You own everything
The domain is registered to you, the hosting account is yours, and you get every login. We are not holding your website hostage as a retention strategy.
About the studio
The web design studio built for Stellenbosch SMEs.
Small businesses here have been stuck choosing between a R40,000 agency retainer and a free page builder they never finish. We built a third option.
Why this studio exists
Ask around Stellenbosch and the story repeats itself. A guesthouse, a plumber, a physio, a coffee roaster — all quoted somewhere between R15,000 and R60,000, all told to expect two to twelve weeks, and most of them still without a site two years later because the quote alone stopped the conversation.
The work itself has not become more expensive. The way agencies are structured has. Account managers, design rounds, project coordinators and hand-offs between three people all get billed to a business with four employees who just needed to be findable on Google.
We use AI to compress the parts of the process that were always slow and never creative — first drafts, layout iteration, copy structure, technical setup — and keep human judgement where it matters: what your business should actually say, and how it should look while saying it. The result is a build measured in days, priced in thousands rather than tens of thousands, and finished rather than perpetually “in progress”.
The two routes, compared
Traditional agency
R15,000 – R60,000 · 2–12 weeks · account manager between you and the designer
Stellenbosch Web Studio
R2,000 – R29,000 · 2–10 days · you talk to the person building it
Page builder, DIY
R0 up front · unlimited weeks of your own evenings · usually unfinished
How we work
Four commitments we do not negotiate on.
Days, not quarters
Two to ten days from brief to live, depending on package. If we are going to miss it, you hear that from us before the deadline, not after.
One fixed number
The quote you accept is the invoice you pay. Scope changes get quoted separately and only start once you say go.
Local and direct
Based in Stellenbosch, serving the Winelands. We can meet for coffee, and the person who answers WhatsApp is the person doing the work.
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Why local matters
A person down the road beats a ticket number.
When you brief a big agency, you brief an account manager who briefs a designer who never meets you. Details about your business — the season you are busiest, the one service that actually pays, the thing customers always phone to ask — get lost in that gap.
Here you send a voice note on WhatsApp and the change is on the site that afternoon. That is not a service level we advertise; it is just what happens when one person is responsible for the whole thing.