Project status

Your project. Your control. Every step visible.

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

Completion

50%

Estimate — updated as milestones land.

Days remaining

~45

Approximate working days.

Next milestone

Milestone 2 of 7

Currently in progress.

What you're paying for

Fixed total

$8,500 AUD

Fixed price, paid in milestone lumps as each stage completes.

What we'd like now

$2,000

Foundation complete — what we'd like now to continue development

Remaining

$6,500

Remaining across 6 milestones

Every milestone, start to finish

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

  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

    In progress

    Every page for Estate Planning and Wills, Company, Trusts, SMSF, and the rest — plus the individual document landing pages beneath each. Built using the completed CMS.

    $1,400

  4. 4

    Account pages + home polish

    ~3.5 weeks · ~4 days

    In progress

    Register page, final home page polish, and last touchups — including mail sign-up. 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

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.

  • 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 in the cloud — 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.

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.

Once it's live — we keep it running

A simple monthly retainer covers hosting and day-to-day care. Anything larger is billed at a single 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
  • 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.

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.

Admin email help

Happy to help with admin email setup and ongoing management if you'd like it rolled into our scope.

Handover guarantee

If you ever want to move on, Bruce Fallen will help you find someone to replace us, and WebEase will train them up to the point they can run the site and make the changes you request. That's how "no lock-in" actually gets delivered.