Handoff Build

Trade only · agencies, designers and resellers

You design it. We build it. Your client never meets us.

Send us the design you have already made, in whatever you made it in. We return a finished production WordPress site, built to the Handoff Standard, on Elementor Pro, Gravity Forms and ACF Pro, hosted and maintained here. You mark it up, you keep the client, and we stay out of sight.

  • A fixed price quoted from your design, within a day
  • Built to the Handoff Standard: an ordinary site anyone can edit afterwards
  • White-label throughout: no branding, no contact with your client
  • Hosted, monitored and maintained on our stack
Send us a design to quote
How it works

Four steps, and only the first one is yours

You do the part you are good at and already charge for. We do the part that turns it into a site somebody can still run in three years.

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Step 1

Send the design and the page list

Whatever you design in. A Claude Code build, a Claude Design canvas, a Figma file, a PDF, a folder of screens. Plus a list of the pages and what each one has to do.

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Step 2

Get a fixed price within a day

Quoted from the design, not the page count. A brochure site and a site with custom post types, feeds and forms are very different builds at the identical number of pages.

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Step 3

We build it on the licensed stack

Elementor Pro, Gravity Forms and ACF Pro, on WordPress, on our hosting. Native output, with nothing left in it that only we can operate.

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Step 4

You hand it over

Under your name, at your price, with a one-page document for whoever runs it next. We keep hosting and maintaining it behind you.

Before you commit

What can I design in, and what happens to it?

The two questions every designer asks first, answered here rather than after you have already started.

Claude Code

Design as freely as you like and send us the result: the HTML, the repo, a running preview, or just the screens. We work from what it looks like and what it does, not from how it was generated.

Claude Design

Send the canvas or its export. Artboard-per-page work translates cleanly, because a page list and a set of finished screens is exactly the intake we quote from.

Figma, Sketch, XD

A shared link or an export. If you have a design system or a token sheet, send that too; it is the difference between a build that matches and a build that approximates.

A PDF or a deck

Flat comps are fine. So are annotated screenshots. What we need is every page, at the width you designed it, plus a note on anything that moves or changes.

An existing site to match

A rebuild off a live URL works the same way. Tell us which parts to keep and which to redraw, and we quote from that.

And then we compare it

Route by route, our build beside your design, so you can see what matched and what moved before it goes anywhere near your client. Free on your first build with us.

What happens to the design itself

We do not deploy what your tool emitted. We rebuild it as native WordPress, page by page, so that afterwards it behaves like a site somebody built rather than a site something generated. That is the whole job, and it is the reason this is a service and not an export button.

Your design stays yours. We take no credit, hold no rights in it, and put nothing of ours in front of your client.

The Handoff Standard

A site your client can still change without us

Every AI build tool on the market produces the same artifact: something that looks finished on day one and cannot be maintained by anyone except the tool that made it. The owner finds out later, at the first moment they need a change. The Handoff Standard is the bar we build to. It names that difference, and it turns it into a test anyone can run in five minutes. This service is named after it, so here is the test in full.

The $20k handover test

A stranger buys the site for $20,000. They log into the admin, and within five minutes, with no code, no AI, no documentation and no help from whoever built it, they edit a headline, replace an image, and move one section above another.

If they can, it is a site. If they cannot, it is a scaffold. We run that test against every build before we call it finished, and the person running it is never the person who built it, because somebody who knows where everything is cannot fail a test about finding things.

Nobody hands out a badge for this and there is nothing to buy. The test takes five minutes and needs no expertise, which means you can run it yourself on what we give back, and so can your client. We tell you the three changes we made, where we made them, and how long it took.

Content is edited, not regenerated

Text and images change through the admin. No code, no prompt, no rebuild step, no going back to the tool that made it.

The structure is legible

Sections are discrete, labelled and reorderable. Any competent WordPress developer can point at a block on screen and name what produces it.

The generator is gone

Whatever tooling helped produce the site is removed from it before delivery. Nothing in the running site phones home, needs credits, or needs us.

Every dependency is buyable

Everything the site needs can be bought by anyone on ordinary terms. Nothing requires our account, our credits, or context from a build session that no longer exists.

It moves

A complete backup, files and database together, that a different host could restore. We would rather you never leave, but not because you cannot.

A successor can start

One page of documentation: what it is built with, where the design tokens live, how to add or edit a section, and what is installed and why.

Trade pricing

Priced by complexity, not by page count

Each tier carries a page cap and a feature ceiling. A sixteen-page brochure site and a sixteen-page site with custom post types, live loops and a third-party feed are not the same job, so they are not the same price. These are the prices you pay us. What you charge your client is entirely yours.

Brochure
Static content, presented well. The most common reseller job.
$1,200per build
Up to 8 pages
  • Static pages, no dynamic collections
  • One form
  • Desktop and mobile built and checked
Send a design
Data-driven
Several content types, filtered views and outside data.
$3,800per build
Up to 24 pages
  • Everything in Dynamic, plus:
  • Up to three custom post types
  • Multiple loops with custom queries
  • One third-party feed, plus theme-builder templates
Send a design

Above a tier's ceiling

Going past a ceiling does not push you into the next tier. It adds a line item, and the line items are published, so you can work out the number yourself before you ask us for it.

Line item Price
An additional custom post type $350
A third-party integration or feed $450
Each form past the ones your tier includes $150
Route-by-route fidelity comparison free on your first build $300
Theme installation from a marketplace theme you supply $400

Every line item is agreed in writing before we do it, so you see the number before you agree to it.

Beyond the top tier, or for anything genuinely unusual, we quote the project. Ecommerce, membership, multi-site and migrations are all quoted rather than tiered.

Hosting is billed separately on the usual resale terms, and it is where the premium plugin licences sit. See the partner terms.

The trade boundary

We build behind you, not beside you

The client stays yours

We do not contact them, do not appear in their inbox, and do not take work from them directly. Every conversation about the site goes through you.

The pricing stays yours

The numbers above are what you pay. Your margin, your invoice, your terms. We never see what your client paid and never quote them ourselves.

The creative direction stays yours

We build what you designed. If something in the design cannot be built the way it is drawn, you hear about it and you decide, rather than finding it changed on delivery.

The stack, and who owns the licences

Every build runs on Elementor Pro, Gravity Forms and ACF Pro. Those are our agency licences and they ride with the hosting: while the site is hosted here, they are covered and kept current at no extra cost. If the site ever leaves, the owner buys their own or we transfer whatever transfers.

We put that in writing on every build rather than leaving it to be discovered later, and it is worth saying plainly why it still meets the standard above. An Elementor licence costs $99 to anybody on earth. That is a very different thing from a dependency only the original builder can supply, and the difference is the entire point.

Common questions

Frequently asked questions

No. This is a trade service and it is sold only to agencies, designers and resellers. If a business owner comes to us wanting a site built for them, we send them to LuckyTyke, which is the separate retail side. That separation is deliberate: it is what stops us competing with the people we build for.
A written definition of what makes a website transferable: one the owner can change, move, sell and hand to somebody else. It sets out seven criteria and the five-minute acceptance test above, and its central rule is that the person running the test is never the person who built the site. It is a standard, not a badge. There is nothing to award, nothing to buy, and anyone can run the test on any site, including on ours.
Not in the slightest, and it is most of what we see. How the design was made has no bearing on what we can build from it. The problem with AI site builders is not the design, which is often good. It is what they hand over: something nobody can change afterwards without going back to the tool. That is the part we replace.
This is the fair question a design-led shop always asks, so we answer it with evidence rather than a promise. We put our build beside your design route by route and send you the comparison, so you can see what matched and what moved before your client sees anything. It is free on your first build with us and a published line item afterwards.
Every page at the width you designed it, a list of what each page has to do, and a note on anything that is a collection rather than a fixed layout: news, listings, staff, products, events. Copy and images if you have them. If the design is complete we quote a fixed price within a day. If it is half-finished we will tell you what is missing rather than quote around it.
One round of revisions is included, which covers the things that only become obvious once a design is a working site. A change that adds a content type, a feed or a form is a line item rather than a revision, priced the same as it would have been at quote time, and we tell you which one it is before doing it.
You do, and through you your client. We hold no rights in your design and none in the build. The accounts the site depends on go in the owner's name, and the site can be exported and re-hosted elsewhere without being rebuilt. Those are two of the criteria we test against before we call it finished.
Yes. The build price assumes it, because the premium plugin licences ride with the hosting and because we maintain what we build. Hosting is billed separately on the usual resale terms, so you sell it as your own at your own price. The site is still movable if the arrangement ever ends; that is a requirement we hold ourselves to, not a favour.
Not as a product any more. It is available as a line item on a quote if you have bought a theme and want it set up, but it is no longer something you can order off this page. If you are choosing between a marketplace theme and a design of your own, the design is now the cheaper route to a site your client can actually run.

Send us a design

A fixed price back within a day, quoted from what you actually drew. No account needed, no commitment, and no contact with your client at any point.

Trade only Fixed price, quoted from the design White-label throughout