[Menu]

[One-off build]

Compass.
$765.

Coffee shops, salons, local services. These are the businesses people look up on a phone while standing outside, deciding whether to come in.

[How much]
$765
[How long]
Max 72H
[What you keep]
Code · domain · accounts
[Who builds it]
2 developers, 4 designers

[Everything on this row]

  1. [01]

    What you get

    • Up to 3 pages
    • enquiry form
    • map & basic search setup

    The enquiry form is the part that pays for itself. A message arrives in the inbox you already read, with the fields you actually need answered — what they want, when, and how to reach them — so nobody is decoding a voicemail left in a car park. The map is the real pin rather than a picture of one, and tapping it opens walking directions on the phone that tapped it. Basic search setup is the plumbing that lets you be found under your own name: every page carries a title and a description written for a person searching, the site is submitted rather than left to be noticed, and nothing about it is hidden from the people looking.

  2. [02]

    What it costs

    Offers do not stack. You always get the lowest eligible price.

    Double priority costs 30% on top — $230 on this row — and your build takes the next free slot ahead of standard work, which halves Compass's cap to 36 hours. It buys a position in the queue, not corners cut: the page count, the revision rounds and the signed scope are exactly the ones you would have had at the standard price.

  3. [03]

    How long it takes, and what the clock counts

    [Max 72H][48h for Switchboard members]

    Turnaround is counted from the moment we accept the brief, not from the moment you send it. 72H is the longest the studio will take on Compass at the scope above — it is a cap, not an average, and it belongs to this row rather than to the studio.

    Time the studio spends waiting on you — content, access, approvals, an answer to a question — does not count against it. The terms are in the offer, in the clause about the clock.

  4. [04]

    What happens, day by day

    1. [01 · The brief]You tell us what the business is and what each page is for. Most of this row is decided here: which pages exist, and what the form has to ask.
    2. [02 · The quote]A price and a written scope come back with the pages named in it. A page nobody named is a page two people argue about later.
    3. [03 · The first instalment]The instalment clears, the studio accepts, and the cap starts running from our side of it.
    4. [04 · The build]The pages are built, the form is wired to your inbox and tested with a real message that has to arrive, and the map is set on the door customers actually walk through.
    5. [05 · The revision round]You see the whole site on its own address and mark what is wrong across all of it in one pass, rather than page by page across a week. This row publishes no number of rounds, so nobody invents one: the count is written into the quote before anything starts, and it is agreed there rather than assumed.
    6. [06 · Handover]The hosting, the domain and the inbox the enquiries land in are yours, and the passwords were never the studio's to keep.
  5. [05]

    What you have to give us

    The words for each page, or the notes to write them from — a menu, a price list and a list of services are all copy, and they are the copy customers actually read. Your opening hours, and the address exactly as it is written on the door, because that is the version search engines have to match. A logo file. Photographs of the room and of the work. The inbox enquiries should land in, and the name of whoever checks it. And one person who signs off: a form approved by three people is a form nobody has approved. The clock stops while any of that is outstanding, which is the whole reason the cap is a cap on the studio's work rather than on the calendar.

  6. [06]

    What is not included

    • What is on the menu and what it costs. The studio lays it out; you decide it.
    • Booking that takes a slot and a deposit, and payments taken on the site. Both are the row above.
    • Photography and stock image licences.
    • Managing your Google Business Profile, your reviews or your ads. That is ongoing work, so it is a monthly plan and not a build.
    • Changes after handover, beyond the revision agreed in the quote.

    None of that is a refusal, and none of it is priced by surprise. Work beyond the scope on this row is new work, and it is quoted and agreed the same way before it begins — the offer says so in the clause about what you are buying.

  7. [07]

    Marker or Atlas instead?

    Choose Compass the moment a menu, a price list or a services page needs an address of its own, and you would rather enquiries arrived written down than as a missed call.

    • Markerone page, $395Choose Marker when one screen carries the whole offer and the next thing you want from a visitor is a phone call.
    • Atlasup to 8 pages, $1,530Choose Atlas when several services carry several prices, you want a deposit taken on the spot, and the enquiry has to land in whatever you already run the business from.
  8. [08]

    After launch

    The form is the thing worth watching: an enquiry that silently stops arriving is an order you never hear about. A plan is somebody checking the site is up, the mail is landing and the software under it is current.

    Switchboard is also the plan that earns the member price above: while it is active, Compass is $693 against its $1,260 list price, which is 45% off. What each plan covers and what each costs is on the monthly page.

  9. [09]

    The terms

    Payment is in two instalments: the first when the studio accepts your brief and the price and scope are fixed, the second on delivery, before the site is handed over. Work does not begin before the first one clears, and nothing is owed until the brief has been accepted. The split is printed in the offer, in the clause about payment.

    Your code, your domain, your accounts — yours from day one. The studio registers nothing in its own name: at handover the code, the domain, the hosting, the analytics and the ad accounts are in your name and under your control, whether or not you stay on a monthly plan afterwards.