Built in Sydney. Built fast. Built to rank.
Website design for Sydney businesses. Fine Touch Group moved from Wix to our Next.js architecture and grew quarterly revenue from $250K to $1M.
Two real Sydney clients. Both still ranking.
Sydney based
Founder lives in Sydney, builds for Sydney businesses, knows the market because he sells into it every day.
Same day callbacks
Enquire before 4pm and you hear back the same day. No account manager funnel, no ticketing queue.
You own everything
Code, domain, hosting. No platform fees, no 36 month contracts, no Sydney agency lock-in.
Published pricing. No CBD agency mark-up.
Fine Touch Group made back the cost of their entire build in the first week after launch. Most Sydney clients break even inside a month.
Starter
$3,997Solo operators and Sydney family businesses launching online.
- Up to 5 pages
- Custom design, mobile-first
- Local SEO + LocalBusiness schema
- 100/100 Lighthouse, 3 to 5 days
- Full code ownership
Need it sooner?
Professional
$5,997Growing Sydney businesses competing on Google Local.
- Up to 10 pages + blog/CMS
- Suburb pages + keyword research
- Lead capture + conversion tracking
- Copywriting included
- Google Business Profile setup
Need it sooner?
Premium
$9,997Established Sydney operators with bookings, portals or integrations.
- Unlimited pages
- Booking system + client portal
- Custom integrations (CRM, Stripe, APIs)
- Priority support, unlimited revisions
Need it sooner?
50% upfront, 50% on delivery. Maintenance from $197/mo. Express delivery starts the build the next business morning and ships in half the standard timeline.
Every shopfront on George Street looks the same online.
Sydney has roughly 470,000 small businesses. Most of them sit on the same three platforms, the same five templates, the same handful of stock photos. Your customer compares four or five of you in a single sitting, on a phone, on a train between Town Hall and Bondi Junction.
More about the Sydney market
They are not reading your copy. They are scanning for the one that does not feel like a template, and ringing it.
“Sydney-based designers charge 20 to 30% more than regional counterparts, and a simple business site can take two or three months to ship.”
Sparkinteract, Australian Web Design Pricing Guide 2026
The Sydney premium is real. The slow timelines are real. The 36 month hosting contracts are real. None of them have to be the cost of having a website on this side of the harbour.
Search demand in Sydney
Source: DataForSEO, April 2026. Sydney metro. A handful of the categories your customers actually type into Google.
Sydney customers search for local businesses constantly. Position one captures around 27% of the clicks.
The question is whether your business is the result they call, or the one they scroll past. A Wix template, a slow Squarespace shop, a site that takes five seconds to load on the train. Each one quietly hands customers to the business across the road who looks more serious.
Sydney is several cities. Your site should know that.
A Newtown cafe and a Double Bay accountant and a Penrith electrician sell to three different humans. Same harbour, different worlds. The voice, the type, the photography, and the suburbs we target all bend around your specific corner of the city.
Slow sites cost you twice.
A slow page tanks your Google Ads Quality Score and inflates your cost per click. It also drops your organic rankings. We build on Next.js, the same framework as Stripe, TikTok, and Uber. Sub-second loads on a phone on the bus.
Four steps.
Under a week.
Sydney based. Built Brief Legal, Sub Tracker, and the Fine Touch Group site that helped scale them from $250K to $1M in quarterly revenue. Knows the Sydney market because he lives in it and sells into it every day.
Discovery call
15 minutes. We learn about your business, your customers, the suburbs you serve, and what is broken on the current site. You learn whether we are the right fit before anyone signs anything.
Design and build
We build on a proven Sydney small business architecture refined across dozens of projects. You review a staging link in 3 to 5 days and request changes in plain English. No Figma mockups that never match the live site.
Review and launch
Final revisions, content loaded, SEO checked, Google Business Profile aligned, analytics wired. We switch the domain with zero downtime and your old site disappears the moment the new one goes live.
Ongoing support
Optional maintenance from $197 a month. Or take the code and run it yourself with any Sydney developer. Either way, you own everything from day one.
Same studio. Every Australian city.
Sydney based, building across Australia with the same Next.js architecture, published pricing and delivery timelines.
Sydney questions.
Do you actually visit Sydney clients in person?
Yes when it helps. Most builds run end to end over a 15 minute kickoff call, a Loom or two, and a shared staging link, because that ships your site faster than half a day in a meeting room. For Sydney clients who want to put a face to the work, the founder will come to your office or a nearby cafe inside the first week. No travel fees, no minimum spend, no expensive city day rate.
Do you understand the difference between the Inner West, the Eastern Suburbs and Western Sydney?
The founder lives and works here. A Newtown cafe needs a different tone to a Double Bay accountant or a Penrith electrician. Type, photography direction, copy voice, and the suburbs we target on Google Business Profile all change to fit your customer. The Math section above shows the categories we have already tracked across the city. Every site is grounded in what your specific corner of Sydney actually searches for.
Why is your pricing so much lower than other Sydney agencies?
Sydney CBD design agencies routinely quote $15K to $25K for a small business site and take 8 to 12 weeks to ship it, because they bill account managers, project managers, junior designers, and senior designers all at once. We removed that overhead. You talk to the founder, the build runs on a proven Next.js architecture refined across dozens of Australian projects, and the only thing on your invoice is the work. The site is faster, ships sooner, and you own the code at the end. Sparkinteract documents the 20 to 30% Sydney premium and 8 to 12 week timelines that became standard in the city.
Will the site be set up for Google Business Profile and Sydney suburbs?
Every site we ship for Sydney clients is wired into Google Business Profile, has correct LocalBusiness schema with your suburbs and service areas, and uses suburb-level pages where they make sense. Local Electrical Solutions launched with no online presence and hit Google’s Local Pack across more than 10 Eastern Suburbs and Inner West suburbs in 8 weeks with no ad spend, on the same setup.
Do I get a real Australian invoice with GST?
Yes. Studio Slate is an Australian registered business with an ABN. Every invoice includes GST, your details, our details, and a Stripe payment link or direct bank transfer. No offshore billing, no PayPal-only setups, no surprises at tax time. Your accountant will be happy.
What if I want to take the site to a Sydney maintenance team later?
Take it. You own every line of code, your domain, and your hosting account on day one. We hand over a clean Next.js codebase any local Sydney developer can pick up, plus documentation. No proprietary CMS, no platform lock-in, no 36 month hosting contract. Most clients stay because the maintenance is $197 a month and we already know the codebase, but the door is unlocked from the moment we ship.
Stop paying the Sydney CBD agency mark-up.
15 minutes. No pitch deck. Just an honest conversation about what your current site is doing to the Sydney customers landing on it right now.