Fewer Middlemen.More of Your Money in the Work.
Most web work is priced for the overhead you never see: account managers, sales teams, and markup on other people's services. With me it is simpler. You get the person who writes the code, an honest price, and a site you fully own.
You deal directly with the developer writing your code. Nothing routes through an account manager or a project coordinator first.
One published rate of $100 an hour, with no agency margin stacked on top. What the work costs is what you pay.
The care plan runs month to month and a build never locks you in. You can leave whenever it stops being worth it.
Nonprofits, veterans, and active-duty military take 20 percent off every service. It applies to builds and to ongoing care alike.
What You Actually Get for Your Money.
Not a knock on agencies, some are great. This is just an honest look at where your budget goes with a big shop versus with one developer.
A rotating team, often with offshore help and handoffs between them.
One developer, start to finish. The person who scopes it is the one who builds it.
Vague estimates and hourly creep that grows as the project drifts.
Fixed scope, written up front. The number I quote is the number that holds.
Page-builder bloat or a bought theme you effectively rent.
Custom-coded and lightweight, so your pages load fast and stay fast.
Locked to their platform, with your content held on their terms.
Yours in full at final payment: the domain, the database, and every file.
Marked up and resold, so you pay a margin on someone else's service.
You pay providers directly at their price, never a margin on someone else's service. That is true wherever an account is in your name. Managed hosting is the one case that works differently and it is my own product, not a resold one: $24.99 or $49.99 a month, published.
Long lock-ins and forced annual renewals that are hard to leave.
No long-term contract. Care plans cancel anytime, no penalty.
Six Ways It Adds Up in Your Favor.
The whole model is built to keep more of your budget in the work itself, and to leave you in control when it ships.
Direct Access
You talk to the developer, every time. No account manager relaying messages, no queue, no game of telephone.
Built, Not Assembled
Custom code instead of page-builder bloat means a faster, lighter site that is easier to keep and cheaper to run.
You Own Everything
Code and content transfer to you at final payment. You are never locked to me to keep your own website running.
Honest Pricing
Fixed-scope quotes, no hourly creep, and no markup on hosting or third-party tools you hold yourself. Managed hosting is my own product at my own price, not a resold plan. You pay for work, not overhead.
No Lock-In
No long-term contracts and no forced renewals. Care plans cancel anytime, effective at the end of the month you paid for.
Honest Timelines
Real dates and real odds, told straight. If something is a long shot or will take longer, you hear it before you spend.
Got a Written Quote? Bring It.
Bring me any legitimate, itemized written quote from a verifiable US-based provider and I will beat it by 10%. Any work, whether I quoted it first or not, and whether you got their quote before you talked to me or after. Same work, lower price, still fixed-scope and still fully owned by you. I verify the quote is genuine and credible for the scope, and I will say so if it is not. Nonprofits, veterans, and active-duty military get 20% off instead, whichever saves you more; discounts do not stack.
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Who I'm a Good Fit For.
I would rather tell you the truth up front than sell you a project that was never right. Here is where I do my best work, and where I don't.
A great fit if you want
- A custom site you own, built to last and to load fast.
- To talk to the person building it, not a middle layer.
- A fair, fixed price and no surprises on the invoice.
- A partner for the long haul, without being locked in to one.
Probably not a fit if you
- Want the cheapest possible template site, fast and disposable.
- Need a large in-house agency team on call around the clock.
- Are looking for guaranteed overnight rankings or growth hacks.
- Prefer to hand it off entirely and never see how it works.
Fair Questions.
The doubts people are too polite to ask out loud, answered plainly.
Isn't one developer riskier than hiring an agency?
How can your prices beat an agency's?
What is the catch with the price-beat guarantee?
Do I have to buy a care plan to work with you?
How do the nonprofit and veteran discounts work?
Let's See If I'm the Right Fit.
Tell me what you need and I will send a real plan and an honest price, usually within one business day. No pressure, no obligation.