Web development

Sites, stores and apps that load in under a second and don't need us to update.

The delivery layer for everything else we do. Custom-built, fast by default, and yours to keep: code, CMS and hosting.

This page: 308ms to first paint. The site is the proof.
The Menu

Three things we build.

01 pre-rendered or WordPress

Websites.

Marketing sites, pre-rendered by default: sub-second loads, practically free hosting, nothing to patch, editable by your team. WordPress when it's the right call.

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02 Shopify under the hood

eCommerce.

Shopify under the hood, a storefront that's actually yours. Fully headless or theme builds.

See eCommerce
03 AI-ready by default

Web & mobile apps.

Portals, dashboards, booking systems, internal tools, and the app your team carries. Built around how you work; AI-ready by default.

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Behind the Counter

Why builds still matter to us.

Every AI system needs an interface, and every growth plan needs pages that load and get cited. Building is not what we lead with any more; it's what makes the rest real.

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the delivery layer
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Price List

Ranges.

Price List
Websites
from $9,000
Headless ecommerce typically $18–35k
from $15,000
Shopify theme build
from $9,000
Web & mobile apps typically $20–45k
from $15,000
Care plan
from $250/month

What moves the price within those ranges:

  • number of page templates and integrations
  • CMS and content-migration complexity
  • custom logic vs. configuration
  • how much design is from scratch

Fixed quote after a scoping call. No calculator; the interesting variables are never on a form.

Fresh Out

Recently served.

Fresh Out
Cheeky Kiwi Travel website
App Cheeky Kiwi Travel Booking platform on Rezdy, 10s to under 2s, conversion rate up 37%.
Fiducian website
Site Fiducian ASX-listed financial services, 340 pages, published by their own team.
Made Quiet website
Store Made Quiet Headless Shopify store in six days. First sale in week one, 33% conversion rate.
Nilkick website
App Nilkick Free scanner to paid launch engine, extension and API, in nine weeks.
Wingboy website
Site Wingboy 27s to 0.7s. Same content, new build.
POP Local website
Site POP Local Headless Shopify store and the portal that pays 343 makers.
Fair Questions

Ask away.

Seven questions that come up before a brief. Prices are in the ranges above; the detailed figures sit in the website cost guide and the Shopify cost guide, two of our guides. Something else? Ask us.

Website, store or app: which one do we need?

If people mostly read about you and then call, email or book, it's a website, and a booking widget or a form handles the rest. If you sell products with a cart and a checkout, it's a store, on Shopify. If people log in, if staff process things behind the scenes, or if the site has to talk to your CRM, calendar or accounting, it's an app. Plenty of projects are two of the three: a store with a maker portal (POP Local), a website with a booking engine underneath (Cheeky Kiwi Travel). Tell us the situation and we'll tell you which.

What do you build with, and why?

Pre-rendered sites on SvelteKit or Astro, edited in CloudCannon or Sanity, hosted on Cloudflare. Stores on Shopify, as a custom theme or a headless storefront on Shopify's Storefront API. Apps on SvelteKit and Cloudflare Workers, with the database that fits the job. The common thread: pages built ahead of time and served from the edge, so nothing runs when a visitor lands, and everything sits in your own accounts. WordPress when your team already runs it and the plugins matter more than the speed.

Do you design, or only build?

Both. Most projects start from a blank page with us: structure, copy direction, layouts and the build, with illustration or animation brought in when the brand calls for it. If you already have a designer or a finished Figma file, we build from that and stay out of the way. How much design starts from scratch is one of the four things that move the price, so say which you need when you get in touch.

Can you take over a site or store someone else built?

Yes, if you want us to. We take over codebases built by other agencies, and a good part of our performance and technical SEO work is on sites we didn't build. What we won't do is patch a platform that is the problem: if a page-builder theme or a plugin stack is why it's slow, we'll say so and quote the rebuild against the fix, with numbers for both.

What's included in a quote?

Everything to launch: design, build, the CMS set up with your content types, content migration, a redirect map from every old address, page titles and structured data, images resized and served from a CDN, forms wired to your inbox, a performance check on the live site, and a training session for whoever will edit it. Not included unless you ask: copywriting, photography and paid-media setup.

What happens after launch?

Every project comes with twelve months of care at no charge: we monitor it, apply the updates it needs and fix anything that breaks. After that, a pre-rendered site keeps running on its own; if you want ongoing changes and a monthly speed report, that is what the care plan is for.

Do you build on Webflow, Squarespace or Wix?

No. They're fine tools for a first site, and if your needs and budget fit one we'll tell you so. We come in when a business has outgrown them: the template fights every change, the pages are slow on phones, or the platform fee and the plugins add up to more than a build. Creative Resort moved from Squarespace to a pre-rendered site their own team now edits; more than half of every change to it since the first commit is theirs.