Pilcrow
Taking new clients

A new paragraph
for your business.

We make considered websites for independent businesses — the kind of place that has a person behind the counter who knows your name. Designed with intention, built in days.

$1,500 to start5–7 day deliveryYou own the codeNo lock-inPortland, OR

How we work

We're a small boutique studio. We build one site at a time, with one goal — that it looks like you, works the way you need, and holds up for years.

01

Design first, always.

We start with the actual work — a full site built around your business, your space, and your customers. No discovery calls, no proposals.

02

You shape it.

Almost everyone refines something. Having a real site in front of you makes the feedback specific and fast — not abstract back-and-forth.

03

We ship in five to seven days.

From yes to live. The code is yours. The hosting is yours. We don't bill you next month.

From our clients

I had a half-finished Squarespace page I'd been sitting on for a year. They sent me a real site out of nowhere. I said yes.

Domino

Musician — Portland, OR

The preview they built matched what was in my head better than what I would've described. We barely changed anything.

RU

World-Class Martial Artist

Three other studios wanted a discovery call and a deposit just to start talking. Pilcrow just built it.

House of Pipes

Shop — Portland, OR

Why Pilcrow

We're a boutique studio. Every site is built by hand, around the specific business — not adapted from a template library or assembled from prefab blocks.

Most independent businesses are running a site they meant to redo and never got around to. The cost isn't the redesign — it's the customers who land on it and leave. We close that gap in five days.

Everyone else

  • ×Discovery call first
  • ×Proposal + contract
  • ×Months of back-and-forth
  • ×Monthly retainer

Pilcrow

  • Design first, always
  • Built around your business
  • 5–7 days start to ship
  • Pay once, own it forever

We're a small studio. We make websites the way editors make paragraphs — one decision at a time, with the reader in mind. The judgment is ours. The code is yours.

FAQ

Common questions.

Send us a message. We'll look at your business, your current site if you have one, and what you're trying to accomplish — then come back with what we'd recommend. No intake forms, no proposals. Just a direct conversation.

Three tiers: Standard at $1,500 (custom design, copy refinements, one round of revisions), Expanded at $3,000 (additional pages, custom features, Portland photography), and Buyout at $5,000 (everything owned outright — full SEO, Google Business audit, 3 months of updates). All builds are half up front, half on delivery. Ongoing retainer is $3,500 upfront plus $750/month.

We build a full working version of your site and share the link. That gives both of us something real to react to — not a mockup or a wireframe. Almost everyone refines something at this stage, and that's the point.

$20/month if you want us to manage it. $0 if you take the code and host it yourself. Either way, the code is yours — we don't hold it hostage.

We work remotely for any business, anywhere. The custom photography add-on is Portland metro only, but everything else is fully remote.

Five to seven days from yes to live. From first conversation to a finished site in under two weeks.

One round of revisions is included in every build. Additional rounds are $150 each. For ongoing monthly changes, the retainer plan covers unlimited small edits for $750/month — 2 month minimum, then month-to-month.

Pricing

Three ways to work together.

$1,500

Standard

  • Up to 5 pages.
  • Copy + photo refinements.
  • Typography + layout polish.
  • One round of revisions.
  • GitHub repo — you own it all.

$3,000

Expanded

  • Up to 8 pages.
  • New sections or custom features.
  • Booking widget integration.
  • Custom photography (Portland metro).
  • Two rounds of revisions.

$5,000

Buyout

  • Everything in Expanded.
  • Full SEO setup + sitemap.
  • Google Business profile audit.
  • 3 months of updates included.
  • Priority turnaround.

Ongoing partnership

$3,500 + $750/mo

Full build included. Monthly SEO, unlimited small edits, analytics. 2 month minimum, then month-to-month.

Talk to us about it →

Half up front, half on delivery. Additional revisions $150 each. Full pricing →

Get in touch

Get your free preview.

Drop us a line. We'll build the first version and send it before we ask for a thing.

Or email us at keenan@pilcrowstudio.design

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