About
50 designs, 4 packages, and a very short list of things we do.
Meridian builds websites and landing pages from a library it has already drawn. The work that normally goes into a proposal went into the designs instead, which is why the price is on the page and why there is no call to book.
The short version
We did the hard part before you arrived.
A studio starting from a blank page spends the opening weeks of every project deciding how type is set, how a page moves, and what happens when somebody presses something. Whoever is paying that month pays for it, and the answer comes out much the same each time.
We settled it once, 50 times over, across 8 families. What is left when you arrive is the part that was always going to be yours: your words, your images, your colours, and the one thing a visitor is meant to do. There is nothing cleverer than that underneath it.
The model
Productised, so the edges are real.
You are buying a scope, not our attention
Each package publishes its price, its page count, its rounds of changes and a maximum delivery in working days. None of those is an estimate. If the work turns out larger than the specification, we quote the difference rather than absorbing it quietly and resenting you for it.
The specification is a form, not a meeting
Structured questions, mostly checkboxes, answered at whatever hour suits you. It ends on the one question that settles every later argument: what does a visitor actually have to do? A discovery call asks the same thing and bills for the privilege.
One design, many buyers
That is the trade that makes $1,000 possible. A design drawn for one client has to carry that client's whole fee; a design drawn once and licensed repeatedly does not. Exclusivity is the thing we sold to make the price what it is.
The clock starts with your material
Every date is a maximum in working days counted from the day your last required asset reaches us, never from the day you paid. Someone who sends their logo a fortnight late has spent their own time rather than ours, and that is the only way a fixed date stays honest.
What we refuse
The refusals are the product too.
Each of these is a cost we have taken out of the price rather than a service we forgot to build. You should read them before you buy, not discover them at handover.
We do not host anything
We do not deploy it, point a domain at it, issue a certificate, or open an account with any provider on your behalf. We do not ask for your passwords and we will not accept them if you offer. You get the files; the accounts stay in your name, which is the only arrangement in which you can leave us without asking permission.
We do not manage or monitor
When the 30 day defect warranty ends, our work on your project is finished. We are not on call, we do not watch your site, and we will not know if it breaks. That is worth more written down than a support address nobody is paid to read.
We do not do retainers
No monthly minimum, no standing strategy call, no hours to use or lose. The single recurring thing we sell is the Care Plan at $90 a month, for security updates, backups and fixes, cancelled from your account in one step. Everything else is bought once.
We do not sell hours
There is no day rate here and no timesheet you could ask to see. You buy a defined outcome at a fixed figure, which is the only structure in which working faster is good for both of us instead of good for one of us.
We do not sell exclusivity in a design
Every design in the library goes to more than one buyer, and nobody here has authority to promise otherwise. What is yours is your content, your brand and the work done only for your project, all of which is assigned to you outright.
We do not take work we would do badly
Native mobile apps, sites in a language none of us reads, and anything that needs a person awake at three in the morning. You will hear that on the first reply rather than the third invoice.
Why the prices are published
A price you can read is a price we have to be able to deliver at.
Ask most studios what a website costs and you are offered a call. The call exists because the number is not fixed yet. It gets assembled afterwards out of what you said about your budget, how urgent you sounded, and how empty the diary looked that week. The arrangement protects the studio.
Ours is on the page because we would rather lose the enquiries we were always going to lose while they are still cheap for both sides. If $1,000 is not a figure your business can carry, you learned that on the pricing page instead of in a second meeting, and neither of us has spent an afternoon finding out.
It disciplines us as well. Publishing a number means every boundary has to be written down and honoured, which is why the packages exclude as loudly as they include, why a quote lapses after 14 days rather than being renegotiated, and why anything the catalogue does not contain is quoted separately instead of squeezed into a figure that was never meant to hold it.
Where the published price stops
Some work genuinely cannot be priced from a page. When the specification describes something none of the designs can do, the same form produces a written proposal instead of a checkout, and a person here reads it before any money moves.Nothing here needs a conversation first.
The packages, the options, the delivery days and the total are all on one page, and the designs are all on another. Read both before you decide whether we are worth writing to.