The usual way
- Pay $5,000+ upfront, then get handed the keys
- Every change costs extra or waits on your “web guy”
- Hosting, security, and updates are your problem
- Nobody tells you if the site is actually working
Taking on new projects
Your website should bring in work
and tell you what’s working.
We’re GivenTake Devs, a small studio in Ohio. We build custom websites for small businesses starting at $999, quoted in writing before we start. Add the optional $99/mo care plan and you get hosting, updates, and a plain-English report every month showing where your leads came from and what to fix next.
New studio, now booking. Small team, direct access: you always know who you are talking to and who is building your site. No layers in between.
What working with us actually looks like
Reports back monthly
Plain-English results
Direct, no handoffs
Every project
Weeks, not quarters
Typical timeline
You own the code
No lock-in
The exchange
You give us the problem. You get back the thing that fixes it.
Every project is the same trade. An idea, a brief, a problem, or a deadline goes in. A product, a system, a fix, or a launch comes out. Pick a thread to jump to that part of the page.
How we're different
You own the site. We keep it earning.
Most small-business sites are built once, then left to quietly go stale. We do the opposite: a build you own outright, starting at $999, and an optional $99 a month to keep it fast, safe, and reporting back on the leads it brings you.
Our way
- Custom builds start at $999, quoted in writing before work starts
- Payment plans and financing available, and you own the site
- Optional $99/mo care plan: hosting, updates, backups, small edits
- Every month on the care plan, a report in plain English: what's bringing you customers and what we'd fix next
Services
One studio, one point of contact.
Tell us what’s eating your week. A few weeks later, you’re using the fix, and on the care plan you get a report every month showing what it’s doing for you.
Website development
Marketing sites that load fast, rank on Google, and bring in leads. Starting at $999, quoted in writing, and yours to own.
Web applications
Custom software for the parts of your business that don't fit into Notion, Airtable, or an off-the-shelf SaaS.
Business automation
The tools you already pay for, connected. Leads land in your CRM, invoices go out, reports write themselves.
Internal tools & dashboards
Dashboards, admin panels, and ops tools your team opens every morning instead of another spreadsheet.
Booking & scheduling
Customers book, pay, and get reminded without the phone tag. Built around how your customers actually decide.
MVP development
A working product in front of real users in six to ten weeks. Built to be extended, not thrown away.
AI features, done carefully
Search, summarization, and routing wired into your product where they actually help. Reviewed by a human before they ship.
Ongoing care plan
Optional, $99 a month. Hosting, security updates, backups, monitoring, small edits, and a monthly report in plain English.
Fixed-price starting points.
Every project is scoped before it's quoted, but these are the shapes we build most often, with what's included, what isn't, and where the price starts.
Replace your spreadsheets with one dashboard
Job status, invoices, and numbers in one place instead of five files.
Custom quoteAbout 4 weeks
AI lead intake and routing
Enquiries read, classified, and routed before anyone opens the inbox.
Custom quoteAbout 3 weeks
Booking and payments for service businesses
Customers book, pay, and reschedule themselves.
Custom quote3–4 weeks
A marketing site your team can actually update
A site that reflects what the business does now, with a CMS behind it.
From $9992–4 weeks
Websites for contractors and home-service trades
A site built to turn a search on a phone into a call or a quote request.
From $1,9992–4 weeks
AI automation services for small businesses
The repetitive work someone does by hand every day, done by software: AI where it reads and sorts, plain rules where it has to be exact.
From $3,9992–4 weeks
Get an MVP in front of real users
The smallest thing that tests whether people actually want it.
Custom quote6–10 weeks
Beyond websites
Most clients start with the website.
Then we build what runs the business behind it. The dashboard that replaces your spreadsheets. The automation that routes every lead into your CRM. Booking your customers can use without calling you. One studio, one point of contact, no handoffs.
See everything we buildHow we work
Tell us what’s eating your week.
No 40-page proposals, no discovery theater. Five steps, and the last one never ends.
01
Call
One conversation about what you sell, who buys it, and what's eating your week. We listen, you talk.
Checkpoint: You tell us the problem in plain language.
02
Plan
Within a week you get a page-by-page plan: what we're building, what it costs, and when it's live.
Checkpoint: You approve the plan before we build anything.
03
Build
We build it in weeks, not quarters. You see real pages as they go up, not a mockup a month later.
Checkpoint: You see progress every week.
04
Launch
We handle the domain, the security certificate, and your analytics setup, then test everything on real phones.
Checkpoint: You get the speed numbers before it goes live.
05
Report
Every month on the care plan, a plain-English report: where your leads came from, what we changed, what worked, and the one fix we'd make next.
Checkpoint: You always know what the site is doing for you.
We use AI tooling to build faster, and a human reviews everything before it ships. That’s the whole story. The part that matters to you is the report in step five.
Quality & Guardrails
AI speeds up the work. These guardrails keep it reliable.
AI output is verified
Every line generated by an AI agent is read, tested, and refined before it ships. We don't trust output we can't explain. If the AI produces something that doesn't match the plan, it gets rewritten.
Automated tests run before review
We write tests for the critical paths: user flows, API contracts, and edge cases. Tests run on every change. A failing test means nothing moves forward.
Security is built in
No secrets in code, strict input validation, least-privilege access, and dependency checks for known vulnerabilities. If something falls outside what we can do well, we bring in a specialist or tell you upfront.
Human review at every gate
AI handles the boilerplate. We handle architecture, UX, and final sign-off. You deal with the studio directly from kickoff to launch, and nothing ships without manual human review.
Straight answer
Why work with someone new.
GivenTake is a new studio. That means there’s no case-study reel yet, and we’re not going to fabricate one to fill the page. Everything shown under “work” is labelled for what it is.
What you get instead is direct access to whoever is actually building your product. No project manager relaying to a junior dev, no agency layer between you and the work. If something is slow, or unclear, or wrong, you’re talking to whoever can fix it.
We build with AI coding agents and modern tools. That means faster prototypes, less boilerplate, and more time on the parts that actually need judgment: architecture, UX, and making sure the thing solves your problem. It’s not magic, and it’s not a replacement for thinking. It’s just a better way to ship.
Early clients also get closer attention and more flexible scoping than an established agency has time for. Rates reflect a studio building its own track record, not agency overhead.
If that lines up with what you need, let’s talk.
Free site check
Wondering what your current site is costing you?
Send us your URL. We’ll record a free 5-minute video showing what’s slowing it down, what’s confusing your customers, and the one fix we’d make first.
No pitch, no obligation. It’s the same first step we’d do as your studio. You just get to watch.
- A real person watches your site like a customer would
- Recorded video, yours to keep, in one business day
- One concrete fix, whether you hire us or not
Contact
Let's build something great.
Send us a few lines about what you're working on. You'll hear back within one business day, usually the same afternoon.
- A 30-minute strategy call, free. Book it here
- A fixed scope, timeline, and price in writing
- Weekly demos once the build starts