This page is the real playbook: every phase, milestone, and handoff written down so you can share it with your team before our first call.
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Each phase below explains what happens, what we’ll need from you, and what you walk away with. Blueprint bands and vendor details update based on the tier you selected above. Every build, at every size, runs through the same six phases, including the fixed-fee Blueprint that produces your exact quote before any build work begins.
Reach out via email, phone, or our contact form. We'll respond promptly to set up your introductory consultation.
What happens
A short reply with two or three discovery-call time slots. No bots, no pre-qualification gauntlet.
From you
A sentence or two about why you're reaching out. That's genuinely it.
Duration
Same day – 1 business day
A free 30–45 minute call. Goals, pain points, current site, growth plans. No pressure, no upsells. All ideas welcome.
What happens
We listen. Then we recommend a tier and add-on combination that fits your goals and budget. Honestly. If TechTailors isn't the right fit, we'll say so.
From you
Whoever makes the decision should join. Bring your current site, examples of sites you admire, and any pain points or wishes.
Duration
30–45 minutes
A fixed-fee scoping engagement. We map your sitemap, scope, and integrations, audit your existing site if you have one, and hand you an exact build quote from our published rate card. For Professional sizes: $750, or $1,500–$2,500 at 26 or more pages.
What happens
You receive the Blueprint deliverable: sitemap, scope document, integration inventory, remediation audit, fixed build quote, and timeline. It’s yours to keep whether or not you proceed, and 100% of the fee credits toward your build fee when you sign within 60 days.
From you
Brand assets (logo, fonts, colors), your priority content, and your top three competitors' sites for reference. The checklist below covers all of this.
Duration
Confirmed at your discovery call
Design and development, hand-coded on Astro. Work begins once your Build SOW is signed and the first milestone payment clears.
What happens
We design your site’s look first, with two revision rounds included; your approval (or the 10-day review window) locks the design and triggers the next milestone. Then we hand-code the build: performance, accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA), SEO, and security headers designed in from the first commit. We provision your vendor accounts (Cloudflare, Strapi, etc.) and stand the site up on a staging URL. Milestones bill on your net balance as each stage completes.
From you
Final copy and imagery, and a single point of contact who can approve revisions. Mid-build feedback is welcome; we share the staging URL the moment the homepage is testable.
Duration
Stated exactly in your Blueprint
Your website is ready. Before deployment, you sign a one-time, 12-month contract with a 30-day satisfaction guarantee. Then we launch your site to Cloudflare's global edge network.
What happens
The DNS switch is timed for low-traffic hours. Your 30-day satisfaction guarantee starts the moment the agreement is signed. If anything is off in the first 30 days, you can exit the remaining 11 months of your 12-month contract with no further payment obligation. The guarantee is an exit clause, not a refund: past payments (the first month’s subscription, plus Blueprint and build-fee amounts already earned) cover service and labor already rendered.
From you
Signed agreement, payment method on file, DNS access (or your registrar's contact).
Duration
Go-Live day – full DNS propagation usually within 24 hours
As your business evolves, easily expand with additional services: SEO, blogging, e-commerce, analytics, and more. Each add-on plugs straight into your existing build and is billed once setup is complete.
What happens
SEO, blogging, search, multi-language, e-commerce, CRO, premium hosting. Each is a self-contained add-on with its own pricing. Add or remove any month-to-month after the initial 12 months. No Blueprint or build fee for add-ons, ever.
From you
Tell us when you're ready. We'll quote, scope, and ship.
Duration
Ongoing partnership
Onboarding doesn’t end at launch. Every subscription includes a day-30 launch review, a day-90 growth review, and an annual review: a short presentation of your own numbers (traffic, rankings, form volume, blog and store activity) with at most one recommendation for what we’d do next. If the data doesn’t argue for anything new, we say so and get back to work.
Tick off what you’ve gathered. Your progress is saved on this device. Share a snapshot of your prep status with a single link. Useful when you’re coordinating with us or others.
Who brings what, agreed before we start.
Most of your stack lives in vendor accounts created in your name, not ours. You pay them directly. You can see every dollar. When you leave, we walk out; you stay.
Hosts your site at the edge, on Workers, in an account that is yours from day one. The Cloudflare plan follows your service level, not your page count.
Your media optimization layer. Every image and video is served from Cloudinary’s global CDN with automatic format/quality transformations, in your name, not ours.
Your content management system, the app layer. You own the schema, the content, and the account. The underlying database lives in Supabase (paired card below).
The managed Postgres database behind Strapi, the data layer. Cloud-hosted, in your name, with native pg_dump and one-click migration tools built in.
Your storefront engine. Headless, in your name, with zero transaction fees from us.
The search engine behind the full Search add-on (Black Tie plans and above): fast, accurate, open source. The all-plan Pagefind option is static and needs no vendor account at all.
Open-source product analytics with built-in session recording, conversion funnels, and A/B testing. Your data, your account.
Enterprise-grade A/B testing, heatmaps, and session recordings, for when PostHog’s built-in testing isn’t enough for your experiment volume.
Every new build, at every size. The discovery call stays free, and production work starts only under a signed agreement and a published fee.
A fixed scoping fee by band: $250 (up to 10 pages, no existing-site audit), $750 (11–25 pages, or a light audit), $1,500–$2,500 (26+ pages, integration-heavy, or a broken-site audit). You keep the deliverable whether or not you proceed, and 100% credits toward your build fee when you sign within 60 days. Most Smart Casual builds land in the $250 or $750 band; the band follows your page count, not your plan.Most Professional builds land in the $750 band, or the top band at 26 or more pages; the band follows your page count, not your plan.Most Black Tie builds land in the $1,500–$2,500 band; the band follows your page count, not your plan.
Priced from our public rate card, not a quote call: $150 per page or standard layout, $400 per bespoke layoutA custom reusable page-type: a layout designed once for your site, like a service page or post template. (each covers up to 25 pages built on it), $250 per standard integration, and $175/hr for complex integrations, remediation, and migrations, estimated in your Blueprint. Your Build SOW states the exact total, and the total you sign is the price. Professional and Black Tie plans add a one-time security-baseline setup by Blueprint band: $750 small, $1,000 medium, $1,500 large, half-waived with annual prepay. Smart Casual carries no baseline and no setup fee.
You never prepay the whole build. Net balances of $2,500 or less split 50/50 (signing / staging approval); larger builds run 40/30/30 or monthly progress billing. Each installment is earned as its stage completes, and committing to annual prepay (pay for 10 months, get 12) at signing waives half the build fee before your Blueprint credit applies. On Professional and Black Tie, the security-baseline setup is invoiced once beside the build and is non-refundable once the configuration ships; annual prepay halves it too. Smart Casual carries no setup fee, so there is nothing extra to invoice, halve, or refund. Choose Professional or Black Tie later, at your annual review or any plan change, and the setup bills once at that point, when we configure the baseline. It is never billed twice.
Smart Casual example: a 5-page site
Prepay the year at signing? The $750 halves first: $375 − $250 credit = $125 total. Smart Casual carries no security-baseline setup fee, so that is the whole one-time bill.
Professional example: a 20-page site with 2 bespoke layouts and 2 integrations
Prepay the year? $4,300 halves to $2,150, minus the $750 credit = $1,400, split 50/50, and the setup halves to $500: $1,900 one-time all in.
Black Tie example: a 100-page rebuild with heavy integration and remediation work
Prepay the year? $28,800 halves to $14,400, minus the $2,500 credit = $11,900, billed monthly, and the setup halves to $750.
Blueprint and milestone amounts pay for work already performed, so they’re non-refundable once earned, separate from the 30-day satisfaction guarantee, which starts at Go Live and exits the remaining 11 months of your subscription. Work pauses if an invoice runs more than 7 days past due. And add-ons added later (Search, Multi-Language, E-Commerce Pro, CRO, or any other) never trigger a Blueprint or build fee, regardless of tier or page count.
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