It all happens in your Build Room
A private room we open just for you. Your story goes in, a real website comes back, and the room stays yours after you go live. One email opens it.
This is for starting fresh, when you don’t have a website yet or want to begin again. Already have a site and paying monthly for it? That’s Going Freehold.
Your Build RoomA quiet room where your site gets made
There’s no form and no call. Email us a line or two about who you are, and we reply with a private link to your own room. Inside, it’s a quiet conversation with the studio: one question at a time, a shelf for your photos and documents, and a brief that drafts itself as you talk. No account, no password, nothing to install.
Rather write it all in an email? That works too, and always will. Curious what the room feels like first? Walk through the Open Home, a Build Room with the door open. No email needed, and nothing you type there is stored.
How your site takes shape
Everything happens in your room or your inbox. The only decision that costs you a cent is the last one.
You email us for a room
A line or two about who you are is plenty. That email is the whole application, and your private room link comes back by reply.
You fill your room, at your own pace
Tell your story in plain words and drop your photos and documents on the shelf. A thin room is fine too; we just ask a friendly question or two.
We build your first version, fast
It can be back the same day your room is ready, and never more than a few days. A real multi-page site at a private link, kept out of search engines, with your contact details masked until you go live.
You shape it with us, free, for a week
Ask for changes in your room or by email, as many as you like. We rebuild, send the same link back, and say what changed and why. Around the middle of the week we check in once.
You decide, freely
Keep it for a flat $800, or $400 at our community rate when $800 would genuinely be a stretch, and it goes live in your name, your domain, your email untouched. Or walk away and it comes down the same day, no charge.
Going live is one small step, and the deed is yours
We built your site from scratch, so there’s nothing tangled to migrate. Going live means pointing your web address at the new site, side by side with us, so you understand your own site and are never left stuck.
Your domain stays in your name
Always registered to you, at your own registrar. We never hold it.
Your email is never touched
If you run email at your domain, it keeps working exactly as it does now. We check it before and after.
We can hold it for you, free
Most people ask us to host the site. It costs nothing, and when you want a change you simply email us.
Or run it yourself
Prefer the keys from day one? It can sit on your own free account, with us coaching you through the setup.
After go-live, your room stays open. A batch of changes is $20, done in two to three days, or $35 to jump the queue and have it done the same day. If something on the site is wrong, we fix it for nothing. The promise that never moves is on the next page: nothing monthly, ever.
Ask for your Build Room
One email opens it. Tell us who you are in a line or two, and your private room link comes back by reply. There’s no cost to ask, and saying no later is always fine.