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The process · async by default · 4–7 days typical

From a sentence,
to a real site,
in writing.

Every step in writing — brief, preview, change requests, sign-off. A live homepage on a real URL by the end of day one, then we iterate by message until you’re ready to ship. Typical build is four to seven business days.

Index of steps

i. Brief Day 0
ii. Preview Day 1
iii. Iterate Day 1–N
iv. Ship Day N
v. Ownership Day N+

The arc · five steps · ~4–7 days

One day each for the load-bearing steps.
Brief, preview, ship
on consecutive days · iterate inbetween

Day 0

The brief

A short form, in writing.

About 20 minutes. Your business in a sentence, what the site needs to do, who it’s for, any existing brand you’ve got. No mood boards, no slide decks, no discovery call. If you’ve picked modules from the pricing page, those carry across.

Quiet facts

Average completed in 17 min.

Day 1

The preview

A live homepage on a real URL.

By end of the next business day, you’ll have a working homepage at a temporary URL — your palette, your copy, your real images where you’ve sent them, placeholders where you haven’t. Click through it on your phone, on a laptop, send the link to a partner. React in writing.

Quiet facts

Real domain attached on Day N.

Day 1–N

Iterate

By message. Loom on request.

Send the next thing you want changed and we’ll do it. We reply within one business day, with a deployed update at the same URL. Most builds settle in two or three rounds; some go longer. A Loom from us if a change needs more context than a screenshot.

Quiet facts

Typical: 2–3 rounds · 4–7 days total.

Day N

Ship

The site goes live on your domain.

You sign off in writing. We connect your domain, run a final QA pass on mobile + desktop, ship the code to production. The temporary URL retires. You get a one-page launch checklist (analytics, search console, redirects) and a Loom tour of your custom admin.

Quiet facts

Mobile + desktop QA · launch checklist · admin tour.

Day N+

Ownership

The lot transfers to your name.

On final payment, the repo, the domain, the hosting account, the admin — all transferred to your name. No platform fee, no per-seat charge, no lock-in. Keep us on a Care plan if you want, or take the lot and run it yourself. See what handover looks like.

Quiet facts

Repo · domain · hosting · admin · contract.

The shape · in plain English

What we do ask for, and what we don\u2019t.

Every async-first promise on the homepage gets boring fast unless it’s specific. Here’s what we actually want from you, and what you never have to give us.

What we ask for.

A sentence about your business
What you do, who it’s for, where you operate. Sketches are fine.
What you want the site to do
Sell, book, inform, prove. Just the verb.
Your existing brand · if you’ve got one
Logo, colours, type. Otherwise we draw a sensible default.
A domain · or willingness to register
Yours, on your registrar, in your name.
Content as it lands
Copy, photos, hours, menus. Placeholders fill the gaps until then.
Final payment before handover
Standard. Code transfers on receipt.

What we don\u2019t.

A discovery call
We work in writing. A Loom from us if it’ll save you time.
A mood board
Send a reference link if you’ve got one. Otherwise we start with sensible defaults.
A 50-page brief
The 20-minute form does it. Add details as they land.
Standups · weekly check-ins
Updates land when work lands. No status-update meetings.
Platform lock-in
The repo is yours. You can take it to any hosting on the planet.
Per-seat or per-edit fees
Edits in your admin are free, forever. No SaaS pricing.

A day in the build · transcribed

What one day actually looks like.

Names changed, edits true. A typical thread from brief sent to preview-shipped is five or six messages — short, asynchronous, with deploys between them.

Total elapsed · 47 hours
Wed · 11:14
Mara
[brief]
“We’re Harbour Clinic, North Sydney. GP + allied health. We need a site people can find on Google, book through, and which doesn’t look like it was made in 2014. Existing logo attached.”
Wed · 11:47
WDT
[ack]
“Got it. Quick read — booking module + base, you’ll be on the bundle (~$1,200). Preview by end of tomorrow at clinicpreview.wdt.au. Anything else?”
Thu · 16:32
WDT
[preview]
“Live preview: clinicpreview.wdt.au. Palette pulled from your logo, copy you sent in. Booking widget is real, just pointed at a sandbox until you give the go-ahead. Reply with thoughts.”
Fri · 09:08
Mara
[iterate]
“Love it. Three things: about page needs the team bios I forgot to send (attached), CTA on home should say Book online not Get in touch, and the green is slightly too dark.”
Fri · 11:21
WDT
[deploy]
“Bios in, CTA swapped, green lightened. Live at the same URL. Want to look once more on Monday or are we close to shipping?”

v · After Day N

The lot transfers to you.

Repo, domain, hosting, admin, sample contract — your name, on final payment. No platform fee, no per-seat. See exactly what handover looks like.

0 · Before Day 0

Start with a sentence.

Twenty minutes of the brief form is enough to get a preview by this time tomorrow. Start a brief →