Pricing

What it costs to work with us.

No “contact us for a quote.” Here are the real numbers, what’s inside them, and where the lines are. If your project doesn’t fit one of these, tell us what you’re after and we’ll price it honestly — including when the honest answer is that you need less than you thought.

Every price here is current today and subject to change. Once your project is quoted and signed, that number is locked — whatever this page says later.

Websites

Start where you are.

Three ways in. Every one of them includes the things that make a site actually work — right on a phone, fast, and structured so search engines and AI assistants read your business correctly.

The One-Page Site

$995 flat

Everything a customer needs to decide, on one page. Live in about a week.

  • One page, up to six sections
  • A contact form that reaches your inbox
  • Social profiles linked and wired up
  • Hosting, domain, and SSL set up in your name
  • Google Workspace email set up, if you need it
  • Structured for search and AI answers
  • A share card that looks right when someone texts your link
  • One round of revisions
  • You provide copy and photos — we can write it for $400

Decide to grow later and the full $995 comes off a Full Website, any time in the first twelve months.

Start here

Apps & Platforms

$15,000 to start

When the thing you need is software, not a brochure. Quoted per project, always.

  • iPhone and Android apps, start to app store
  • Progressive web apps
  • Custom internal tools
  • Integrations with the software you already run
  • Product design from the first sketch
  • Ongoing development after launch

We built Valley Creek Church a platform of their own. See how Radius came together →

Tell us the idea

How it works: half up front, half at launch. Nothing starts without a written scope, so nobody is guessing later about what was included.

Branding

If it needs a look, too.

Branding is priced and scheduled on its own, because it’s separate work, and because a logo, an identity, and a brand are three different things people call by the same name. We wrote about the difference →

Starter Mark

$1,250

One to two weeks

A logo you own outright, and everything you need to use it.

  • A primary mark plus a stacked and icon version
  • Color palette and type choices
  • Every file format you’ll be asked for
  • Two rounds of revisions

Honest about what this is: a mark, not a whole identity. Right when you need something good now.

Start here

Brand & Messaging

$6,000 and up

Five to six weeks

The look and the words. What most people actually mean when they say they need a brand.

  • Everything in the Identity System
  • Positioning — who you’re for and what you stand against
  • The one-liner, and the story under it
  • What you say, in what order, on every page
  • Naming, if you need one
  • Messaging your team can actually repeat

Those are delivery windows, not turnaround promises. Brand work moves at the speed of decisions — yours and ours — so we tell you how long a project usually takes and we don’t put a clock on the rounds inside it. A mark you’ll still like in five years comes from sitting with two or three options for a few days. Rushing that is how businesses end up with a logo nobody in the room actually chose.

Booked with a website, branding is 10% off. It’s genuinely less work when both happen at once — one set of conversations, one set of decisions — so you shouldn’t pay twice for the same thinking.

After launch

Someone to call when it needs to change.

A website isn’t furniture. Prices move, staff change, the certificate expires at the worst possible moment. Every Support Plan covers the boring, essential parts. What separates them is how much of our time comes with it.

Basecamp

$49 / month

The site stays up, stays secure, and stays yours. You handle the changes.

  • Your hosting and SSL managed — set up in your name, billed to you by the host
  • Domain and email kept pointing where they should
  • Daily backups
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Your contact form watched — a broken one shouldn’t cost you a month of leads
  • Security and platform updates
  • Changes quoted as they come, at $95 an hour

Summit

$299 / month

Not just maintenance — a marketing team you don’t have to hire.

  • Everything in Ascent
  • Two hours of real work a month — new sections, new pages, design
  • Your requests go to the front of the queue
  • A thirty-minute call every month
  • Ongoing AI and search work as the landscape moves
  • First call on our time when something urgent lands

Free for your first three months when we build your site, then $299 a month until you say stop.

Choose this

Pay for ten months, get twelve. Prepay a year on any Support Plan and two months are on us.

AI consulting

Or hire a whole department for $200 a month.

A copywriter, a data analyst, a project manager and a researcher, on call every day and never off sick — that is what these tools genuinely are now, if you know how to set them up and how to ask. That if is the entire job. We teach it on your work rather than on slides — your emails, your quotes, your reports — and we’re just as clear about what to keep well away from it.

The AI Working Session

$400 flat

Two hours, your actual work, and you at the keyboard. Most people are using it that same afternoon.

  • Two hours over video, recorded so you can rewatch it
  • Up to three people from your business
  • The right tool chosen and set up — Claude, ChatGPT, or both
  • The jobs you repeat every week turned into prompts that work
  • Written up afterwards, so none of it rests on memory
  • Two weeks of email follow-up for the questions that surface later

Right when one person does most of the typing and would like to stop doing it the slow way.

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Bundled With Your Project

$750 add-on

Added to a website, brand, or app project, so the training lands on the thing we just built you.

  • A session after launch, on your new site or brand
  • Your voice, services, and pages loaded in first, so its answers already know your business
  • Prompts for the jobs a new site creates — page copy, product descriptions, replies to enquiries
  • How to keep the site current without calling us about every paragraph
  • The written playbook and the follow-up window

More than the session on its own because the setup is real work — we feed it your brand voice so what comes out still sounds like you.

Add it to a project

You pay the AI tool directly, on your own account. Twenty dollars a month per person covers most businesses comfortably; the heavier tiers run $100 to $200 for people living in it all day. We’ll tell you which one your work actually needs — usually the cheap one — and we don’t resell licences, take a commission, or get paid to prefer Claude over ChatGPT or the other way round.

On the Summit plan, the AI work carries on. These tools change every few months, so keeping a setup current is ongoing work rather than a one-off. That’s part of what the $299 already covers.

Social media

We’d rather teach you to run it than run it for you.

Social media management is sold by the month, forever, and the day it stops, the feed stops with it, because the strategy and the habit of it never lived inside the business. This is the other arrangement. A strategy built with you, a workshop on the AI tools that make the writing quick, a content calendar and brand voice guidelines that are yours to keep, and someone on hand while you launch. What you end up with is a team that posts without us.

How the engagement runs

  • Discovery and a strategy assessment. Where your customers already are, what you’re doing now, and what’s worth doing instead. You get the audience, the platforms that earn their place, a posting cadence you can genuinely keep, and the handful of themes you’ll talk about — written down rather than agreed in a meeting and forgotten.
  • The AI tools workshop. Hands on keyboards, on your own work. The right tool chosen and set up in your own name — ChatGPT, Claude, or both — alongside the scheduling software you’ll actually use, and the prompts that turn one photo from a job into a week of posts. The privacy settings get checked in the same sitting.
  • Your content calendar and brand voice guidelines. Built with you, not handed to you: a calendar filled far enough ahead to prove the system holds, and voice guidelines written down so what comes out of a tool still sounds like the person who owns the place. Both are documents you keep.
  • Launch support. You start posting and we’re a message away while you do. The first two weeks are where the real questions surface — what to do with a comment, what to post when nothing happened this week — and it’s the stretch that decides whether any of this survives a busy month.
  • Optimization check-ins. Periodic reviews after that: what landed, what didn’t, what to stop doing, and the prompts refreshed as the tools move — which they do, constantly. The cadence is set in the scope, usually thirty days after launch and quarterly from there.

Priced per engagement, and scoped in writing after discovery. There’s no figure on this page because the honest one depends on how many platforms you’re taking on, how many people are in the workshop, and how much of a brand voice already exists to write down. You’ll have the number and the scope before anything starts, the same as every other project here.

You pay for the tools directly, on your own accounts. The AI subscription is $20 a month per person for most businesses; a scheduler, if your platforms need a paid one, usually lands in the same range. We don’t resell either, we take no commission, and nobody pays us to recommend one over another — including when the honest answer is that the free tier is enough.

We don’t run client accounts. Not as an upsell we’re holding back, and not as something we can be talked into. Posting on your behalf recreates the exact problem this is meant to solve, and there are agencies who do that well if it’s genuinely what you want.

Start with discovery

Accounts and setup

We set it up. You own it.

Hosting, your domain, your email — we get all three working and we look after them. Every one of them stays in your name, on your account, billed to you by the company providing it. We don’t resell any of it and we don’t mark it up.

Hosting

We set up the hosting account in your name and deploy your site to it. The host bills you, not us, and a site built the way we build them usually sits inside a free tier at ordinary small-business traffic.

Your domain

Don’t have one yet? We’ll register it in your name. Already own one? We’ll help you move it across or point it here, whichever is less disruptive. You pay the registrar directly — usually somewhere around fifteen dollars a year — and the name is permanently yours.

Google Workspace

Still handing out a free email address? We’ll get you onto Google Workspace at your own domain and wire it up properly, with any project or plan we do. You pay Google their monthly fee; the account is yours from day one.

There’s nothing to untangle if you leave. You already hold every login, so parting ways means removing our access — not migrating anything, not waiting on us, and not paying to get your own business back.

The fine print, up front

Everything we’d rather say now than later.

Nobody enjoys reading this part. We’d still rather over-explain it here than have you discover it on an invoice.

What “a change” means

  • A change is anything that takes us under half an hour. New text. A swapped photo. Updated hours, prices, or a staff bio. A new link. A typo you spotted before we did.
  • A new page, a new feature, or a redesign is not a change. Neither is a new logo or writing a page from scratch. That’s real work, and we quote it — you’ll know the number before we start, every time.
  • Nothing rolls over. Four changes a month means four that month; two hours on Summit means two that month. You’re paying for the site being looked after, not for banked hours, and in most months, clients use one.
  • Two business days is what usually happens, not a guarantee we sold you. Business days are Monday to Friday, Texas time, holidays aside. If something is urgent, say so — we’ll tell you straight away whether we can get to it, rather than promise and miss.
  • The free months are free, and then the plan simply continues. Ascent and Summit are on us for your first three months when we build your site. After that they bill monthly at the price on this page until you tell us to stop. No escalation, no notice period, but you should read that here rather than notice it on a statement.
  • Plan prices can change, but never quietly. If we ever adjust what a Support Plan costs, everyone already on one gets at least thirty days’ notice by email before it applies, and you can cancel inside that window owing nothing.
  • Cancel any time, and the site is yours. No notice period, nothing held hostage — we hand over the files and help you move. Two honest caveats: we don’t refund the month you’re part-way through, and anything licensed from somebody else — stock photography, a paid font — comes with you only as far as that license allows.
  • Cancel inside a prepaid year and we refund the balance at the standard monthly rate. The two free months are for finishing the year, so they come off a partial one. You’ll get the arithmetic in writing, not a shrug.
  • A plan buys our attention, not your infrastructure. Hosting, your domain, and your email are billed to you by the companies providing them — never by us, and never with a markup on top. What the plan covers is setting those up, keeping them working, and being the people who fix it when they don’t.
  • Every account is in your name. Host, registrar, Google. We’ll do the setup and we’ll manage them, but you hold the logins and you get the invoices. It’s the least convenient arrangement for us and the only one that leaves you free to walk.
  • If your traffic outgrows a free tier, that’s your host’s bill, not a surprise from us. Sites built the way we build them sit comfortably inside a free hosting tier at ordinary small-business traffic. If yours starts heading past that — genuinely good news — we’ll flag it and talk through the options with you.

What a project price assumes

  • The price covers the scope we wrote down. Every project starts with one. Extra pages, extra sections, or a feature that turns up halfway through get quoted as their own thing, and you see that number before we build it, never after.
  • A round of revisions is one consolidated set of feedback. One round on the one-page site; two on a full website and on branding. Not five emails across a week. Past the included rounds we bill at $95 an hour, and we say so before we start counting rather than at the end.
  • The clock starts when the material does. “Live in about a week” means a week from having your copy, your photos, and somebody who can make a decision. We can’t launch a page we’re still waiting on words for, and that waiting isn’t counted as our time.
  • If a project goes quiet, it pauses. Life happens and we’re not precious about it. But after thirty days with no reply we’ll park the project, and restarting means joining the queue behind whatever is live at the time.
  • Half up front, half at launch. The deposit books the time. If a project ends early it goes against the work done by then, and anything left over comes back to you within thirty days. The balance is due at launch, and the site goes live once it clears.
  • The work is yours the moment it’s paid for. On final payment everything we made for you is yours outright — files, source, the lot. Before that it isn’t. That has never once come up, but it’s the honest answer.
  • The $995 credit is one credit. Against one full website, inside twelve months. It isn’t cash, and it doesn’t stack with the branding discount.

What AI consulting covers

  • A session is time, not a subscription. The $400 buys the two hours, the write-up, and two weeks of email afterwards. There’s no retainer behind it and nothing bills you next month.
  • You pay Anthropic or OpenAI directly. From $20 a month per person, on your own account and in your own name. The $100 and $200 tiers exist for heavy daily use and most businesses never need them — we’ll say which one fits rather than pointing you at the biggest. We don’t resell licences, we take no commission, and nobody pays us to recommend one tool over another. If the free tier is enough for you, we’ll say that too.
  • We work in your account, and we don’t keep access. Nothing we set up routes your business through us or through anything we own. When the session ends, so does our reach into it.
  • Move a session freely up to two business days out. Rescheduling happens and we won’t count it against you. Inside two business days we’ve held the time and can’t fill it, so that one is billed.
  • These tools change, and what we teach has to survive that. The model you’re on today will be replaced, probably sooner than you’d like. So a session teaches how to ask and where the limits are, not which button sat in which menu this month. If an update breaks something we set up, tell us — we’ll say straight away whether it’s a five-minute fix or new work.

What the social media engagement covers

  • We teach it; we don’t run it. The engagement ends with your people posting, and that is the deliverable rather than a stepping stone to a management retainer. If what you want is somebody else holding the account, we’ll say so early and point you at people who do it properly instead of taking the work.
  • Your profiles, your logins, your tools. The social accounts, the AI subscription, and the scheduler are all in your name and billed to you by the companies providing them. We work inside them during the engagement and we keep no access afterwards.
  • The check-ins are the ones in the scope. Reviews are scheduled in writing at the start — usually one at thirty days and quarterly from there. Past those, ongoing help is billed hourly or lives on the Summit plan. Nothing renews quietly.

What we won’t promise

  • A ranking. We build sites that search engines and AI assistants can read properly — structured data, clean markup, real answers to real questions. That part we control. Nobody controls where Google puts you or whether an assistant decides to quote you, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.
  • That the internet never breaks. We monitor your site and we move fast when something goes wrong. But hosts have outages, certificates hiccup, and registrars have bad days. What we promise is attention and a straight answer, not a number with four nines in it.
  • That AI does the job of a person. It makes a careful writer faster and a careless one prolific. It has no judgement, it doesn’t know your customers, and it will tell you something wrong with total confidence. Everything we teach assumes a person still reads it before it goes out, and we’d rather say that here than let a session imply otherwise.
  • Followers. We can hand you a strategy, the tools to work it quickly, and a calendar you’re able to keep. Nobody can hand you an audience. Reach is decided by platforms that change their minds monthly, and anyone selling you a follower count is selling you numbers you wouldn’t want if you got them.
  • Leads. A good website removes the reasons people leave. It doesn’t replace having something people want, at a price they’ll pay, in front of the people who need it. If we think a website isn’t your actual problem, we’ll say so — that conversation costs nothing.

All pricing on this page is subject to change. It’s a current price list, not a standing offer, and it can be revised at any time without notice. What doesn’t move is a number you’ve already been quoted: once a scope is written and signed, that price holds for that project regardless of what this page says afterwards.

And this page is the summary, not the agreement. Every project and every plan gets its own written scope and terms before a dollar moves. Where this page and a signed document ever disagree, the signed one wins.

Nonprofits & churches

If your budget is somebody’s donation, say so.

We build for churches and nonprofits, and we price that work differently. Radius — a whole platform, named, branded, and built in-house — was made for Valley Creek Church, so this isn’t a line we added to look generous.

There’s no published discount, because the right number depends on what you’re doing and what you actually have. Tell us the mission and the budget, and we’ll tell you honestly what we can do inside it — including when the answer is that the money belongs somewhere other than a website.

Start that conversation
No matter the size

Some things aren’t an upgrade.

These come with the $995 site and the $50,000 platform alike, because a site without them isn’t finished — it’s just launched.

Readable by machines

Schema.org data, semantic markup, and a clean heading order, so search engines and AI assistants get your facts right instead of guessing. Why that matters now →

Fast, and it stays fast

Hand-written, with no heavy framework loading before your words do. Your copy lives in the HTML where anything can read it.

Right on a phone first

Most of your visitors are holding one. We build for that screen and let the big one benefit, not the other way round.

Straight answers

Questions people actually ask.

Why do you publish your prices when most studios don’t?

Because you should be able to find out whether we’re in your range without sitting through a sales call first. Hidden pricing wastes your time and ours. The numbers here are the numbers, and if a project needs more than one of them, we say so before anyone commits to anything.

Is a one-page site really enough?

For plenty of businesses, yes. If someone needs to know who you are, what you do, whether you can be trusted, and how to reach you, one well-built page does that better than five thin ones.

It’s the wrong choice when you serve genuinely different audiences, need separate pages to rank for separate things, or have a catalogue of services that each deserve their own explanation. We’ll tell you which one you are, even when the answer costs us the bigger project.

What if my project doesn’t fit any of these?

Most interesting ones don’t. These are starting points, not a menu you have to order from. Tell us what you’re trying to do and we’ll come back with a number and a scope, usually within a business day.

Is hosting included in the price?

No, and deliberately so. We set the hosting account up in your name and we manage it, but the host bills you directly — we don’t resell it and we don’t mark it up. The upside is that a hand-built site at ordinary small-business traffic usually sits inside a free tier, so for a lot of clients hosting costs nothing at all.

Same with your domain, at roughly fifteen dollars a year to the registrar, and with Google Workspace if you want email at your own name. All of it in your name →

Can you set us up with Google Workspace email?

Yes, with any project or plan. We’ll get Workspace running on your own domain and wire it up properly, so you can stop handing out a free email address on a business card. You pay Google their monthly fee and the account is yours from day one.

Do I have to sign up for a Support Plan?

No. Every site we build can be handed over for you to host and look after yourself, and we’ll help you move it. Most clients take a plan because they’d rather not think about certificates and backups, but it’s a choice, not a condition of the project.

Can you take over a site someone else built?

Usually. We start with a paid site review at $250, so we know what we’d be taking responsibility for. If it’s in reasonable shape and we take it on, that fee comes off your first month and we pick up a Support Plan from there.

If it isn’t, you get an honest report on what it would take to put right, and you’re free to take that report anywhere. Want a rough sense before spending anything? The free 5-Point Website Checkup →

How fast can you actually launch?

A one-page site is usually live within a week of the kickoff call, and we once took a client from first conversation to launch in 48 hours. Full websites tend to run two to four weeks. The limiting factor is almost never us — it’s how quickly the copy, photos, and feedback come back.

Do you offer nonprofit or church pricing?

Yes. We price that work differently, and we’ve done it — Radius was built for Valley Creek Church from the name up.

There’s no published discount, because the right number depends on the organization and what it has to work with. Tell us the mission and the budget and we’ll say honestly what we can do inside it.

How long does a branding project take?

A Starter Mark is usually one to two weeks, an Identity System three to four, and a full Brand & Messaging project five to six.

Those are delivery windows, not deadlines, and there’s no turnaround clock on the rounds inside them. Brand work moves at the speed of the decisions it needs from you, and a mark you’ll still like in five years isn’t one anybody hurried.

Which AI should I be using — Claude or ChatGPT?

Either will do most business jobs well, and the honest answer is that the gap between them matters far less than the gap between a good request and a lazy one.

Claude tends to be stronger at long writing and at sounding like a person; ChatGPT has more built-in extras and a bigger ecosystem around it. We’ll ask what you actually do all day and point you at one, and one is usually enough. Most businesses don’t need both, whatever the internet tells you.

Is it safe to put my business information into AI?

Some of it, with the right settings and a line you don’t cross. On the paid business tiers your conversations aren’t used to train the models, and getting that switched on correctly is the first thing we do.

What still doesn’t belong in a chat box: anything covered by a client agreement, anything carrying somebody else’s personal data, card numbers, passwords, and medical or HR records. We’ll draw that line with you in plain language and write it down — “be careful” isn’t a policy anyone can actually follow.

We already use AI a bit. Is there anything in this for us?

Usually more than there is for the people who haven’t started. The pattern we see most often is a business getting mediocre output, concluding the tool is overrated, and quietly going back to doing it by hand — when almost always the request was the problem, not the tool.

A session on your real work, with your customers and your prices and your voice in front of us, is generally the difference between output you have to rewrite and output you can send.

Will you run our social media for us?

No, and it’s the one thing on this page we won’t be talked into. Handing the account to an agency buys posts for exactly as long as you pay for them, and the feed stops when the invoices do, because nothing was ever learned inside the business.

We teach the strategy, set the AI tools up on your own work, build the calendar and the voice guidelines with you, and then hand the whole thing over. If what you want is somebody else doing the posting, there are agencies who do it well, and we’ll tell you that rather than take the work. How the engagement runs →

Do you only work with businesses in Texas?

We’re in Texas and we work with clients all over the country. First conversation to launch happens over video calls, email, and a shared project page you can check any time.

What do you need from me?

Less than you’d think, and more than nothing. Expect a kickoff conversation, a few hours of your attention spread over a couple of weeks, whatever photos and copy you already have, and reasonably quick feedback. Projects stall for one reason far more than any other: the owner got busy.

No invoice, no pressure

Tell us what you’re thinking.

Nothing on this page is a checkout button. Tell us what you’re after and we’ll usually come back within one business day with a straight answer — including if we think you need something smaller than what you asked for.

Prefer email? Write us at info@newjourneydesigns.com.