What this costs

Rates

Work bills at $315 an hour. The smallest engagement is $3,200, and most websites land near $6,200. Those are the real numbers, on the table before we start, because you should get to see the math before you decide anything.

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The numbers, with the math showing

$315 / hour
Everything bills from one rate

Every number below is that hourly rate times the hours the work honestly takes. Nothing is padded or buried, and no surprise line item waits for you at the end of the project.

The rate everything bills from
$315 / hour
One rate for design, code, and the visibility work behind it. No mystery line items, no agency markup stacked on top.
The floor: the smallest engagement
$3,200
Below this the project is too small to do at the standard, so this is where it starts. A focused site, built right, owned by you.
Where most websites land
~$6,200
A full site built for speed, with the structure and schema that gets it found. This is the typical number, not a teaser that climbs once you are committed.
WordPress care, ongoing
$550 / 6 months
Updates, backups, and a human watching the site for WordPress clients who want it maintained instead of left to drift.

One promise about the number: the quote you get is scoped to what you actually want, and it does not climb once you are committed. If the scope grows, we talk about it before the price does.

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What the number actually buys

  1. 01

    The person who writes the code

    You are paying for the builder directly, not a project manager relaying your notes to someone offshore. The email and the work come from the same desk.

  2. 02

    A site that is an asset, not a cost

    Structured and fast, built to get found in search and named by AI assistants. The kind of site that earns its number back instead of sitting there looking expensive.

  3. 03

    Honesty before the money moves

    When a cheaper path does the job, you hear it first. When a build will not pay for itself, you hear that too, before anyone spends.

  4. 04

    Everything in your name

    Code, hosting, accounts, working files. It is all yours from day one, so the value you bought never gets held hostage later.

Whether the number fits

This is for you if

  • You read a website as an investment that should return, and you would rather it be built right than built cheap.
  • You want the number on the table early, with the reasoning behind it, so you can decide with the full picture.

Probably not if

  • The lowest bid is the thing that decides it. I am not the cheapest, deliberately, and I would rather tell you that now than after a proposal.
  • You need a template with a logo dropped in. That work exists, it costs less, and it is not what this rate is for.

Questions about the money

The honest answers, including the ones most sites skip. If yours is not here, ask it directly and you will get the same straight read.

Because it reflects twenty years of doing this and a result you can point to, not a rate set to undercut the next bid. One rate covers design, code, and the visibility work, so you are never guessing which specialist costs what. You are hiring one person who does all of it well.

Not while keeping the standard, and I would rather say that here than after a proposal. There are plenty of cheaper options, and some of them are fine for a logo dropped onto a template. If the lowest number is the thing that decides it, then we are probably not the right fit for each other.

Scope and structure. A floor project is focused: a clean, fast site that does one job well. The typical $6,200 build adds the depth that gets a business found, more pages with real structure, the schema and content that AI assistants read, and the polish that makes it read as credible. Both are the same hourly rate times honest hours.

You get a real number before any work begins, scoped to what you actually want. It is not a teaser that climbs once you are committed. If the scope changes mid-project, we talk about it before the number does, never after.

WordPress maintenance for clients who want their site cared for instead of left to drift: core and plugin updates, backups, and a human watching for the things that break quietly. It is optional. Custom-coded static sites need far less upkeep, which is part of why they cost less to own over time.

Projects are typically split into milestones, so you are paying against work delivered rather than all at once up front. Monthly website financing is not something chadworks offers anymore. The rates here are the whole picture.

Want a number for your project?

Tell me what you are building and roughly where you would like the number to land. You will get a straight answer from the person who would do the work, usually within a day.