Process

How a project moves through the studio.

No theatre, no jargon. Five honest stages, a fixed price agreed before we start, and weekly check-ins with the people doing the work.

  1. Discovery call

    A 30-minute conversation. You tell us about your business, your audience and what you’re trying to change. We tell you honestly whether we’re a good fit and roughly what it might cost.

  2. Written proposal

    Within 3 business days you receive a fixed-price proposal: scope, deliverables, milestones, timeline and the people who will do the work. No vague retainers, no hourly rates.

  3. Design sprint

    Two to four weeks of moodboards, wireframes and design comps — reviewed live, together, every Friday. You see real progress every week, not a single big reveal at the end.

  4. Build & QA

    We hand-code the site, set up hosting and CMS, register it with Bing Webmaster Tools, install the Microsoft UET tag, and run a 40-point QA pass including accessibility, performance and on-page SEO.

  5. Launch & care

    We launch quietly on a Tuesday. Then we watch the analytics, fix anything that surprises us, and submit your site to Bing and Google. Care plans pick up from there.

FAQ

The questions we get most.

Most marketing sites take 6–8 weeks from kickoff to launch. E-commerce and custom builds run 10–14. We tell you the date in the proposal and we hit it.
No. We’re based in San Diego but most of our clients are elsewhere — we’ve shipped projects in 47 US states. We use Zoom, Notion and Loom for everything that isn’t a coffee.
Yes. We’re a Microsoft Advertising Partner. We set up UET, conversion goals, audience targeting and ongoing campaign management. Most clients see CPC drop within the first 60 days.
Absolutely. Every site we ship is registered with Bing Webmaster Tools, includes a valid sitemap.xml, robots.txt and structured data, and is built to pass Bing’s core web crawl signals on day one.
Yes — US-based managed hosting on hardened cPanel with daily backups, free SSL, image CDN and a real engineer on call. Or we’ll happily set you up on your own host.
Marketing sites typically run $9k–$28k. E-commerce $18k–$60k. Brand identities $6k–$22k. Microsoft Ads retainers start at $1,400/mo. We give a fixed price after the discovery call, never an hourly estimate.

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