The studio

A one-person studio, on purpose.

Alp is the summit view: watching the whole route from first click to new customer, so you can keep working. There is no account manager, no offshore build team and no ticket queue. The person who answers your text is the person who wrote the code.

Halifax, Nova Scotia Building since 2018 1-to-1

1000sSites worked on
2018Building since
1-to-1You work with me
5.0Average rating on Google
Brendon Clarke, founder of Alp Web Studio Founder
Who builds it

The person who builds it, start to finish.

I'm Brendon, and I build every Alp site myself. Before this I spent years on an escalated support team at one of North America's biggest website companies, the crew that fixed what the front line couldn't. I've touched thousands of small-business sites and learned the plumbing most builders skip: hosting, DNS, SSL, and email that actually lands.

So your site is built around how you price and win work, on footing that holds up. I move fast, cut the wasted steps, and you deal with the person who builds it, not an account manager.

Brendon Clarke on LinkedIn

One builder, one conversation, and one number to call when something breaks.

Hand-built, every timeSame-day repliesHalifax to St. John's

The Alp difference

Tier-three technical experience behind a one-person studio.

Who is actually building your site, how fast you get an answer, and what carries on happening once it is live.

01

Built by a tier-three technician

Before Alp I spent years on the escalation desk at one of North America's largest website companies, on the tier-three team that took what the front line could not solve. That meant thousands of small-business sites and the parts most builders skip: hosting, DNS, SSL, and email that actually arrives. Your site gets built on that footing.

02

Same-day replies, same-day edits

You text one person, and that person is the one who builds and runs your site. New hours, a fresh photo, a price change, a seasonal promotion: most of it is done the same day you ask. There is a single conversation to keep track of, and one point of contact in it.

03

We watch the numbers every day

Your site sits on a monitoring tool that tracks both performance and SEO analytics, and we read it daily. When speed slips, a page stops responding, or search visibility moves, we generally see it before you do and fix it as part of the plan you are already on.

04

Honest scoping, and nothing before your first lead

The build is $800 and you know it before we start. You also get a straight answer on the demo call. If we think a site will fall short of earning back its cost for your business, we will say so and leave it there. We stay quiet about Google rankings too, because they are outside anyone's control.

How it runs

What working with a one-person studio is like.

Fewer people means fewer places for your job to get stuck. It also means the schedule is real, so we say no to work we cannot do properly.

01

You text, not ticket

Changes come by text or email to one person. There is no portal to log into, no ticket number, and nobody asking you to re-explain your business from the top.

Same day, usually
02

Everything is written down

The scope is a document you sign, with the pages and the monthly price on it. If something is not in that document, it is not in the build, and nobody gets a surprise invoice.

Before any work
03

You see it early

A preview link goes out partway through the build, not at the end. Changes are cheap while it is still being written and expensive once everything is finished around them.

Mid-build
04

We stay on it

Launch is not the handover. Hosting, monitoring, updates and changes carry on for as long as you are with us, and the day you leave you take your files.

Ongoing
Where we stand

Three positions we don't move on.

They cost us work sometimes. They are still the right call.

No money before it works
$800, flat
What that meansYou pay nothing to have the site built, and billing starts once it is live. If it does not earn its keep, cancel by email and owe nothing further.
WhyAsking an owner for five thousand dollars before they have seen a single lead puts all of the risk on the person who can least afford it.
No numbers we can't stand behind
Real results only
What that meansNo ranking guarantees, no invented case-study percentages, and no "347% more leads" on a page that cannot show where the figure came from.
WhyNobody controls where Google ranks you. A studio that will make up one number will make up others.
It's yours, not ours
You keep your files
What that meansYour website files are yours on the way out. The estimator and lead dashboard are our software and stay with us, which we say up front rather than in a clause.
WhyA client who stays because leaving is painful is not a client, they're a hostage.

The one promise worth printing

  • $800 to build, then $99 a month
  • Month-to-month, no lock-in
  • Cancel by email, anytime
  • You keep your website files

And a straight promise: if we don't think a site will pay for itself for your business, we'll tell you on the demo call, and not take your money.

Where we work

Halifax based, working across four provinces.

Most clients are within an hour of Halifax and the rest are spread from Saint John to St. John's. Nothing about the work requires us to be in the same room, though sitting on roughly the same clock as your customers matters more than people expect: when your phone starts ringing at 7am, so does ours.

Talk to the studio

Ready when you are

Want to talk it through?

Tell us what you do and what you are after, and we will come back with real answers about whether a site is worth it for your business.

Most enquiries get a reply the same day, usually within a couple of hours.