Clear scope. Pure utility.

The exact number is in the proposal before any work starts. After the first conversation, you get a fixed-price quote with the scope, assumptions, timeline, and deliverables spelled out in plain language.

Because the same “website” can mean very different work. A simple service site, a local SEO rebuild, and a system tied to bookings or staff-editable content should not be priced from the same menu. I quote the work after I understand what the business actually needs, so you are not paying for a package that does not fit.

We spend about thirty minutes talking through the business, the current problem, what is costing time or money, and whether Fundy Forge is the right fit. There is no obligation and no pressure. If a smaller fix, an audit, or another provider makes more sense, I will say so.

Most custom websites take 4–8 weeks from kickoff to launch. Audits take about a week; migrations can be faster than a full build. The timeline is in the proposal, realistic rather than optimistic.

Two things. Your domain, usually about $20 a year, and Website Care: a flat monthly fee for the person who built the site to keep watching hosting, DNS, forms, updates, and uptime, with a plain-language report each month. Care is month-to-month with 30 days' notice. There is no page-builder subscription or plugin licence stack underneath any of it, so if you would rather run the site yourself, you can.

Yes, if your project includes a CMS. You get a tailored editing dashboard for the content that should be easy to change yourself. New pages, structural changes, or deeper design work are quoted separately.

Then you stop, with 30 days' notice, and you keep everything. The site, domain, and hosting accounts are already in your name, so nothing has to be migrated and any qualified developer can pick the project up. Clients stay on Website Care because it is useful, not because leaving is hard.

The monthly arrangement most sites launch onto. A hand-coded site has no plugin stack to patch, but it still has moving parts: domain, DNS, Cloudflare, forms, analytics, redirects, and CMS access. Care means the person who built the site keeps watching them, with a plain-language report each month and someone to call when something needs attention. A Growth tier sits on top for businesses that want ongoing search work, not just upkeep. Care is quoted alongside the build as its own line, never hidden inside the build price.

It means the site is built for your business rather than assembled from a rented theme or page-builder stack. The delivered website is readable and portable. Any qualified developer can open the project, understand it, and maintain it.

Those tools are fine for getting something online fast. They are less fine when performance, search visibility, portability, and long-term control matter. A custom site gives you a faster foundation, clearer structure, and a website you can move instead of rent.

If you have subscriptions nobody understands, staff copying the same information between tools, manual steps that should not be manual, or a website that creates more questions than leads, yes. The report stands on its own, and any follow-up implementation is optional and quoted separately.

Yes. Most projects happen remotely. Fundy Forge is based in Hampton, New Brunswick and primarily works with businesses across Atlantic Canada, but the right fit matters more than the postal code.

Not as standalone software projects. I focus on high-performance websites, audits, and practical improvements to the tools your business already uses, such as your CRM, booking system, email setup, or content workflow.