Pricing
What things cost
Every price we can publish honestly is on this page: architecture, branding, websites, business systems, and the support that keeps them running.
How our pricing works
Good design should be within reach, and the way we argue that is by publishing what we charge. You can work out whether we are worth an hour of your time before you spend the hour.
A starting price buys the smallest complete version of that work, not a stripped one that needs three additions before it does anything. Where the number genuinely depends on the size of the site or the shape of the system, we say quoted instead of guessing, and the first consultation is free precisely so that question gets answered properly.
Every figure here is the same figure as on the service page it belongs to. Prices do change over time, and when they do they change in one place.
Architecture
Two revision rounds are included in every package.
House plans
Ready-made and custom plans for a stand you already own. The fastest route from land to building.
- Ready-made plan Adapted to your stand and orientation
- from $180
- Custom home design Drawn for your site and brief from the start
- $320 to $1,200
Residential
Custom homes, renovations, extensions and rental units. Concept through to council submission drawings.
- Starter Home Simple, smaller homes, standard drawings
- $180 to $320
- Custom Home Larger homes, more revisions, 3D renders, interior concepts
- $320 to $1,200
- Luxury Home Full visualisation and design support
- Quoted
Commercial
Offices, retail, restaurants, clinics and schools. Spaces designed around the way a business actually trades.
- Small commercial A shop, a small office, a consulting suite
- $700 to $1,800
- Medium A full office floor, a restaurant, a clinic
- $1,800 to $3,800
- Large Multi-storey, multi-tenant or campus scale
- Quoted
Master planning
Cluster housing, subdivisions, campuses and site development. Getting the layout right before the first building goes up.
- Site Capacity Study Credited in full against your master planning fee if you go ahead
- $120
- Zoning and permitted use check At cost. Optional, and recommended before you buy
- $100
- Master plan Priced per site, by area, unit count and complexity
- Quoted
Quoted means the work varies too much for a published number to be honest. Ask, and you get one in writing after the consultation.
Digital
Three revision rounds are included in every package.
Brand identity
Logo, colour, typography and the rules that hold them together. The thing your sign, your website and your invoices all have to agree with.
- Brand Essentials Logo, palette, typography, usage guide, all file formats
- $120
- Brand Identity Essentials plus social templates, company profile, stationery
- $280
- Full Brand System Identity plus signage, environmental graphics, guidelines document
- from $550
Websites
Fast, mobile-first sites that load on a real Zimbabwean connection. Five pages or fifty.
- Starter 5 pages, mobile first, contact form, basic SEO
- $200
- Business More pages, admin area, blog, SEO setup, analytics, Google Business Profile
- $380
- Custom Booking, portals, payments, e-commerce, integrations
- from $650
Business systems
Custom software for the way your business actually runs. Stock, clients, invoicing, bookings, reporting.
- Simple systems A dashboard, an inventory system, a straightforward CRM
- $450 to $1,200
- Custom platforms Full CRM, client portals, multi-role systems, offline apps
- from $1,200
SEO and analytics
Being found when somebody in Harare searches for what you sell.
- SEO Setup One off. Not needed for a site we built, since ours ship with the technical work already done
- $120 one off
- SEO Ongoing Reporting, Google Business Profile management and small technical fixes. Or $12 a month. Included in the Business and Systems support plans
- $120 a year
Quoted means the work varies too much for a published number to be honest. Ask, and you get one in writing after the consultation.
Business Launch Package
Opening properly means about five decisions and usually four different suppliers. This is all of it, from one.
- Business Launch Package
- $390
- Brand Essentials: logo, colour, typography and every file format you will need
- Starter website: five pages, mobile first, contact form, the technical SEO done
- Professional email on your own domain
- Google Business Profile set up, so you show on the map and not just in search
- Company profile design you can send to a client in your first week
One price, one timeline, one person to ask. Each part is also sold on its own if you already have some of it.
Hosting and support
A website or a system needs somewhere to live and someone to keep it working. A plan is chosen at the start of a build rather than sprung on you at handover.
Essential
A site that needs to stay up.
$80 a year
or $8 a month
- Hosting and HTTPS
- Domain renewal managed so it never lapses
- Weekly backups
- Uptime monitoring
- Security updates
- Forms tested monthly, and support in office hours
Recommended for most businesses
Business
A business that wants to be found, not just online.
$200 a year
or $20 a month
- Everything in Essential, with priority response
- Email mailboxes set up and managed
- Google Business Profile managed
- Technical SEO maintained
- Analytics, and a monthly report you can actually read
- The same as buying Essential and SEO Ongoing separately, with the rest included
Systems
A client running a business system we built.
$450 a year
or $45 a month
- Everything in Business
- Business system hosting
- Daily database backups, restore tested
- System monitoring and error alerts
- Ongoing system support
Annual is twelve months for the price of ten. Monthly is available on every plan, and most clients start there.
No lock-in on monthly, cancel with 30 days notice. Move to annual whenever you like and we credit the month you have already paid. Larger than this, with multiple sites or systems, is quoted.
The middle tier is not the middle tier because we made it look popular. Essential at $8 a month plus SEO Ongoing at $12 a month is $20 a month bought separately. Business is $20 a month with both of those in it, plus managed email and priority response. Check that against the add-on prices below.
Support keeps what you have working. Changing it or adding to it is quoted separately. The test is repair against change, not how long a thing takes, and there is no hourly rate anywhere in this.
Add-ons
- SEO Setup One off. Not needed for a site we built, since ours ship with the technical work already done
- $120 one off
- SEO Ongoing Reporting, Google Business Profile management and small technical fixes. Or $12 a month. Included in the Business and Systems support plans
- $120 a year
- Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 Licences billed by the provider at their price. Setup is free with any plan
- At cost
- Content changes and additions New pages, new sections, or a change of direction after sign off
- Quoted
The same terms on every job
- 30% deposit before work starts, 70% on completion. Files and access are released on payment in full.
- Once it is built it is yours. Hosting is paid as you go and the accounts stay in your name.
- Two revision rounds on architecture, three on anything digital.
- Architecture: a concept inside two weeks, drawings inside four. Digital: a first concept in three to fifteen working days, depending on complexity.
- A website ships with one month of support and a twelve month warranty on major bugs. A warranty covers something broken, not something new.
Questions about price
Why publish prices when almost nobody else does?
Because the alternative wastes a week of everybody's time. You send an enquiry, wait for a call, describe the whole project, and only then find out whether the number was ever going to work. Publishing means you can rule us in or out in a minute, and it means the number does not quietly change depending on the car you arrived in.
My budget is under the starting price. Is there any point in calling?
Yes, and tell us the number early. Sometimes the answer is a smaller piece of work that still moves you forward, and sometimes the honest answer is that we are not the right fit yet. We would rather say that than sell you half of something that needed to be whole.
Are these prices in US dollars?
Yes. Every figure on this page is in US dollars.
Can these prices change after I have been quoted?
Published prices change over time as the studio grows. What governs your project is the written quote you were given, and the terms page sets out how long a quote stands and what happens if a project is paused.
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Tell us what you want to build
A house, a brand, a website, a system, or all of it. Send a message and we will map out the path from idea to reality.