Northbound Studio · Grand Ledge, Michigan
Made to order. A few builds a month.
Northbound is a one-man studio. Every site is designed and built by hand — a few a month, never more — so yours gets a builder, not a queue. Or skip the wait and buy one that's already built.
Eight quick questions, one per screen. You end with a priced build, and nothing is charged until you say so.
The builds
A numbered program.
Every commission gets a build number. It goes on the site, in the owner's manual, and here — in the order the work was delivered.
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Build No. 001
Delivered
Keystone South Construction
The first commission. A contractor's website, designed and built end to end.
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Build No. 002
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This one could be yours
The next slot in the program. It starts with eight quick questions about your business.
How it works
Three steps. No mystery.
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1
A 15-minute call.
Fifteen minutes, phone or video. Your business, your customers, and what the site has to do. Short on purpose: long enough to know, too short to waste.
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2
The test drive.
Within 48 hours of the call, your homepage exists — designed, written, real. Not a mockup, not a tour. The actual first page of your site, on your screen.
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3
We build the rest.
Love it, and the full build follows: every page, the booking, the follow-up. You approve each stage before it goes live. Don't love it, and we stop there — that's the deal.
The test drive
We build your homepage in 48 hours. Love it or walk away.
The call comes first — it's how the 48 hours go to buyers, not browsers. After it, the clock starts. What you get is a real homepage: your name, your words, your customers in mind. If it isn't right, you walk away and owe nothing.
Packages
The price is on the window.
Three ways to commission a build. Every one starts the same way: eight questions, then a call.
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01 · Beacon
From $3,500
The site and the brand.
A complete website and a brand to match — the whole presence, designed and built properly.
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02 · Engine
From $8,500
The site, and the machine behind it.
Everything in Beacon, plus booking, payments, automated follow-up, and a dashboard that shows it working.
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03 · Bearing
From $600/mo
The service plan.
Hosting, maintenance, and a monthly report. It follows every build, so the site stays fast and you stay hands-off.
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Or · Ready-made
From $79 →
Already built. Buy one.
Two finished sites you can buy today: a trades site with booking, a small shop with card checkout. Yours to keep as source, made yours with one content file, a free Vercel account, an afternoon.
The spec sheet
Measured, not promised.
No numbers appear on this page that we can't prove — including ours. So the spec sheet starts as a commitment: every build is measured, and the measurements ship with it.
- Load time, measured
- Your homepage's load time, measured on launch day and printed in the manual.
- Days to launch, counted
- From the day we start to the day you're live — counted, and printed next to it.
- Inquiries, tracked
- Before and after, wherever they can honestly be measured.
- An owner's manual
- How everything on your site works, in plain language. Yours to keep.
Who's behind this
One builder.
That's the point.
Colin — founder, Grand Ledge, Michigan
Colin designs and builds every Northbound site himself: the words, the layout, the code, the launch. No account managers, no handoffs, no queue of strangers. A few builds a month isn't a sales line — it's how each one gets his full attention. When you write, he answers. The robot is Buddy. He's the studio's whole art department, and he takes it very seriously.
Handover
Delivery is a handover.
When your site is done, we sit down — in person or on a call — and walk through it together: how to update it, how the booking flows, where the numbers live. You leave with an owner's manual that explains all of it in plain language. After that, Bearing is your service plan: hosting, maintenance, and a monthly report, handled.