Sometimes a website is not the thing you need.
The standard plan is for a business that needs to be found: your menu, your hours, your prices, your phone number. If what you have in mind is a booking system, a platform, a tool your staff would use every day, or a game, that is different work. It gets a conversation and a written price, not a plan you pick off a page.
Quite a lot of it is buildable.
A rough idea of what fits here. If yours is not on the list, that is not a no. It only means the answer takes a phone call rather than a page.
Booking and ordering
- Take reservations without paying a commission on every cover
- Order-ahead and in-store pickup for a shop or kitchen
- Appointment booking for a salon, garage or clinic
- Tickets or places for classes, tastings and events
Platforms and tools
- A members’ or customers’ area behind a login
- A directory or marketplace connecting two sides
- An internal tool that replaces a spreadsheet nobody trusts
- A dashboard that pulls your numbers into one place
Games and the unusual
- A browser game, a playable promotion or a prototype
- An interactive map, quiz or configurator
- Something for a museum, festival or exhibition
- An idea you cannot quite classify. Bring it anyway
No surprises, in either direction.
You describe the problem
Tell us what is going wrong rather than what you think should be built. What is slow, what is costing you money, what you find yourself doing by hand every week. An email or a phone call is enough to start.
You get a yes or a no
We say whether this is work for us. We also say if something off the shelf would do the job better and cost you less, and roughly what building this would involve. If the answer is “don’t build this”, you get it.
A written scope and a fixed price
Before any work starts you get what it does, what it does not do, when it lands and what it costs. You see it as it is built, not at the end.
Quoted per project, in writing, before anything starts.
This work is not on the standard plan. A small, well-defined build is a one-time fee. Something you will keep running and changing usually works better as a build fee plus an ongoing arrangement for hosting and upkeep, which runs the same way the standard plan does, at a level that matches the thing.
So you can work out whether it is worth starting the conversation: a small, well-defined build, meaning one clear job, a handful of screens and no unusual plumbing, is usually CA$1,500 to CA$4,500. What moves it inside that range, or above it, is how much is still undecided, how many moving parts there are (payments, logins, talking to a system you already use), and how much existing data has to be carried across. Ongoing hosting and upkeep, if the thing needs it, is quoted next to that figure and agreed at the same time.
Your real figure is fixed in writing, along with the scope, before any work starts. It does not move afterwards unless you ask for something that was not in it. Prices in Canadian dollars, plus GST/HST where it applies.
- The scope and the price are written down before anything starts
- You are told if an existing product would do it better and cheaper
- No commitment is asked for during the conversation
- Talking it through costs you nothing
- Work at a scale that needs an agency behind it
- Anything handling medical, financial or otherwise regulated data
- A rebuild of something you already get for free elsewhere
- A deadline we do not believe we can meet
Saying no to the wrong project is how we stay able to look after the right ones.
Describe the problem.
A paragraph is plenty. What the thing would do, who would use it, and roughly when you need it. You get our view of whether it is worth building at all, and whether it is work for us. Nothing is committed on either side by asking.