[PLEDGE 01]
No platform hostage
You will never have to buy your own website back. If we stop working together, you keep the code, the accounts and the audience.
[About the studio]
Six people.
No layers.
We spent years shipping other people's roadmaps. Gleed is what happens when the people who actually build the sites set the rules.
[Who we are]
Small on purpose.
Gleed is a website studio for e-commerce and IT businesses, working out of New York as a contractor for hire.
We are a team of talented freelancers who got tired of the agency middle layer and built a studio instead. Two senior full-stack developers write the code. Four designers shape how it looks and how it sells. There is no fifth floor of people to route your email through.
The name comes from Old English glēd — a glowing ember, the live coal at the base of a fire. Small, quiet, and the reason everything above it burns. That is roughly our theory of a website: it should not be the loudest thing you own, it should be the thing that keeps the rest going.
We build sites, keep them running, fix what breaks fast, run local marketing and ad campaigns, produce promo video, manage social media, and handle bookkeeping and tax calculation. What we hand over at the end is not access to our platform — it is your code.
[01]
Six people, no layersTwo senior full-stack developers and four designers. You talk to the person building the thing, not to an account manager relaying it.
[02]
A price before the workScope, revision count, timeline and payment schedule are written down and signed before a single file is created. No change orders you didn't see coming.
[03]
Everything in your nameDomain, hosting, analytics, ad accounts and the repository are registered to you. Leaving us costs you a password change, not a rebuild.
[04]
We stay after launchCare, local growth and social media run monthly with stated limits — hours, platforms, response time. No open-ended retainers.
[PLEDGE 02]
No mystery pricing
Every number lives on the pricing page or in your written quote. Nothing is “depends on scope” after the scope is signed.
[PLEDGE 03]
No silent failure
Forms, checkouts and enquiries are monitored. If something stops capturing leads, you hear it from us first, not from your customers.
[Next step]
Tell us what you are building.
The brief takes about four minutes. You get a package recommendation and a fixed quote back — not a discovery call to book another call.