Legal Consolidated

Project Status

Your project. Your control. Every step visible.

Milestones, costs, and commitments — updated as we go.

Last updated 21 April 2026

Completion

28%

Estimate — updated as milestones land.

Days remaining

~45

Approximate working days.

Next milestone

Admin content management suite

Currently in progress.

What you're paying for

Fixed total

$8,500 AUD

Fixed price. No variation. This is what you pay and this is what you get — paid in milestone lumps as each stage completes.

Paid

$2,000

Paid — Foundation complete

Remaining

$6,500

Remaining across 6 milestones

Project timeline

Every milestone, start to finish

Seven milestones across roughly 45 working days. Each lump sum is fixed — no variations, no surprise invoices.

  1. 1

    Foundation

    Complete

    Done

    Discovery and planning, system architecture, Legal Consolidated branding, Syntaq integration, Admin CMS (Posts), integral pages — Your Documents, Login, Document viewer/editor — and the Home page (mostly).

    $2,000

  2. 2

    Admin content management suite

    ~1.5 weeks · ~8 days

    In progress

    Admin CMS — page editing, page management, and media management. Ships first because the document pages next door are edited through it.

    $1,300

  3. 3

    Document catalogue pages

    ~3 weeks · ~12 days

    Upcoming

    Every document genre page and the individual document landing pages beneath them — 5 to 20 documents per genre, across dozens of genres. Built using the completed CMS.

    $1,400

  4. 4

    Account pages + home polish

    ~3.5 weeks · ~4 days

    Upcoming

    Register page and final home page polish. Completes the public-facing shell.

    $900

  5. 5

    Messaging integration

    ~4.5 weeks · ~7 days

    Upcoming

    In-app messaging wired into the client dashboard.

    $900

  6. 6

    Security run-through

    ~5.5 weeks · ~6 days

    Upcoming

    Full security audit of the finished surface — auth edges, admin gates, session cookies, CORS, input validation, rate limits, secret hygiene.

    $1,000

  7. 7

    Content migration + final testing + launch

    ~6.5 weeks · ~8 days

    Upcoming

    Bulk transfer of existing blog content, full regression testing, and launch preparation.

    $1,000

What we've promised you

The commitments behind the price

Scope + feature promises

  • Professional security testing before launch (Milestone 6 delivers this).

  • Admin system that feels familiar to your existing WordPress site — in-page editing, media library, templated pages.

  • Email integration wired in.

  • In-app messaging on the client dashboard.

  • Full hosting — we host the site for you, not just build-and-hand-off.

Operational / trust promises

  • Weekly written progress updates on a regular cadence.

  • This page stays live — completion and next milestone update every time work ships.

  • All code backed up on GitHub — nothing lives only on our machines.

  • You own everything: the domain, the infrastructure, the full project. No vendor lock-in.

  • You can fire us at any time — if you're not happy, take the project to any other developer.

  • Milestone-based payment: stop at any milestone if quality drops. No upfront lump to lose.

  • Full handover documentation and industry-standard workflows so any future developer can pick up the codebase.

Your position, not ours

Three promises that put you in control

No lock-in

You own the domain, the code, and the infrastructure. Nothing proprietary sits in the way.

Fire us anytime

Industry-standard stack and full documentation means any competent developer can pick up where we leave off.

Pay-as-you-go milestones

Stop paying — and stop the project — at any milestone if the work drops below what you expect.

Ongoing after launch

Once it's live — we keep it running

A simple monthly retainer covers hosting and the day-to-day care of your site. Anything larger is billed at a single transparent hourly rate.

Care + Hosting

$300/month

Included

  • Full hosting of the production site
  • Big fixes — if something breaks, we fix it
  • Upkeep — dependency updates, routine maintenance, platform housekeeping
  • Minor tweaks — small copy, style, and bug fixes
  • Site-down response — back up on us, no extra charge
  • 4-hour response SLA, Mon–Fri, on anything retainer-scope
  • Minor security updates and patches to existing posture

Not included — charged hourly

  • Moderate tweaks — larger layout shifts, content reorganisation, new sections
  • New features, new pages, or significant rebuilds
  • Major security overhauls — new auth systems, full compliance audits, pen tests

Hourly rate

$50/hr AUD flat — one rate for anything beyond the retainer.

Guaranteed response within 4 hours during the working week.

After launch — optional

Phase 2 ideas, later

Automatic document testing

Automated regression tests against each document template so template changes can't silently break a document.

Site health dashboard

A dashboard showing broken links, daily activity, documents completed, and how many users are working on a document right now.

Guest document flow

Users start a document without signing in — lower friction, wider funnel.

Mobile optimisation

Full mobile pass — layouts, touch targets, and performance tuned for phones and tablets.

Full performance optimisation

Speed and reliability hardening — faster page loads, fewer moving parts, more headroom under load.

Handover guarantee

If you ever want to move on, we'll train your next developer on the system — at no extra charge. That's how "no lock-in" actually gets delivered.