Pricing
Most shops hide their pricing or send you a "reach out for a quote." Mine's all here, on one page. Builds, care plans, hourly. You'll know the floor before you call. The exact quote comes after a short conversation about what you actually need.
Builds
Six build tiers covering everything from a focused three-page site to native Windows software. "From $X" is the real floor, not a teaser. Larger scope, more integrations, faster timelines, or specific tooling shift the number up. See/services for the full description of each tier.
Essentials
3 focused pages
A clean, fixed-scope launch. Mobile-first, contact form wired up, hosted and live. Usually in about a week.
From $1,000
Starter
Small service businesses wanting a fuller multi-page presence than Essentials
A simple custom site.
From $1,500
Standard
Established small businesses with a real story to tell
A real working site.
From $3,000
Pro
Resorts, professional practices, established businesses with content to migrate
A multi-section site or a real rebuild.
From $5,000
Custom
Businesses that need the site to actually run operations, not just describe them
Web software that runs the business.
From $7,500
Windows desktop app
Shop-floor or field work where the cloud is the wrong tool
Native software for the shop floor.
From $4,500
Every price is a starting point. The full quote follows in writing within a business day, line by line, after a short scoping call.
Care plans
A website is software. Software that isn't maintained breaks. The care plan is how the site stays watched, updated, and fixable instead of going stale a month after launch. The first three months are included free with every build, then it's month-to-month after that. You can cancel any time.
For sites that just need to stay alive.
$99/mo
The minimum care a real site needs to not break or quietly rot.
The default for most business sites.
$179/mo
Everything in Basic, plus a real bucket of monthly time and faster turnaround. The plan most builds attach.
For e-commerce, Stripe, and busier sites.
$299/mo
For sites that handle money, customers, or moving parts that need real attention every month.
Want to self-host instead?
That works. Handoff docs are available on request. You take the build, handle your own hosting, security, and updates. Any change later is hourly. Most clients pick a care plan instead because the headache isn't worth the savings, but the door stays open.
Beyond the plan
Work past your care plan's monthly bucket, or any change to a site that isn't on a plan, is $125/hr. Billed in 15-minute blocks, with a real quote up front for anything substantial. Genuinely small fixes -- a typo, a phone number, a price -- don't get billed. That part's on me. It isn't worth either of our time.
Common questions
Real answers to the questions that come up most. If yours isn't here, the contact form gets a same-day reply.
A focused 3-page Essentials site starts at $1,000. A four-to-six page Starter starts at $1,500. A real working 8-to-12 page Standard site -- the most common pick for an established small business -- starts at $3,000. Larger or more complex builds go up from there: Pro at $5,000, fully custom web software at $7,500, native Windows apps at $4,500. The exact quote follows a short conversation about what you actually need. Every number on this page is a real floor, not a teaser price.
A Wix or Squarespace site costs less upfront because you're paying for a template someone else built and adapted to your business. Custom code -- Next.js, in this case -- costs more because the site is built for your business, not adapted from a generic mold. It loads faster, ranks better on Google, integrates with the tools you actually use, and doesn't break when the template company changes their pricing or terms. For most local small businesses, the difference pays for itself within a year or two through search performance alone.
Essentials usually goes up in about a week. Starter is two to three weeks. Standard is four to six weeks. Pro and Custom builds take longer -- six weeks to a few months depending on scope. Solo operator means timelines are measured in weeks, not days. The trade-off is that the same person who scopes the project builds it and supports it afterward. No handoffs, no dropped context.
No. The first three months of a care plan are included free with every build, so you get to try the relationship before deciding. After that, continuing is opt-out, not required. Most clients keep theirs because the site stays maintained, monitored, and getting fixed when something breaks -- but the door is open either way. If you want a clean one-and-done, that's available too.
After the included three months, care plans are month-to-month. You can cancel any time with no penalty. There's a 5% discount available if you prepay annually, but that's voluntary and reversible. No 12-month lock-in, no automatic renewal traps.
That works. Handoff documentation is available on request. You take the build, handle your own hosting, security, and updates after launch. Any change later is billed hourly at $125/hr. Most clients pick a care plan instead because the headache of running their own hosting isn't worth the savings, but the option stays open from day one.
Yes, as part of a build. Logo design or a brand mark runs $500 to $1,000 added to your build scope. I don't do logo-only work as a standalone offering -- the moat is in the websites and the software, and logos make more sense bundled with the build they're going on.
Yes, case by case. The brand and the marketing are focused on Northern Minnesota because that's where the heritage and the local trust are strongest, but if a project from elsewhere fits well, we talk. Geography isn't the disqualifier -- scope, complexity, and fit with a one-person solo operation are the real questions.
The tiers are starting floors, not a rigid menu. If you need a 7-page site, that's still Starter or Standard depending on complexity. If you need something genuinely custom (a customer portal, a booking dashboard, a Windows app for the shop floor), that's the Custom tier or the Windows app tier. The conversation sorts out which one your project actually is.
Yes. The /work page has the case studies. Aurora Waters and Tours is the anchor -- a full custom Next.js site for a Voyageurs Park resort. Laser Job Manager is a native Windows desktop app built for a metal-engraving shop. Powell's Septic is a clean Starter-tier build for a local service business. More projects are in the pipeline.
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