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Book a callWe build websites, applications and growth systems for companies that are done experimenting. Fixed scope, senior people, and a number you can hold us to — starting with a call where we tell you honestly whether we're the right team for it.
30 minutes · No deck · You leave with a scope and a range
Most companies who call us have already paid for a site that looked good and did nothing, or a retainer that produced a monthly deck instead of a monthly result. The common failure isn't talent. It's that nobody agreed what the work was supposed to change before it started.
KatalystAI is a senior team of engineers, designers, marketers and operators. We take on a small number of engagements at a time, we write down the number we're trying to move before we begin, and we report against it whether or not it flatters us.
About one call in five ends with us recommending something smaller, cheaper, or someone else. That costs us revenue and it is precisely why most of our work arrives by referral.
Most agencies sell one of these and subcontract the rest. Running them together is what lets the people buying your traffic also build the page it lands on.
If a competitor could copy these onto their own site without changing how they operate, they wouldn't be worth listing.
Roughly one in five discovery calls ends with us recommending something smaller, cheaper, or somebody else entirely. It costs us revenue in the short term and it is the single reason our referral rate is what it is.
You get a number and a date before work starts, plus a written list of what's excluded. Change requests are re-quoted in writing. No hourly meter, no quiet overruns discovered at invoice time.
The people in your kickoff call are the people writing the code and the copy. We don't run a pitch team and a delivery team, and we don't staff projects with whoever is on the bench.
Lighthouse and accessibility budgets run in CI from the first commit. A build that regresses past the threshold doesn't merge. That's why our median LCP at launch is 0.9 seconds.
Repository, domain, analytics, ad accounts, CMS. All in your name from day one. Leaving us should cost you nothing but the notice period.
Not impressions, not deliverables shipped, not hours burned. Pipeline, qualified leads and revenue — measured against the baseline we recorded before we started.
The same sequence on every engagement. You always know which stage you're in, what's being produced, and what you're being asked to approve.
Before anything is designed we go through your analytics, your search data, your sales calls and your competitors. Most engagements change shape in this week — usually because the problem you described isn't the one costing you the most money.
We agree what success means numerically, then write the scope against it. You get a fixed price, a dated plan and an explicit list of what we are not doing — which is the part most proposals leave out.
Copy and layout together, never sequentially. Real words in real components, reviewed on real devices — not a desktop mockup that quietly breaks the moment someone opens it on a phone.
Shipped in slices on a staging URL you can open any day of the week. Performance and accessibility budgets are enforced in CI, so neither becomes a fire drill in the final fortnight.
Redirect mapping, analytics verification, schema validation and a rollback plan agreed before we go anywhere near DNS. We watch Search Console daily for the first month.
Launch is the start of the measurement, not the end of the project. We keep testing the pages that carry your most valuable traffic and report on what changed, what it did, and what's next.
Four recent engagements, each with the baseline we measured against and what moved. The full write-ups include what didn't work as well.
Northbeam was buying 40,000 sessions a month and converting 0.4% of them. The problem was never traffic.
Two previous internal tools were abandoned within a year. We shipped one workflow in three weeks and let adoption decide the roadmap.
Meridian was spending $240k a quarter across six channels with no line between spend and closed revenue.
A four-person team was losing thirty hours a week to order processing, supplier chasing and returns.
We'd been through two agencies who delivered something pretty and then vanished. Katalyst spent the first three weeks in our analytics before they drew a single screen. The rebuild paid for itself in the second quarter.
We pick tools your next engineer will already know. Novelty is a cost your business pays for years after the project that introduced it has ended.
We don't claim to serve everyone. These are the industries where we've done enough work to be useful in the first meeting rather than the fourth.
Including what it costs — which most agency sites make you sit through a call to find out.
Marketing websites typically run $18,000 to $60,000. Web applications start around $25,000 for a first production release and are quoted per phase. Marketing retainers begin at $4,500 a month. Virtual assistants start at roughly $1,100 a month part-time. You get a fixed number after the discovery call, not an hourly rate.
Usually two to three weeks from a signed scope. If you're on a hard deadline, tell us on the first call — we'd rather turn work down than take it and miss the date.
Most of our clients are. We've delivered across 21 countries and run on a minimum four-hour overlap with your working day wherever you are.
Between roughly 10 and 500 people, most often where marketing or product is owned by a small team that needs senior execution rather than more headcount. We also work with funded startups on first builds.
Yes, and often you should. A landing page, a technical SEO audit or a single application phase is a reasonable way to find out how we work before committing to a larger engagement.
Plenty of our clients keep theirs. We're frequently brought in for the technical half — build, performance, attribution — while an existing partner owns brand and creative.
The people you meet on the call. We're a senior team by design and we don't run separate pitch and delivery groups. You'll know the name of every person touching your project.
Tell us early — we build in weekly review points specifically so problems surface at week three rather than week nine. Every project carries a 30-day post-launch warranty, and retainers run month to month after the initial term with 30 days' notice.
Specific problems, real numbers, and the parts that didn't work. No listicles.
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