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Outsource Web Development Without the Rework Cycle

Stop managing offshore developers and start receiving finished projects -- fixed price, fixed scope, code you own outright.

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$4,800 -- $18,000
Typical project range
Fixed price, full delivery
28 days
Average time to launch
From kickoff to production
100% yours
Code ownership
Full repo, credentials, assets
What does it actually mean to outsource web development?

It means handing off web design, front-end build, back-end logic, or full-stack delivery to an external team instead of hiring in-house. The answer that matters is not whether to outsource -- most companies already do -- but which model to pick. There are four realistic options: a solo freelancer (cheap, fragile, no backup if they vanish), an offshore body-shop billing hourly (you manage the work, quality swings wildly), a staff-augmentation marketplace where you hire and manage a vetted developer by the hour, or a fixed-price agency that owns the entire delivery from design through launch. We run the last model. For a defined project -- a marketing site, a SaaS front-end, a headless e-commerce build -- fixed-price usually wins because the total cost is knowable before you start. For ongoing, open-ended capacity where scope shifts weekly, a marketplace like Toptal or Proxify can genuinely be the better fit. Honesty here saves everyone money. The real danger is the cheap-offshore trap: $25/hr sounds great until $8,000 in rework wipes out the savings.

What is holding your current website back?

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

Hourly billing with no cap means every revision, bug fix, and scope question adds to your invoice unpredictably.
Risk: We have seen projects quoted at $6,000 hourly end up at $14,000 after scope creep and rework. Fixed-price removes that math entirely.
Offshore teams in distant timezones compress your feedback loop to one round per day -- sometimes less.
Risk: A two-week sprint stretches to five weeks when async lag compounds. That delay costs you launch revenue and SEO indexing time.
You hire a developer through a marketplace but still have to manage tickets, review code, and make design decisions yourself.
Risk: Unless you have a technical lead in-house, managing a remote dev burns 8-12 hours per week of founder time worth far more than the hourly rate saved.
Cheap offshore code ships without tests, accessibility, or performance budgets -- and you discover it post-launch.
Risk: Rework after launch typically costs 2-3x what it would have cost to build correctly. Lighthouse scores below 60 also tank your organic rankings.
Unclear IP ownership leaves you dependent on the vendor for hosting, updates, and even your own source code.
Risk: We have onboarded clients locked into proprietary CMS setups where migrating away cost $5,000-$10,000 just to extract their own content.
No SEO baked into the build means the site launches pretty but invisible -- zero organic traffic for months.
Risk: Retrofitting technical SEO after a full build adds $2,000-$4,000 in audit and refactoring work. Building it in from sprint one costs nothing extra.

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Get a fixed price before any work begins -- scope, design, build, and launch included

We scope every project in a paid discovery phase ($400-$800) and quote a single number. If we miss, we absorb the overage -- not you.

Receive design and development from one team instead of stitching together freelancers

Figma design, Next.js or Astro build, CMS integration, and technical SEO ship from the same four-person crew. No handoff gaps.

Own 100% of the source code, assets, and hosting account from day one

We push to your GitHub org, deploy to your Vercel or Cloudflare account, and hand over every credential at launch. No lock-in, period.

Ship within 3-6 weeks for most marketing and SaaS sites, with weekly visible progress

You see a staging URL updated every Friday. No three-month black box. Average project from kickoff to launch is 28 days.

Build with technical SEO wired in -- schema, Core Web Vitals, crawl architecture from sprint one

Every site we ship scores 90+ on Lighthouse performance and passes our 45-point SEO checklist before going live.

Get a documented handover with a 30-day warranty so your team can maintain the site confidently

We deliver a Loom walkthrough, a README, and CMS training. Bugs found within 30 days of launch are fixed at zero cost.

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Frequently Asked Questions

If you need ongoing, open-ended development capacity and you have a technical lead to manage the work, a marketplace like Toptal or Proxify is a reasonable fit. For defined projects with a clear scope and deadline, fixed-price delivery is almost always cheaper and faster overall.
Core business logic that is your competitive advantage -- proprietary algorithms, sensitive data pipelines, or anything requiring deep domain context that takes months to transfer. Marketing sites, front-end builds, CMS integrations, and SEO are safe and cost-effective to outsource.
We run a paid discovery phase to nail scope before quoting. The number you approve is the number you pay. If our estimate is wrong, we eat the difference. Change requests outside the original scope are quoted separately before any work begins.
Primarily Next.js, Astro, and Tailwind CSS for front-end. Sanity, WordPress, or Payload for CMS. Vercel or Cloudflare for hosting. We pick the stack during discovery based on your actual needs, not our preferences.
Our core team operates in European timezones with 4-6 hours of overlap with US East Coast business hours. We use async Loom updates, a shared Slack channel, and one weekly 30-minute sync call. Most clients tell us this is more communication than their last in-house hire provided.
Bugs within 30 days are fixed free. After that, we offer retainer blocks starting at $1,200 per month for ongoing updates, or we hand everything off to your team or another developer. The code is yours -- you are never locked in.
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