Most business websites are a theme with the logo swapped. They look like everyone else, load like a brochure from 2019, and get handed to a maintenance pool the week after launch. That is not a site a customer trusts, and it is not a site an answer engine will cite.
Website design and deployment here is a senior engineer writing the site for the brand in front of us — voice, audience, conversion model — and shipping it on infrastructure that does not surprise you six months later. You own the code. The same bench that designed it can keep it.
How we engage
- 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
Designed for the brand, not the gallery
Every site is designed for this business. We do not pull a marketplace theme and recolor it. Information architecture, type, and the one conversion the page is for are decided in writing before pixels get precious. The result should feel deliberate on day one and still feel deliberate three years later.
How the site gets found after launch is a different discipline. Websites & Apps builds the site. Search, Answers & Growth is the discovery layer — AEO, technical SEO, citations — once there is something honest to crawl.
Performance and accessibility as defaults
Lighthouse scores in the high nineties are the floor. WCAG AA contrast is non-negotiable. Core Web Vitals are budgeted at design time, not hoped for after a plugin pile-up. Fast on the network the visitor actually has, keyboard-operable for the people who need it that way.
From a single landing page to a full marketing site with a CMS, e-commerce, and bookings — the stack is chosen for this job, not for a demo reel. Nothing white-labelled. Nothing left for the next firm to clean up.
What it costs, and what happens after launch
Website terms: $3,499 to start, then $85/hour. A focused landing page is a smaller surface; a full marketing site with commerce and bookings is a larger one. Discovery is week zero. You see weekly releases, not a big reveal.
After launch you choose: a written handoff so your team owns it, or website management from $499/month — the same engineer, real-time fixes, security patches, cancel anytime. Website care and marketing from $1,499/month adds the discovery layer. Computer optimization is the sibling offering if the machines that edit the site also need a pass.