Pricing
Technical Review
Fixed price. 3 business days from receipt of access. Deliverable: written findings, ranked by business impact, plus the fixed quote for Stage 2. Credited in full against Stage 2 if the client proceeds.
Store Rescue
Fixed price, quoted at the end of Stage 1. Never quoted before. 30 working days. 50% on start, 50% on delivery. Guarantee: if the acceptance criteria are not met, the second 50% is not invoiced.
Managed Engineering
Month to month. No contract. No notice period. Begins the day the rescue goes live.
The guarantee, in plain words: your key pages open fast on a phone, measured by Google's own tools — and if we miss, the second half of the invoice is never sent.
Precisely. On the three templates named in your Stage 1 report — home, top category, top product — measured with Lighthouse mobile via the PageSpeed Insights API from a US test location, median of three consecutive runs:
LCP under 2.5 seconds · CLS under 0.1 · Total Blocking Time under 200ms · Lighthouse Performance score of 85 or better.
Baseline captured before any change, using the same method. Third-party scripts added after handover — analytics, chat, pixels, review widgets, A/B tools — are excluded. Real-user field data from the Chrome User Experience Report is reported monthly once 28 days of data exist, but is not guaranteed, because we do not control your traffic mix or your visitors' devices.
The 30 working days begin when we have SFTP or SSH, database, admin, DNS, and repository access — not at signature. The clock pauses on any client-side blocker, confirmed in writing.
The math, with your numbers
Deloitte Digital and Google studied 37 brands across 30 million sessions. A 0.1-second improvement in mobile speed was associated with 8.4% higher retail conversions and 9.2% higher average order value. A rescue typically moves load time by seconds, not tenths.
Portent, across more than 100 million page views, found that pages loading in 1 second convert at roughly three times the rate of pages loading in 5 seconds.
We won't tell you what your lift will be. We don't know your products, your pricing, or your traffic mix, and anyone quoting you a number before seeing your analytics is guessing. What we will do is measure your baseline during the review and report the same metrics every month afterward, so you can watch it move in your own data.
Where these prices sit
Shop around and you'll find agency quotes for a full re-platforming typically land between $9,000 and $28,000, and monthly store maintenance anywhere from $500 to $3,000. Our fixed prices sit at the accessible end of that professional range — not because the work is smaller, but because we're a small senior team without an office tower to feed. The difference we do charge for is in writing: a measured guarantee, and no second invoice if we miss it.
What we don't do
Hourly billing. Retainers below $1,500. Stores under roughly $30,000/month in revenue. Shopify. Design-only projects.
Payment
USD invoicing. Card payments via Stripe.