How we work
One developer, one method, everything in writing. This page is the operating manual, the same one every client here works under, published so you can judge the process before you buy it.
1 · Brief before price
Every engagement starts with a written brief, yours or mine, either works. The brief answers the six questions that determine every number: goal, scope, constraints, content responsibility, timeline, budget band. From it comes a written scope with milestones and a fixed or banded price. Not a fit? You keep the scope document; it works with any developer, and that is deliberate, a scope that only works with me is not a scope, it is a lock-in.
2 · Scope as contract, not vibes
The scope becomes the statement of work: deliverables page by page, integrations named, content responsibility explicit, milestones with acceptance criteria. Ambiguity is the enemy of both sides, every “I assumed” in a project was a sentence missing from this document. Changes after signing go through a one-paragraph change note: what changes, what it costs, what it moves. No surprise invoices, no surprise scope.
3 · Weekly demo, not status reports
Once a week you get a staging link with what changed and a two-minute note on what is next. Working software is the only honest status report, “90% done” means nothing, a link you can click means everything. Between demos, async updates as things land. You are never more than a few days from seeing the actual state of the actual build.
4 · Staging always on
From the first week, your project lives on a staging URL you can open any time. Watch it evolve, share it with your team, form opinions early. The alternative, a big reveal at the end, is how projects end up rebuilt instead of revised. Early feedback is cheap; launch-week feedback is not.
5 · Launch as rehearsal, not event
Launch runs off a checklist, not adrenaline: final QA on production hardware, redirects mapped and tested, analytics verified, Search Console live, rollback plan ready. DNS cutover happens at your low-traffic hour. The unglamorous truth is that a rehearsed launch is boring, which is exactly what you want from a launch.
6 · Handover from day one, not at the end
Documentation accumulates as the project runs: environment notes, credential map (your accounts, scoped access for me), feature decisions and why. At the end you receive the full handover pack, repository, accounts, documentation, and the project is genuinely yours. This is also insurance for us: a documented project is one where bus-factor is not a business model. See payments & terms for what happens after launch.
What this method costs you
Honesty cuts both ways: this process asks things of you too. Decisions on a schedule (design approvals, content deadlines), one primary channel instead of five, and feedback in consolidated passes rather than drips. Clients who engage this way get their best projects; clients who disappear for three weeks mid-build get longer timelines. The method is the product as much as the code is.
Sounds right?
The method fits one codebase with a clear owner, most business sites, stores and web apps. If you need six specialists by Monday, an agency is the honest answer.
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