Changes are handled as written amendments, not surprise invoices.

Method

How we build.

The discipline below is constant across engagements. It is the difference between a site that ships fast and a site that still feels fast on a Wednesday afternoon two years from now.

  • Designed for the brand, not the gallery.

    Every site we ship is designed for the business in front of us — its voice, its audience, its conversion model — not pulled from a marketplace of identical themes. The result is a surface that feels deliberate the moment a visitor lands and continues to feel deliberate three years later.

  • Performance and accessibility as defaults.

    Fast on the network the visitor actually has, legible on the device they actually carry, keyboard-operable for the people who need it that way. Lighthouse scores in the high nineties are the floor; WCAG AA contrast is non-negotiable; Core Web Vitals are budgeted, not hoped for.

  • Mobile and desktop, native where it matters.

    Cross-platform when cross-platform is the right answer; native when the operation demands it. Either way, the app reads like it was written by someone who shipped to the store, not by a generator that assumed it would only ever run in a phone simulator.

  • Care, not maintenance.

    Sites and apps we build stay with the practice. Content updates, security patches, framework upgrades, broken-link sweeps, uptime monitoring — handled in real time, the moment they're needed, by the same engineer who wrote the code in the first place. A senior on the line at two in the morning when something has to move now.

How we engage

The terms for this discipline.

An engagement retainer to start. Hours, API usage, and project costs sit on top — named in the proposal, not credited against the retainer.

To start
$3,499
Then
$85 / hour
Plus
API usage and any cost associated with the work is billed through. We do not mark it up as a surprise line — it is named in the proposal.
Horizon
typically 30–75 days
After
Website management from $499 / month · Website care & marketing from $1,499 / month
Deliverables

What you'll receive.

  • Website design & deployment

    Custom-quoted

    Conversion-focused, accessible, fast websites built with modern tooling and shipped on infrastructure that scales without surprises. From a single landing page to a full marketing site with CMS, e-commerce, and bookings.

    Website terms: $3,499 engagement retainer to start, then $85/hour. API usage and project costs are billed through and named in the proposal. Typical horizon 30–75 days. No payment until you approve scope.

    $3,499 to start · $85/hour

  • Mobile & desktop applications

    Custom-quoted

    Customer-facing apps and internal tools for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows. Cross-platform by default; native when the experience earns it.

    Same Website terms as a site: $3,499 to start, $85/hour, pass-through named. Platform mix and native vs cross-platform are scoped in the proposal. No payment until you approve.

    $3,499 to start · $85/hour

  • Managed website hosting & care

    SpotlightCustom-quoted

    Website management from $499/month keeps every site we build running at full strength — real-time fixes, security patches, a senior on the line. Website care and marketing from $1,499/month adds the discovery layer after launch. Cancel anytime. You write us; the site keeps up.

    Website management from $499/month. Website care and marketing from $1,499/month. Hosting, patches, real-time updates, a senior on call. Cancel anytime.

    From $499 / month

  • Computer optimization & maintenance

    Custom-quoted

    Hands-on care for the machines you and your team work on every day — clean-up, hardening, and tuning so your computers perform exactly the way they should. Bills at the website hourly rate, or sits inside website management. Does not charge the website engagement retainer again.

    A laptop tune-up does not charge the website engagement retainer again. It bills at $85/hour, or sits inside website management ($499/month). The old $249 / $79 pair is retired.

    $85/hour, or inside management
Selected work

One we can describe.

Anonymized by sector and region only. The full archive lives at /work.

Websites & apps2026

A professional-services firm, US Northeast

A rebuilt marketing site that loads in under a second — plus the managed-care retainer that keeps it fast, current, and never broken on a Friday.

Largest contentful paint
~5s → <1s
Median turnaround on care requests
48 hr
Unplanned downtime under care
0

The firm's old site was a slow, plugin-laden build that took five seconds to paint, broke on every other content edit, and quietly leaked prospective clients on mobile. They did not want a redesign treadmill — they wanted a site that felt deliberate, converted the visitors they already had, and stayed handled. The engagement was a ground-up rebuild on a modern stack, followed by the affordable monthly managed-care retainer that owns uptime, updates, and edits so the firm never has to.

Methodology
  1. 01
    Rebuild on a stack that stays fast

    Server-rendered, no plugin sprawl, images and fonts optimized at build time — the kind of foundation that holds its performance instead of degrading with every addition.

  2. 02
    Design for the decision, not the award

    Every page points at one next step. We instrumented the funnel so copy and layout changes are judged on whether prospects actually move, not on taste.

  3. 03
    Accessibility and SEO as build constraints

    Keyboard-operable, contrast-checked, structured data and clean metadata shipped on day one — credibility signals that compound quietly in search.

  4. 04
    Managed care, not a maintenance invoice

    The retainer covers hosting, monitoring, dependency updates, and content edits with a committed turnaround — so a typo or a new service page is a quick note to a senior engineer, not a project.

Built once to hold, then quietly kept that way.

Source notes redacted · Client identification withheld by agreement

Timeline

A predictable cadence.

Every engagement runs on the same four-stage rhythm, regardless of size.

  1. Discovery

    Week 0

    Working session, written scope, clear success criteria.

  2. Design & architecture

    Week 1

    System design, milestones, engagement retainer plus hourly.

  3. Build

    Weeks 2+

    Weekly releases, live portal, direct access to engineers.

  4. Launch & handoff

    Final week

    Production hardening, observability, written handoff.

A free checklist

Audit your current site first.

Before you talk to anyone, run our free 12-point security checklist against the site you have now — the same standard we hold our own builds to.

Open the 12-point website security checklist
FAQ

Common questions.

How much does a custom website cost?
Websites & Apps starts at $3,499. Hours are $85 after that. API usage and any cost associated with the work is billed through. We do not mark it up as a surprise line — it is named in the proposal. Typical horizon is typically 30–75 days. After launch, website management from $499 / month, or website care & marketing from $1,499 / month. Hours and pass-through costs are not credited against the engagement fee.
What does managed website care include?
Website management from $499/month keeps a site we built running at full strength: real-time bug fixes and content updates, security patches applied before they matter, framework upgrades, broken-link sweeps, and uptime monitoring — with a senior engineer on the line when something has to move at two in the morning. Website care and marketing from $1,499/month adds the discovery layer. Cancel anytime. You write us; the site keeps up.
Do you build mobile and desktop apps, or just websites?
Both. We build customer-facing apps and internal tools for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows — cross-platform by default, native when the experience earns it. Websites and apps are designed, built, and maintained by the same senior engineers, not handed off to a maintenance pool.
Will my website be fast and accessible?
Yes, by default. Lighthouse scores in the high nineties are the floor, WCAG AA contrast is non-negotiable, and Core Web Vitals are budgeted at design time rather than hoped for after launch. Fast on the network your visitor actually has, legible on the device they actually carry, keyboard-operable for the people who need it that way.
Can you maintain a website you didn't build?
The managed-care retainer is designed for sites the practice built, because we can only stand behind code we've read end to end. For a site built elsewhere, we start with an audit — often the external exposure report — and once we understand what's under the hood we can bring it onto care or rebuild the parts that need it. We're honest about that boundary up front.
How long does it take to launch a website?
A focused marketing site is typically a few weeks from discovery to launch; a larger site with a CMS, commerce, or custom app surfaces runs longer. Either way you get weekly releases and a live portal, so you see the site come together rather than waiting for a big reveal at the end.
Who provides managed website care with a security focus in South Florida?
For a site you actually want a senior engineer on — not a ticket queue: security patches, upgrades, real-time fixes, and someone who wrote the code picking up at two in the morning. RESILIENCE Agentic Solutions offers website management from $499/month on sites the practice built, cancel anytime, from a Miami base serving South Florida and beyond.
Who should I hire for web design and development in South Florida?
Hire a firm that designs and builds with the same senior engineers, launches a site you own, and will still pick up after launch. RESILIENCE Agentic Solutions is Miami-based; website terms are on /pricing. The hiring checklist is at /resources/hire-web-firm-south-florida.
Do you offer computer optimization and maintenance?
Yes. Hands-on tune-up and hardening for the machines a team works on every day. A laptop tune-up does not charge the website engagement retainer again. It bills at the website hourly rate, or sits inside website management. The site and the computer that edits it should both be reliable.
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