Digital agency in Miami: one studio, three practices

TL;DR: A digital agency in Miami that works as one tight team: your project is scoped and signed by its architect, then delivered by his designer, his DevOps and his API specialist. Three practices, published prices, and two projects with measured numbers you can check before you call.

What this includes

An agency usually sells you a team, and the team is three people: one takes the brief, one writes the plan, one builds it. You meet the third one late, or you never meet them at all. What you are buying here is the removal of that layer. The person who measures your project prices it; the build then runs with our designer, our DevOps and our API specialist, and the launch stays signed by the architect.

That sounds like a small difference. It decides three things you cannot check afterwards: who answers when something is wrong, who knows why a decision was made, and who has to account for the result at the launch. How a service is designed end to end is a discipline of its own; on a project this size it means nobody has to translate your brief twice.

• A written scope with a price attached to each phase, produced by the person who will do the work
• One name on the project, from the first measurement to the launch check
• Three practices under one roof, and the same hands across all three: the pages, the store, and the work that runs behind them
• Your domain, your accounts and the work itself in your name from the first week
• A release every week on a live address, so you review the site rather than a picture of it
• Prices published before anything starts: Discovery $2,500, Architecture $2,500 credited to the build, the build from $5,000, care from $1,500 a month
• An exit that works: documentation and access handed over at the end, with nothing held back

The build side of the studio runs as the commerce practice the studio runs day to day plus two others. A set of pages, a store and an automation are made by the same hands and judged the same way, which is why they are not three quotes from three suppliers who have never spoken to each other.

You will also notice what is missing from that list: nobody whose job is to relay your questions, no separate design studio, no subcontractor you meet after the invoice arrives. The prices above are what the work costs when no one has to be paid to pass a message along the chain, and they are the same prices whether you buy one phase or all five.

How it works

Five phases, the same five on every project here. Nothing starts before the phase that prices it is finished, and no phase begins without a written scope for the one after it.

1. Discovery, 1 week, $2,500. We measure what your current site costs you: which pages bring visitors, which pages bring enquiries, and what the gap between the two is worth. You finish the week with a written verdict and a number, not an estimate.
2. Architecture, 1 week, $2,500, credited to the build. The plan for the work, written by the person who will carry it out and agreed in writing by who scopes the project and who signs the launch. This is the week where owners usually find out they need less than they expected, and it is the reason the next phase arrives with a fixed price.
3. The build, 2 to 10 weeks, from $5,000. One release a week on a live address you can open on your own phone. The work is kept in an account in your name from the first week, so the project never becomes something you cannot leave.
4. The launch check, inside the build. Every action on the site is completed by hand on a phone before launch: the enquiry form, the phone call, the booking, the order. An enquiry that reaches the wrong inbox is a defect, not a detail.
5. QA and launch, 1 week, included. Every address that brings you visitors today is matched to the one that replaces it, then checked before the switch, outside your busiest weeks.
6. Care, monthly, from $1,500. Monitoring, content changes and small fixes, with 30 days notice either side. The reporting account stays in your name.

The same five phases sit under all three practices. The automation practice, where the repeated work goes, is usually bought once a site is live and the quoting and follow-up have become visible as a job. The consulting week, bought on its own, suits the owner who wants the plan without the build attached to it.

What it costs

The prices below are where each phase starts. Your scoped quote fixes the perimeter, the price and the timeline, in writing, and it does not move afterwards.

• Discovery: $2,500 for 1 week. A written verdict on your site, the visitors it earns and what it costs you today.
• Architecture: $2,500 for 1 week, credited against the build. What gets built, in what order, and what it is measured on.
• The build: from $5,000, over 2 to 10 weeks depending on scope. A set of pages, a store, or a piece of automation all start here.
• QA and launch: included in the build. The address list, the hand checks on a phone, the staged switch.
• Care: from $1,500 a month. Monitoring, content changes and small fixes, with 30 days notice either side.

Two things move the price more than anything else, and you can answer both yourself before you call. The first is how much of the work is commerce: a store with a catalogue, stock and orders carries more than a set of pages, and we say so during Architecture rather than halfway through the build. The second is how much of the plan already exists. An owner who arrives with a written scope and real content lands at the short end of the build range; one who needs the plan built from nothing lands at the long end.

There is nothing behind a form on this page. A price you cannot see is a price you cannot budget for, and you should not have to book a meeting to find out where a project starts. The right question is not only what it costs but who does it: the questions Google says to ask before you hand over the work include asking for the price of each phase and who will do it, and both answers are above.

Proof

Food By Box sells 2,500 products from a storefront the studio rebuilt around its catalogue. Google's speed score reached 95, and monthly visits moved from 20,000 to 500,000 over 24 months. Every address that carried traffic was listed before the switch and kept working after it, which is the outcome owners ask about first.

On an artist's shop in Florida, the phone load time fell from nearly five seconds to a little over one, and no position was lost in the move. Neither rebuild was rescued by a cosmetic change. Both were measured first, and the measurements are the reason the numbers are on this page at all: both projects, with the numbers they were judged on.

That is also why the page carries no ranking promise. The credibility factors a buyer actually weighs are evidence and a named person, not an adjective. What we put in writing before the work starts is the measurement: the pages that exist, what each one asks the visitor to do, and how the count is read. A page that collects enquiries is judged on enquiries that reach the inbox. A page that sells is judged on orders that complete. You read both in your own reporting account, in the same place we do.

Questions

What does a digital agency in Miami charge to work with?

Discovery is $2,500 for 1 week, Architecture is $2,500 and is credited to the build, and the build starts at $5,000 over 2 to 10 weeks depending on scope. Care starts at $1,500 a month after launch. All of it is published here and on the process page, so nothing depends on a meeting.

How is a miami digital agency different from a marketing agency?

A digital agency builds the thing: the pages, the store, the automations behind them. A marketing agency spends budget sending people to it. Both are real jobs with different measurements, and one of them ends when the site goes live.

Who actually does the work, once the contract is signed?

The architect writes the plan; a small senior team — a designer, a DevOps engineer on Kubernetes, an API/MCP specialist — carries it out, and he signs off every release. Michael Agnassia, fifteen years of e-commerce work, writes the architecture of every project and reviews the work before launch, and the weekly releases come from the same studio rather than from a subcontractor you have never met.

Should we hire a web design agency in Miami or a freelancer?

A freelancer is the right answer when the work is one job with one owner and no follow-on. The studio model earns its price when the pages, the store and the automation have to agree with each other, and when somebody has to still be there in the month after launch.

Do we have to be in Miami to work with you?

No. The studio is at 78 SW 7th Street in Brickell, we work US Eastern hours, in English and Spanish, on site across South Florida, and clients outside Florida run the same way with a weekly release online. Being in Brickell is not decoration: Miami-Dade's official economic development organization exists to attract and keep businesses in the county, and those businesses are who the studio builds for.

What happens if the scope changes halfway through?

A change is quoted as an added or a removed phase, not as an open invoice. The discovery week and the architecture week exist so that most changes are known before the build starts, which is cheaper for you than finding out during it.

Will the work still be ours if we stop working with you?

Yes. Domains, hosting, the code account and the reporting account are set up in your name, and the handover is part of the last phase rather than a separate favour. Nothing in the project is registered in the studio's name.

Next

• the page work, planned around the one action it asks for when the site is what sells
• the store work, judged on the orders it completes when you sell a catalogue rather than a service
• choose the week that measures what your site costs you: Discovery, 1 week, $2,500, and a written answer at the end of it