Business9 min read
Product Development Agencies: How They Work and Cost
What a digital product development agency does, how an engagement runs, the five ways to buy one, and every price published, read in September 2026.
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Travel & Hotels8 min readSeptember 25, 2026
Bisha Toronto: Luxury by Taste, Then a Chain Flag
The editorial website we designed for Bisha Toronto, what survived its 2025 move into Marriott's Luxury Collection, and what its parked old domain costs.
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Web Design8 min read
What Webflow Is, and Who It Is For (2026)
Webflow is a visual site builder, CMS and host in one, now sold as an AI-native platform. What it costs in September 2026, and who should not use it.
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Buy the Result, Not the Agent: A Bet for 2027
Companies do not want to learn agents; they want finished work with someone accountable. Why function agencies are the 2027 bet, and how we run ours.
Web Design8 min read
Three.js vs WebGL: What It Means for Your Site
WebGL is the browser's GPU API; Three.js is an 87KB library on top of it. What each costs, measured on our own site in September 2026, and when to use each.
Travel & Hotels8 min read
Hotel El Ganzo: A Trip, Not a Destination
How we rebuilt Hotel El Ganzo's site around its basement recording studio and artist residencies, and which decisions survived to the 2026 site.
Business10 min read
What Brand Naming Is: The Process, the Cost, and the Legal Reality
Brand naming is choosing a name a company can own, not just like: strategy first, then candidates, then screening for domains and trademarks. How the process runs, what it costs from free generators to agencies, and what filing actually costs, with every price read on 19 September 2026.
Travel & Hotels10 min read
Why Booking.com Looks Cheaper Than the Hotel Website, and How to Fix It
Booking.com is usually not cheaper than the hotel's own site. It is faster to compare, and where it genuinely wins on price the hotel is funding the discount. The four mechanisms, the commission math, and what changed in EU law, all verified on 17 September 2026.
Design Thinking9 min read
Explainer Video vs Product Vision Film: Different Jobs, Different Budgets
An explainer video sells a product that exists. A vision film sells a future that does not. They have different audiences, different scripts, and budgets an order of magnitude apart. What each costs in 2026, verified, and the third option that has quietly replaced the vision film.
Business10 min read
What B2B SaaS Is, With 12 Examples and What Each One Charges
B2B SaaS is software a business rents from another business over the internet, paid monthly or yearly, run and updated by the vendor. What it is, how it differs from B2C SaaS and enterprise software, the four ways it is priced, and twelve examples with their prices read on 15 September 2026.
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