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ApexStudio

Our process

How we ship the best website you've ever owned in Sydney.

Five stages. Fixed deliverables. Single Slack channel. Notion docs for every decision. Below is exactly how the next 9 weeks would look if we started today.

Operating principles

Six rules we live by on every project.

Strategy before pixels

No design starts until we agree on buyers, journeys, conversion goals and the words that drive the work.

One Slack channel

You, our project lead, the designer and the developer. No middleman, no forwarded emails, no comms latency.

Everything documented

Notion docs for every project — discovery brief, decisions log, content doc, technical notes, training videos.

Decisions explained

Why we picked the stack we picked. Why we wrote the copy we wrote. Why we ranked one keyword over another.

Iterative, not big-bang

Staged preview by week four. We adjust based on what you see, not against a frozen brief from week one.

90 days of post-launch care

After launch we monitor heatmaps, run A/B tests and make conversion tweaks free for 90 days.

The five stages

Each stage has fixed deliverables and a clear duration.

  1. 01Discovery & strategy

    Week 1

    A 90-minute deep-dive call followed by a written strategy brief. We map your buyers, services, competitors and conversion goals before a pixel is drawn or a keyword is researched.

    Discovery questionnaireStrategy brief (PDF)Competitor teardownKPI scoreboard
  2. 02Design & content

    Weeks 2–4

    High-fidelity mockups in Figma with real copy, your photos and brand. Two formal rounds of revisions plus unlimited tweaks within scope.

    Figma mockups (mobile + desktop)Copy doc in Google DocsImage directionBrand integration
  3. 03Build & integrate

    Weeks 5–8

    Hand-coded on Next.js by an Australian developer. CMS, integrations, schema, sitemap, OG images, redirects — all done as part of the build, never bolted on.

    Next.js codebasePostgres CMSSchema markupIntegrations (CRM/booking/email)
  4. 04Launch

    Week 9

    Migration, redirects, indexing, security headers, monitoring, backups. We stay glued to your dashboards for the first 14 days so any issues are caught before you notice.

    Production launch301 redirect mapGA4 + Search Console14-day hyper-care
  5. 05Optimise & grow

    Ongoing

    90 days of free conversion optimisation post-launch. Then a monthly SEO retainer (optional) — content, links, technical SEO and reporting.

    Conversion experimentsMonthly SEO programmeLive Looker Studio dashboardQuarterly strategy review

Tools we use

A modern toolkit — visible to you.

Every tool listed here, you have access to. No black boxes. No agency-only views. Login credentials shared on day one.

Figma

High-fidelity design mockups and prototypes for review

Notion

Project workspace — briefs, decisions, content doc, training

Slack

Real-time async comms with the whole project team

GitHub

Version-controlled code, PR reviews, deployment automation

Linear

Sprint tracking, bug reports, post-launch backlog

Looker Studio

Live dashboards for rankings, traffic, conversions

GA4 + Search Console

Analytics, ranking and indexing visibility

Hotjar / PostHog

Heatmaps and session recordings for conversion optimisation

Deliverables

By launch day, you'll have all of this.

Strategy brief (PDF)
Buyer journey map
Competitor teardown (3 competitors)
High-fidelity Figma file (yours forever)
Production Next.js codebase (GitHub)
Postgres-backed CMS
Schema markup on every page
XML sitemap + robots.txt
Per-page OG/Twitter images
GA4 + Search Console + Looker Studio
301 redirect map (if migrating)
Australian-hosted production deployment
Daily backup configuration
SSL + security headers (CSP, HSTS, etc.)
Training videos for your team
Notion handbook for editing the site
14-day hyper-care window
90-day conversion-optimisation period

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