The part most firms won’t put in writing.
You’re about to hand your website to someone you found on the internet. Here’s exactly what happens next, so you can decide with your eyes open.
- 01You tell us what’s wrong.
Not a formal brief. A paragraph, or a link, or a list of things that keep not getting done. If you aren’t sure what you need, that’s a normal starting point and not a problem to solve before contacting us.
- 02We look before we quote.
We go through what you’ve and tell you what we found, including the parts that are fine. If we think you don’t need us yet, we’ll say so. That has happened and it’ll happen again.
- 03You get a scope in writing.
What we’d do, in what order, what it costs, and when it’s finished. You approve it before anything begins. No work starts on a handshake and a hope.
- 04You can see it while it happens.
Progress is visible as it goes. Nothing is a surprise at the end, and you aren’t waiting three weeks wondering.
- 05You own the result.
The code, the accounts, the domain, the content. Always, including if you leave. We don’t hold anything hostage, and a site you can’t take with you was never really yours.
- 06Then we either keep going or we don’t.
Every project ends with an offer to keep it current, and it’s genuinely fine to decline. Some clients take it in house and call us once a year. That’s a good outcome.
Who you’re actually talking to
The same person, all year. Nothing gets handed to a junior team once you’ve signed. When you email, the person who reads it is the person who did the work.
That constrains how many clients we take at once, which is the tradeoff we’ve chosen. It also means we’ll occasionally tell you we can’t start for a few weeks, rather than saying yes and quietly falling behind.
How pricing is shaped
We don’t publish rate cards, because the honest answer to what it costs is that it depends on what’s there. What we’ll commit to is the shape of it.
Ongoing work is quoted for a year and billed monthly, with no setup fee. Project work is fixed. The estimate is the price unless the scope changes, and a scope change gets written down before it happens, not discovered on the invoice.
For public entities, pricing is quoted as an annual not to exceed so it fits a budget line, and the scope of work is written to be attached to a purchase order.
You’ll know the number before you commit to anything.
Ready when you’re
Send the site, the deadline, or the list of things nobody has gotten to.