We build brands
that outlast the hype.

Five questions tell you almost everything. One — who owns the site, the domain, the code, and the hosting when the project is done? If the answer is anything other than “you do, completely,” keep looking. Two — what happens when you want to make changes yourself in two years? A good shop shows you; a better one teaches you; a bad one says “just send the changes to us.” Three — can you see three sites they built that are at least a year old, ideally with traffic data? Anyone can launch something pretty; the question is whether it still performs after Google updates and the client takes over. Four — what’s their stack, and why that one for your business? WordPress is the Durango default, which isn’t wrong, but it shouldn’t be automatic. Five — what’s not included? The cheapest quote usually wins by leaving out hosting, SEO, content, photography, and future changes. Get the whole picture before you compare prices.

Rough market tiers. Under $1,500 is template work — usually Wix or Squarespace, often built by the owner or a friend; fine for very simple needs, fragile the moment you need SEO, e-commerce, or anything custom. $1,500–$5,000 is a freelancer or small shop, typically WordPress with a purchased theme; solid for service businesses, but watch the monthly maintenance fees. $5,000–$15,000 buys custom design, custom development, and real strategy work upfront. $15,000+ is a full brand world — multiple pages, e-commerce, an SEO foundation, content systems, sometimes photography and video. Creative Flow Studio doesn’t publish a price list — we scope and quote every build after a discovery call, because a five-page service site and a full e-commerce brand world aren’t the same project. Before you ever talk price, there are two low-cost ways to start: a free Brand World Blueprint, or a $250 one-hour consultation if you want a straight answer on a specific problem. The reason the market range is so wide is simple — a cheap template site and a custom build aren’t the same product. One runs on someone else’s platform and locks you in. The other is yours.

Yes — completely. The domain is registered in your account. The codebase lives in a GitHub repository you control. The hosting account is on Vercel under your billing. Any third-party services — Supabase, content management, email, analytics — are under your accounts. You could fire us tomorrow and lose nothing. That isn’t a marketing line; it’s a structural choice we make on every project. Compare it to most agency-built sites, where the domain is “managed” by the agency, hosting sits on their account, and leaving means starting over. When LePlatt’s Pond launched, it was handed off in full — the owner runs it herself on roughly $20-a-month hosting.

A focused single-site build — a typical small-business site of five to eight pages — usually runs three to four weeks from kickoff to launch. A larger engagement with full brand work, ten to fifteen pages, and custom features runs six to eight weeks. A complete brand world — e-commerce, content systems, multiple integrations — is more like ten to fourteen weeks. The biggest variable is how fast you can turn around content, photo direction, and approvals. Projects move at the speed of decisions.

Three reasons, plainly. Performance: our client sites load in under a second on mobile, anywhere in the world, and that directly affects bounce rate, conversion, and rankings. Cost of ownership: most of our client sites cost about $20 a month to host on Vercel — no managed WordPress fees, no plugin licenses, no security tools to subscribe to. Handoff: when we’re done, the code is yours, the deployment is yours, and the platform is industry-standard, so any developer can pick it up immediately. That’s the technical side of “Build it right. Teach it real.” — we use tools that don’t trap you.