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Services

What I can build for you.

From a single landing page to a full product UI — designed and built by one person, on a fixed scope, with a performance budget we agree on up front.

In detail

Scope, what’s included & what you get.

The flagship

Website Design & Build

For startups & founders launching or relaunching

A fast, on-brand marketing site — designed, built, and wired to a CMS your team can run.

Good fit if…

  • You’re launching or raising and the site has to land
  • Your current site is slow or off-brand
  • You want design and build from one person
  • Your team needs to edit content without a developer
$9,000project · from · 4–7 weeks

Typical marketing builds run $9k–$28k by scope and page count. Fixed quote before we start.

What’s included

  • Design in Figma (or from your designer)
  • Hand-built, responsive front-end
  • Headless CMS wiring (Sanity / Contentful)
  • Motion & interaction design
  • Core Web Vitals performance budget
  • Analytics, SEO & launch

You get

  • A live, fast marketing site
  • A CMS your team owns
  • Clean, documented codebase
  • A 30-min handoff walkthrough
Start a design & build project
Front-end product work

Web App & Product UI

For seed–series a product teams

The front-end of your SaaS or web app — a design system, app shell, and the interactions that are hard to get right.

Good fit if…

  • You have an API and need the UI built well
  • Your app shell / dashboard needs a rebuild
  • You want a real design system, not one-off screens
  • You need accessible, tested, maintainable components
$14,000project · from · 6–12 weeks

Scoped per milestone, or a monthly retainer for ongoing product work. From $14k for a focused build.

What’s included

  • Component & design-system architecture
  • App shell, routing & data fetching
  • State, forms & complex interactions
  • Accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA)
  • Storybook + Playwright tests
  • Collaboration with your back-end team

You get

  • A production front-end codebase
  • A documented component library
  • Test coverage on critical paths
  • A handoff your team can extend
Start a web apps project
Storefronts that sell

E-commerce Build

For dtc & product brands

A headless storefront on Shopify (or your platform) tuned for speed, merchandising, and checkout conversion.

Good fit if…

  • Your store is slow on mobile
  • You’re moving to headless Shopify
  • PDP / checkout conversion needs work
  • You want a storefront that feels custom
$16,000project · from · 6–10 weeks

Headless storefronts from $16k by catalog size and integrations. Quoted up front.

What’s included

  • Headless Shopify (Hydrogen) front-end
  • Custom PDP, PLP & cart
  • Search & merchandising
  • Performance & Core Web Vitals
  • Analytics & conversion tracking
  • CMS for content & campaigns

You get

  • A live headless storefront
  • A fast, custom shopping experience
  • A measurable conversion baseline
  • Documentation & handoff
Start a e-commerce project
Make it fast

Performance & SEO

For teams with a slow or under-performing site

A focused engagement to make an existing site genuinely fast — Core Web Vitals, real-world load, and technical SEO.

Good fit if…

  • Your Lighthouse / CWV scores are red
  • The site is slow on real phones
  • Rankings or conversion are slipping
  • You want a measurable before/after
$4,500project · from · 2–4 weeks

Audits from $1,800; implementation engagements from $4,500. Scoped to your site.

What’s included

  • Full performance & CWV audit
  • Image, font & bundle optimization
  • Render & hydration fixes
  • Technical SEO & metadata
  • A before/after report
  • Monitoring setup

You get

  • A documented audit
  • Implemented fixes
  • Measured CWV improvement
  • A monitoring dashboard
Start a performance project
Ongoing support

Care & Retainers

For teams that need a steady front-end partner

A monthly retainer for updates, new pages, experiments, and a developer on call — without re-onboarding every time.

Good fit if…

  • You ship changes regularly
  • You want priority access without a full hire
  • You need someone who already knows the codebase
  • You’d rather a retainer than per-task quotes
$1,200per month · Ongoing · monthly

Retainers from $1,200/mo (10 hrs) up to $4,800/mo (40 hrs). Roll-over within the month.

What’s included

  • A block of hours each month
  • New pages, sections & components
  • Dependency & security updates
  • Performance monitoring
  • A/B tests & experiments
  • Priority turnaround

You get

  • A predictable monthly invoice
  • A rolling backlog you control
  • A monthly summary
  • Continuity on your codebase
Start a maintenance project
Foundations

Design Systems

For growing product & marketing teams

A token-driven component library and the documentation that makes your whole team ship faster and on-brand.

Good fit if…

  • Your UI has drifted across pages
  • Designers and devs aren’t in sync
  • You’re scaling the team
  • You want one source of truth for UI
$11,000project · from · 4–8 weeks

From $11k by component count and theming needs. Often paired with a web-app build.

What’s included

  • Design tokens (color, type, space)
  • Accessible component library
  • Storybook documentation
  • Figma ↔ code parity
  • Theming (light / dark)
  • Adoption & contribution guide

You get

  • A published component library
  • A Storybook reference
  • Token + theming setup
  • A team adoption guide
Start a design systems project
Have something to build?

Let’s ship something fast.

Tell me what you want to build and I’ll come back with scope, a timeline, and a fixed quote. You work directly with the person writing the code.

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