Most agency pricing pages describe a vibe. Craft, partnership, a considered presence, a process with four capitalised nouns. None of it tells you what arrives.
This page describes a deliverable. What is included in a $10,000 website, what happens in what order, what you personally have to do during it, and what ends up in your name at the end. Every claim here is checkable against the build itself, which is the point.
The ten things that get built
They fall into three groups, and the groups matter more than the count.
The site itself
Up to five pages, designed as one system rather than five separate jobs. Mobile optimisation across every screen size, not a desktop layout that survives being squeezed. Brand styling applied consistently, so type, colour and spacing behave the same way on every page a visitor lands on.
The parts that make it work
Spam-protected contact forms wired to your inbox. CMS editing, so copy and images change without anyone touching code. An SEO foundation covering semantic markup, metadata and a sitemap. Performance engineering, because a site that loads slowly loses the visitors before the design gets a chance to do anything.
The parts that happen at the end
Deployment live under your domain. Ownership transfer into your account. Then 30 days of post-launch support, which covers the questions and small corrections that only surface once real people start using the site.
The six steps, and what you actually do during them
Agencies publish their process. Almost none of them publish your half of it, which is the half that determines how long the project takes.
- 01. Reserve. We: We secure a production slot and confirm the start date. You: You place the reservation and clear your calendar for the planning session.
- 02. 45-minute Framework Planning session. We: We ask about business, messaging, goals and content, and we write the answers down. You: You talk, and you decide. This is the session everything else inherits from, so it is the one to show up prepared for.
- 03. Design. We: We produce the first strategic design from the direction settled in planning. You: You wait. This step needs nothing from you.
- 04. Review. We: We walk you through the design and the reasoning behind each decision. You: You review, request revisions, and approve the direction.
- 05. Build. We: We complete the site and prepare it for launch. You: You supply any final assets and confirm domain access.
- 06. Launch. We: We deploy the site live and transfer ownership. You: You accept the account transfer, and the site is yours.
The 45 minutes at the start is the product. The rest is execution.
What ends up in your name
Transferred to you
The website, the content, the domain, the platform account, and future control of all of it.
Mechanically, that means the account moves into your name. You can hire anyone to work on the site, move it somewhere else, rebuild it, or do nothing with it for three years. None of that requires our permission, our participation, or a conversation with us first. If an agency cannot describe this step in one sentence, ask why.
What is not included
Hosting is billed by your provider, starting at $252 per year, billed by your provider. We do not resell it or mark it up.
Updates after the 30-day window are yours to make in the CMS, or quoted separately if they need engineering. Ecommerce, memberships, custom applications and enterprise scope are different products, not add-ons. Copywriting is included, but as collaborative work inside the Framework session rather than as a separate content engagement with its own rounds and its own invoice.
What it costs and how it is paid
$10,000 in full, or $1,000 today plus nine monthly payments. Early payoff is allowed at any point and costs nothing extra. Ownership transfers at launch once the balance is paid.
If you would rather not own it
Orbit is $300 to start and $300 per month, with the same five pages and the same Framework, operated by us instead of handed to you. Article 05 shows the full arithmetic on that, including where it costs more over time, and the Orbit page has the configuration.