Built for the city that actually works.

Yes. Townsville runs on a rhythm that most agencies outside North Queensland miss. Lavarack is the largest army base in Australia and the posting cycle turns over a huge slice of your customer base every couple of years. A new cohort arrives every January, another in June, and the ones who leave are replaced by people who have never heard of your business. The site has to do the introduction every time. That means a clear offer above the fold, suburbs and landmarks the new arrival recognises, and a booking flow a partner can finish in two minutes between school drop-off and their first medical appointment at the base. We wire the site so the first-time visitor from the Sunshine Coast or Darwin or Holsworthy lands, reads the offer, and books without a phone call.

Roster-aware design is a small change that matters a lot. A FIFO worker on a 2 and 1 is not going to ring you during smoko on a Tuesday, because they are underground or on a bus. They book at 5am before a flight out of Townsville Airport or at 9pm the night they fly back in. The site has to take the booking at both of those moments without a human on the other end. We build booking and enquiry flows that work from a phone, on patchy regional coverage, without an account, without a callback. If you service the Mount Isa line or the Bowen Basin operations, we can also set up quote request forms keyed to the rosters your customers actually work, not a 9-to-5 assumption that does not fit this market.

The site is static HTML served from a CDN with points of presence in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. That means when the NBN flakes out in Railway Estate during a February downpour, your site still loads on a phone tethered to a 4G signal from North Ward. We build mobile-first from the first commit, test on a throttled regional cellular profile before launch, and keep the homepage under 200KB on first paint. We can also ship a simple emergency banner component the Professional and Premium tiers can toggle from the CMS when a cyclone warning goes up, so your customers know whether you are open, closed, or running on a generator before they pick up the phone.

Not by default. Most builds run end to end over a 15 minute kickoff call, a Loom or two, and a shared staging link. You hear back from the founder the same day, not from an account manager three days later. If a Townsville project is large enough that an in-person day matters, we will fly up. No travel mark-up, no minimum spend, no day rate buried in the invoice.

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.

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 developer in Australia 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.