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Most studios make you book a call before they will tell you what anything costs. Here is the number, what it buys, how long it takes, and what happens if something breaks afterwards — so you can decide whether to write to us before you write to us.
Prices in Singapore dollars. Current as of this page.
Start-up promotionUp to 5 pages
S$500
Three months of changes, free.
Our opening rate while we build the portfolio. A complete website of up to five pages, designed and built for your business, plus a free audit and three months in which we handle most changes for you at no cost.
A promotional rate. More than five pages, talk to us first.
Standard buildFixed price
S$800
Fixed, not “from”.
The same work without the page ceiling and without the promotional warranty. Fixed means fixed: the number does not move once we have agreed the scope.
One month of changes included rather than three.
(Both prices include)
(What the same job costs elsewhere)
There is a real trade-off between the three, and it is not only price. This is the honest version of it, including where we are the weaker choice.
| What is being compared | A freelancer | An agency | Thornbury |
|---|---|---|---|
| Typical price | A few hundred to a few thousand | Several thousand and up | S$500 promotional · S$800 fixed |
| Who actually builds it | One person, working alone | A team you often never meet | A team of engineers and designers — every build is reviewed by more than the person who made it |
| Security and the back end | Rarely reviewed, and rarely explained | Usually handled, seldom shown to you | Checked as part of the free audit, then explained to your face |
| Do you understand your own site afterwards? | Usually not | Sometimes, at a price | An engineer comes to you in person and walks you through it |
| After launch | Often unreachable | An account manager, billed hourly | 3 months of free changes on the promotion, 1 month standard |
| Where we are the weaker choice | Cheapest possible one-off, if you can vet them yourself | Large, complex builds with big in-house budgets | We are new. Our public track record is shorter than theirs. |
The last row is deliberate. A studio that cannot name where it is the wrong answer has not given you an honest comparison of the other two either.
(Asked and answered)
01
S$500 on our start-up promotion, for a website of up to five pages. S$800 as a fixed price without the page ceiling. Both include the build, the design, a free audit and a warranty period.
For comparison, an agency in Singapore will typically quote several thousand for the same brief, and a freelancer somewhere between a few hundred and a few thousand.
02
Because we are new, and we would rather have the work than the margin. We are building the portfolio and the reputation that the established studios already have, and this is what that costs us.
It is worth being clear about what it is not: it is not a smaller scope, a template, or an offshore hand-off. It is the same work at a rate that reflects how long we have been doing it publicly.
03
A complete website of up to five pages — designed for your business, built and deployed, with most of the functionality you would expect from a traditional business website.
On top of the site itself: a free audit of what you already have, an optional in-person appointment where one of our engineers explains the back end to you, and three months in which we handle most detail changes for free.
More than five pages is outside the promotion. Tell us what you need and we will price it before you commit to anything.
04
Between one week and one month, which is fast for this kind of work.
The reason is how we are staffed. We are a start-up with several technical people working at once, so your site is being built and reviewed by a group rather than sitting in one person’s queue behind three other jobs. Work happens in parallel, and problems get caught by someone other than the person who wrote them.
The rest of the time is deliberate. We meet with you, show you progress, and check you are happy with the direction before we go further — because a week saved by skipping that is a month lost rebuilding something you never wanted.
05
We strongly recommend it, and it is free with every package, so there is no reason to skip it.
A redesign without an audit is guesswork. The audit tells us what is already working and should be protected, what is quietly costing you customers, and what your site actually needs — so the new one is tailored to your business rather than to our assumptions about it.
We have seen redesigns that looked beautiful and undid years of search visibility on the day they launched. That is the failure the audit exists to prevent.
06
Yes. You do not have to rebuild with us to work with us.
We start with the audit, so you can see what is wrong before you spend anything, and then work on search (SEO), answer engines (AEO) and local visibility on Maps (GEO) from there.
Pricing depends on the state of your current site, so it is quoted rather than fixed — and it is below the going rate for the same reason our build price is. Email or WhatsApp us and we will tell you what it would cost.
07
Yes, if you want it. We arrange an appointment and one of our technical people comes to you.
The point is that you should not be locked out of your own website. You get shown how it is put together, where things live, what the security looks like, and what to do when something needs changing.
This is the part that is genuinely hard to get elsewhere. A freelancer is usually finished at handover, and an agency will often do a walkthrough only as a billable extra.
08
Inside the warranty — three months on the promotion, one month on the standard build — you tell us and we deal with it. Most detail changes in that window are covered at no extra cost.
After the warranty ends, small changes are charged small. There is no retainer you have to be on and nothing you are locked into.
09
Yes — that is a separate bundle. We set up and optimise your Google Business Profile so you actually appear when people search locally, and we supply our review standing card, which makes leaving a review a single tap for a customer who is standing in front of you.
On a subscription we monitor what comes in, tell you the moment a negative review lands so a manager can respond while it still matters, and send you a monthly report on what people are saying about the business and what to do about it.
One thing we will not do: filter who gets asked. Every customer gets the same invitation, happy or not. Screening reviews before they reach Google is against Google’s policies and gets business profiles suspended — and a well-handled public reply to a bad review persuades more people than a clean page of five stars ever has.
10
Both, and we are open to partnerships.
Start-up pricing means you are not paying enterprise rates while you are still working out what the business is. Established companies get the same fixed price and the same warranty.
11
Then the promotion does not apply and we quote you properly. Tell us roughly what the site has to do and we will give you a number before you commit to anything.
12
Send us the link to your current site, or just tell us what you are building. WhatsApp is fastest; email is fine.
The audit is free and comes with no obligation attached — if it turns out you do not need us yet, we will say so.
(Next)
That is the right instinct. Send the link to your site, or tell us what you are building — the audit is free either way, and we will tell you honestly whether you need us.
Or send us a message