How to get a quote from us (and actually get a good one)

Every quote we send is only as good as the brief it came from. Vague brief, vague number. Clear brief, and we can usually price the work on the spot and have a free draft in front of you the same day.

This is a walkthrough of our quote form, box by box. It's the same advice we'd give you on a call, written down so you can fill the thing in at midnight if that's when you have time.

Before you start: five things worth having open

You don't need any of this to submit the form. But if you have it ready, the whole process gets faster, and the number we come back with will be a lot closer to final.

• Your current site, if you have one. Even a bad one tells us a lot.
• Two or three sites you like. They don't have to be in your industry.
• One site you can't stand. This is genuinely useful. More on that below.
• A rough number you're willing to spend. Not a final budget. A range is fine.
• Any deadline that actually matters, like a launch, an event, or a funding round.

That's it. Ten minutes of prep, and you'll finish the form in one sitting.

Who you are

Name, email, company, country. Nothing clever here. Use an email you actually check, because the free draft link lands there, usually within 6 to 12 hours.

The phone field is optional and we mean it. We'll only use it if something in your brief needs a two minute conversation instead of a three email thread. If you'd rather stay on email, leave it blank and we'll respect that.

What we're building

Pick the closest website type. If you're between two, pick either and explain in the details box. We're not going to hold you to it.

Page count is the one people get wrong most often. Don't count every blog post or product. Count the templates: a homepage, an about page, a service page, a contact page, and one product page is five, even if you end up with two hundred products. If you're not sure, guess high and say so.

Show us the taste, not just the spec

This is where a good brief separates itself. Drop in the sites you like. Then, and this is the important part, tell us what you hate.

The sites you hate tell us more in one line than the sites you love tell us in ten.

Almost everyone can name three sites they admire, and they're usually the same three sites. Very few people can articulate what makes them close a tab. When you tell us that a competitor's site felt cold, or too loud, or that the popup made you leave, you're handing us the exact thing to avoid. That saves a revision round, and revision rounds are where projects go slow.

Be honest about the budget

We know why people leave this blank. You're worried the price will magically rise to whatever number you type. Here's our side of it: a budget range doesn't set the price, it sets the scope.

If you tell us $500, we won't quietly deliver a worse version of a $3,000 site. We'll tell you what $500 genuinely buys, which might be a sharp one page site that does one job well, and we'll tell you straight if what you're describing can't be done for that. If you pick 'Not sure yet', that's fine too, and we'll come back with two options at different levels.

The one thing that wastes both our time is a brief with no number at all attached to a ten page e-commerce build. Then we're guessing, and you're waiting.

The project details box: an example

This is the box that matters, and it's the one most people rush. Here's the difference.

A vague version: 'We need a modern, professional website for our business. Something clean and easy to use that stands out from competitors.'

We can build from that. But everything in it is true of every website ever commissioned, so we'd have to ask you six questions before we could start.

A useful version: 'We're a three person accounting firm in Munich. Most of our work comes from referrals, but we lose people who Google us afterwards and find a site that looks like it was built in 2011. We want a site that makes a 45 year old business owner think we're competent and modern without looking like a startup. Main goal is booked consultations. We have a logo, no other brand assets. Deadline is soft but we'd like it live before tax season in March.'

That's not longer by much. But it tells us the audience, the actual problem, the one action that matters, the constraint, and the deadline. We can price that. We can design that. And the free draft we send back will be aimed at the right person instead of a generic 'business owner'.

You don't need to write beautifully. Bullet points are fine. Just be specific about who it's for and what you want them to do.

What happens after you hit send

You'll get an automatic confirmation straight away so you know it arrived. Then a human, which is to say me, reads it.

• Within 4 hours during Dhaka business hours (10:00 to 20:00, GMT+6), you get a real reply.
• If something's unclear, I'll ask. Usually one or two questions, not a form.
• If it's clear, I start. The free first draft lands within 6 to 12 hours of us agreeing what we're making.
• That draft is a real, working, deployed link. Not a mockup, not a PDF. You can open it on your phone.
• If you like it, we build the rest and I send the quote. If you don't, you keep the draft and we shake hands.

There's no contract to sign before the draft, no card to enter, and no invoice if you walk away. We're not being generous. It's just the fastest way for both of us to find out if this is going to work.

If you only remember one thing

Tell us the outcome you want, not the website you think you want. 'I want more consultations booked by people who found us on Google' is a brief. 'I want a modern five page website' is a shopping list. Give us the first one and the second one takes care of itself.

Right, that's the whole form. Go and fill it in. Worst case you get a free website draft out of it.