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About

A small web studio that names the price first

Lark builds websites for established companies in the Okanagan Valley and Greater Vancouver. Two tiers, every price published, and every job sold as a product, never by the hour.

How we sell

No hidden prices, no hourly bills

Why the prices are public

Hidden pricing is a negotiating position. When an agency waits until it has seen your revenue before it names a number, the number is about you, not the work.

Publishing every price removes the game. You read the list, you work out what you can spend, and the first conversation is about your business instead of your budget. It also means we cannot charge one client more than another, which keeps us honest on the days we would rather not be.

Why nothing is billed by the hour

An hourly rate punishes the person who is good at the work. Get faster and earn less, or pad the timesheet. Neither one serves you.

So everything here is a product. It has a name, a price, and a list of what is inside it. If a job takes us longer than we expected, that is our problem. If it takes less, that is our reward for having built the same thing many times.

The standard

Five things that do not change

Every build, every tier, every client.

  1. 01

    The price is the price

    The number you read here is the number you pay. Scope changes get a new number in writing, before anything is built.

  2. 02

    You own it all

    Code, domain, content, and every account, in your name from the first day. Leaving is easy on purpose.

  3. 03

    It has to be fast

    Sites are built static and served from the edge. No page builder, no plugin sprawl, no database to break at midnight.

  4. 04

    It has to work for everyone

    Contrast is measured, not guessed. Keyboard navigation is tested. Every build checks contrast again before it ships.

  5. 05

    We say the hard thing

    If a cheaper tier will do the job, we say so. If the plan will not work, we say that too, before you have paid for it.

Our name

Why a lark

The horned lark is the only lark native to North America. It winters in the BC interior, on open fields most birds leave behind.

It is small and brown, about the size of a clod of dirt. Look closer and you will see a yellow face, a black mask, and two tiny feather horns. It looks a little mischievous, and it is.

The horned lark nests in February, sometimes in snow. It lives on Arctic tundra, in deserts, and on mountain slopes up to 13,000 feet. When a nest fails, it builds another. The female paves a small pebble walkway beside her nest.

Then the male climbs hundreds of feet into the sky and sings.

That is who we build for. You run a business through short seasons and hard winters. You thrived anyway.

"Lark" has a second meaning too. Since the early 1800s, it has meant harmless fun. Sailors called their playtime in a ship's rigging "skylarking." In Yorkshire, "laik" meant play, the opposite of work. We like both.

So we treat your website as serious work, and we have fun building it. Then your site does its job. It brings in work, so you get time to lark about.

Who this is for

Companies that already work

Owners, co-owners, and operators of established businesses in the Okanagan Valley or Greater Vancouver, most with fifteen or more staff. Clinics, contractors, professional firms, producers, hospitality groups, and shops with more than one location.

You will get on well here if

  • The business works and the website has not kept up.
  • You would rather read a price than sit through a discovery call to get one.
  • You can name one person who is allowed to say yes.
  • You want the thing built right, once.
  • You expect to own everything at the end, because you paid for it.

We are not a fit if

  • You want the cheapest site available. There are good people who do that work.
  • You want to pay in installments after launch with no deposit.
  • You want a committee of six to approve every heading.
  • You want SEO guarantees, which nobody can give.
  • You want somebody who says yes to everything.

Anyone is welcome to hire Lark. This is a statement about who we help best, not a door policy.

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