About
Hi, I'm Remy. Basalt is me — that's the point.
When you hire Basalt, the person you email is the person who designs your site, the person who builds it, and the person who answers when something breaks. No account managers, no handoffs, no telephone game between you and the work.
The obvious question
Why so cheap?
An agency invoice pays for account managers, meetings, office space, and the sales process that found you. The person actually making your site might see 30% of what you paid. Delete the overhead and the honest price of a great small-business website falls off a cliff.
Two things make one person enough. First, a design system: months of work on typography, spacing, components, performance, and accessibility that every site starts from — you pay for the 20% that makes it yours, not for reinventing a navbar. Second, AI in the workflow: it compresses the mechanical hours — boilerplate, first drafts, testing — while every decision about your business stays human.
And honestly: these are launch prices. They build the portfolio. When the calendar fills, they rise — founding clients keep their care-plan rates forever.
The process
A week, hour by honest hour.
Day 0
Pick a package
What you do
Choose from the pricing page. Starter checks out online; Standard and Plus start with a short email about your business.
What I do
I read it properly, tell you honestly what you need — sometimes that's the cheaper option — and confirm the fixed scope in writing.
Days 1–2
Intake
What you do
Fill one form: logo, text, photos, 2–3 sites you like. Roughly an hour of your time.
What I do
I turn that into a creative direction: structure, tone, what makes your business the obvious pick.
Days 3–6
Build & review
What you do
You get a private preview link and send one consolidated list of changes.
What I do
Design and build happen together on the design system. Your revision list is applied within days.
Day 7
Launch & care
What you do
You say 'go'. That's it.
What I do
Domain, hosting, SSL, analytics, backups — all handled. Your first month of care is free, and I'm reachable after.
Principles
Four promises, kept boring on purpose.
Precise
You get numbers, not vibes: a fixed price, a real timeline, and a scope in writing. If something changes, the price of the change is quoted before it's built.
Calm
No hype, no countdown timers, no pressure tactics. The work is presented plainly and you decide at your own speed.
Substantive
Every claim on this site is checkable — performance scores, prices, timelines. If I can't show it, I don't say it.
Warm underneath
Contracts in plain language, honest answers about whether you even need what you're asking for, and a real person on the other end of every email.
Ready in a week. Yours forever.
Fixed prices, no surprises, and a real person who answers. Let's build the site your business deserves.