Process
What happens after you book a call.
A 20-minute call, a price in writing, one paid week you can walk away from, then the build in stages you sign off. Nothing on this page turns up as a surprise later.
Stop after week one and I refund it in full.
First
A 20-minute call.
- You
- Tell me what you’re building and what done looks like.
- Me
- I tell you straight if I’m the right fit, roughly what it costs and how long it takes.
- After
- The scope and a fixed price, in writing, before any work starts.
- Bring
- The short version. Links help: your site, a deck, a Figma file.
Then
Week one, day by day.
Week one is a product of its own: five working days for a fixed €3,000, counted toward the project. You get the scope in writing, real screens and a live link. Then you decide.
Day 1
The scope, in writing
The one-page scope you agreed after our call, turned into the week’s plan: what’s in, what’s out, the fixed price we settled and the dates. If a detail is off, we fix it before I draw anything.
Day 2
First real screens
I design the part that matters most: the first screen of your site, the main flow of your product, the first directions for your mark. Your real words, no slide deck.
Day 3
A live link
Those screens, built, on a private link. Open it on your phone. Forward it to whoever signs off the spend.
Day 4
Your notes, my changes
You say what’s off, on a call or in comments. I change it and the link updates.
Day 5
You decide
Carry on, and the fee counts toward the project. Stop, and I refund it in full.
- Tell me by the end of day five that you want to stop. You don’t owe me a reason.
- I refund the full €3,000.
- What I made that week stays with me.
- Carry on, and the €3,000 is the first part of your first payment. It is never an extra.
The whole project
What you’ve seen and what you’ve paid, on any day.
If we started today. Drag the line.
An illustration for a website, not a quote. Every scope’s usual weeks are on the pricing page.
- Scope
- Website
- From
- €16,000
- Usually
- 3–5 weeks
By day 9 you have seen the scope in writing, first real screens, a live link and one weekly preview.
By day 9 you have paid €8,000. The next part, €4,000, falls at the midway sign-off.
- The scope and the price, in writing.
- First real screens, then a live link, in week one.
- A live preview, every week.
- Handover, usually 3–5 weeks in.
- A payment. Hatched once it is made; the accent pen while it can still be refunded.
- The window a milestone can fall in. Its payment counts when the line is past it.
| Stage | When | What you see | What you pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| The call | Before anything | Whether I’m the right fit, roughly what it costs and how long it takes. | Nothing20 minutes, free. |
| Week one | Days 1 to 5 | The scope in writing, first real screens and a live link. | €3,000Week one. Refunded in full if you stop at the end of it. |
| The build | From week two | Design and code together, on a live preview link every week. | €5,000The rest of the first half. |
| Midway | About halfway | The work, half built, on the preview link. You sign it off. | €4,000A quarter. |
| Handover | Usually 3–5 weeks in | It is live. Clean files, documented builds and a walk-through for your team. | €4,000The last quarter, when it is live. |
| In all | 3–5 weeks | The finished website, in your accounts. | €16,000The four parts add up to the price. There is no fifth invoice. |
An illustration, not a quote. It lays the usual weeks for a website on a calendar from today, and uses its starting price, €16,000. Prices excl. VAT. A milestone is not a day, so midway and handover each have a window. Your written scope sets the real dates and the real amounts.
Ownership
Everything lives in your accounts once you carry on.
If I vanished after week one, you would already hold every key.
- Yours from
- The day you carry on
- Each stage
- Yours once paid
- Lives in
- Your accounts
- Your repository
- The code is committed to a repository you own, from the day you carry on past week one.
- Your hosting and domain
- It deploys to your accounts. I work inside them with the access you give me.
- Your design files
- The Figma file lives in your team, not in mine.
- Your logins
- Hand over what we’ll touch on day one, so nothing waits on a password reset.
One person
When I’m away or ill.
The launch moves by the days I was out. The price doesn’t move at all.
- Holidays
- You hear about them well ahead, and I plan around them, so nothing launches the day I’m gone.
- Sick days
- You hear it from me that morning. The dates move with me, and a fixed price stays fixed.
- Your files
- From week two, code and design files live in your accounts, so your project never depends on my laptop.
- Your pause
- It works the other way too. A Marathon retainer can be paused for up to 45 days. Launches move, and the plan moves with them.
After launch
You keep it, or I keep going.
Handover
A handover your team can build on. I ship clean files and documented builds, and I walk your team through what was delivered. Each stage is yours once it’s paid.
Or I stay on
Marathon is a monthly retainer for improvements, new features and support, from €7.5k a month. It runs month to month and you can pause it for up to 45 days.
It starts with twenty minutes.