Web agency alternative
The Web Agency Alternative
Agencies charge upfront and take weeks. We send a design in hours and refund you if you do not approve it.
Point for point
Every row below is a fact you can check yourself, not our opinion.
Weeks, sometimes months, with review rounds and sign-off meetings stacked between them. Every one of those weeks is a week you are not being found.
Hours to your design, and the build follows straight after you approve it, not a launch date next quarter.
Usually thousands, and the number moves once the scope does. Change requests after sign-off are billed.
A fixed build fee, quoted before we start, with no scope creep attached to it.
A deposit upfront, before you have seen anything at all, and it is rarely refundable if the design comes back wrong.
One fixed fee upfront, and it is fully refundable right up until you approve the design. Walk away at any point before that and you get all of it back.
Wireframes and static mockups, which is a hard thing to judge a website by. What it feels like on a phone comes much later.
A real design for your actual business, in your hands within hours rather than weeks, and changed as many times as it takes before a line of it is built.
Discovery calls, briefing documents, feedback rounds and sign-off meetings, all in your working hours.
About two minutes. Send a document about your business and your photos.
Usually a fixed number of revision rounds, with anything beyond them quoted as extra work.
Unlimited on Full Website, and you still have not paid anything while you make them.
A separate retainer, or you are on your own until you commission and pay for the next piece of work.
24/7 chat included with the people who built it, so a small change is a message rather than a purchase order.
A separate line item, a separate specialist, or simply not in scope; plenty of sites launch without either.
Included on Full Website, as part of the same build.
Why people move
The reasons we hear most often from owners who came to us from a traditional web agency.
I was quoted thousands and asked for a deposit before seeing anything
It has been three weeks and I have seen one wireframe
I need the site live now, not next quarter
I do not have time for four meetings about a six-page website
The quote did not include the Google listing or any SEO
Send your current pages as the starting document. From $199, and you approve the design before we build.
Switching from a traditional web agency
Because the slow part of an agency build is the process, not the coding. Discovery calls, proposals, wireframe approvals and design sign-off take the weeks; writing the site does not. We replace all of that with a document you already have and a design you either approve or send back with notes, usually the same day: one round of your attention instead of six weeks of meetings.
You do not have to take our word for it, which is the point: it is hand-written code by a developer, not a template with your logo dropped in, and you judge the design within hours, while your fee is still fully refundable. An agency takes a deposit you cannot get back and shows you a wireframe second. If what you actually need is bespoke functionality or original brand identity work, we will tell you to hire an agency rather than take the job.
Tell us and we change it, as many times as it takes; the design exists to be picked apart. If it never gets to something you are happy with, you do not approve it and you ask for your money back: the fee is refundable in full until the moment you approve. That is not a sentence anyone says after handing an agency a deposit.
Yes, standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript on hosting you control, in a repository you own. Hand it to any developer, move it anywhere, redesign it whenever you like. The difference against an agency is not what you end up owning, it is that you did not pay thousands and wait a quarter to get there.
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Send a doc and we hand-code it, or start from a kit and build it yourself
- Nothing built until you approve the design
- Live on your own domain
- Real code, yours to keep