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Six services

Everything

under one roof .

Each service is a complete engagement — scoped, delivered, then maintained. Pick a practice and read exactly how it runs, what you get, and what it costs you in time.

Six services

Most engagements start as one service and end up as two. We will tell you which order to do them in.

Websites and apps that survive their own launch

Websites, web applications and custom software for businesses whose digital front door is a working part of the operation — not a brochure someone updates twice a year.

Problems it solves

The site looks dated and loses credibility in the first five seconds.

Nobody can update it without calling a developer.

It is slow on the connections your customers actually use.

A process that should be software still runs on a spreadsheet.

Who it is for

Businesses replacing a site that no longer matches how they operate, and teams launching something where the first impression carries the sale.

Expected outcomes

A site your team edits without a developer

Measured improvement against your current load times

A design system your next page inherits for free

How the engagement runs
Stage 01

Map

Audit, analytics review, interviews with the people who use the site.

Stage 02

Structure

Sitemap, content model and states — agreed before visual work.

Stage 03

Design

Reviewed in the browser at real widths, on real content.

Stage 04

Ship

Componentised build, editor training, security review.

Typical deliverables

Sitemap and content model

Responsive design, mobile to desktop

Front-end build, CMS or application integration

Editor documentation and training

30 days of post-launch support

Why clients pick us for this

Most agencies approve a flat mockup at one width and discover the truth during build. We design in the browser, at the widths your own analytics report, on your real content — so the longest product name and the emptiest state are decided before they become a launch-week argument. What you sign off already exists. The people who built it are the people who patch it two years later.

Web & app development — Websites and apps that survive their own launch, Violet Tek, Accra Ghana

Web & app development

How this is priced

Fixed price against a defined scope, invoiced in stages.

A focused marketing site is the smallest engagement we take on. Anything with accounts, payments or integrations is quoted after mapping, because integration timelines belong to somebody else's API.

What moves the number: how much content needs restructuring, how many templates, and how many systems have to talk to each other.

No figures are published until they are current · every proposal is priced against your scope

Related work
Web & apps

Project Atlas

Dispatch, tracking and client reporting in one system.

Web & apps

Verdant Clinic

Booking that patients complete without phoning.

Questions we get asked

How long does a site take? +

Six to ten weeks for a focused marketing site. The variable is almost never design or build — it is how quickly content decisions get made and who is allowed to make them. Anything with accounts, payments or third-party integrations is scoped after mapping, because integration timelines belong to somebody else's API.

Do you work with our existing CMS? +

Usually yes. The question we actually ask is whether your editors can publish a routine change without a developer. If they cannot, the CMS is a cost centre disguised as an asset, and we will show you the price of both paths rather than quietly rebuilding on our preference.

Who writes the content? +

You know the business; we structure it. We write the interface copy — labels, empty states, error messages, the words that decide whether a form gets finished — and we edit yours. Full copywriting is a separate line item, quoted honestly rather than absorbed and rushed.

Send the URL of your current site. We reply with three specific observations before any call.

Somewhere reliable for it to live

Secure hosting, domain management and cloud migration — with backups you have watched restore and uptime somebody is actually watching.

Problems it solves

Nobody is sure who controls the domain or when it renews.

The site sits on a plan chosen years ago for a smaller company.

There is no staging environment, so every change is a live change.

A cloud migration has been discussed for two years and never started.

Who it is for

Businesses whose hosting was set up by whoever built the last site, and teams moving from a single server to cloud infrastructure.

Expected outcomes

Domains and certificates renewing automatically, in your name

A staging environment, so changes stop being live experiments

Backups tested on a schedule rather than assumed

How the engagement runs
Stage 01

Inventory

Domains, DNS, certificates, hosting plans and renewals in one document you own.

Stage 02

Plan

Where each system should live, what it costs, and what the migration risks are.

Stage 03

Migrate

Staged move with rollback, run outside business hours, tested before cutover.

Stage 04

Operate

Backups, patching, certificate renewal and uptime monitoring on a schedule.

Typical deliverables

Domain, DNS and certificate inventory

Hosting or cloud architecture plan

Migration with rollback plan

Backup and restore schedule

Uptime monitoring and alerting

Why clients pick us for this

A fast site on unmaintained infrastructure is a slow site with a countdown running. Certificates expire on a Sunday. Disks fill. A dependency stops receiving security patches and nobody is subscribed to the notice. Almost every outage we are called about is an infrastructure problem wearing a website costume, which is why we would rather own that layer than hand it over and hope.

Hosting & infrastructure — Somewhere reliable for it to live, Violet Tek, Accra Ghana

Hosting & infrastructure

How this is priced

Migration is fixed price; ongoing care is a monthly retainer.

The retainer scales with the number of systems and people covered, not with a tier chart.

What moves the number: how many services move, whether the old environment must run in parallel, and your required recovery time.

No figures are published until they are current · every proposal is priced against your scope

Related work
Infrastructure

Meridian Grid

One ageing server, moved without a day of downtime.

Web & apps

Project Atlas

Dispatch, tracking and client reporting in one system.

Questions we get asked

Do we have to host with you? +

No, and we will work with your existing provider without complaint. We will also tell you plainly when the host is the bottleneck — shared plans that throttle under modest concurrency, no staging environment, backups that exist as a checkbox nobody has ever exercised. You can then decide with the facts in hand.

Can you move us to the cloud? +

Yes, and the sequence matters more than the destination. We lower DNS TTLs days ahead so a rollback propagates in minutes rather than hours, migrate the least critical service first to prove the process, and keep the old environment running until the new one has held a full billing cycle. Cutovers happen outside business hours with a written path back.

Who holds the accounts? +

You do. Domains and hosting are registered in your name with us as a delegate, never the other way round.

Send us your domain. We can tell you where it is hosted and when it expires in about ten minutes.

Search as a channel you can plan around

Technical health first, then structure, then content — reported against the numbers your business already tracks.

Problems it solves

Pages exist but do not appear in search results.

Traffic arrives and does not convert.

A migration lost rankings that never came back.

Reporting shows activity, not outcomes.

Who it is for

Businesses whose customers search before they buy, and anyone who has paid for SEO and cannot say what it produced.

Expected outcomes

Every page you want indexed, indexed

Technical issues monitored, not re-audited each quarter

A content plan tied to demand you can verify

How the engagement runs
Stage 01

Audit

Crawl, index coverage, Core Web Vitals, and who is actually ranking.

Stage 02

Fix

Technical debt cleared first — it is what unblocks everything else.

Stage 03

Structure

Page and internal-link architecture built around real demand.

Stage 04

Report

Monthly, in plain language, against agreed targets.

Typical deliverables

Technical audit with prioritised fixes

Keyword and intent map

On-page and metadata implementation

Local search setup for Ghana-based businesses

Monthly report and a working session

Why clients pick us for this

Rankings are downstream of three questions most reports skip: can the page be crawled, can it be rendered, and can it be understood. Orphaned URLs no internal link points at, client-side content the crawler never waits for, four templates competing for one query. We clear that first, because publishing into a broken structure is paying to write things nobody will be shown.

Digital growth — Search as a channel you can plan around, Violet Tek, Accra Ghana

Digital growth

How this is priced

The audit is a fixed fee and useful on its own. Ongoing work is a monthly retainer.

We do not sell a keyword count or a link quota. The retainer buys a share of the team's month against agreed priorities.

What moves the number: site size, how much technical debt the audit finds, and whether content production is included.

No figures are published until they are current · every proposal is priced against your scope

Related work
Digital growth

Concept One

Trust, speed and search visibility, solved together.

Branding

Harbour & Vale

Restraint as the credibility signal.

Questions we get asked

How long before we see movement? +

Indexing fixes can land within a crawl cycle — weeks, sometimes days for a site that is crawled often. Competitive rankings take months because you are waiting on other people's pages to be re-evaluated against yours. We set an expectation per keyword at the audit stage, based on who currently holds the position and how entrenched they are, rather than quoting one timeline for everything.

Do you guarantee first place? +

No, and neither can anyone else. We commit to the work and to reporting it honestly.

Is local SEO different? +

Yes. For Ghanaian businesses, business profiles, local citations and review handling often matter more than national keywords.

Ask for the audit first. It is useful whether or not you continue with us.

Cybersecurity, done right

Hardening, monitoring and audits delivered with certified partners — protection sized to your business, not to an enterprise budget.

Problems it solves

Nobody can say with certainty whether backups restore.

Staff share credentials because there is no better option.

A phishing attempt already succeeded once.

A client or regulator is asking for documentation you do not have.

Who it is for

Businesses holding customer data, taking payments, or depending on a system whose downtime costs money.

Expected outcomes

A backup you have watched restore

No shared logins and fewer standing privileges

An incident plan people have actually run

How the engagement runs
Stage 01

Assess

External scan, access review, backup and recovery test.

Stage 02

Harden

Patching, least-privilege access, MFA, network and app configuration.

Stage 03

Monitor

Continuous checks with alerting to a named person.

Stage 04

Rehearse

An incident plan, practised — not a document filed away.

Typical deliverables

Security assessment report

Hardening implementation

Monitoring and alerting setup

Staff awareness session

Incident response plan

Why clients pick us for this

Security marketing rewards overclaiming, and overclaiming is how clients end up with a report instead of a defence. We do assessment, hardening and monitoring ourselves, and bring certified partners in for formal penetration testing rather than pretending eight people cover every specialism. The boundary of what we do in-house is written into the proposal before you sign it.

Northline: Security assessment — A phishing attempt that worked, and what changed after.

Cybersecurity

How this is priced

Assessment is fixed price. Hardening is quoted from its findings, so you are not paying for work before anyone knows it is needed.

Monitoring and response are a monthly retainer with the response window written in.

What moves the number: how many systems and accounts are in scope, and whether partner-led penetration testing is required.

No figures are published until they are current · every proposal is priced against your scope

Related work
Cybersecurity

Northline

A phishing attempt that worked, and what changed after.

Infrastructure

Meridian Grid

One ageing server, moved without a day of downtime.

Questions we get asked

Do you do penetration testing? +

We run assessments and hardening ourselves and bring in certified partners for formal penetration testing. Findings come back through us with a fix plan.

We are small — are we really a target? +

Nobody chose you. Commodity attacks are automated: scanners sweep address ranges for known-vulnerable versions and try credential lists against whatever answers. A new host typically sees login attempts within hours of first responding on port 443. You are not being targeted, you are being enumerated, and the fix is the same either way.

What happens at 2am? +

An alert reaches a named individual, not a shared inbox nobody owns overnight, and the first three steps are already written down — because nobody makes good decisions at 2am from a blank page. Response windows are contractual, not aspirational. We also rehearse this before you need it; an untested plan is a document.

Start with the assessment. It ends with a prioritised list, not a sales pitch.

Identity that holds up at small sizes

Names, marks and systems built to survive an app icon, an invoice and a shopfront sign — with rules the team can follow.

Problems it solves

The logo works on a poster and falls apart on a phone.

Every document looks like a different company made it.

There are no rules, so every request becomes a debate.

Positioning is unclear, so messaging changes with the writer.

Who it is for

Businesses whose visual identity no longer matches their ambition, and new ventures that need a system rather than a logo.

Expected outcomes

One identity applied consistently everywhere

Templates that keep new material on-brand

Decisions documented, so fewer opinions per request

How the engagement runs
Stage 01

Position

What the business is for, in language a customer would use.

Stage 02

Design

Mark, type, colour and layout, tested at real sizes on real material.

Stage 03

Systemise

Tokens, templates and rules — the parts that make it repeatable.

Stage 04

Roll out

Applied across site, documents and social, with files handed over.

Typical deliverables

Positioning and messaging framework

Logo suite and clear-space rules

Type, colour and layout system

Document and social templates

Guidelines and source files

Why clients pick us for this

Identities do not fail on the artboard, they fail at the edges — the 16-pixel favicon, the single-colour stamp on an invoice, the sign a fabricator quotes from a vector you no longer have. We design at those edges first and scale upward, then ship the result as tokens rather than a PDF of screenshots, so a colour changes in one place and lands everywhere.

Branding & design — Identity that holds up at small sizes, Violet Tek, Accra Ghana

Branding & design

How this is priced

Fixed price against a defined deliverable list, invoiced in stages.

Rollout is quoted separately and honestly, because it is where identity projects are usually under-budgeted.

What moves the number: whether naming is included, how many surfaces need applying, and whether print production is in scope.

No figures are published until they are current · every proposal is priced against your scope

Related work
Branding

Studio Alpha

A brand built as tokens, from app icon to invoice.

Branding

Harbour & Vale

Restraint as the credibility signal.

Questions we get asked

Can you refresh rather than replace? +

Frequently the better answer. If existing equity is worth keeping we will say so and scope a refresh.

Do you do naming? +

Yes, including availability and domain checks before anyone falls in love with an option.

What do we receive? +

Editable source files, exports sized for every context you actually use, and guidelines short enough to be read once and remembered. Ninety-page manuals are written to justify a fee; nobody opens them, and the brand drifts within a quarter.

Send the three places your brand currently looks worst. That is where we start.

The work that never makes a homepage

Backups, patching, uptime, accounts, devices. Ongoing support with a named person and a response time in writing.

Problems it solves

IT is whoever on the team is most comfortable with computers.

New staff wait days for accounts and equipment.

Nobody knows which subscriptions run or who owns them.

Problems get fixed twice because nothing is documented.

Who it is for

Businesses without an internal IT function, and teams whose growth has outpaced informal arrangements.

Expected outcomes

One documented inventory of everything you pay for

Onboarding and offboarding that takes minutes

Recurring problems fixed at the cause

How the engagement runs
Stage 01

Inventory

Systems, licences, accounts, devices and domains in one place.

Stage 02

Stabilise

Backups verified, patching scheduled, access tidied.

Stage 03

Support

One channel, a named contact, an agreed response time.

Stage 04

Review

Quarterly: what broke, what changed, what to plan for.

Typical deliverables

Systems and licence inventory

Backup and patching schedule

Onboarding and offboarding runbooks

Support channel with response times

Quarterly review report

Why clients pick us for this

Support is where most agencies quietly stop caring, because it does not photograph well and cannot be shown in a portfolio. It is also the only reason the impressive things stay impressive. We staff it as a practice with a named contact and a contractual response window, not as a favour squeezed between billable projects.

IT consulting & support — The work that never makes a homepage, Violet Tek, Accra Ghana

IT consulting & support

How this is priced

A monthly retainer based on people and systems covered.

Onboarding includes an inventory, which is fixed price and delivered whether or not you continue.

What moves the number: headcount, number of systems, devices covered, and your required response window.

No figures are published until they are current · every proposal is priced against your scope

Related work
Infrastructure

Meridian Grid

One ageing server, moved without a day of downtime.

Cybersecurity

Northline

A phishing attempt that worked, and what changed after.

Questions we get asked

Is support only for your own builds? +

No. We support systems we did not build, after a short review to understand what we are taking on.

How is it priced? +

A monthly retainer based on people and systems covered, with scope and response times in the agreement.

Do you cover hardware? +

Procurement advice, imaging and configuration, and coordination with local suppliers for repairs. We will also tell you when a machine is worth replacing rather than repairing — the arithmetic is usually clearer than it feels, once downtime is counted.

A one-hour review call is usually enough to see whether a retainer makes sense.

Engagement shapes

Start where you are.

Three common shapes. Every proposal is priced against your scope — these are starting points, not packages.

Tier 01

Project

Fixed scope and timeline

Design and build

Security review before launch

30 days post-launch support

Tier 02

Project + care

Everything in Project

Monthly patching and backups

Search monitoring and reporting

Named support contact

Tier 03

Retained partner

Continuous roadmap

Full search programme

Security assessments and monitoring

Quarterly business review

Pricing to be confirmed · no figures are published until they are real

Not sure which you need?

Describe the problem instead of the solution. That is usually a shorter conversation and a better scope.