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Atelier · MMXXVI

Wise Guides

Custom websites, apps, and UX — built with imperial patience.

A small atelier. Design, build, and stewardship on one bench. You work with the people who make the thing — not a rotation after the pitch. Published prices. Flexible to start. Relentless about how it finishes.

Enter the atrium

01 — Practices

Five practices. One standard.

We take the brief on one bench. The categories below are how most work arrives — if yours sits between them, that is usually the interesting one.

02 — Studies

Capability, in the open.

These are working instruments, not mock case studies. Each one is a piece of the craft you hire — type, field, material, proportion.

03 — Ledger

Selected work.

The studies above are the craft. This is the work in the world — sites and instruments you can open right now.

Aether Nomad IX — Studio. Built by Wise Guides.

I · Studio

Aether Nomad IX

An iX technology studio — web, apps, and game-grade interactive systems, with Noah-iX on the floor.

annexframe.com/sites/aether-nomad-ix
AnnexFrame — Publishing house. Built by Wise Guides.

II · Publishing house

AnnexFrame

The instrument behind the microsites. Magic-link access, entitlements, and a desk for PWAs that need their own address.

annexframe.com
Cape Gordon — Local service. Built by Wise Guides.

III · Local service

Cape Gordon

A superhero-styled cab service — graffiti soul, DJ energy, book a rescue ride.

island-crystal-star-yellow.grok.me
Hayden’s Tree Service — Local service. Built by Wise Guides.

IV · Local service

Hayden’s Tree Service

A complete commissioned site for a licensed tree crew — precision as the brand, estimates as the path, built to feel as sure as the work in the yard.

Isostatic Platforms — Company. Built by Wise Guides.

V · Company

Isostatic Platforms

The house behind the atelier. A severe company surface for problems that still have no method — software, hardware, and intelligence held at equal pressure.

isostaticplatforms.com
The Soob — Shop. Built by Wise Guides.

VI · Shop

The Soob

Live Pokémon TCG on Whatnot — a shop whose rips sponsor The Soob Station, a junction off the street for teens and young adults.

thesoob.com
WilliamPerry — Curriculum vitae. Built by Wise Guides.

VII · Curriculum vitae

WilliamPerry

A professional curriculum vitae: guest operations, field sales, and a software practice.

palm-nova-scarlet-granite.grok.me

Prefer the quiet room? Open the full ledger.

04 — Commission

Fair to start. Honest as it grows.

These are real entry rates — not bait. Discovery is free. Smaller than a package, we price the slice. Larger, you see the number before a line is drawn.

I · WebsiteMost requested

The Commission

A complete authored site with a point of view. Mobile-first, motion that earns its place, a path to inquire. Most brochure-to-story sites live here. Larger systems are numbered before a line is drawn.

$1,850starting at

  • Up to 6 authored pages
  • Mobile-first design & motion
  • Contact / inquiry path
  • Launch support
II · Local service

The Yard

A site built to take work: home, services, estimates or booking, service area, about, contact. Proof type: Hayden’s Tree Service.

$2,200starting at

  • Home, services, about, contact
  • Estimate or booking path
  • Service area, stated plainly
  • Launch support
III · App / PWA

The Instrument

A focused web app: the flows, the interface, the thing people open every day. Not a multi-tenant SaaS. Scope is honest before a line is drawn.

$4,900starting at

  • UX + interface
  • Core flows in production
  • Installable / PWA option
  • Handoff & care notes
IV · Ads & campaigns

The Standard

A contained campaign or visual system. Enough pieces to go to market looking like one mind made them.

$650starting at

  • Art direction
  • Key stills / frames
  • Matching landing or set
  • Export-ready files
V · Custom UX

The Brief

A defined design problem. Dashboards, tools, prototypes, the piece that doesn’t fit a package. We write the brief together.

$890starting at

  • Working session
  • Designed & built slice
  • Notes you keep
  • Path to a larger commission

Full table, add-ons, and retainers live on Pricing. Stewardship is month to month.

05 — Stewardship

After launch is still the work.

Most studios vanish at handoff. We would rather keep the keys — small updates, new campaigns, the next feature — with people who already know the system. Month to month. Cancel when it is no longer useful.

Pulse

$190/ month

The site stays alive. Small edits, a person who already knows the system.

  • Up to 4 hours of care
  • Priority reply
  • Security & dependency watch
  • Monthly note

Watch

$490/ month

Ongoing design and build. New pages, campaigns, features — without restarting the relationship.

  • Up to 10 hours
  • Design + build
  • Campaign support
  • Shared running list

Consul

$1,150/ month

An embedded partner. Product thinking, interface, and the work of keeping a digital presence at a high standard.

  • Up to 24 hours
  • Direct channel
  • Roadmap & critique
  • First in line for larger builds
The Wise Guides atelier at night — marble table, brass lamp, dark screens.

06 — Approach

A small studio. One bench.

Design, build, and stewardship sit together. You work with the people who make the thing — not a rotation after the pitch. Not a forty-person agency. A compact atelier.

The Roman register is not costume. It is a standard: proportion, patience, things that hold. We mix that with the polish of a modern product — motion that earns its place, type that can be read, code that does not fight the next person who opens it.

The studio came up through high-volume guest operations and the messy side of making things work on a deadline. That is why the pricing is published and the communication is plain. United States. Work from anywhere. Principal correspondence: William.

07 — Counsel

Before you write.

What does Wise Guides actually build?
Websites, local service sites, focused web apps, campaign surfaces, and custom UX that does not have a category yet. A small studio. Design, build, and stewardship on one bench.
How much does a custom website cost?
The Commission starts at $1,850 for up to six authored pages. The Yard, for local service businesses, starts at $2,200. If the brief is smaller, we price the slice. If it is larger, you see the number before a line is drawn.
Is this a large agency?
No. You work with the people who make the thing — not a rotation after the pitch. Principal correspondence is William.
Do you keep the site after launch?
Yes, if you want us to. Stewardship is month to month: Pulse $190, Watch $490, Consul $1,150. Cancel when it is no longer useful.
Where are you based?
United States. Work from anywhere.

08 — Commission

Write. We read everything.

No intake maze. Tell us what you need, a range you can live with, and enough of the problem that we can answer like people. We usually reply within two days. United States. Work from anywhere. Principal correspondence: William.

williamperry.est97@gmail.com

Keep the atelier

Install Wise Guides as an app on your phone or desktop — full screen, on the home screen, ready when you are.

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