Workflow automation, built as a product
Maintenance Loop
For property managers. A tenant texts one number. The Loop sorts urgent from routine, offers the job to the right tradie, gets the owner's OK and closes the job when the invoice matches.
Web design for Melbourne small businesses Found, then called.
Melbourne has a lot of you. Whatever you do, hundreds of other businesses do it within a tram ride, and most of their sites say the same nothing: quality, service, competitive prices. Yours has to say the job, the suburbs and the next step before the visitor's thumb moves to the next tab. We build those, and we keep them fast.
- From $5,900, fixed after one call
- $149 a month, hosted and cared for
- Built by the person who quotes it
- Home base Victoria, Australia
Why Melbourne sites go quiet
Crowded, templated, slow.
Three things sink a Melbourne small business site. None of them is the logo.
- Crowded. People here add the suburb: "electrician Dandenong", "physio Richmond", "tiler Brunswick". If your site never says where you work, you're not in the running for any of them.
- Templated. Agencies selling sites by the dozen reuse the same layout and the same copy. Yours ends up looking like the plumber two suburbs over, because underneath it is the same site.
- Slow. A visitor comparing three businesses on the train doesn't wait for a hero video. Speed is the first impression, before a word gets read.
Who it's for
Suburb businesses, two-location operators and online shops.
- Trades across the suburbs. Plumbers, electricians, landscapers and builders who cover a run of suburbs, not the whole city. The site says which ones.
- Clinics, studios and salons. Appointment businesses where the booking link matters more than the gallery.
- Cafés, shops and food. Hours, menu, address, parking. On a phone, in two taps.
- Growing to a second location. A new shop in a different suburb needs its own page and its own suburbs, not a footnote on the first one.
- Online stores. Up to 50 products loaded, from $7,900, built to load fast on a phone.
- Property managers. The website is the shopfront. The repairs run through the Maintenance Loop.
What you get
Specific, fast, and readable by machines.
This is our websites service for Melbourne businesses. Same inclusions and prices as everywhere else; the difference is how hard the copy has to work.
- Up to six pages, each with one job to do.
- Suburbs named where Google reads them. Headings, first lines and the service they belong to.
- Schema and a sitemap so Google and AI assistants can quote you correctly when someone asks for a tiler in Brunswick.
- Fast on a phone, usable with a keyboard. No carousel, no video wall, nothing between the visitor and your number.
- Hosted and kept. Hosting, fixes and half an hour of changes each month, so it stays current without a new project every time.
How it works
One person. No account manager.
The call, 30 minutes
What you do, which suburbs, and who's getting the work you want.
The quote
Fixed: the build price plus $149 a month. Half now, half when it's live.
The build
Whoever scoped it builds it. You don't get handed down a chain.
Live and kept
Hosted, fixed and updated every month, for as long as it's up.
Proof
We built these, and we run them.
These are ours. We designed them, built them and keep them running. Each one is live, so you can click through and check the work for yourself.
An app, live on the App Store
BRACED Strength Coach
A strength coach for iPhone that reads your sleep, sets the session and calls every set. We designed it, built it and took it through App Store review. The Android version is in testing.
An online store, built end to end
EYES ONLY
Our own streetwear label. We built its store from the first page to the checkout. It is a custom store, not a Shopify template.
Pricing
Prices before the pitch.
Guide prices; the fixed quote follows the call. Australian dollars, ex GST.
Website
from $5,900
Up to six pages, suburbs named.
Care and hosting
$149/ month
Hosting, fixes and half an hour of changes a month. 12-month minimum.
Online store
from $7,900
50 products loaded, built to sell on a phone.
Local SEO and AI search
from $790/ month
Staying in the map and AI results across your suburbs. 6-month minimum.
Founding clients
Half-price setup for the first 10 clients, monthly fee at full price, in return for a case study, a testimonial and permission to use their name.
Also: AI and automation for Melbourne · Web design for Gippsland · Web design for Shepparton, Bendigo and Ballarat · What a website costs · Not showing up on Google?
FAQ
Asked from Melbourne.
How much does a website cost in Melbourne?
A Graphite Digital Studio website in Melbourne is from $5,900 for up to six pages. Care and hosting is $149 a month on a 12-month minimum, and that covers up to 30 minutes of changes each month. An online store with up to 50 products loaded is from $7,900. The quote is fixed after the 30-minute call; Australian dollars, ex GST.
There are cheaper sites in Melbourne. Why yours?
Plenty of cheaper sites are templates with your name dropped in. A Graphite Digital Studio site is written for your suburbs and your jobs by the person who quoted it, built with schema so Google and AI search read it properly, and kept running for a monthly fee. The quote is fixed after a 30-minute call, so there are no surprises either way.
Do you do local SEO for Melbourne businesses?
Yes. Every Graphite Digital Studio site names the suburbs you cover and ships with schema, a sitemap and clean page structure. If you want someone working on your map, suburb and AI results every month, that's local SEO and AI search at $790 a month and up, 6-month minimum.
We've got two locations. Do we need two sites?
No. Graphite Digital Studio builds one site, with a page for each location that names its own suburbs. Up to six pages covers most two-location businesses; if yours needs more, the quote says so.
Can you do the brand and the social too?
Yes. At Graphite Digital Studio a brand identity is from $3,500. Content and social is from $1,490 a month, 3-month minimum, for 12 posts a month on two platforms, four of them short videos.
How do payments work?
Graphite Digital Studio takes a 50% deposit on one-off work, and the balance at go-live.
Is there a founding client offer?
Yes, at Graphite Digital Studio. Half-price setup for the first 10 clients, monthly fee at full price, in return for a case study, a testimonial and permission to use their name.
Lost in the crowd?
Bring us a problem.
Send us your site and the suburbs you want work in. On the call we'll tell you why the phone's quiet.