Questions people actually ask.

Most business websites in Nepal land between NPR 35,000 and NPR 300,000. A simple five-page site for a clinic or restaurant sits at the lower end and takes a week or two. A larger site with e-commerce, a content system you edit yourself, or multiple languages sits at the upper end and takes four to five weeks.

On the first call we narrow the range to a fixed number, and once agreed it doesn’t move unless you change the scope.

Because we build custom, and most of the market builds templates. A NPR 15,000 website is a WordPress theme with your logo dropped in — it will be slow, it will look like several other businesses in town, and changing anything means paying again.

We design from scratch, write your copy, engineer it to load fast on a mid-range Android phone on mobile data, and hand you the accounts in your own name. That takes weeks of real work by people who do this professionally. If budget is the binding constraint, we’ll tell you honestly on the first call whether a smaller scope makes more sense than a smaller studio.

Project work is milestone-based. A deposit books your slot in our calendar, then staged payments tied to things you can actually see and use, then a final payment at launch. Monthly work — marketing, social media, video — is billed monthly in advance and you can cancel with 30 days’ notice.

There are no hidden fees. If a scope change would move the price, you hear about it before we do the work, not on the invoice.

Yes, and there’s no obligation attached to it. Thirty minutes, and you leave with an honest scope and a price range for your project.

Sometimes the honest answer is that you don’t need what you came asking for — that you’d get more from fixing your Google Business Profile than from a new website this quarter. We’ll say so. We’d rather lose the project than take money for work that won’t pay you back.

No. Discovery calls, scoping, fixed-range estimates and strategic advice are all free. We only invoice once you’ve agreed a scope and a price and asked us to start.

It doesn’t, unless you change what you’re asking for. We give a fixed range on the first call, narrow it to a number before work starts, and hold it.

If you add something mid-project — a payment system, another language, an extra integration — we price it, tell you what it costs and what it does to the timeline, and wait for you to say yes. If we underestimated something through our own error, that’s our problem, not your invoice.

One to five weeks for most business websites. A five-page marketing site is about a week or two; a larger site with a content system, booking, or e-commerce is four to five.

Mobile apps take six to sixteen weeks. Software platforms take four to twelve weeks to a working first version. Brand consultation is one to three weeks and usually comes before everything else.

The biggest variable isn’t us — it’s how quickly you can give feedback and supply content. Projects that slip usually slip waiting on approvals.

Less than you’d think. For the first call, just be able to describe your business and what you want to happen. That’s enough for us to scope it.

Once we start we’ll need: your logo files if you have them, photos of your work or premises, any existing content, and access to your domain if you already own one. If you don’t have good photos or written content, tell us — we can produce both, and it’s better than launching with placeholder material.

Four stages. Scope: a thirty-minute call, then a fixed range and a written plan. Design: drawn from scratch for your brand, by the people who will build it. Build: engineered with boring, durable tools that will still be maintainable in three years. Run: monitoring, maintenance, and someone still answering the phone after launch.

You see progress at each stage and approve before we move on. There’s no six-week silence followed by a reveal.

Weekly at minimum, and you’ll have a direct line to the people building it — not an account manager relaying messages. We work async-first, which means written updates and recorded walkthroughs you can watch when it suits you, rather than meetings that need scheduling across timezones.

Every enquiry gets a reply within one business day. That’s a commitment, not a target.

We stay. Every project includes a support period — 30 days on the smallest websites, up to six months on larger builds — covering fixes, small changes and questions.

After that you can take a monthly support arrangement or just call us when you need something. We don’t disappear at launch, and we don’t hold your website hostage to a maintenance contract. Your accounts are in your name and you can leave whenever you want to.

It means the people who design your product also write its code. There’s no design team handing a file to a separate development team, which is where most projects lose their budget and their timeline.

In practice: an engineer is on your first call, so scope estimates come from the people who have to hit them. Design decisions get made against real constraints, so we don’t draw something beautiful and then discover it costs two seconds of load time. One team owns the outcome from the first sketch to the live site.

The same small team throughout. We’re small on purpose — small enough that the person answering your email knows what’s in your codebase.

We don’t subcontract to other studios and we don’t put a junior on your project while a senior takes the meetings.

Yes. We work with founders and teams abroad, async-first — written updates and recorded walkthroughs instead of meetings that need scheduling across timezones.

For clients in Nepal, the studio is in Kathmandu and you’re welcome to visit.

Often, yes. We start with a short audit to see what’s worth keeping and what’s better rebuilt, and we tell you honestly which it is — including when the honest answer is that a rebuild costs less than fixing what’s there.

What we need is access: the code repository, hosting, and the domain. If the previous developer won’t hand those over, tell us early. It’s a common situation and there are usually ways around it.

The deposit books your slot in our calendar and isn’t refundable, because holding a slot means turning other work away. Beyond that, payments are tied to milestones — if we haven’t delivered a milestone, you haven’t paid for it.

If a project goes wrong on our side, we fix it at our cost. We’ve structured payment this way so you’re never far ahead of the work.

You’ll have seen it long before it’s built. Design is a stage you approve before any code gets written, and revisions at that stage are included — that’s what the stage is for.

We’ll also push back sometimes, and explain why. If you want a carousel on your homepage we’ll tell you what it does to your conversion rate. Then it’s your business and your call.

Yes, routinely, and we’ll sign yours rather than insisting on ours. Just send it over before the first call if you’d rather discuss the project under one.

Yes, all of it. Your repository, your hosting account, your domain, your data, your analytics. Everything is created in your name or transferred to you at launch.

We do this because we’ve seen too many businesses held hostage by a vendor who owned the login. If you decide to work with someone else in two years, you should be able to leave with everything and not need our permission.

Next.js, TypeScript and Tailwind, deployed on Vercel or Cloudflare. Postgres with Drizzle for data. React Native, Flutter, Swift and Kotlin for mobile, depending on what the app needs.

We choose boring, well-documented technology on purpose. Not because we can’t learn something newer, but because you shouldn’t need to find a specialist in an obscure framework in order to change your own opening hours three years from now.

Not for the sites we build. WordPress is fine for some things, but it tends to end up slow, plugin-dependent, and a security maintenance burden — and most of the Nepali market’s speed problems trace back to a theme with fifteen plugins on it.

We build custom on Next.js, which is faster, more secure by default, and cheaper to host. If you specifically need WordPress because your team already knows it, say so on the first call and we’ll tell you honestly whether we’re the right studio for that.

Yes — it’s a build requirement, not an afterthought. We set a performance budget before we design, test on mid-range Android devices rather than flagships, and serve images in modern formats at the right size for the screen.

This matters more in Nepal than most places. A large share of your customers are on mobile data on a phone that costs under NPR 30,000. A site that only feels fast on an iPhone on office wifi isn’t fast.

Every site we build is set up correctly for search from day one: clean structure, structured data, fast loading, proper meta information and a sitemap. That’s the foundation, and it’s included.

Ranking for competitive terms is a separate, ongoing job — that’s our digital marketing service, and it starts showing movement around month three. Anyone promising page one in thirty days is either buying ads and calling it SEO, or guessing.

AEO is Answer Engine Optimisation — making sure AI systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews can read your business and cite it when someone asks for a recommendation.

It matters because a growing share of people now ask an AI “who’s the best dentist in Kathmandu” instead of typing it into Google. Those systems answer from sources they can parse cleanly and trust. Most Nepali business websites are invisible to them.

Yes. Product catalogues, cart, checkout, payment integration and order management, built custom rather than on a template. Nepali payment providers like eSewa and Khalti, and international ones like Stripe.

E-commerce sits at the upper end of our website band — NPR 200,000 to 300,000 — because payment flows have real edge cases that need doing properly.

Yes, if you want to. On our Standard and Scale website tiers we build a content system so you can edit text, swap images, add pages and publish posts without calling us.

We’ll train whoever on your team will be doing it. If you’d rather not touch it at all, that’s fine too — small changes are covered by support.

We set both up, in your name, on your accounts. Hosting on Cloudflare or Vercel usually costs nothing to very little for a business website — often under NPR 2,000 a year plus the domain.

We don’t resell hosting at a markup or hold your domain. You pay the provider directly and you own the account.

Systems that do specific, repetitive work: answering common customer questions, sorting and entering data, drafting reports, keeping records updated. Not a chatbot bolted onto your homepage.

We build with human checkpoints wherever a mistake would be expensive, and with tests that tell you when the system starts getting things wrong. We run our own company on these systems — a nine-agent marketing setup, automated software delivery — so we know where they break before you find out.

That’s not what we build for, and it’s usually the wrong goal. The work worth automating is the work nobody wanted to do anyway — copying data between two systems, answering the same twenty questions, formatting reports.

What our clients typically get back is hours, not headcount. If the honest answer is that your process needs fixing before it needs automating, we’ll tell you that instead and save you the money.

Expect movement from month three, compounding after that. Technical fixes and Google Business Profile work can show up faster — sometimes within weeks for local search. Content and ranking take longer because they have to earn it.

Paid ads produce traffic immediately, but take four to six weeks of testing before the spend is efficient. We report monthly in plain language: what we did, what moved, what’s next.

Because one month proves nothing. Social platforms reward consistency — the algorithm needs to see regular posting before it gives you reach, and your audience needs to see you several times before they remember you.

A one-month trial would take your money and show you noise. Three months is the shortest honest test.

Both, chosen per brief. Some things need a real camera, real people and a real location. Some things — product motion, explainers, variations on a hook — are faster and cheaper made with AI tools, and the result is indistinguishable in a feed.

We pick whichever gets you the better result for the money, and we tell you which we’re doing. The point is volume enough to actually test what works, not one expensive film that sells nothing.

One thing is fine. Most clients start with a website or a brand consultation and add marketing later, once there’s something worth sending traffic to.

We’ll actively tell you not to buy marketing before you have a site that converts — sending paid traffic to a slow website is the fastest way to waste a budget. The order usually matters more than the number of services.