If you already have a website
Changes are a sentence, not an invoice.
The expensive part of owning a website is not building it — it is every change afterwards: the new opening hours, the broken form, the page that never worked on phones.
She reads first and reports — nothing changes until you say so.
Update the prices on the services page.
read first · reported · then changedlive when approved · $0.0092
Bring the site or repo you already have. She reads it first and reports what she finds, then makes the changes you approve — updates, fixes, new features — each estimated in the plan and priced on the answer.
What it usually takes
One small change, three ways to pay for it.
The right-hand costs are measured: a turn on the model we recommend for websites runs about $0.0092, and the price is printed on every answer. The left-hand figures are typical published market rates and vary a great deal — check them against what you were last charged.
- A maintenance retainer — commonly $30–$150 a month, used or not
- An hourly developer — commonly $50–$150 an hour, one-hour minimum
- The wait — days between asking and seeing it live
- Small changes get batched up because each one costs too much alone
- The person who built it moves on, and the next one starts from zero
- Import the repository, or point her at the live site
- She reads it and reports before she touches anything
- Describe the change; the plan estimates it before you approve
- Approve it, see it live, and the repo stays yours throughout
- Her memory of the project persists, so the tenth change is easier than the first
How it goes
She reports first. You stay in charge.
- Bring it inConnect GitHub and import the repository, private by default. No repository? She reads the live site and rebuilds it into one you own — which is the last time your site exists only inside someone else’s tool.
- She reads before she writesFirst pass is a report: what is slow, what breaks on phones, what is out of date, what you are overpaying to host. Nothing changes until you say so.
- Then changes are sentences“Update the prices on the services page.” “Make the gallery work on phones.” “Add a booking form.” Each one estimated in the plan, priced on the answer, live when you approve it — and her memory of the project makes the tenth change easier than the first.
The quality of the finished work
An established site, done credibly.
“Build a one-page site for a Houston software development company that has been going since 2005. It needs to look established and credible, not like a startup.”
2 turns206s
$0.0184
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Being fair about it
When a developer is the right answer.
A redesign that needs taste you want to argue with, an integration buried in a vendor's private documentation, anything regulated — a person is still the right call, and she will say so in the report rather than pretend otherwise. What changes is everything below that bar: the routine updates and small fixes that make up most of a maintenance bill stop needing anyone booked at all. And if you do hire someone later, they get a normal git repository with a commit history, not a locked account.
Point her at what you already run.
The first pass is a report, not a rewrite — and it costs about $0.0092 a turn.
Questions
Asked, answered
Someone else built my website — can it still work on it?
Yes. If the code lives in a git repository, connect GitHub and import it — she works in it commit by commit and it stays yours throughout. If there is no repository, she reads the live site and rebuilds it into one you own, and every change after that is a sentence.
Do I need to know git or code?
No. You describe the change in plain English, she shows you what she intends to do, and nothing lands without your approval. The repository is there for any developer you ever hire later — you never have to open it.
What does a change cost?
About $0.0092 a turn, mostly. The finished builds in our showcase each cost about the same in tokens per turn, a change is estimated in the plan before you approve it, and what it cost is printed on the answer. There is no retainer and no hourly rate.