Websites, stores and apps · Built in 14 days
Agencies quote you eight to twenty weeks and fifty thousand dollars, then hand back an MVP you still cannot ship. We build the finished thing — real code, your own accounts, live payments, both app stores — and we do it in a fortnight. Half up front, half when you approve it.
US-based team in Enfield, Connecticut
A live Zoom call, then you sign, then we start
You own the code and every account
Thirty seconds
Every “after” in this is a real product we built and still run — not a mockup and not a stock template. The portal section is a recording of the live software. Sound on.
What we build
$750
Delivered in 7 days
As many pages as the business actually needs, a CMS so you can post without calling us, working forms and page-by-page SEO. Video, animation, custom graphics — if you want it in there, it goes in. Built in your own account, not rented from ours.
$1,450
7 days · 50 products included
A Shopify store on your own account. Coded theme sections and animation rather than a stock template, collections and product pages, cart and checkout, shipping zones and tax rules, payments connected, and SEO written page by page. Your first fifty products go in as part of the build — entered properly, with images, variants and SKUs, not dumped from a spreadsheet.
$4,500
14 days · Stripe included
The website, plus software behind it that your team or your partners log into. Real accounts and permissions, a proper database, and dashboards built around the numbers you actually care about — leads, installs, commissions, whatever the business runs on. Stripe is wired in and your entire pricing model built out in it, included in this figure rather than quoted at you later.
$8,500
14 days · all payments included
The web version and both mobile apps from one codebase. Accounts, backend, push notifications, offline handling, and real native builds submitted to Apple and Google under your own developer accounts. Stripe on the web, RevenueCat for in-app purchases, every product and price built out in both store consoles, and both submissions — all of it inside the $8,500. You still pay Apple $99 a year and Google $25 once, because an app on somebody else's account is not really yours.
These are the published prices for the scope we agree on the call. Taking payments is already inside them — Stripe on the web app and app tiers, RevenueCat and both store submissions on the app tier. A price can move if the build needs paid third-party licensing, or if you add enhancements beyond what we scoped. If that happens you get the new number in writing before any of that work starts, never after.
Proof, not a portfolio of mockups
Every one of these is our own. That matters, because it means we are not showing you work we handed off and never touched again — we are showing you things we still maintain, pay the hosting bills for, and get support emails about.
Native app · iOS and Android
A reentry app in both stores. Accounts and auth, a 27-step checklist, calendar with push reminders for court dates and check-ins, document vault, resume builder with PDF export, a live job board fed by a licensed national feed, AI features metered by credits, Stripe on the web and in-app purchases on mobile, and a full Spanish translation of the entire product.
This is the one to look at if you are wondering what "not an MVP" means.
Visit freeandforward.com →CRM and partner portal
An advertiser and affiliate portal on its own database. Partner accounts with role-based access, offer and commission tracking down to sub-affiliate level, install and conversion attribution, server-side functions doing the work the browser should not, and lead capture from the marketing site landing straight in the CRM.
If you need partners, reps or franchisees logging into something, this is the shape of it.
Visit crossbrandmedia.com →Marketing site · CMS · SEO
Seventeen pages, service and industry pages written for search rather than stuffed with keywords, a CMS-driven article section, a working enquiry form, and per-page titles and descriptions done by hand. Built and published in a day.
Visit summitcallsolutions.com →Content site · Publishing
A guides and resource property built to publish steadily and rank over time — clean templates, a structure that scales past a hundred articles without turning into a mess, and editing simple enough that the person writing does not need a developer.
Visit proofguides.com →Ecommerce · Shopify
A live Shopify store selling automatic laminating systems. Twenty-five products across four machine lines, each with its own film SKUs, roll sizes and finishes loaded as proper variants rather than separate listings. Coded theme sections and animation instead of a stock template, collections structured so a buyer lands on the right machine, and SEO written page by page.
Visit expresslamination.com →What it costs to keep running
Every account is opened in your name, on your card. We do not resell hosting, we do not mark up infrastructure, and we do not hold your product hostage on our accounts. Here is roughly what a real one costs to run each month.
$17–27
per month, paid by you
A hosting plan and a domain. That is genuinely all a site needs.
$72–98
per month, paid by you
Hosting, database, background jobs, transactional email, error monitoring.
$99–136
per month, plus $25 once to Google
All of the above, plus build infrastructure and the Apple developer programme.
Search
Every site and every app we build ships with the technical search work already done, page by page. What nobody can sell you is speed — Google decides that, and it takes months.
Semantic markup with one H1 per page. Meta titles and descriptions written page by page, not generated from a template. Open Graph and Twitter cards so links look right when they are shared. JSON-LD structured data, canonical URLs, a sitemap, robots directives, image alt text, and pages fast enough to pass Core Web Vitals. Apps get the same treatment on every public route.
Google has to find the site, crawl it, index it, and then watch it long enough to decide it is worth trusting. For most businesses that is roughly six months before the pages really populate, and longer in a crowded market. Nothing about paying more shortens it, and the clock only starts once the site is actually live.
We do not sell rankings, because nobody can deliver them. Anyone guaranteeing page one in thirty days is either buying ads and calling it SEO, or ranking you for phrases nobody types. Do not get sold on that. What we guarantee is that the foundation is built correctly, so when the months pass the site is in a position to rank instead of quietly failing to.
How the fourteen days go
Most agency timelines are not development time. They are waiting time — for a discovery workshop, for a design committee, for a sprint to start. We take that out and keep the building.
Days 1–2
Every screen and every rule, written down and signed off. This is the document the price is attached to, and it is the reason the fourteen days holds. Anything added after this is quoted before it is built.
Days 3–5
You see the real screens, not a moodboard. The database is designed at the same time, because the two decide each other.
Days 6–12
You get a working version on your own phone from about day six, and it gets better daily. No four-week silence ending in a reveal.
Days 13–14
Two rounds of revisions are already in the price. Then the code, the accounts and the store submission are handed to you.
The fourteen days is to a finished, approved build. App Store review is Apple's clock, not ours — usually a day or two, occasionally longer, and no honest developer will promise you a review date.
Terms, in one paragraph
After the call you decide what you want, we write the scope, and you sign it. We then invoice the deposit through Stripe. That is the day the fourteen days starts counting, not the day you first emailed us. Once we begin building, the deposit is non-refundable.
Not on delivery — on approval. You look at the finished thing, you run it, and you tell us it matches what we agreed. The balance is invoiced through Stripe at that point. Everything is built in your own accounts the whole way, so you can watch it happen; the source repository is handed over once the balance clears.
Inside the build window, at no extra cost. Changes of mind about things already built and signed off are new scope, and we will quote them before doing them.
Edits are $125 an hour, or $1,000 for a ten-hour block. Care plans start at $149 a month. Nothing is compulsory and you can walk away owning everything.
A short call is enough to tell you whether it fits in fourteen days and what it will cost. If it does not fit, we will say so and tell you what would.
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