Howdy — a creative studio for branding, web design and development, social media, photography, video editing, SEO, Reddit marketing and generative AI.

It depends on scope, and any studio that answers otherwise is guessing. What we will do is give you a real number on the first call rather than a range wide enough to be useless. For reference, most website projects land between [$X] and [$Y], and ongoing work starts at [$Z] a month.

No project ever costs more than the number we agreed. If scope grows, we tell you before we start, not after.

We work your hours, not ours. One point of contact who knows your business, a shared board you can open any time to see exactly where things are, and a weekly call at a time that suits your calendar.

We've been working across time zones for four years, from our own studio with our own kit. Nothing gets subcontracted and nothing gets lost in a handover.

Four to eight weeks for most, from first call to live. The variable is almost never the build — it's how quickly content, photography and approvals come back from your side. We'll tell you at the start exactly what we need from you and when, so the timeline is yours to control.

Most of our clients are one or the other. Size isn't how we choose work — we take on fewer clients than we could, and the deciding factor is whether there's something real to build.

Yes, as part of a plan we're already running for you — alongside the site, the content and the social. What we don't take is a standalone media-buying retainer. The studios who do that properly do nothing else, and you deserve one of those if paid is the whole strategy.

The people you meet. We don't white-label, we don't hand your project to a production farm, and the person you brief on the first call is the person in the file on the last day.

Often, yes. Tell us who owns what and we'll fill the gap instead of duplicating it. Plenty of our work is one piece of a bigger team — a build against someone else's designs, a photographer's shoot cut by our editor.

An agency usually sells strategy and media buying and subcontracts the making. A studio makes the work. Howdy is a studio: the brand, the site, the photography and the film are produced by the same people, in the same building, which is why they end up looking like they belong together.

A freelancer is right when you need one skill done well and you can art-direct it yourself. A studio is right when a job crosses disciplines — a brand that needs a site, photography and a launch film — because nobody has to co-ordinate five separate people who have never spoken.

Yes. Most of our work is for brands outside our own country. Calls are booked in your time zone, invoices can be raised in your currency, and everything is delivered digitally. Four years of working this way means none of it is improvised.

Hospitality, healthcare, retail and D2C are where we have the most depth, but the method does not change by sector. What changes is how long we spend on the first step, understanding who actually buys from you.

Less than you think. A conversation, access to whatever already exists, and one person on your side who can say yes. We'll do the rest of the digging.