Benjamin Price — The studio

How we work

One studio, one point of contact, and a scope agreed before anything is built.

Fifty milliseconds is the whole interview.

Carleton University researchers found visitors judge a site's visual appeal in one twentieth of a second, and that longer viewing barely shifts the verdict. A stranger decides whether you look credible before a single word is read.

For a business that wins its work on reputation, that is the entire case for taking the website seriously. It is the one room a client walks into before they meet you.

Lindgaard, Fernandes, Dudek & Brown, "Attention web designers: You have 50 milliseconds to make a good first impression!", Behaviour & Information Technology, Carleton University, 2006.

Four steps. No committee.

[01] Audit We look at your current site the way a stranger does, and tell you plainly what it is costing you and what is worth doing. Written, back within 48 hours, no charge.
[02] Direction One design direction, argued for. You see exactly what will be built and what it will cost before anything begins.
[03] Build The site is built properly: fast, considered, and made to be judged in the first glance. You see progress, not surprises.
[04] Handover It launches in your name, on your domain. Change it yourself, or have us keep it current for you. Both work.

Audits come back within 48 hours. Most single pages go live inside a week; full sites inside two. Fast because nothing sits between you and the work, not because anything is skipped.

Dimension, used with restraint.

The statue on our homepage is not a video. It is a live 3D scene, built by hand, responding to your scroll. When a brand deserves that kind of presence, we build it. When it does not need it, we say so.

[01] In the browser Designed in the browser, not in a mockup. What you approve is the real thing, on real devices, from the first review.
[02] No templates No page-builders, no themes. Custom code on modern foundations, so the site is yours alone and loads like it.
[03] Motion & 3D Live WebGL scenes, scroll choreography, and type set with the care of print. Used only where they earn their place.
[04] Performance & privacy Budgeted fast from day one, so the craft never costs the load time. No trackers, no cookie banners, nothing watching your visitors.

Priced in the open.

[01] Audit A plain-English review of your current site: what a stranger sees in the first moment, and what to do about it. No charge
[02] Single page One page that carries the whole first impression: a launch, a campaign, or a practice that needs exactly one thing said well. From $1,500
[03] Full site The complete presence, designed and built end to end. Most projects land between $4,000 and $8,000. From $4,000
[04] Care Hosting, updates, and small changes, handled. Your site stays current without you thinking about it. From $200 / month

Every project is quoted as a fixed number before it begins. No hourly billing, no meter running. If your budget sits under these, take the audit anyway. We will tell you what is worth doing yourself.

Who it is for.

Businesses that win their work on reputation, and whose website has not kept up with it. You will know if this is you.

  • Most of your work arrives by referral, and you would rather it did not have to.
  • The work you show someone in person is better than the work on your site.
  • The site was built years ago, by someone who has since moved on.
  • You have quietly stopped sending people to it.

Industry is not the filter. The gap is. Whether you sell buildings, dinners, or judgement, it reads the same: the business is good, and the website is not carrying it.

Start with the audit.

Five questions, two minutes. The written audit comes back within 48 hours.

Request the audit Prefer email? hello@benjaminprice.co