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A web studio for small businesses

Your website,built first.

We design and build your complete website first. See it live, click through it, then decide. $999 AUD if you love it. $0 if you don’t.

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10+builds in the portfolio
7design directions, all bespoke
5 daysfrom first look to live site
$0to pay before you see it finished

Case study · Live client site

Guru’s Cafeteria, Albury NSW.

A Dean Street café cooking since 2013, with hundreds of five-star reviews and no website of their own. We built the complete site from their real menu, photos and reviews, showed it to them finished, and it’s now live.

  • Bespoke design in the Warm Editorial direction
  • Full menu, story and review wall from their real content
  • Click-to-call, hours and directions
  • Live within days of first look

Some builds start from a message. Others we build first for local businesses we find ourselves. Either way, nobody pays a cent until they’ve clicked around the finished site.

Studio showcases

Built to show the standard.

Demonstration builds for fictional businesses, real code and real pages you can click around. This is the finish your build gets held to.

Same business, two languages

Drag it. Same shop, rebuilt.

We built the same homewares brand twice, in Quiet Luxury and again as a product page. Same photos, same facts, two completely different sites. That’s what “bespoke” means here.

Atelier Mara built in the Apple Product direction
Atelier Mara built in the Quiet Luxury direction
03 · Quiet Luxury07 · Apple Product

Open them full-screen: Quiet Luxury · Apple Product

The process

Agencies sell promises. We show the finished thing.

(01)

We look

We study your business the way a customer would. Your photos, your reviews, your story. Nothing is invented, everything is yours.

(02)

We build

A complete, bespoke website in the direction that fits you. Written in your voice, working on every screen. Not a template.

(03)

You decide

You get the finished site, live on the internet. Love it? $999 AUD and it's yours. Not for you? No hard feelings, no invoice.

What $999 gets you

Every build includes.

Included

Bespoke design

One of seven design directions, chosen for your business and built from scratch. Never a template with your logo dropped in.

Included

Words & photos, done properly

Copy written from your real story and reviews, your photos treated with care.

Included

Polished on every screen

Phone, tablet and desktop, all checked by an independent reviewer before you ever see it.

Included

Forms, maps & click-to-call

Everything a customer needs to reach you, wired in and tested.

From $49 AUD/mo

Hosting & care

Fast, secure hosting with your domain connected, from $49 AUD a month. Want the site actively improved every month? The Growth plan adds updates, fixes and a monthly SEO pass.

Included

Your domain, yours

Bought in your name, connected by us. If you ever leave, everything goes with you.

Add-ons

When you want more.

Each add-on is scoped to your business and quoted separately. No packages, no lock-in, no surprises on the invoice.

Online ordering

Menus, click-and-collect and orders straight from the site, no per-order app fees eating your margin.

Quoted on request

Booking system

Tables, classes or appointments booked online, with confirmations, reminders and a staff dashboard.

Quoted on request

SEO ranking campaign

A proper push up the Google results for the searches your customers actually make, plus AI-search visibility.

Quoted on request

Edit-it-yourself CMS

A private admin page where you change your own text, photos and reviews whenever you like.

Quoted on request

Live Google reviews

Your star rating and review count fetched live from Google and refreshed as new reviews land.

Quoted on request

More pages & locations

Menus, galleries, second sites, whole extra locations. The site grows when you do.

Quoted on request

Want one of these? Mention it when you reply and it’ll be in your quote the same day.

Pricing

One build price. Two ways to keep it.

You only ever pay after you’ve seen your finished website, live, on your phone, exactly as your customers will see it. That isn’t a promotion. It’s just the honest order to do things in.

The build

$999AUDOnce, and only if you love it

A complete bespoke website, built and shown to you finished before any money moves. All prices in Australian dollars. Add-ons like online ordering and SEO campaigns are quoted separately.

  • Bespoke design in one of seven directions
  • Copy written from your real story and reviews
  • Your photos, treated properly
  • Polished on mobile, tablet and desktop
  • Contact forms, maps and click-to-call
  • Domain setup help, owned by you
  • Independent quality review before you see it
  • Live within days, not months

Then pick your monthly plan.

Every site needs a home. Essentials keeps it fast, safe and online. Growth keeps it fresh, found and improving every month.

Essentials

$49AUD / month

Your site, live and safe. Set and forget.

  • Fast hosting on a global edge network
  • SSL certificate, renewed automatically
  • Your domain connected and renewals handled
  • Security patches and platform updates
  • If something breaks, we fix it
  • Cancel anytime, keep everything
Most popular

Growth

$99AUD / month

Your site, actively worked on. Every month.

  • Everything in Essentials, plus:
  • Monthly content updates: menus, prices, photos, hours
  • Priority fixes, same week
  • A monthly SEO pass: rankings checked, metadata tuned
  • Fresh content shaped for Google and AI search
  • A short monthly note on how your site is doing

Both plans are month-to-month with no lock-in. Switch between them anytime, and your domain and content are yours to keep, whatever happens.

Fair questions

The fine print, in plain English.

What exactly does $999 include?

A complete website: bespoke design in one of our seven directions, copy written from your real story and reviews, your photos treated properly, menus or services, hours, maps, contact forms and click-to-call, polished on every screen, live on the internet. Bigger builds with extra pages or systems are quoted as add-ons.

What if it's close, but I want changes?

Tell us what to change and we'll polish it. Reasonable revision rounds are part of the deal, before you've paid anything. You only pay when it feels like yours.

Is $999 really the whole price?

Yes. $999 AUD once for the build, then a monthly plan from $49 AUD to keep it running. No setup fees, no surprise extras, and add-ons are always quoted before any work starts.

What's the difference between the two monthly plans?

Essentials ($49 AUD a month) keeps your site live and safe: hosting, SSL, your domain, security updates, and fixes if anything breaks. Growth ($99 AUD a month) adds monthly content updates, priority fixes and a monthly SEO pass, so the site keeps improving instead of just existing. You can switch between them anytime.

Can I use my existing domain and email?

Yes. We connect the domain you already own, and your email is never touched. If you don't have a domain yet, we help you buy one in your own name.

What if I want to leave?

Hosting is month-to-month and you can cancel anytime. Your domain and your content are yours, and we hand everything over. No lock-in, no hostage-taking.

I already have a website. Does this still work?

Yes. We rebuild it properly and show you the new version live, next to your old one. Same deal: love it and it's $999, otherwise you owe nothing and keep what you have.

How can you build my site before I've sent you anything?

From what's already public: your Google listing, reviews, photos and social pages. Nothing private, nothing invented. If we've built something for your business and you'd rather it didn't exist, one message takes it down.

Contact

Let’s build something extraordinary.

Tell us the name of your business and where you are. We’ll take it from there.

WhatsApp or email · Replies within a day · Australia-wide

Or send it the old-fashioned way

Send your business name and location. We’ll reply within one business day, research the business, and tell you whether we can build a first version.

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