Field notes
Notes from the bench.
What things cost, what we run on ourselves, what we found taking someone else's site apart, and how to judge the work when you are not the one building it. Written for the person paying for it, not for other engineers.
Thirteen jobs an AI agent runs for our studio every week, with the receipts
Support triage, backups, reports and a newsletter draft, all on a schedule. What each job costs from the run log, what a person still signs off on, and the week half the runs quietly failed.
Read the note →What a rebuild actually changes: a roofing site, start to finish
Sixty-two pages off a page builder and onto a stack the business owns. The speed numbers on every page, what three years of rent actually costs, the listings work nobody quotes for, and the lead stack behind it.
Read the note →What a custom business website actually costs
Our builds run $5,000 to $20,000 and the spread is not padding. What actually moves the number, the three ways businesses overpay, what it costs to run afterwards, and six questions that separate two quotes.
Read the note →More on the way. If there is something you want costed or explained, ask us and we will write it up.