Hiring a web development studio is weird. You're asking someone to build something you can't fully specify, on a timeline you can't fully predict, for a budget that could be anywhere from $5,000 to $500,000 depending on what the thing is.

Most agencies make this worse with vague "let's hop on a call" funnels that don't answer your basic questions. Jamii Technology tries to do the opposite — tell you up front what working with us actually looks like.

Here's the full playbook.

Step 1: The first email

You send an email to contact@jamiitech.com or fill out the form on /contact. Include:

What you're trying to build (one paragraph is fine)
Your rough budget range, if you know it
Your target launch window, if you have one
Links to anything you like or don't like design-wise

You will hear back within 24 hours — usually from me directly. If the project isn't a fit, I'll say so and recommend someone else. If it is a fit, we'll schedule a 30-minute call.

Step 2: The discovery call

The goal of this call is to figure out:

What the riskiest part of this project is (technical, scope, timeline, or budget)
Whether we're the right team to own that risk
Roughly what the engagement would look like

I'll ask you questions like "what happens if we launch and nobody uses it?" and "what's a hard no on scope?" Those questions are meant to pressure-test the project, not to talk you out of it.

At the end of the call, one of three things happens:

Yes, let's do it. I'll send you a proposal within 3 business days.
Maybe, let's do a paid 2-week scoping engagement. Used when the project is complex enough that writing a fixed-price proposal would be irresponsible. Scoping engagement is ~$5K, output is a detailed spec you can take to any agency.
No. We'll tell you why and recommend someone else. Happens about 30% of the time.

Step 3: The proposal

Our proposals include:

Scope (what we're building, in plain English)
Timeline (week-by-week milestones)
Budget (fixed price, in ranges for sub-components)
Team (who from Jamii Technology is on this project, and how much of their time)
Exclusions (what we are not doing — this is the most important section)

Everything is negotiable. If the price is wrong for your budget, we'll talk about cutting scope to match — not cutting corners on delivery quality.

Step 4: The build

Once you sign:

Week 1: Kickoff, design review, repo setup, staging environment
Weeks 2-N: Ship weekly. You get a staging URL. You see progress in real time.
Every Friday: 30-minute status call. 15 minutes what we did, 15 minutes what we need from you.
Launch week: Production deploy, DNS cutover, monitoring setup, handoff documentation.

No endless status meetings. No Slack channels that you have to babysit. If something is wrong, you'll hear from me, not a ticket in your inbox.

Step 5: Post-launch

Standard post-launch includes 30 days of bug fixes at no charge. After that, you have two options:

Retainer: Monthly retainer (~$2K-$8K depending on site) for ongoing updates, content changes, analytics, and monitoring.
Project-by-project: No retainer, just hire us when you have a new feature or a bug.

Most clients go with the retainer because the ongoing cost of neglecting a website is higher than the retainer price. But it's your call.

Pricing ranges (actual numbers)

We don't publish fixed prices because the range is too wide. But broad ranges:

Landing page + basic content management: $8K-$15K
Marketing site (5-10 pages, blog, CMS): $15K-$40K
Web application (auth, user state, payments): $40K-$150K
Full product 0-to-1: $80K-$300K over 3-6 months
Ongoing retainer: $2K-$8K/month

If your project is under $5K, we're probably not the right fit — we'd recommend a freelancer. If your project is over $500K, we're also probably not the right fit — that's a team of 10+ engineers, not a studio.

What we're good at

Custom websites and web apps for Bay Area startups, nonprofits, and enterprises
React + TypeScript + Supabase + Vercel stack
Founder-led product work, especially 0-to-1
Headless CMS work (Sanity, Payload, Supabase)
Performance optimization and SEO

What we're not good at

Native mobile apps (we can do React Native for web-parity apps, but not ground-up iOS/Android)
Enterprise salesforce/oracle integrations
WordPress (we don't work in WordPress)
Designs that aren't directional — we need either a brand or a strong direction to do our best work

Ready to talk?

Email contact@jamiitech.com or start a project here.

— Danny McLane, Founder, Jamii Technology

Hiring Jamii Technology for Web Development in San Jose — What to Expect