I'm not an agency. I'm one person — Jacob. I do the consulting, the design, the development, and the deployment. When you email me, I'm the one who reads it. When you have a question about your site, I'm the one who answers it.
And honestly? For most small businesses, that's a better deal.
The agency experience
Here's what typically happens when a small business hires an agency:
- 1.You talk to a sales person who promises you the world
- 2.You get handed off to an account manager who translates your needs
- 3.The account manager talks to a project manager who plans the work
- 4.The project manager assigns it to a designer who makes mockups
- 5.The mockups go to a developer who builds the site
- 6.The developer's work goes to QA for testing
- 7.Questions and revisions go back through this entire chain
You're playing telephone with your own project. Every person in that chain adds time, cost, and the chance of miscommunication.
And you're paying for all of them. The person actually building your site might take 15 hours. But you're billed for 60 hours because everyone else needs their cut.
How I work
You talk to me. I listen to what you need. I build it. We go back and forth until you're happy. Done.
No telephone game. No layers. No bloated timelines. If you want to change something, you text me and it's done that day — not "I'll submit a change request to the project manager who will schedule it with the development team for next sprint."
Why this is better for small businesses
It's faster. No handoffs, no waiting for approvals, no "let me check with the team." I can usually deliver a full website in 1-2 weeks.
It's cheaper. I don't have an office, a sales team, or a middle management layer. My overhead is basically a laptop and some coffee. That means lower prices for you.
Communication is direct. You have a question? You ask me. You get an answer from the person who actually built the thing. Not a filtered version through someone who has never looked at your code.
I actually care. This isn't a project number in some agency's pipeline. Your business and your website reflect on me directly. I have every incentive to make it great.
When you should hire an agency
I'll be honest — agencies have their place. If you're a mid-size company that needs:
- A team of 5+ working simultaneously
- Enterprise-level software with complex integrations
- A 50-page website with ongoing content production
- Dedicated design, development, and marketing departments
Then yeah, an agency might make sense. But if you're a small business that needs a clean website, some AI tools, or help showing up on Google? You don't need all that. You need someone who will sit down, listen, and build what you actually need.
That's what I do.