01Studio
Small studio. Deliberately.
Rapidex designs and builds websites for small businesses, then hosts and maintains them. We take on a handful of projects at a time, which is the only way the work stays good and the answers stay fast.
02How we work
Four things we will not budge on.
We talk you out of things
Most small businesses are sold more website than they need. A content system nobody updates and a blog nobody writes are costs, not features. We would rather build three pages properly than eleven badly.
Fixed price, in writing
You get one number before work starts. Hourly billing makes the client pay for our inefficiency, and open-ended scope is where small projects go to die.
Nothing designed to trap you
Your domain, your content, and your accounts are in your name from the first day. We own and maintain the code while we look after the site, which is what makes one fixed monthly price work instead of an hourly bill. Cancel and want to take it with you? It is yours, and we help you move.
Built to be left alone
The best outcome is a site that runs for years without needing us. We are not trying to manufacture maintenance work, which is why the care plan is priced as insurance rather than as a retainer to be used up.
03How it is built
Bespoke on the outside, one platform underneath.
Each site is designed and built for the business it belongs to. What they share is the machinery behind them, which is why a custom site costs what it does here rather than what an agency would charge.
- Frontends
- Every client site is hard coded from scratch and served from a CDN. No page builders, no themes, and no plugins, which is why they load in well under a second and why there is nothing installed that can break them.
- The platform
- All the sites share one backend: hosting, content, forms, orders, and billing. That is what makes a bespoke site affordable, because the hard parts are built once.
- Isolation
- Every client's data lives in its own database schema rather than in a shared table with a customer column. It is a stricter boundary and it is the right one when the data is other people's.
- Payments
- Checkout is hosted by the payment provider. Card details go from your customer straight to them, never through us, which keeps everyone's compliance obligations minimal.
04Working together
We are a good fit for some businesses and a bad fit for others.
A good fit
- You want one studio to design, build, and then run it.
- You would rather pay a fixed price than an hourly rate.
- You want a site sized to the business, not to the pitch deck.
A bad fit
- You need it live next week. Good work takes a few of them.
- You are looking for the cheapest possible option. That is a template, and we will happily point you at one.
- You want a marketing department. We build and run websites.
Not sure which you are? Ask us. We will tell you honestly, including when the answer is no.
Start with a conversation.
Forty five minutes, no charge, and no obligation. We will tell you what we would build, roughly what it costs, and whether you need it at all.