The short answer, from our own rate card
A focused custom site at ClientAnchor starts at $4,500 and takes three to four weeks. That is up to five core pages, a strategy and message workshop, custom responsive design, lead capture, and a search foundation. Our Authority tier starts at $9,500 for businesses that need expanded service and location architecture, case studies, and a measurement plan, usually five to eight weeks. Flagship interactive builds start at $18,000 and are scoped to the experience.
Every proposal is fixed around an agreed scope before work begins. If a studio cannot tell you what a project costs until after they start, what they are really telling you is that the scope is not defined yet, and you will pay for that ambiguity later.
What actually moves the price
Page count matters less than people think. The expensive ingredients are decisions, not templates: how many distinct buying decisions the site has to support, how much original content has to be written from scratch, whether the design needs custom interaction work, and how many systems the site has to talk to.
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Message and structure work
If your services, proof, and pricing are already articulated, we build faster. If we are extracting them from your head in workshops, that is real work and it is priced in.
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Original content volume
A five-page site with copy we write together is a different project from a twenty-page service and location architecture. Content scale is the biggest single multiplier.
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Custom interaction and motion
Scroll-driven storytelling, cinematic product reveals, and custom animation are what push a build from Authority toward Flagship. They earn their cost only when the sale is high-consideration.
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Integrations
Booking systems, CRMs, payment flows, and gated content each add scope. None are exotic, but every connection has to be built, tested, and documented.
When you should not hire us
If your budget is under roughly $4,000, a well-configured template on Squarespace or Framer is the honest recommendation, and plenty of businesses at that stage are served fine by one. If you need a site live this week, a studio timeline will frustrate you. And if nobody in your business can spend a few hours in workshops giving us the source truth, no studio can write around that gap.
A custom studio build pays for itself when the site has a real job: a sale where trust has to arrive before the call, a market where you need to out-rank established competitors, or a launch where the experience is part of the story. If that is not your situation yet, keep the money.